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2024-05-10 Big Plastic: The New Big Oil
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that the...

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, GCR (Global Community Radio), WGCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KOWS and more


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 6
240510: Big Plastic: The New Big Oil, 5/10/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that the...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
Secrets of Soil
From: Jim Metzner
Series: Pulse of the Planet
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Not only does soil support virtually every tree, plant and crop on earth, it can control toxic waste and help mitigate climate change.

  • Added: May 01, 2024
  • Length: 12:58
Global Plastics Crisis with Dr. Leo Trasande
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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After the news, Dr. Trasande, a delegate to the UN conference on plastics, talks about plastic as a human health issue.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 1
240426: Building a Better Battery Supply Chain with JB Straubel and Amiee Boulanger, 4/26/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Batteries are a critical part of the transition away from fossil fuels. From electric vehicles to grid scale storage for wind and solar, demand for...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
Energy Madness with Martha Klein
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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After the headlines, Sierra Club Connecticut's Martha Klein talk with Patti & Doug about stopping a big new natural gas pipeline known as Project M...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 1
240419: Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts , 4/19/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
2024-04-19 Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
The ABC's of PFAS with Tracey Frisch
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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Forever chemicals in fertilizer are getting into the food we eat. Tracey Frisch explains how.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
794-An Apollo Space Rock to Follow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Itakowa, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carjaval was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Minor with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. ...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
2024-04-05 Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Even before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KALW and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
240405: Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between, 4/5/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Even before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
The H2O Situation with John Rumpler
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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Attorney and Environment America's water specialist John Rumpler talks about the threats to our water.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2
240322: Climate Migration: Should I Stay or Should I Go?, 3/22/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The places that most people call home are coming under increasing threat from climate change. From rising seas and more frequent floods to stronger...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
2024-03-22 Climate Migration: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The places that most people call home are coming under increasing threat from climate change. From rising seas and more frequent floods to stronger...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 8
Forever chemicals with Dr. David Bond
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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The sad story of, and everything you need to now about, PFAS.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:43
  • Purchases: 1
Drinking Plastic with Mike Belliveau
From: Doug Wood
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Every plastic bottle is filled with hundreds of thousands of tiny pieces of plastic. Here's what you need to know.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 28:25
Testing for Toxins with Leah Segedie
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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Mamavation is the leading site for independent testing of consumer products. We talk with founder Leah Segedie.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 1
The Glyphosate-Autism Connection
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT talks about her research linking pesticide residues in food to the destruction of gut bacteria and link to autism.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Stink Over PFAS with Tracy Frisch
From: Doug Wood
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Scientist Dr. Tracy Frisch explains why spreading fertilizer from sewage sludge is a really bad idea.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 1
2024-01-12 Pairing Scientists with Community Advocates
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're stru...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Spokane Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
240112: Pairing Scientists with Community Advocates, 1/12/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're stru...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
231215: This Year in Climate: 2023, 12/15/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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It’s been a year of weather extremes – again. But there’s also been cause for renewed hope about our climate future. On the heels of this year’s i...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Carl Safina, ALFIE AND ME: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with ecologist Carl Safina about his book, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe. It’s about how a tiny ragged ball of fluff ta...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 36:19
2023-10-20 Community Resilience: Knowing Your Neighbor Could Save Your Life
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Disasters caused by burning fossil fuels are becoming more frequent, and in the aftermath of hurricanes, floods and wildfires, federal and state re...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KOWS and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9