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Cathy shares her story of growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and moving to Wyoming with dreams of marrying a cowboy- which came true by way of a ch...

  • Added: May 01, 2024
  • Length: 24:01
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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...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
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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
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In episode 2 we sit down and chat with Dr. Jason Shogren to teach us about economics and economic diversification in the 21st century. Dr. Shogren ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 33:30
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Rebecca Burns hops on the Beyond the Range podcast to talk about economic diversification in the state!

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 33:12
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Imagine an economy that works for everyone.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 2
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We often talk about a “just transition” from dirty to clean energy as if the term means the same thing to everyone. Indigenous people have seen the...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KALW, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
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We often talk about a “just transition” from dirty to clean energy as if the term means the same thing to everyone. Indigenous people have seen the...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:58

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 2
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After a 20-year career as a tech reporter for CNET, the New York Times, and the public radio program Marketplace, Molly Wood has come to see the cl...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Maine Public Radio, WLPR , WMUU-LP, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 13
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After a 20-year career as a tech reporter for CNET, the New York Times, and the public radio program Marketplace, Molly Wood has come to see the cl...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
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Maintaining a consumption-driven economy while keeping emissions down seems more and more like a pipe dream -- is it time to re-think capitalism al...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMUN, KSQD Santa Cruz, KICI Iowa City, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Maintaining a consumption-driven economy while keeping emissions down seems more and more like a pipe dream -- is it time to re-think capitalism al...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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The cost and health burdens of electricity production have long been higher for low-income communities of color than for wealthy white ones. But fo...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Global temperatures would be soaring even higher were it not for a powerful heat-trapping ally: oceans. From regulating the temperature of the plan...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMRA, WDSE, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
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Christopher Caskey is a scientist and entrepreneur with an innovative business idea to tackle two environmental problems in rural Colorado at once:...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Yvon Chouinard is a legendary climber, surfer and environmentalist. He is also the reluctant entrepreneur who founded Patagonia, Inc., one of the m...

Bought by KQUA, KBBI Alaska, WRGY, KGNU Community Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
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Value of our estuaries and other inland water bodies are recognized while fishing, boating, swimming or viewing nature from a great vantage spot. T...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 05:16
Caption: A mountain of mattresses in West Oakland, Credit: Todd Whitney
For over a decade, Oakland has attempted to abate the illegal dumping of mattresses, electronics, furniture, and other large items onto city street...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:20
Caption: Wildlife biologist Doug Bell birdwatching at the Altamont Pass, Credit: Judy Silber
California entrepreneurs saw potential in the gusty winds that blew out at the Altamont Pass, between the Central Valley and Bay Area. By the mid-’...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 07:09
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“The goal is Zero Waste by 2020, and we think that is an achievable goal.” Those words from former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom back in 2009 p...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 06:04
Caption: Mark Schapiro, Credit: Center for Investigative Reporting
Carbon is shaping our future. Those little particles we can’t even see are reshaping our natural world, and transforming our economy. And, it all e...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Tony Lanz (left) and Noel Yakubu (right) suit up for work at EPA lead remediation site, Credit: Callie Shanafelt
The city of Oakland has received more than $140 million in stimulus money over the past three years for workforce development and energy efficiency...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 08:43
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you don't pollute, you can sell your clean-air credit to those who do.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 02:08
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How does a Grocery Chain pick it's urban locations and what are the economic effects of such a choice?

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2006
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1