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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
Season 1, Episode 17 - 'Ecological Reality' feat Dr. Julian Caldecott
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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How changing our hearts and minds will change how we approach our relationship with the planet.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
Before the Ground Runs Dry: BIPOC Media on the US Water Crisis
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode of Meet the BIPOC Press, a monthly collaboration between The Laura Flanders Show and URL Media, we take a closer look at the US wa...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Is This the End of Humans? with Dr. Shanna Swan
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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World renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan has an important warning for couples planning to have a baby.

Bought by WRFA-LP, WMUU-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 3
A New War on Cancer with Kristina Marusic
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Author Kristina Marusic talks about her new book A New War on Cancer about the environmental links to the dreaded disease.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 2
The PFAS Problem with Dr. Arlene Blum
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The class of chemicals known as PFAS causes cancer and disrupts the endocrine system, and will pollute the world forever.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 2
Something in the Water with Deena Winter
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Investigative reporter Deena Winter talks about 3M dumping PFAS chemicals and the impact on the health of kids in the area.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:02
Children & Toxins
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Philip Landrigan
Thousands of new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Yet, most of those chemicals ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Eighth Tower
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Is it UFO season in the desert again? People have sure been seeing a lot of strange things up here around Joshua Tree, and "military flares" is nev...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Environment Injustice As Usual During Pandemic
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode, Laura speaks with grassroots environmental organizers Cindy Donis and Laura Cortez from East Yard Communities for Environmental Ju...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Naomi Klein on the Case for a Green New Deal
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Author and activist Naomi Klein discusses her new book, On Fire, in which she argues that addressing the climate crisis requires more than simply r...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Newark: Fixing The People’s Water
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The people of Newark, New Jersey—the majority of whom are black and brown—are grappling with a lead contamination crisis that has drawn comparisons...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Newark: Fixing The People’s Water
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The people of Newark, New Jersey—the majority of whom are black and brown—are grappling with a lead contamination crisis that has drawn comparisons...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
Jonathan Thompson — The day the river was orange (Part one)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes presents Part 1 of his conversation with author and journalist Jonathan Thompson.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Don’t Pull No Punches: Dahr Jamail on the End of Ice
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Ponds on the Ocean" - Sea ice atop the Arctic Ocean. NASA image acquired July 12, 2011
Dahr Jamail asks us to begin to grieve for the world that is surely lost and to find a way toward adaptive change so that something may be salvaged...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 59:09
David Inouye — A passion for pollinators
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with biologist and ecologist, David Inouye.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
John McClow — Water wrangling in the American West (Part two)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with water law expert John McClow.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
John McClow — Water wrangling in the American West (Part one)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes talks with water law expert John McClow.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Quakeland: On the Road to America’s Next Devastating Earthquake
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kathryn Miles
Following the Mexico City 7.1 earthquake, we are again hearing about the need to stay alert in California and Washington. In reality, though, that ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Anita Poeppel Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the drift of spray and dust from pesticide applications can expose people, wildlife, and the...

Bought by WRGY


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Robert Shimek Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Would you want your children exposed to pesticide drift at home and at school? Potatoes grown in northern MN are routinely sprayed, putting childr...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 08, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Howard Vlieger Interview, Part II of II
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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If genetically modified feed has negative effects on hog health and fertility, one has to wonder what effects GMO food ingredients might have on hu...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Cold, Hungry and in the Dark
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bill Powers
Not long ago, we were told that North America had entered a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. Or, have we? If you’ve listened to ex...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
2/16/12 Food Sleuth Radio: Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., on the Detrimental Effects of the Herbicide, Atrazine
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., biologist, University of CA-Berkeley. Hayes is known for his groundbrea...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2012
  • Length: 28:00