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06-18: Community Resilience: When the Love in the Air Is Thicker than the Smoke, 3/8/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Estrella Santiago Perez
With climate-driven disasters becoming the new normal, building resilience is the grail. Communities around the world are developing models created...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
70 Million: Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles and how they ...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KVSC and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
2021-12-24 Managed Retreat: When Climate Hits Home
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Southeastern Virginia currently experiences the fastest rate of sea level rise on the Atlantic seaboard, and that’s only projected to accelerate. F...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WBHM, WLPR , KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
211224: Managed Retreat: When Climate Hits Home, 12/24/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Southeastern Virginia currently experiences the fastest rate of sea level rise on the Atlantic seaboard, and that’s only projected to accelerate. F...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Red Road to the Future: Native Sovereignty is Key to Climate Justice
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the midst of a national reckoning with white supremacy and colonial history, Indigenous people are demanding a new relationship with DC — honori...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KMUN


  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
The Outlaw Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill highlights the dark side of what happens at sea in the context of a forthcoming book by Pulitzer Pr...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:34
The End of Normal: The All-Encompassing Threat of Climate Change
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Joining us today is David Wallace-Wells, deputy editor and climate columnist for New York Magazine, and author of the new book The Uninhabitable Ea...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Ocean and the Senses
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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As humans migrate toward the coastal zone in the next 30 to 50 years, less seaside space will be available for us to enjoy, to entice our senses, a...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 1
At the Fishhouses (A Holiday Episode)
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite poem was chosen not o...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 04:51
The Chemical Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Remember the toxic red sludge chemical disaster, 2010, in Hungary? This photo shows a reservoir containing red mud of an alumina factory near Ajka, Hungary, 2006., Credit: EPA | Sandor H. Szabo
Toxic chemicals released into watersheds and waterways remain a persistent problem despite the sounding of alarms, which for decades have railed ag...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2014
  • Length: 05:27
Beyond Hope
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will have us look at what might lie beyond hope, how we might apply our optimism to meet and...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 05:28
Food Sleuth Radio Joseph Hibbeln Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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With the industrialization of agriculture, our diets have become out of balance with an abundance of omega-6 fatty acids and a deficiency in omega-...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Copenhagen: America & Africa in Climate Decline
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Paul Kingsnorth
The Copenhagen mess. Guest Paul Kingsnorth says civilization IS climate change. Nobody wants to change Western comforts. Opens with a digest of alt...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Erica Fernandez vs. BHP Billiton Petroleum
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Erica Fernandez, environmental activist who helped prevent a liquefied natural gas plant from being built near her hometown of Oxnard, Califonia., Credit: www.nbconference.org
We hear from 18-year-old Erica Fernandez. Winner of the 2007 Brower Youth Award, this fierce young woman took on the world’s largest mining compan...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
WWOZ Street Talk- Badass Emma and the Levee Hearing
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
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A conversation with badass Emma and a look at the work of the NRC's report on the Army corps levees.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 1