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Sea Level Rise and the Future of Megacities
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Planet Watch
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Dr. Gary Griggs, Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz and director of the Institute of Marine Sciences talks abo...

Bought by KFOI Radio and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Feb 04, 2017
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 2
There's an art to building wooden boats-just ask Mike Vlahovich
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Mike Vlahovich, Credit: Tom Pich
Master Shipwright & 2016 National Heritage Fellow Mike Vlahovich builds and restores wooden fishing boats to keep alive the culture of the working ...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Rashad Shabazz
Imagine a large population of Americans living in prison-like-conditions. That’s what it’s like in the so-called Black Belt of South Side Chicago.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Breaking Rockefeller
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter B. Doran
Oil is one of the earth’s coveted substances. We love it and we hate it. Yet, it surrounds our lives every day.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kassie Hilgert turns a rust belt graveyard into an arts center.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: SteelStacks, Credit: Jonathan Davies
Reclaiming the abandoned Bethlehem Steel Plant for the arts gives a region new life

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
Chemicals Without Harm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ken Geiser
We are surrounded by chemicals every day. They’re in our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronics, and even our children’s toys.

Bought by KVSC, KCBX, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Two Percent Solutions for the Planet
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Courtney White
We live in an era of big problems, and we tend to spend our time thinking of big solutions. Thinking big, however, can have a paralyzing effect on ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Progressive Environmentalist
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cecelia Tichi
Jack London is known for his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North. But, that’s overlooking the real story. London was a reporter who made n...

Bought by KVSC, KPVL, and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Fusion Economics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Laurence J. Brahm
We have problem. Over 40-percent of the world’s population lives in poverty. Add to that our natural resources are quickly disappearing. Now mix in...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
GUEST: Bernie Krause (Great Animal Orchestra) + 3D AUDIO Insight Treks (chapter 2)
From: Don Hill
Series: Cafe Acousmatic
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D binaural audio.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 59:07
Defending Beef
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nicolette Hahn Niman
Livestock, especially cattle, are Public Enemy Number One. That’s been the perceived wisdom for decades. It’s thought that cattle erode soils, poll...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Urban Food Revolution (Pledge Drive Special)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter Ladner
Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 19:11
  • Purchases: 1
The Sacred Cow
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Brian Moench
No one needs to eat livestock to survive, according to Dr. Brian Moench. Yet meat is almost universally the focus of the Western diet. The average...

Bought by WEZU and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Explosion Green
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Gottfried
When David Gottfried come up an idea for green environmental building 20-years ago, he ran into a number of hurdles. The building industry had been...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Water Revolutiion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Wade Graham
The Western United States has entered a very difficult drought season. Nevada’s water supply is in danger. Realistically California is not any bett...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Flying Blind (for Pledge Drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Flying Blind book cover
When a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department approaches Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell about tracking endangered India...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 01, 2014
  • Length: 22:19
  • Purchases: 1
Saving Paradise (pledge drive edition)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Saving Paradise , Credit: Book cover
IdeaSphere … Saving Paradise: Author and environmental activist Mike Bond uses fiction to tell the real story of Hawaii’s fight against corporation...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 20:41
  • Purchases: 2
Out On a Limb
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ben Kilham
Benjamin Kilham has been researching and living with black bears for nearly twenty years. He has become an expert in black bear behavior, as well a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Sharing is Good
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Beth Buczynski
Consumption and consumerism – they are the cornerstones of American society. Many feel that that model is about to change. We either continue on th...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
One World Everybody Eats
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Denise Cerreta
As founder of One World Everybody Eats, Denise Cerreta is determined to change the way restaurants do business and to bring delicious, healthful fo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 20:58
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaiming Our Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sam Daley-Harris
With his new book, Sam Daley-Harris shares how he and the citizens advocacy organizations he has founded (RESULTS and the Microcredit Summit Campai...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Raising Dough
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Elizabeth Ü
Increasingly, food-based businesses are seen as key solutions to solve our social and environmental problems, and yet entrepreneurs report a surpri...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
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
High Tide
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: High Tide book cover, Credit: jacket design by Kata Jancso
One week before super storm Sandy hit, oceanographer John Englander released his book about the short, medium and long term scenarios we can expect...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Beautiful Business
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Judy Wicks
Judy Wicks founded the White dog Café on the first floor of her house in West Philadelphia. After helping to save her block from demolition, Judy g...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1