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190913: From Wheels to Wings: Our Flying Car Future, 9/13/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Can we beat the traffic by taking to the skies? Sailing over freeways in a flying car, getting to work in minutes instead of hours, has long been t...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
190816: Superpower: How Renewables are Transforming America’s Energy Future, 8/16/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Nearly 25 percent of America’s electricity now comes from renewables, surpassing coal for the first time. Ten states, and Puerto Rico and Washingto...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
2019-08-16 Superpower: How Renewables are Transforming America’s Energy Future
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Nearly 25 percent of America’s electricity now comes from renewables, surpassing coal for the first time. Ten states, and Puerto Rico and Washingto...

Bought by WJCT, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WLPR , Maine Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 7
Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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We’re use to hearing about how much humans have impacted the earth. Scientists have given a name for this period to recognize human dominance over ...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Spectrum 06/25/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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On this week's show: Buzzing and flapping - It's all about bugs and birds. Is it end times for entomology, the study of insects? Can high-freque...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
A Climate Conversion
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Bath Iron Works is a subsidiary of General Dynamics and Maine's largest defense contractor and a major employer. BIW builds Zumwalt destroyers for the U.S. Navy at its shipyard on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine
This week on World Ocean Radio we're talking about solutions to the climate challenge by highlighting some modern examples of and possibilities for...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KVNF


  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 2
The Ramez Naam Plan For De-Carbonization, Pt. 1
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ramez Naam
Whether or not we use the name Green New Deal to describe a set of aggressive long-term policies that will help humanity in the fight against clima...

  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
190503: 2019-05-03 How Climate Broke California’s Biggest Utility, 5/3/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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PG&E has had a bad few years. A series of record-breaking wildfires culminating with 2018’s devastating Camp Fire propelled the California utility ...

  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
Lloyd Alter: Transportation Puzzles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lloyd Alter
The industrial revolution ushered in an era of more efficient transportation. As history has shown us, the impact of our ability to move easily acr...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Living Planet 04/12/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: High tech farming - Drones flying above farms in the United Kingdom, app-based farming in Uganda and improving potato far...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WFIU


  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
2019-03-29 Insane Mode: Tesla’s Wild Ride
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Despite having the top-selling luxury car in 2018, and a loyal if not rabid customer base, Tesla has been facing major challenges. In August, maver...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KUOW, WMRA, MPR News Stations and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 14
Living Planet 03/01/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Move fast and build things - From origami-like electric cars, to drones taking out a rat infestation in the Galapagos, to...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
2019-02-22 Donor Power: The Influence of Climate Philanthropy
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Fighting climate change isn’t cheap. Where’s the money coming from? Major philanthropic organizations like Hewlett and Bloomberg are at the forefro...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMUU-LP, KFOI Radio, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
190222: Donor Power: The Influence of Climate Philanthropy, 2/22/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Fighting climate change isn’t cheap. Where’s the money coming from? Major philanthropic organizations like Hewlett and Bloomberg are at the forefro...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
2018-12-30 Going Carbon Negative
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The math is clear: lowering greenhouse gas emissions is not enough to keep the earth below 1.5 degrees Celsius of post-industrial warming. The late...

Bought by WJCT, KBBI Alaska, KVMR, Gallatin Valley Community Radio, WKAR and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11
PurpleAir Founder Adrian Dybwad
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Adrian Dybwad
Northern California’s now infamous Camp Fire was not only the largest, longest, and deadliest wildfire in the state’s history, it also produced rec...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Put A Cork In It
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lloyd Alter
What do cork, coffee cups, lettuce, and excessive travel have in common? They are all areas of personal choice that have an environmental impact, a...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
2018-12-09 Fire and Water: A Year of Climate Conversations
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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From fires and floods to hurricanes and hot temperatures, 2018 put climate on the front page in ways it hadn’t been before. Yet amidst the disrupti...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WXXI Rochester, WKAR, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
Richard Heinberg on Our Bonus Decade
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Richard Heinberg
If you're someone who's curious about the geopolitical implications of carbon fuel and the ecological havoc it wreaks, you've probably come across ...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
2018-12-02 A Four-Zero Climate Solution
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Stabilizing our climate is going to take some hard truths – and hard numbers. “If you look at 1.5 degrees, it's about 13 years,” says Stanford’s Ar...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KMXT, NPR Now, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
Made In The Shade: Erik Hoffner on Agroforestry
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Erik Hoffner
Occam’s Razor is a principle that tells us that the simplest solution to a problem tends to be the correct one. Farmers around the world are abidin...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
Steve Seeger + Doniece Sandoval: Power of One
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Doniece Sandoval
One thing that we are consistently reminded of during election season is that each and every person can make a difference – whether it’s casting a ...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
Living Planet 09/21/208
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet: Earth, wind and fire - This week on the show: Preventing mining pollution in Brazil, wind power finally taking off in Lebanon, ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, KMUN, KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 5
Spectrum 09/18/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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On this week's show: Can obesity induced inflammation reduce your ability to taste? How much CO² does one sandwich produce? You’ll be surprised.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
2018-08-26 Permanently Temporary
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Larry Goldzband, Executive Director of BCDC, the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Credit: Sarah Gonzalez
With the melting of Antarctica’s ice and the Greenland ice sheet, projections for the oceans to rise dramatically and quickly are increasing. Watch...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, NPR Now, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9