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804-Tracie’s Solo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Of Earth And An Asteroid, Credit: Texas A&M/NASA
After months of training Tracie came full circle during her first solo 3 night observing run on the 60 inch telescope as she hosted groups of visi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 23, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
071524: Watersheds, 7/15/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children’s Hour, we learn what watersheds are, and how they are impacted by forest fires.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2024
  • Length: 01:52:00
Omanjana Goswami, Ph.D., Interdisciplinary scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists discusses soil health, human health, and water pollution from Tyson meat processing plants.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that U.S. farm policy values corporate profits over human health? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemme...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
Despite the name, flushable wipes are not flushable
From: Possibly
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Despite what the packaging says, flushable wipes should never be flushed down the toilet! They can cause blockages in the sewer system and create a...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 1
Are we close to 100% renewable energy?
From: Possibly
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For decades now, people have been installing solar panels, wind turbines and more to transition our energy to renewable sources – but we wondered, ...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
Season 1, Episode 48 - 'Fixing Flow' feat Minni Jain
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Managing water across the globe, one community at a time.

Bought by KZUM and WOJB


  • Added: Jun 10, 2024
  • Length: 58:05
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 06/07/24
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Deep Dive: Where do all the flowers come from? Roses are red, cornflowers are blue. Most flowers are grown on a different continent, what’s it to y...

Bought by Radio Kansas and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Alexis Temkin, Ph.D., Toxicologist, Environmental Working Group, discusses the 2024 Shoppers Guide to Pesticides in Produce.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that pesticides are widely used in U.S. agriculture and residues may remain on and in the foods we eat, even after washing or processi...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
20240531 You Gonna Finish That? Saving Good Food from Going Bad
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Globally, one-third of food produced every year is wasted. That’s enough to feed about 2 billion people – twice the number of people who are undern...

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


  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
240531: You Gonna Finish That? Saving Good Food from Going Bad, 5/31/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Globally, one-third of food produced every year is wasted. That’s enough to feed about 2 billion people – twice the number of people who are undern...

  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
A Rescue Blueprint: How the Ocean Can Save Civilization pt 2 of 2
From: World Ocean Observatory
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A call to action: In this two-episode arch we reintroduce listeners to RESCUE: a 33-part series outlining a plan for specific action and public par...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 05/31/24
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Deep dive - Reviving repair culture. We generate so much e-waste per year that we could easily fill enough garbage trucks to...

Bought by Radio Kansas, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, and KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA


  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Why did I see a bunch of dead fish in the Providence River?
From: Possibly
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One Possibly listener wondered why she saw so many dead fish in the water last spring. Turns out it’s called a fish kill – which can happen when th...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and Raven Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 3
800-Telescope Reborn
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: In an artist’s rendering, light from quasars passes through intergalactic clouds of hydrogen gas. The light offers clues to the structure of the distant cosmos, Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld and DESI
In an astonishing rebirth, the Mayall 4-m telescope has jumped to the forefront of astronomy once again because it is sturdy and precise enough to...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: May 26, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Peter Annin, author of Purified: How Recycled Sewage is Transforming Our Water.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that astronauts’ liquid wastes are recycled into drinking water in space? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melind...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
How can buses become a climate solution?
From: Possibly
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The transportation sector is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gasses in the U.S., and cars make up most of those emissions. So how can public ...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 3
Season 1, Episode 42 - 'Snowfall' feat Dr Andrew Schwartz
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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The study of snowfall and snowpack, and its importance in our lives.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
Chloe Waterman, M.S., Senior Program Manager for Climate Friendly Foods at Friends of the Earth discusses the hazards of Biogas.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that heavily subsidized biogas digesters pose a risk to rural communities and are not the climate-change solution they’re made out to ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
World Ocean Radio: Looking East From West
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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After a recent visit to Japan, an island nation, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill ponders, what if, as in Japan, we applied values individually, ...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
How will Providence make its buildings carbon neutral?
From: Possibly
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Providence, Rhode Island has set the goal of being carbon neutral by 2050. And recently, the city government passed a new ordinance to help it meet...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WRFA-LP, and KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
798-Destination Enceladus
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Enceladus, Credit: ESA
Life on Earth appears to have formed in our oceans. Scientists are thus on the hunt for other worlds which have oceans of liquid water and thus po...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: May 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Marianne Landzettel, author of Sustainable Meat Production and Processing: Local, Profitable and Humane.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that cattle are not the “climate change killers” they’ve been made out to be? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Me...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 05/10/24
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet – Streams & Ripple podcast oil spill investigation interview. We take a moment to stop, appreciate, and ponder the humble stream. A...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio Kansas, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Eco Report - May 3, 2024
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In this edition of Eco Report, Kade Young and Noelle Herhusky-Schneider continue their conversation with Maggie Sullivan, the Watershed Coordinator...

  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 30:26
Could we use a space umbrella to cool down the planet?
From: Possibly
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Literally blocking out the sun may sound extreme, but scientists are debating whether using dust particles to reflect sunlight away from the Earth ...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WRFA-LP, and Raven Radio


  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 3

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