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Living Planet 10/25/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Not so fantastic - We're taking a look at our plastic world — from the oceans, to its place in our homes, to its origi...

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


  • Added: Oct 25, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Ian Urbina on "The Outlaw Ocean"
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ian Urbina
This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to Ian Urbina, a longtime investigative reporter for the New York Times whose latest book "The Outlaw Ocean...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
Living Planet 07/05/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: It's getting hot in here! - Dangerous heat waves and raging wildfires across Europe and Alaska have destroyed huge areas...

Bought by WRGY, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and WFIU


  • Added: Jul 05, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Young Environmental Activist
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California
Caption: The Allen Co. drilling site in South Los Angeles., Credit: Photo by Claire Heddles
Generation Z has been called a lot of things: The internet generation. The Instagram generation. And as some say: the activist generation. Claire H...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 08:29
John Stoehr: Let’s Impeach the President
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Stoehr
We have our hands full at Sea Change Radio just trying to cover important stories relating to the environment and social justice. But we also recog...

  • Added: May 01, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Falter: Bill McKibben's Latest Warning
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bill McKibben
Environmentalists have been talking for a long time about the threat to the planet. Now, a prominent voice is directing our attention to a related ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Midterm Thanks: John Stoehr + Emily Atkin
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Emily Atkin
This week, as we inventory the things for which we are thankful, many of us may include some of the midterm election results in our accounting. Tod...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Sammy Roth on Desert Water Tussles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
As more and more of the western United States suffers from warmer temperatures and in some places desertification, water has become perhaps the mos...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Lisa Song: Mississippi Levee Wars
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lisa Song
Sometimes we lose sight of what Audrey Hepburn called "that old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second." This week on Sea Change...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
“Catch Colt Draws A Coffin Cart”: Remembering John Perry Barlow
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead lyricist, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and environmentalist, died in his sleep this past week ...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Maya van Rossum and the Green Amendment Movement
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Maya van Rossum
When the crafters of the Declaration of Independence affirmed “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as inalienable rights, they could not h...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Where There’s Smoke: California Wildfires
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ed Struzik
Most of us associate Napa and Sonoma counties with delicious wine and rolling hills. But this year those hills were ablaze. Dozens lost their lives...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 91: Heat or Eat
From: Shira Rascoe
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Millions of Americans struggle to pay their utility bills, and some families are even forced to choose between groceries or energy bills. Professor...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2017
  • Length: 25:59
Alex Gilbert: Environmental Roots of a Scandal
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Gilbert
It has been a bit difficult to keep up with the news since January. Every few hours it seems like there is a new revelation in the global political...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Kirk Lombard, Sea Forager
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kirk Lombard
As more of us are becoming aware of the dark side of the seafood industry, the locavore revolution has been moving full throttle into seafood. This...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Teens Sue U.S. Gov’t over Climate Change
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Philip Gregory
What do a 13 year old in Louisiana, a 14 year old in Oregon and a 16 year old in Hawaii all have in common besides possibly the number of hours a d...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
How We Fight Back: Part I
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Zack Exley and Becky Bond
All over the world people who care about the environment are watching the US President-Elect sketch out a blueprint for disaster. To head the EPA h...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Part II
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Gavin Newsom
How does Gavin Newsom maintain his optimism in the face of all the destructive policies the president-elect might enact? That’s part of what we tal...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 1
Shower Power: Doniece Sandoval
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Doniece Sandoval
Do you live in a city? Well, if you don’t, you may soon. It is predicted that by 2050, more than 70 percent of us human beings will be living in ci...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Companies Corroding Communities
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neela Banerjee
According to the Supreme Court, corporations are people. The absurdity of this statement notwithstanding, it is clear that, like people, corporatio...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Tim Dickinson: Sunshine State In The Dark
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tim Dickinson
Think about the sunniest states in the U.S. Florida, the place that calls itself "the sunshine state" is sure to come to mind. Indeed, the solar i...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Salt Water Wilderness: Summer Brennan & Doug Woodring
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Summer Brennan
What does the word wilderness evoke in your mind? A vast field, a dense forest, a body of water? If you’re an attorney, it may simply be a legal te...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Get The Lead Out: Kevin Drum & Sarah Hess
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kevin Drum
The policy decisions we make today will have an impact on the next hundred years and beyond. It kind of makes you think, what policy decisions from...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
Global Ethics Corner: How Should the Media Cover Natural Disasters?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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As Superstorm Sandy made clear, natural disasters can wreak havoc on rich and poor countries, alike. However, the Western media's coverage often ti...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
Bill McKibben: Currency For The Green Movement
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is one of the world’s leading environmentalists. In addition to his recent success leading a coalition to stop the construction agai...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1