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Nicole Voudren: Charged Up For EVs
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Nicole Voudren
According to Reuters, electric vehicle sales leapt 50% in the US in 2023, and are expected to grow by another 30% in 2024. But driving around your ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Matthew Slater: Crypto and the Search for Trade Justice
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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Did you see any of the celebrity-backed ads for the slew of now defunct crytpo businesses? Did they leave you scratching your head at the time? It ...

Bought by KMUN and WORT


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Chathu Gamage: Forging Cleaner Steel
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Chathu Gamage
Humans have been making steel in some form or other for over two millennia - and consistently re-using and recycling it along the way. This week on...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Adam Woltag: Designing Sustainable Spaces
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Adam Woltag
They say home is where the heart is, and it’s also where our story begins today. This week on Sea Change Radio, we talk to two people doing their b...

  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
2023-04-14 Bitcoin Uses a Ton of Energy – On Purpose. Is it Worth It?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Studies estimate that global bitcoin mining uses more electricity than most countries, and that bitcoin mining may be responsible for about 65 mega...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
230414: Bitcoin Uses a Ton of Energy – On Purpose. Is it Worth It?, 4/14/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Studies estimate that global bitcoin mining uses more electricity than most countries, and that bitcoin mining may be responsible for about 65 mega...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Adam Minter: The Promise of Autonomous Vehicles for Rural America
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Adam Minter
Have you ever been so tired behind the wheel that you needed to pull over to rest? Well, that’s one of the problems autonomous or self-driving vehi...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Sachu Constantine of Vote Solar
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sachu Constantine
It is estimated that over 2.5 million homes are equipped with solar panels in the U.S. And the popularity of capturing the natural power of the sun...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Waymap CEO Tom Pey
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tom Pey
Have you ever watched in amazement as a visually impaired person nimbly maneuvers their way through a crowded subway station? Well, some thoughtful...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Local Bounti’s Craig Hurlbert on Controlled Environment Agriculture
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week’s guest is Craig Hurlbert, co-founder and co-CEO of Local Bounti, an AgTech start up headquartered in Hamilton, Montana. The company’s am...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 3
Tru Earth CEO Brad Liski: Detergent Insurgent
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brad Liski
The next time you’re doing a load of laundry, take a second and think about all that goes into cleaning your clothes. You’ve probably contemplated ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jim Motavalli: EV Updates
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jim Motavalli
If you haven’t considered buying an electric vehicle yet, there’s a good chance that in the not-so-distant future, the decision will already be mad...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Arqlite: Turning Plastic Into Gravel
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sebastian Sajoux
This week on Sea Change Radio, we learn about a small, innovative company that is recycling all sorts of plastics and turning them into gravel. We ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
GN_7.30_3D Printed Home
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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An Austin-based construction technologies company on a mission to make safe, affordable housing using 3D printer technology.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Resilience and the Blue Economy
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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How can ecological resistance be sustained? This week on World Ocean Radio, part 40 of the BLUEprint Series, we outline various tools to confront t...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 05:45
Part 3: Money And Time
From: Wyoming Public Radio
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The finalists' confidence begins to crack as they're faced with the reality of setting up demonstrations in just a few months. How do their challen...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 44:25
Part 2: The Finalists
From: Wyoming Public Radio
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We take a drive north across the Wyoming prairie to visit the research center that’s been dubbed a “glimmer of hope” for coal country. There, we me...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 47:52
Part 1: The Silver Bullet
From: Wyoming Public Radio
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Coal is on its last legs. In the coal capital of the country, in the least-populated state in the union, leaders had to make a move. So, they turne...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 35:58
  • Purchases: 1
FloWater: An Answer To Our Plastic Bottle Woes?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Raz
In the 1990s, I recall my grandfather remarking upon the new ubiquity of plastic water bottles, “When did everybody get so thirsty all of a sudden?...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mapping the Ocean: Material Survey
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-two of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we discuss the history of resource extraction o...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
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
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
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
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