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You’re walking the aisles of your local grocery store, picking out fresh ingredients for dinner — you get to the counter, pay for it, bag it, and y...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Well, it was a cold winter, but as I sit and write this blurb it is 75 degrees outside with overnight lows in the low 30s. Now that is classic sout...
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 05:12
They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to two brothers who are trying to make a little noise for the i...
- Added: Mar 20, 2019
- Length: 29:00
We talk with John McCutcheon about his album: To Everyone in All the World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger.
- Added: Mar 15, 2019
- Length: 59:00
How do you usually react to the stream of dire warnings about climate change and wildlife extinction? Does it motivate you to do more to make a dif...
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 28:30
What can we do to be better citizens, better consumers and better advocates for the planet? Fighting waste and saving forests are a good place to s...
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Shelter is on the first rung of renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow‘s hierarchy of needs. And yet, as a society, we have not cracked the code for ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
One of my favorite forests of chain-fruit cholla, also called jumping cholla, was in the desert on the north end of the Tortolita Mountains. Park L...
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 05:48
Many people around the world wouldn’t dream of starting their day without their coffee ritual. And they tend to be pretty particular about it — wha...
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Road trips with a truck load of native plants are a lot of work, but are especially satisfying when you head home with very few plants in the truck...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 06:16
think I talked more about Toumey oak (Quercus toumeyi) than yellow bells. It is an awfully sweet little native oak. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t occ...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 05:20
Western soapberry is Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii and is in the family Sapindaceae. In the soapberry family there are around twelve species. ...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 04:45
For goodness sake, I forgot to mention the black-tailed jackrabbit’s ears! The large ears are magnificent parabolic reflectors that keep them well ...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 05:30
Back in the 1930s, when the US was in the midst of an economic crisis, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt enacted a set of policies to protect the...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Feb 13, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Many of us find it daunting to talk with our neighbors, colleagues and family members about climate change. But climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe ...
Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KBBI Alaska, KVMR, MPR News Stations and more
- Added: Feb 07, 2019
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 8
Growing up watching “The Love Boat,” some of us thought of a cruise as a romantic and exciting way to see the world. New research out of Johns Hopk...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
The first time you saw a fleet of rent-able electric scooters huddled together on a city sidewalk, what was your reaction? Annoyance at yet another...
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Have you ever seen one of those ads with a celebrity like Jackie Chan or Leonardo DiCaprio beside a beautiful, rare animal? If so, there’s a good c...
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Have you ever noticed that scientists historically are mostly white men? Do you think that this fact has skewed some scientific findings? Well, our...
- Added: Jan 15, 2019
- Length: 28:30
The average US resident heads out to the grocery store 1.6 times a week, and over the course of a year uses well over 1,000 plastic shopping bags t...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Climate change isn’t just an environmental problem – it’s also a health hazard. Air pollution and changing weather patterns give rise to heat-relat...
Bought by WJCT, KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, KMXT, KWIT and more
- Added: Jan 07, 2019
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 9
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
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
We all know about the environmental and physical effects of climate change. But what about its impact on our mental health? Therapists report that ...
- Added: Dec 12, 2018
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 6
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
