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Meet environmental poet Camille T. Dungy
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Camille Dungy, Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Award-winning writer and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T. Dungy discusses her work as an ecopoet.

Bought by WSLR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 3
Eriel Deranger of Indigenous Climate Action
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Eriel Deranger
The list of crimes committed in the name of so called “progress” includes modern offenses such as the Trump Administration’s effort to sell off Nat...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Writer’s Voice: Simon Winchester, LAND & Isabella Tree, WILDING
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Simon Winchester about his new book Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World. Then we revisit part of our 2020 int...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Rebecca Leber: A Green New Infrastructure Deal?
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Rebecca Leber
Infrastructure is sort of the unsung hero of a functioning society. It’s hard to get across town without a reliable road, hard to keep people healt...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Nithin Coca: Indonesian Coal Crisis
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Nithin Coca
We often associate coal consumption with China and India, countries that have indeed invested heavily into the harmful fuel but flying under the ra...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Megan Milliken Biven proposes an Abandoned Well Administration
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Megan Milliken Biven
For over a hundred years, American land and waters have been tapped for that dark and viscous substance that has propelled our economy and generate...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tim Dickinson of Rolling Stone: Anti-Vaxxer Factor
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tim Dickinson
For many of us, the increasing availability of Covid vaccinations glows brightly, a light at the end of what has been a long and dreary tunnel. For...

Bought by KWMR and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ricky Kej & Lonnie Park
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 829 (Air Dates: March 8 - 14, 2021) This week our guests are Ricky Kej and Lonnie Park. Ricky is an internationally renowned Indian Music Comp...

Bought by KNBA, WETS, KRCB 104.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Alex Gilbert on the Texas Blackouts
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Gilbert
All eyes have been on the Lone Star State recently, watching the grim and undeniable impact of climate change on a population completely unprepared...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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
The National Endowment for the Arts presents Wayne Valliere
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Wayne Valliere, Credit: Tim Frandy
Culture-bearer and 2020 National Heritage Fellow Wayne Valliere (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe) is one of a handful of birch bark canoe builders left in t...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 22:30
  • Purchases: 1
Derek Walker: New Sheriffs on Climate Action
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Derek Walker
Which of the Trump-era environmental transgressions made your heart hurt the most? Was it when they loosened CO2 emission restrictions on power pla...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Jim Furnish + Kate Sheppard on the Last Frontier
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jim Furnish
According to the State of Alaska website, the state’s name derives from the Aleut alyeska, meaning “great land.” Today on Sea Change Radio we talk ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Joe Brewer: Farms of the Future
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joe Brewer
For environmentalists “agriculture” can be something of a dirty word, associated with other words such as, pesticides, water consumption, pollutant...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lloyd Alter: Design Trends in Housing + E-Bikes
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lloyd Alter
2020 has certainly been a strange year. Everyone is waiting for things to go “back to normal” but what will normal be? Will there be any adaptation...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Richard Delaney: Heading Down The Cape
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rich Delaney
As the author of “Jaws,” Peter Benchley, put it, “You could start now, and spend another forty years learning about the sea without running out of ...

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rebecca Leber: A Brand New Day
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rebecca Leber
The New York Times recently compiled a list of 104 environmental protections that the Trump administration has rolled back in four short years — th...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
201009: A Feminist Climate Renaissance, 10/9/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation, replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time of n...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
2020-10-09 A Feminist Climate Renaissance
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation, replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time of n...

Bought by WWNO, WDSE, KSQD Santa Cruz, KICI Iowa City, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
Dan Dicker: Turning Oil Green
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dan Dicker
In the words of the late US Senator Everett Dirksen, “the oil can is mightier than the sword.” Whether it is mightier than the COVID-19 virus remai...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
200925: Erin Brockovich: Superman's Not Coming, 9/25/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Twenty years ago, Julia Roberts won an Oscar for her portrayal of maverick environmental activist Erin Brockovich in the film of the same name. The...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
2020-09-25 Erin Brockovich: Superman's Not Coming
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Twenty years ago, Julia Roberts won an Oscar for her portrayal of maverick environmental activist Erin Brockovich in the film of the same name. The...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
Holy Smoke! Air Quality Meteorologist Scott Landes
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Scott Landes
With record-setting wildfires blanketing large swaths of the Western United States in smoke, we thought it appropriate to speak to someone who know...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2020-08-28 Climate Change Through the Artists Eyes with Alonzo King
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Can art help us process our changing climate? The story of climate change is typically told in the language of facts and figures, graphs and charts...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KICI Iowa City, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 7
Under Pressure: Jeremy Hance
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jeremy Hance
These dark and troubling times have left very few of us stress and anxiety free. So we thought we'd check in with an expert on germophobia and anxi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1