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190802: Drawdown: Do We Have What It Takes to Solve Climate Change?, 8/2/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Today’s solutions for addressing climate change are doable, but daunting: decrease global meat consumption, improve family planning, shut down coal...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
2019-08-02 Drawdown: Do We Have What It Takes to Solve Climate Change?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Today’s solutions for addressing climate change are doable, but daunting: decrease global meat consumption, improve family planning, shut down coal...

Bought by WJCT, WMUU-LP, WLPR , KBBI Alaska, and KSQD Santa Cruz


  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 5
190607: Mindful Travel, 6/7/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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We’ve all heard that hopping on a plane is one of the worst things we can do for the climate. So how do we justify the environmental costs of world...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
190419: Fighting Fossil Fuels All the Way to Prison, 4/19/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How far would you go to make your voice heard on climate change? College student Tim DeChristopher disrupted an auction for oil and gas leases - an...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KZYX, XRAY.fm, and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
190210: Katharine Hayhoe: Why We Need to Talk About Climate Change, 2/8/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Why can it be so difficult to talk with our neighbors, colleagues and family members about climate change? Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe says ...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
2019-01-13 The Hidden Health Hazards of Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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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
2018-11-18 Are Human Lives Improving?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In their 1968 book The Population Bomb, Paul and Anne Ehrlich warned of the dangers of overpopulation. These included mass starvation, societal uph...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KBBI Alaska, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Sunbeam Us Up: Solarizing Your Roof and the Electricity Grid
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
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Senior energy analysts Laura Wisland and John Rogers from the Union of Concerned Scientists discuss all things solar, from getting solar on your ro...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2017
  • Length: 31:24
Interview: Admiral Lee Gunn
From: Generation Anthropocene
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How is climate change going to affect national security and the work of our armed forces? On today’s show, Admiral Lee Gunn shares his perspective ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 25:12
2017-06-25 Water Whiplash
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Barton "Buzz" Thompson, Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Credit: Ed Ritger
Over the past few years, many parts of the country have experienced wetter wets and drier drys. California has seen five years of severe drought – ...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KWIT, KHSU, RadioFreePalmer, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
2017-06-11 Inheriting Climate Change: What Will Boomers Leave Behind?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Bruce Gibney, Author, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed
Do the baby boomers owe millennials a clean planet? Or is it every generation for itself? Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving their younger...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, KZYX, KWMR, and NPR Now


  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
2017-05-28 Texas Surprise
From: Climate One
Caption: Stephanie Smith. COO, Greencastle LLC
When Californians think of Texas, images of JR Ewing and pump jacks quickly come to mind. But the Lone Star State is greener than you think – it le...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
2017-04-23 Jane Goodall in Conversation with Jeff Horowitz and Greg Dalton
From: Climate One
Caption: Dr. Jane Goodall
For much of her nearly six-decade-long career, Dr. Jane Goodall has worked to raise awareness about the importance of protecting our planet. The Ja...

Bought by MPR News Stations


  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
2017-04-02 Youth in the Streets and in the Courts
From: Climate One
Caption: James Coleman, Fellow, Alliance for Climate Education, Credit: Ed Ritger
As Buffalo Springfield sang in 1967, “There’s something happening here…” But today’s youth revolution is happening far beyond the Sunset Strip. The...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
2017-03-26 Climate Equity
From: Climate One
Caption: Miya Yoshitani, Executive Director, Asia Pacific Environmental Network, Credit: Ed Ritger
The environmental movement has convinced us that everyone has a right to clean air. But will the emerging green economy will be more equitable and ...

Bought by KRZA, KCMJ Community Radio, KMUD, and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
2017-03-05 Killing the Colorado
From: Climate One
Caption: Fran Spivy-Weber, Vice Chair, CA State Water Resources Control Board
The story of the American West is deeply rooted in the Colorado River, which delivers fresh water to seven thirsty states before crossing the borde...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
2017-02-05 Green Latinos
From: Climate One
Caption: From L to R: Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council; Orson Aguilar, Executive Director, The Greenlining Institute; Catherine Sandoval, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission; Greg Dalton, Founder, Climate One, Credit: Rikki Ward
Latinos make up the largest ethnic group in California. What environmental concerns do they have for their communities and their families? How can ...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
2017-01-29 Ecological Intelligence
From: Climate One
Caption: Josh Freedman, George Lakoff, Daniel Goleman, Greg Dalton, Credit: Ed Ritger
Evolution designed our brains to protect us from immediate, day-to-day threats to our survival. But environmental change is a less than clear, less...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Conference of the Parties summit
From: Generation Justice Admin
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At the 21st annual "Conference of the Parties" or COP summit, representatives from U.N countries gathered to reach accord on what to do about globa...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 09:13
Pulitzer100--Stories in Science (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Earth Day Specials
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin's book "Tom's River: A story of Science and Salvation", on how a small town fought pollution and the pollu...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 1
Two Decades of Solar Pioneers in Sacramento
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 27: he publicly-owned Sacramento Municipal Utility District, or SMUD, had already installed the first utility-scale PV array in the nation ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 26:02
Solar For All: An Article of Faith
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 26: Minnesota’s community solar garden program may be the envy of the nation — once the utility’s stall tactics have been stopped — but it ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 27:11
A Deep Dive on Value of Solar and the Future of Solar Energy
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 22: “Utility regulation and rates is a contact sport,” says Karl Rabago, and that makes the implementation of a new “value of solar” policy...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 34:27
Kansas City: A Royal Effort to Solarize City Rooftops
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 25: In April, ILSR’s John Farrell interviewed Charles Harris, project manager with the Kansas City. Harris suggested that the project got i...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 15:21
Raleigh: Duking it Out Over Municipal Solar
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 24: In April 2015, John Farrell talked to Robert Hinson, renewable energy coordinator with the City of Raleigh, NC. In lieu of third-party ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 19:55