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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...
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- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
Will the rapid arrival of robotic cars lead to the blissful end of traffic? Or will autonomous cars merely put drivers out of work and clog our str...
Bought by MPR News Stations
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Can the far right and far left come together on clean energy despite the polarization in Washington DC? While Democrats and Republicans may have di...
- Added: May 02, 2017
- Length: 58:58
A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 24:59
Who are the people bankrolling our political system? New Yorker writer Jane Mayer takes us behind the scenes and exposes the powerful group of indi...
Bought by KTRT RADIO INC
- Added: Apr 24, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
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
Getting people to connect the dots between food and the environment may be one way to engage them in the climate change fight, suggests author and ...
- Added: Feb 20, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
With stock market values at near-record highs, how is the clean tech sector doing? What technologies are most promising for making money and getti...
- Added: Feb 13, 2017
- Length: 59:00
Much has been made of the partisan divide when it comes to climate change. But are there Republicans out there who accept the science and believe ...
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 59:00
In 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger launched California's attack on climate change by signing a pioneering law to reduce carbon poll...
Bought by WCPN, WCQS, and KCPW Salt Lake City
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
It’s hard to put a price on something that’s always been free, but if Mother Nature were a corporation, she’d be a large-cap stock. Think about it ...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 58:58
Science historian Naomi Oreskes, author of “Merchants of Doubt,” has had her share of hate mail from climate deniers. But she insists that “we can'...
- Added: Jan 02, 2017
- Length: 59:00
By sending pipe from a moving ship roughly three miles down to collect sediment and rocks a third of a mile beneath the sea floor in an ocean trenc...
- Added: Aug 28, 2016
- Length: 04:22
On this episode of Culture Clique, we visit with Dr. Dean Peterson, Director of the Precambrian Research Center and the University of Minnesota Du...
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- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 28:12
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Hide Erdrich is an author of poetry and recently, a cookbook entitled Original Local: Indigenous Foods Stories and Recipes from the Upper Midwest. ...
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 50:26
A growing number of Californians are opting for clean electricity to run their TVs and toasters. But how much do we know about where our power rea...
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- Length: 58:58
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A look back at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, 15 years later, to hear how some of New Orleans' best-loved musicians endured - and why. Gwen T...
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 51:58
Two stories about elephants, one from Carol Buckley, co-founder of the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, and one from author Susan Chernak McElroy (...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2014
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Episode sixty-nine has arrived in a totally cybernetic way! Join us as we speak with Vicki Brown, a Ph.D. in Research Methodology and a rockin’ vio...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 28:02
Noise pollution is a growing problem. Effecting everything from the lives of people living under airplane flight paths, to marine life. On this edi...
- Added: Mar 30, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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To what degree are we born a blank slate, and how much are we a result of our influence by our environment? Consensus: Nature or nurture is the wr...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 07:20
