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How the military is preparing space for the next world war.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Blue light from device screens can upset your body's internal clock with dangerous consequences.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:51
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The Living Well Show present a two-part interview with Dr. Devra Davis and Theodora Scarato, MSW. Dr. Davis is the author of Disconnect: The Truth...

Bought by WPCA-LP, KRZA, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Environmental issues are mounting, and the stakes are huge. So how might big data be used to tackle the issues of sustainability, climate change, h...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 34:51
Caption: James Hansen
The climate crisis is a crisis of governance and leadership. Will we move rapidly enough to realign our policies, politics and economy to stabilize...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Ken Geiser
We are surrounded by chemicals every day. They’re in our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronics, and even our children’s toys.

Bought by KVSC, KCBX, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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How big is your ecological footprint? Probably bigger than you think. After all, out of sight, out of mind. As an originator of ecological footprin...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 7
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Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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It was early morning, November first, nineteen fifty-two. The scientists who had gathered on the beautiful Enewetak (A-ne-we-tak) Atoll in the Sout...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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By the middle of the 20th century electromagnets were common and engineers had begun experimenting with using them to levitate vehicles, including...

  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: National Resources Defense Council
While California is experiencing one of it’s driest seasons, the east and south are having one of the coldest and wettest. Is this climate change, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Adapting to Climate Change explores the ambitious plans that engineers, scientists, government officials, business leaders, NGOs, and community gro...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KRCB 104.9, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 39
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Timothy Mousseau, a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Universit...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 28:33
Caption: Sahara Forest Project's greenhouse-power plant hybrid proposal , Credit: Sahara Forest Project, 2009
In "Eaarth, Making a Life on a Tough New Planet", author Bill McKibben analyzes the damage we've done to our terrestrial and marine environment, ou...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:22
Caption: New York City's Green Infrastructure Plan and Sustainability Management
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will have us look no further than New York City and the Green Infrastructure Plan as a real ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:19
Caption: Mark Jacobson, Credit: Sheri Quinn
Stanford University Engineer Mark Z. Jacobson is trying to convince the world that his energy plan based soley on renwables: wind, water, and solar...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 31:08
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Earth Day Project by 8th Grade Science students Hameed Mourani and Joseph Ricciardella.

  • Added: May 30, 2011
  • Length: 16:44
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Sustainable Design for the Future, from IEEE Spectrum Magazine and the National Science Foundation. Sustainable planning – of buildings and communi...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KZYX, KISU, WNYC, KZYX and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Commentary that argues that to be environmentally friendly we want products designed so that the high value materials can be removed - reserving re...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:48
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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American's have been hitting the bottle a lot lately -- to the tune of 9 billion gallons of water in 2007.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Fill 'er up with: Algae 100 - you know, the gas that's made from those golden brown or green plants growing along our coasts...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Google Mega Search Engine goes Green with Solar Power

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 12, 2007
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1