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Despite having the top-selling luxury car in 2018, and a loyal if not rabid customer base, Tesla has been facing major challenges. In August, maver...
Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KUOW, WMRA, MPR News Stations and more
- Added: Mar 27, 2019
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 14
Fighting climate change isn’t cheap. Where’s the money coming from? Major philanthropic organizations like Hewlett and Bloomberg are at the forefro...
Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMUU-LP, KFOI Radio, NPR Now and more
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 7
Fighting climate change isn’t cheap. Where’s the money coming from? Major philanthropic organizations like Hewlett and Bloomberg are at the forefro...
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 58:58
Over a century ago, the industrial revolution brought wealth and opportunity to a generation of American innovators. It also brought us dirty coal ...
- Added: Jan 21, 2019
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 9
Christopher Caskey is a scientist and entrepreneur with an innovative business idea to tackle two environmental problems in rural Colorado at once:...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Oct 25, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
When you think of climate activism, Wall Street doesn’t immediately come to mind. But as investors are coming to realize, they do have a voice – an...
Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WUTC, MPR News Stations, KWIT and more
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 8
Living Planet: The new gold rush
We live on a planet of finite resources but our demand for new consumer products and technologies keeps growing....
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU
- Added: Jun 14, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
The pursuit for oil continues, even as many alternatives emerge and investments are displaced. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Nei...
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 04:50
The price of solar power has declined dramatically in recent years. That’s good news for homeowners, the environment and the economy. Renewable pow...
- Added: Feb 28, 2018
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 3
After more than a century of ruling the roads, oil is starting to lose its dominance over the auto industry. More and more automakers are introduc...
- Added: Feb 22, 2018
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 4
Offshore wind projects on the Great Lakes have been discussed for years, and the first one will likely happen soon, on Lake Erie. Andy Balaskovitz,...
- Added: Jan 24, 2018
- Length: 17:08
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
Waste and the management of it are new challenges in recent decades. How do we dispose of toxic waste, plastic packaging, electronics, and other di...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Feb 22, 2017
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 1
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
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss publications, reports, and projects which are integral to the evolution of ocean policy and science...
- Added: Dec 21, 2016
- Length: 05:44
The basic idea of the circular economy is that in production, nothing should be wasted, and everything at the end of its life should be made into s...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 14:00
A recent report from the U of MN's Energy Transition Lab indicates that biomass and solar energy expansion could add over 2,000 jobs to the NE Minn...
- Added: Jul 05, 2016
- Length: 17:52
Minnesota's largest solar power project went online in December atop two parking ramps at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. Dennis Probst, who spea...
- Added: Jan 12, 2016
- Length: 17:31
Cook County's local electric co-op, Arrowhead, recently installed a community solar array, and members can subscribe to the output. WTIP's Dave Ter...
- Added: Oct 20, 2015
- Length: 26:30
A handful of global business leaders are blazing trails to a biologically based “eco-nomics.” They are fundamentally recalculating core assumptions...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
“The goal is Zero Waste by 2020, and we think that is an achievable goal.”
Those words from former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom back in 2009 p...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:04
WTIP's Dave TerSteeg spoke recently with Erin Stojan Ruccolo, director of electricity markets for Fresh Energy, about various aspects of generating...
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 12:11
When David Gottfried come up an idea for green environmental building 20-years ago, he ran into a number of hurdles. The building industry had been...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The "silk road" of Marco Polo's 13th century journey to the East is being revived, as is its ocean parallel, the "maritime silk road" which is fast...
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 05:11
This feature looks at the greening of Prather Ranch, a sustainable cattle hay and farming operation in Northern California. Through a partnership ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2013
- Length: 10:25
