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The Response: Reimagining Paradise in an Age of Disruption
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week on Making Contact, we bring you a story about resilience and rebuilding after a megafire decimated parts of Northern California. This is ...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
Beyond Recognition: The Ohlone
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Corrina Gould, Credit: Sogorea Te Land Trust and Planting Justice
Our radio adaptation of the film Beyond Recognition by Underexposed films, "After decades struggling to protect her ancestors’ burial places, a Nat...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Flood Insurance
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In the United States, planning and reparation for coastal flooding and damage has been administered under a National Flood Insurance Program that s...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 04:43
The Big Pond #41: Enjoy the Ride – About Bicycling
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In these times of increased awareness of environmental protection, the bicycle is on the rise again. In Germany, especially medium-sized cities suc...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 19:19
  • Purchases: 2
SEA OF SHADOWS -- Richard Ladkani, Jack Hutton, Cynthia Smith, and Andrea Crota Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Jack Hutton, Richard Ladkani, Cynthia Smith and Andrea Crota, Credit: Andrea Chase
Richard Ladkani, Jack Hutton, Cynthia Smith, and Andrea Crota talk symbols, hope, and the definition of extremist.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2019
  • Length: 23:03
Dr. Ron Epstein- Genetically Modified Food
From: Barry Vogel
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Genetically engineered food products are an issue that concerns many. In more recent years, Mendocino County has gone so far as to pass a resolutio...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
2019-05-24 David Gergen on Climate Politics and Public Opinion
From: Climate One
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What does a former advisor to Richard Nixon think about the climate crisis? “This is turning out exactly the way scientists predicted, with one exc...

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  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
190524: David Gergen on Climate Politics and Public Opinion, 5/24/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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What does a former advisor to Richard Nixon think about the climate crisis? “This is turning out exactly the way scientists predicted, with one exc...

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Green New Deal and the Blue Economy
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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The Green New Deal has received much attention in the United States recently as one possible response to the challenging circumstances we face worl...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 05:16
Some Very Hopeful Numbers: Changing Attitudes Toward Climate
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Yale Climate Connections 2018 Report, Credit: Yale Climate Connections
A recent report from the Yale Program on Climate Change, measuring public awareness and political views on issues related to climate, shows that op...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 05:19
190301: Weathering the Storm in America's Cities, 3/1/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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From fires and floods to heavy snow and hurricanes, recent years have brought a raft of extreme weather disasters costing the U.S. hundreds of bill...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
2019-03-01 Weathering the Storm in America's Cities
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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From fires and floods to heavy snow and hurricanes, recent years have brought a raft of extreme weather disasters costing the U.S. hundreds of bill...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
People Over Parking Lots
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Half empty lot on Black Friday, Credit: Strong Towns
Fayetteville Arkansas and Buffalo NY stopped requiring off-street parking and found that walkable shopping districts boost local business. Its some...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 4
2019-01-06 The Paris Agreement at Three
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In its infancy, the Paris Agreement carried the promise of a truly global climate solution. Supporters still say the Agreement is the first step in...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
John McClow — Water wrangling in the American West (Part one)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes talks with water law expert John McClow.

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
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The Polar Silk Road in 2018
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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On the heels of the Arctic Circle Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland in October, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill offers some additional thoughts o...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2018
  • Length: 05:08
2018-10-28 Climate Silence: Why Aren't There More Votes?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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After a year of climate-amplified fires and hurricanes around the country, New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel tells host Greg Dalton how climate ...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Climate Refugees: Reaping the Whirlwind
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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2018 was a summer of extremes: hurricanes, wildfires, drought, floods, heat, earthquakes, tsunami. It's increasingly evident that human interventio...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2018
  • Length: 05:19
2018-10-14 Climate Press Pool: Robert Gibbs and Jeff Nesbit
From: Climate One
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Climate used to have bipartisan support. Now that the Republican party is skeptical about fighting climate, companies are moving into a leadership ...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
World Oceans Day
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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On June 8th we celebrate World Oceans Day, an annual day set aside to recognize our relationship with the ocean through global connection. In this ...

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
2018-05-20 Paris Progress Report
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In June 2017, President Trump announced his plan to withdraw the country from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, claiming it disadvantaged the United S...

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  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
Vital Emergency Response Programs
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Shaky Ground
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Geologist Lori Dengler talks about NOAA's National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program. This program provides and facilitates vital warning systems a...

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  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fight Power With Power
From: Cooler Earth
Series: Cooler Earth Podcast
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What if we could create a profoundly more equitable world? Renewable energy has the potential to disrupt power dynamics created by fossil fuels, bu...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 23:00
Nature and the Rule of Law, part two
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part 2 of a two-part series on environmental law, host Peter Neill provides a series of examples of systems w...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 05:14
Notes from the Economist Ocean Summit (and from the Center of the Earth)
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently returned from the Economist World Ocean Summit in Cancún, Mexico where he gathered with 400 ocean leade...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2018
  • Length: 05:52