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A scalable solution to saving (and rebuilding) the planet’s coral reefs.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:53
  • Purchases: 2
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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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Free, usable energy is found, and harnessed, in regular city utility operations.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
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Long-time presidential adviser Richard Clarke talks about his latest book, "Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes" with retired diploma...

Bought by WCMU Michigan, Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 4
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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
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Capt of more than one Greenpeace ship Capt Peter Wilcox tells us what a RHIB is. (like a life boat, but not.)

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 01:36
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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While countries like Japan, Italy and Germany begin to phase out their use of nuclear energy, the US aims to build the first new nuclear power plan...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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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
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Corporate agribusiness tells us we need genetically modified crops to produce more food to feed an ever-growing global population. But there are ho...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Amy Sorter (l) and Michele Bunch (r), Co-Founders of EcoSavvyMoms
Do you love getting in a new car? That smell...! Well, EcoSavvyMoms Co-Founder Amy Sorter tells host Joan Michelson why that new car smell isn't so...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 16:32
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