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Just ten years ago, an entire state running on 100% renewable electricity seemed fanciful. But this dreamy vision became reality when, with the bac...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
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Just ten years ago, an entire state running on 100% renewable electricity seemed fanciful. But this dreamy vision became reality when, with the bac...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KVMR, and NPR Now


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
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The math is clear: lowering greenhouse gas emissions is not enough to keep the earth below 1.5 degrees Celsius of post-industrial warming. The late...

Bought by WJCT, KBBI Alaska, KVMR, Gallatin Valley Community Radio, WKAR and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11
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From fires and floods to hurricanes and hot temperatures, 2018 put climate on the front page in ways it hadn’t been before. Yet amidst the disrupti...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WXXI Rochester, WKAR, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
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In their 1968 book The Population Bomb, Paul and Anne Ehrlich warned of the dangers of overpopulation. These included mass starvation, societal uph...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KBBI Alaska, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: https://www.hindustantimes.com/photos/world-news/photos-spotlight-on-reducing-plastic-waste-clogging-oceans/photo-OFMThFTnYNAAL9foFlgwcN.html, Credit: Andres Stapff/REUTERS
Waste and waste management are new and increasing challenges in recent decades. How do we dispose of toxic waste, plastic packaging, electronics, a...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 04:55
Caption: L-R: Patrick Flynn, Aron Cramer, Lynelle Cameron
Tech companies are cleaning up their data centers and building shiny new buildings that sip water and energy. But are they really as green as they ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3
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"Soul of the Sea in the Age of the Algorithm" is a new book by Dr. Gregory Stone and Nishan Degnarain, produced in association with World Ocean Obs...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 04:37
Caption: Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk
Tesla is the most valuable car company in the US, recently surpassing even the auto giant, General Motors. But this high valuation is not due to th...

Bought by KWIT, WAMU, and NPR Now


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Barton "Buzz" Thompson, Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Credit: Ed Ritger
Over the past few years, many parts of the country have experienced wetter wets and drier drys. California has seen five years of severe drought – ...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KWIT, KHSU, RadioFreePalmer, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Bruce Gibney, Author, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed
Do the baby boomers owe millennials a clean planet? Or is it every generation for itself? Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving their younger...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, KZYX, KWMR, and NPR Now


  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, written during a blizzard raging off the Maine coast, host Peter Neill reflects on the vulnerability of the o...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 05:21
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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
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In Part 2 of a multi-part series on the final report released by the Global Ocean Commission, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill explains the first...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:36
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Pollution is an excess of any given thing: waste, pesticide, acid, carbon—-any one thing in extreme which tips the scales, compromises stability, s...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:08
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss a system which does on occasion fail us, if we don't fail it first; and he'll a...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2012
  • Length: 05:37
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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