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20221118: In Person at COP27: Funding the Global Energy Transition, 11/18/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Climate One has been at this year's UN climate summit, COP27, where one of the issues at the forefront of the conversation has been “loss and damag...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Asclepias Lemmonii
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been checking on this parti...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:23
Condalia correllii in the Borderlands
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family, R...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:22
Coral Bells
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The genus Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:16
Bigtooth Maple
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The bigtooth maple is no longer in its own family of Aceraceae, but is in Sapindaceae. Molecular taxonomy keeps us plant geeks on our toes.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:29
The Melampus Daisy
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name. And I wonder...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:28
Fall Festival of Fall Blooming Asteraceae
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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It's true that every year I jump and shout about the fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and I proclaim that there should be a fe...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:19
Mountain Oxeye and Red Bordered Satyrs, Oh My!
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Fall gets me excited and fall color is a crazy combination of blooming plants and plants with leaves changing color as they prepare to go dormant. ...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:03
Jackass Clover and Clammy Weed
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in th...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
The Western Grape Skeletonizer
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Fall starts!

  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
2022-11-04 Kamala Harris and Gina McCarthy: Views From The Inside
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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It’s been a big year for U.S. climate policy. Three major pieces of legislation: the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS and Science Act and t...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
20221104: Kamala Harris and Gina McCarthy: Views From The Inside, 11/4/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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It’s been a big year for U.S. climate policy. Three major pieces of legislation: the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS and Science Act and t...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
2022-10-21 Two Hemispheres, One Story: Reporting on Rising Seas
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Twenty of the world’s richest countries – mostly in the Global North – are responsible for 80 percent of the carbon pollution that’s driving extrem...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
20221021: Two Hemispheres, One Story: Reporting on Rising Seas, 10/21/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Twenty of the world’s richest countries – mostly in the Global North – are responsible for 80 percent of the carbon pollution that’s driving extrem...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
2022-09-23 The Inflation Reduction Act Passed. Now What?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In August, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The IRA allocates around $370 billion over ten years to invest in renewable...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGUA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
20220923: The Inflation Reduction Act Passed. Now What?, 9/23/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In August, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The IRA allocates around $370 billion over ten years to invest in renewable...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
2022-09-09 No Going Back: EVs and Clean Tech Tipping Points with Albert Cheung
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In the tech world, there’s a common belief that once a new device hits 5% market penetration, it rapidly goes from a niche to mass adoption. Accord...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WGCU, WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGUA and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
20220909: No Going Back: EVs and Clean Tech Tipping Points with Albert Cheung, 9/9/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In the tech world, there’s a common belief that once a new device hits 5% market penetration, it rapidly goes from a niche to mass adoption. Accord...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
2022-08-19 Will Sustainable Aviation Ever Take Off?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For those of us who love to travel, climate guilt weighs heavily. Civil aviation accounts for about 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and that...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
20220819: Will Sustainable Aviation Ever Take Off?, 8/19/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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For those of us who love to travel, climate guilt weighs heavily. Civil aviation accounts for about 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and that...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
2022-08-05 REWIND: Climbing, Conservation and Capitalism
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Rick Ridgeway estimates he’s spent about five years of his life sleeping in tents, often in the world’s most remote places alongside fellow outdoor...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGUA, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 10
20220805: REWIND: Climbing, Conservation and Capitalism, 8/5/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Rick Ridgeway estimates he’s spent about five years of his life sleeping in tents, often in the world’s most remote places alongside fellow outdoor...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
Fox in the Henhouse
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Protesters at Cambridge BP Institute, Credit: Zakary Coleman
Students and faculty are fighting to end fossil fuel funding of university climate and energy research. Biased research funded by oil and gas comp...

Bought by WFHB, KICI Iowa City, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
2022-07-29 Patti Poppe: Reinventing Utilities During a Climate Emergency
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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As the CEO of the California utility giant PG&E, Patti Poppe is charged with navigating the company through massive wildfires, disrupted energy mar...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
20220729: Patti Poppe: Reinventing Utilities During a Climate Emergency, 7/29/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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As the CEO of the California utility giant PG&E, Patti Poppe is charged with navigating the company through massive wildfires, disrupted energy mar...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 58:58