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20220225: Cow Poop and Compost: Digesting the Methane Menace, 2/25/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In a 20-year time frame, methane is 80 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. Nationally, 37% of methane emissions come from cows....

  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
2022-01-21 Corporate Net Zero Pledges: Ambitious or Empty Promises?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Corporate pledges of reaching net zero carbon emissions have quickly become commonplace. Critics argue that such pledges are mere greenwashing, and...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 9
220121: Corporate Net Zero Pledges: Ambitious or Empty Promises?, 1/21/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Corporate pledges of reaching net zero carbon emissions have quickly become commonplace. Critics argue that such pledges are mere greenwashing, and...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:55
Follow your recycling from bin to bale
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Ride along with a sanitation worker who collects everything in San Francisco’s blue bins, and learn some dos and don’ts of recycling at a Recology ...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
The Bay Area could add millions of people without using more water. Here’s how.
From: KSFP
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Can the Bay Area address housing affordability and control water use in perpetually drought-stricken California at the same time? SPUR's Laura Fein...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Lost and Found (part 2)
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place Season 3
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What have you lost in the pandemic? What have you found? We asked these questions to people from New York to New Mexico. What they told us has gi...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:20
629: Mysteries Of Migration / 630: What Sparks Creativity?, 10/16/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Mysteries of Migration' - Millions of animals migrate every year to a destination they've never seen. How do they do it — and what can w...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Season 3 Trailer
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place
Caption: Shelter in Place Season 3, Credit: Sarah Edgell
How can we feel at home even when our world feels out of control? Shelter in Place, an award-winning arts and wellness podcast, is back for seaso...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 01:46
613: Plants As People / 614: Guilt Tripping, 8/21/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Plants As People" - If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should t...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
Penguins
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
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This show is super cool! We learn about penguins from Dr. Charles Bergman, who has visited all 18 species of penguins in the wild. Mixed with great...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KSTK, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
You Don't Have to be Rich to Drive Electric
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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EV carshares in low income neighborhoods and low priced used electric vehicles are making them accessible for everyone.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
20210712: Penguins, 7/12/2021
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This show is super cool! We learn about penguins from Dr. Charles Bergman, who has visited all 18 species of penguins in the wild. Mixed with great...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
Drying Out
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
Caption: Rio Grande is now dry in summer, Credit: Laura Paskus
The kids learn about drought and extreme weather with an environmental journalist and a meteorologist. Mixed with excellent music, learn with us!

Bought by KCHU, RadioFreePalmer, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KSTK and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
20210705: Drying Out, 7/5/2021
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
Caption: Rio Grande is now dry in the summer, Credit: Laura Paskus
The kids learn about drought and extreme weather with an environmental journalist and a meteorologist. Mixed with excellent music, learn with us!

  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
GN_3.10_Tasty Plastic
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A small craft brewery in Florida is feeding the ocean instead of polluting it with a remarkable solution to single-use plastic packaging.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
GN_3.23_Desert Forest
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
When Egypt comes to mind, most think about the desert. Thanks to German and Egyptian scientists the country could soon be covered in trees.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
GN_3.27_No Deforest Norway
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Trees are the lungs of our planet. Norway takes a stand for mother earth by banning deforestation.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.29_Ollie Smart Bus
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Meet Olli: a self-driving 3-D printed vehicle that could change public transportation forever.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.24_Smog Free Future
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Dutch artist creates art that cleans our air one sculpture at a time.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Railroads & Fire
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Since the first rail line was completed in Minnesota in 1862, the railroad has had a storied existence in the state. Fire is part of that story. KF...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Vampires Shut Down Power Plants
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: team installing water heater controllers
The refrigerator or water heater in your home can be part of the clean energy revolution.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Balloons
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Caption: ulia Wolfe, 15 year old hot air balloon pilot in training , Credit: Dr. Jonathan Wolfe
Get blown away with us as we learn all about balloons! From hot air balloons to latex balloon clothing, we cover it all - including weather balloon...

Bought by KQRU FM LP, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KSTK, WCNY and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
09282020: Balloons, 9/28/2020
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
Caption: Julia Wolfe, 15 year old hot air balloon pilot in training, Credit: Dr. Jonathan Wolfe
Get blown away with us as we learn all about balloons! From hot air balloons to latex balloon clothing, we cover it all - including weather balloon...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
Global Music
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Take a trip around the globe with us through the universal language of music for families and kids of all ages.

Bought by KGLP, Allegheny Mountain Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Campaign Giving for Climate Action
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Meet 3 small super PACs that focus your money on electing climate leaders to public office.

Bought by WFHB, WFHB, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 12, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3