PRX - Pieces for Topic: Environment

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

340 results


Fracking and Newborns
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
Piece image
The Living Well Show presents Ellen Webb, lead author of Neurodevelopmental and neurological effects of chemicals associated with unconventional oi...

Bought by WPCA-LP and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Near-Term Human Extinction: Guy McPherson #218 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
Award-winning scientist Dr. Guy McPherson has concluded that for human civilization, the end is near. He advises the rate of change of our climate ...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Local Food Revolution: Michael Brownlee #217 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
Re-establishing our personal relationship with food and ending our role as commodity “consumers” is part of a healing, regenerative process. It’s a...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KTRL, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 20, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Surviving a Hostile Climate on Local Food: Michael Brownlee #216 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
A scaled-up local food system may be the only way we can feed ourselves as we weather the storm of climate change. Until now, CSAs, urban gardens a...

Bought by KVNF, Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Dr. Devra Davis - Health Risks of Cell Phone Radiation - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
Piece image
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
The Free Market Assault on Science: Kerryn Higgs #212 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
What exactly are “think tanks” supposed to be thinking about? Are some of them part of a campaign to cast doubt on science when it could interfere ...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Toward the Tipping Point
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jeremy Lent
In November, 2017, over fifteen thousand scientists from 184 countries issued a warning to humanity.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Collision Course: Kerryn Higgs #211 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
How and why did our society come to value economic growth so highly that we pursue it at the risk of our long-term survival? For some time scientis...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Feb 06, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
What Keeps Our System Stuck? Mike Nickerson #209 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
We’re not living on Earth as if we want to stay, observes Mike Nickerson. In our last episode, Mike Nickerson shared his vision for, and the joy of...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Cultural Metamorphosis: Mike Nickerson #208 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
“We could be having so much fun that there just isn't time to consume resources on a quantity, or produce waste on a quantity that would be problem...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Jan 16, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Public Policy Brakes on Procreation? Travis Rieder #207 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
Efforts to date are falling far short of achieving the greenhouse gas reduction needed to avoid catastrophic climate disruption. Bioethicist Travis...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
End of Ponzi Economy: Jerry Mander #203 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Piece image
Was globalization a temporary state that has run its course? That’s the case made by Jerry Mander, who believes there is plenty of evidence that th...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
The Write Question - David Owen - 336
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
David Owen discusses his nonfiction book, Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River. He also reads a short segment from the book.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Nature Doesn't Negotiate: Robert Jensen #112 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
“One of the ways that radical ideas become more mainstream is when those of us who hold them aren’t afraid to speak about them.” This thought has g...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Behaving Against Our Interests: Paul Ehrlich #110 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
Today it could be argued that human beings daily act against our own self-interests. How? Biologist Paul Ehrlich and fellow scientists tell us we a...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Running on Empty: Rex Weyler #109 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
As a young man, Rex Weyler joined early Greenpeace expeditions to document and stop commercial whaling. He went on to co-found Greenpeace Internati...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Lying to Ourselves: Lorna Salzman #108 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
What went wrong with the environmental movement? Environmental activist, organizer and author Lorna Salzman shares her thoughts about climate chan...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Cornucopian Myth: William Catton #107 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
“The age of growth and the age in which growth is going to be considered a good thing is coming to an end.” The late sociologist William R. Catton ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KTRL


  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Cruel Hoax: Stephanie Mills #106 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
Stephanie Mills made headlines in the Spring of 1969 when she vowed, in her commencement address (titled The Future is a Cruel Hoax), to conceive n...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, KTRL, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Donovan Hohn - Moby-Duck
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
Piece image
The Living Well Show presents Donovan Hohn author of Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanographer...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
How Bush and Cheney Ruined America and the World; and The Redemptive Future of Fig Trees
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: David Ray Griffin
Saving Humanity with Truth and Figs.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Aug 19, 2017
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 2
Inside Africa Conservation, Yellowstone, Uganda and Return to Glow
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Cover of People of Yellowstone book, Credit: Steve Horan
Today on World Footprints we will examine some troubling realities of Western conservation efforts in Africa; we’ll connect with life in Italy; tak...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:55
Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson (the sequel)
From: Generation Anthropocene
Piece image
What will New York City look like in 2140? Scifi author Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel explores a possible future in which NYC is partly subme...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 40:50
Thriving Economy: Not Rocket Science – Kate Raworth #220
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Piece image
Human civilization can thrive while living within sensible limits imposed by a finite system. “Renegade economist” Kate Raworth manages to tell the...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Jul 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Area Voices Anishinaabenaajimon: Thoughts on Pipelines
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Piece image
Professor, author and cultural trainer Anton Treuer stopped by the KBXE studio recently. In this segment of Area Voices: Anishinaabenaajimon, Tr...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 11:36