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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
We’re told that genetically engineered Golden Rice is the answer to third world Vitamin A-related blindness, but is it? Join Food Sleuth Radio host...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Farmer Joe Maxwell says: “I raise hogs; I don’t produce pork.” Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her in...
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Benjamin Kilham has been researching and living with black bears for nearly twenty years. He has become an expert in black bear behavior, as well a...
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- Added: Dec 22, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Journalist and author Alan Weisman traveled to 21 countries to ask four questions that experts agreed were probably the most important on Earth. Hi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 01, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Can you flip your middle finger at a cop? Hunger In America. Climate Change. Two movies you must see. And what's wrong with the DCCC? Weekly series...
- Added: Oct 31, 2013
- Length: 29:58
Winner of the 2012 Wallace Stevens Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Academy of American Poets, Gary Snyder discusses the changing worlds of ...
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- Added: Aug 21, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Why do farmers choose to produce food organically? And what are their challenges as neighbors plant genetically modified crops that are sprayed wit...
- Added: Aug 15, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Only a farmer can describe the boots-on-the-ground realities of raising our nation's food supply. Howard Vlieger is a farmer and crop nutrition ad...
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Not long ago, we were told that North America had entered a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. Or, have we? If you’ve listened to ex...
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- Added: Jul 10, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
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
One week before super storm Sandy hit, oceanographer John Englander released his book about the short, medium and long term scenarios we can expect...
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- Added: Jun 25, 2013
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 1
Women’s bodies serve as our children’s “first environments,” which is why food quality and safety are so important for pregnant and lactating women...
- Added: Jun 21, 2013
- Length: 28:00
The explosive growth of online communities for sharing, swapping, trading and lending is reinventing the way that we consume and build relationship...
- Added: Jun 12, 2013
- Length: 42:10
In her new book, author and journalist Judith D. Swartz reveals that our ability to transform many of our problems – climate change, desertificatio...
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- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...
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- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
This first part of this half-hour is spent with author and professor Philip Ackerman-Leist. In his new book, he shows that people are turning to lo...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KCBX
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Churches are taking diverse actions to address climate change through stewardship, advocacy, spirituality and justice. Contributions from leading C...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 19:57
- Purchases: 1
For International Women’s Day and the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster listen again as three prominent female activists tell their stor...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Richmond, California is one of the lowest-income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s also one of the most toxic. On this edition, we’ll...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Michael Hansen, senior scientist at Consumers Union, will discuss Consumer Union’s latest report on antibiotic resistant bacteria found in supermar...
- Added: Jan 20, 2013
- Length: 28:00
As we look for a solution to global energy problems and a way out of the climate crisis- some are turning to dams and hydroelectric power as a sour...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Energy policy expert Kate Gordon of The Center for the Next Generation talks about what state and local governments, as well as Congress and the Pr...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 28:18
Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...
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- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 1
In his new book, Gar Smith dismantles the core arguments behind the nuclear industrial complex’s “Nuclear renaissance.” While some critiques are fa...
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- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
