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Look For The Helpers - Part 2
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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In the second part of this special Clean Transportation mini-series Jess visits the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project to talk with co-f...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:01
05-16: Climate Health, Your Health: Prevention Is Protection, 11/8/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Dr. Barbara Sattler
Climate disruption is harmful to your health. Dr. Linda Rudolph and Dr. Barbara Sattler are showing how our success or failure as a civilization ma...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
A Poison Life No Other
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mat Simon, Credit: Wired magazine
Our world is surrounded by microplastic pollution. It’s in the air we breathe. It’s in the food we eat. Our homes are among the most polluted place...

Bought by KMUN and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Rescue Effect: The Key to Saving Life on the Planet
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Michael Webster
When it comes to climate change, it’s easy to feel like a deer caught in the headlights. Temperatures are rising to unsustainable levels. Larger an...

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Raj Patel, Credit: TheStar.com
The network of systems that make up our bodies – respiratory, digestive and nervous system to name a few - is seen by conventional medicine as self...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Children & Toxins
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Philip Landrigan
Thousands of new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Yet, most of those chemicals ...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Planetary Health
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Howard Frumkin
Recent events around the globe clearly demonstrates the interconnectedness of human health and the health of our planet. Heat waves in California, ...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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We’re use to hearing about how much humans have impacted the earth. Scientists have given a name for this period to recognize human dominance over ...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
David Inouye — A passion for pollinators
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with biologist and ecologist, David Inouye.

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Grand Canyon for Sale
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Stephen Nash
Using the Grand Canyon as the trailhead for his book, journalist Stephen Nash sounds an alarm of urgency for protecting our national parks.

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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.

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science Under Attack part 3
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Rush Holt
The Trump Administration is calling for drastic cuts in scientific research and development.

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science Under Attack – part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: March for Science
President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order. Its purpose is to reverse efforts to shrink America’s carbon footprint.

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
02-13: The New Abolitionists: Farewell, Fossil Fuels, 1/11/2017
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Sandra Steingraber
Facing climate disruption, it's imperative to fast-forward the transition to power civilization on clean energy. The growing global movement to tra...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
Food Sleuth Radio, Grace Gershuny Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that organic farming is biologically based, ecologically sound, and protects biodiversity, soil and water quality? Join Food Sleuth ...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Tyrone Hayes Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that 70 percent of all amphibians, globally, are in decline or at threat of going extinct? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered ...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Caitlin Shetterly Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that our immune system could be affected by GMOs? And that scientists who question the safety of GMOs often risk intimidation? Join F...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Charles Benbrook Interview, Part I
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that the vast majority of genetically engineered crops are engineered to withstand spraying with the herbicide, glyphosate? And that o...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
06-11: Future Generations Are Screaming At Us: The Clean Energy Climate Challenge , 5/11/2016
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: James Hansen
The climate crisis is a crisis of governance and leadership. Will we move rapidly enough to realign our policies, politics and economy to stabilize...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
Chemicals Without Harm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ken Geiser
We are surrounded by chemicals every day. They’re in our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronics, and even our children’s toys.

Bought by KVSC, KCBX, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Challenge of Our Time
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re continuing our “money machine” series on the cost of carbon capitalism. Gas gets cheaper, the weather gets warmer, and for our guests the env...

Bought by KMXT, KZYX, and WRPI


  • Added: Jan 31, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 3
Flying Blind (for Pledge Drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Flying Blind book cover
When a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department approaches Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell about tracking endangered India...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2014
  • Length: 22:19
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Howard Vlieger Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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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
Cold, Hungry and in the Dark
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bill Powers
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
High Tide
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: High Tide book cover, Credit: jacket design by Kata Jancso
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