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Season 1, Episode 17 - 'Ecological Reality' feat Dr. Julian Caldecott
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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How changing our hearts and minds will change how we approach our relationship with the planet.

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
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
Climaturity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Marc Cortez
The controversary surrounding climate change is frequently charged with emotion. It’s a challenge. If you believe the health of the planet is in da...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Coastal Landfills Are No Match for Rising Seas
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dave Lindorff
It’s no longer out of sight out of mind. Many of our landfills have become a public health hazard. That’s especially true of those near a body of w...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Autocratic Solution
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Nanshan Cultural Tourist Zone in Sanya, China , Credit: Denny Ryanto @runninghead
In this episode, part thirty-eight of the multi-part BLUEprint series, we examine some statistics that show steps China is taking to confront the c...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 05:38
The Roadless Rule Policy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ken Rait podcast
January 12, 2021 marked the 20th anniversary of the Forest Service’s Roadless Rule Policy. It is designed to protect millions of acres of America’s...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Under the Influence
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Robert H. Frank
It’s well understood that our environment affects our behavior. Realistically, though, it works both ways. Our behavior profoundly impacts our envi...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Morality and the Environmental Crisis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Roger S. Gottlieb
Here’s the conundrum: a good person doesn’t knowingly create devastation and suffering. Yet, that is exactly what we’re doing with our environment....

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  • Added: May 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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A Dystopian Future
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Kotkin
Population growth is causing us to rethink our urban and suburban lifestyles, and with that, redesigning cities is a new fad.

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  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • 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
Nature Doesn't Negotiate: Robert Jensen #112 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“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...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Running on Empty: Rex Weyler #109 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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As a young man, Rex Weyler joined early Greenpeace expeditions to document and stop commercial whaling. He went on to co-found Greenpeace Internati...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Cruel Hoax: Stephanie Mills #106 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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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...

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
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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
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Science Under Attack part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Ben Santer, Credit: Commonwealth Club
President Donald Trump has sent conflicting message about climate change. One time he calls it an urgent problem. Then he refers to it as a hoax.

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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Moral Revolution: Tom Shadyac Part 2 #202
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Hollywood director Tom Shadyac traded a mansion and private jets for a mobile home and a bicycle. He had found the traditional trappings of success...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Survival of the Kindest: Tom Shadyac #201
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Caption: Steve Carell and Tom Shadyac on the set
Tom Shadyac is a successful Hollywood comedy director who found the traditional trappings of success were not the key to happiness. He traded a man...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Revolution Where You Live
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sarah van Gelder
No matter how we voted in this last election, all of us can agree on one thing. Our country, and the world, faces significant problems: Racism to c...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nature Doesn't Negotiate: Robert Jensen #112
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“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...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
The Fetish of GDP – Raj Patel #103
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“Gross Domestic Product has now become a fetish,” according to economist Raj Patel. Many undesirable things end up adding to GDP: wars, disease, an...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 7
Trans-Pacific Partnership and Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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The 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership has been causing conflict of late, with a broad range of disagreements over key provisions and debates inte...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 05:45
Waiting, Still Waiting - The Legacy of Fracking
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Brett Corsentino is a fourth-generation dairy farmer in southern Colorado. He discusses the impact that area fracking has had on his farm. He state...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 28:35
Earth Day 2013
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frances Moore Lappe
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
176: The Ocean Commons
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the obstacles to greater progress in caring for and protecting our ocean and wi...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2012
  • Length: 05:44