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By the middle of the 20th century electromagnets were common and engineers had begun experimenting with using them to levitate vehicles, including...

  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The Living Well Show presents: A two part interview with Dr. Sandra Steingraber, award winning author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal...

Bought by WPCA-LP


  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 1
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“Natural” gas may sound like a clean alternative to foreign oil, but natural gas extraction utilizing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) increases the...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: National Resources Defense Council
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
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Adapting to Climate Change explores the ambitious plans that engineers, scientists, government officials, business leaders, NGOs, and community gro...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KRCB 104.9, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 39
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Timothy Mousseau, a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Universit...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 28:33
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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
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Dr. Kristen Iversen author of Full Body Burden- Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats tells us about growing up in Colorado close to Roc...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 28:37
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Dr. Kristen Iversen author of Full Body Burden- Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats tells us about growing up in Colorado close to Roc...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 28:42
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Tom Wilber, investigative journalist and author of Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale, provides an eye-open...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features a discussion with The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert about the impact of climate change on enviromental health, human health, and human ri...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 20:35
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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
Caption: Sahara Forest Project's greenhouse-power plant hybrid proposal , Credit: Sahara Forest Project, 2009
In "Eaarth, Making a Life on a Tough New Planet", author Bill McKibben analyzes the damage we've done to our terrestrial and marine environment, ou...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:22
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Lessons from Fukushima - A two part interview with Greg Palast, BBC investigative journalist and former lead investigator in government nuclear pla...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 28:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Lessons from Fukushima - A two part interview with Greg Palast, BBC investigative journalist and former lead investigator in government nuclear pla...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 28:45
  • Purchases: 1
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June 8 is World Oceans Day when we celebrate our relationship with the ocean through global connection. A recent survey conducted by The Ocean Proj...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 05:46
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Al Bartlett talks about how we must achieve a sustainable world. This piece has aired on KGNU Boulder.

  • Added: May 02, 2012
  • Length: 24:14
Caption: New York City's Green Infrastructure Plan and Sustainability Management
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will have us look no further than New York City and the Green Infrastructure Plan as a real ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:19
Caption: The Delray Beach ocean outfall discharges 13 million gallons per day of treated sewage up-current of a coral reef. , Credit: Steve Spring | Marine Photobank.
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the invisible impacts of our actions, will argue against the exploitation of Na...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2012
  • Length: 05:13
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will ask how it's possible to reduce the ocean's health to a single number, and will outline...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 05:52
Caption: Mark Jacobson, Credit: Sheri Quinn
Stanford University Engineer Mark Z. Jacobson is trying to convince the world that his energy plan based soley on renwables: wind, water, and solar...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 31:08
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What exactly is Geo-Engineering and how does it affect you? Michael J. Murphy co-producer of What In the World Are they Spraying? answers this ques...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 28:44
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Sabrina McCormick, PhD. author of No Family History: The Environmental Links to Breast Cancer. Dr. McCormick points out the fallacy of continuing t...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 28:40
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Lessons from Fukushima Dai-ichi. Have we really learned anything from Japan's Fukushima disaster?? In this two part interview, Sidney Goodman, en...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 28:49