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Hope, Part Three: Are We Really Doomed?
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Hope (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
Caption: Hope (A Three Part Series)
Can hope co-exist with cataclysmic realities like climate change? We conclude our "Hope" series with a look at the future.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTRT RADIO INC, KICI Iowa City, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBIA


  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Don’t Pull No Punches: Dahr Jamail on the End of Ice
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Ponds on the Ocean" - Sea ice atop the Arctic Ocean. NASA image acquired July 12, 2011
Dahr Jamail asks us to begin to grieve for the world that is surely lost and to find a way toward adaptive change so that something may be salvaged...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 59:09
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.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
347: In Search Of Real Food / 348: In The Company Of Wolves, 2/2/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "In Search Of Real Food" - Supermarkets are designed to make you think you have a lot of choices. But do you? This hour, reclaiming real ...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:57
Humankind Special: Diet and Health
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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New Year's Resolutions? In this Humankind documentary, we hear from a growing movement of physicians and others who — concerned by the upsurge in o...

Bought by 90.5 WESA, WVBI-LP, KMXT, WJCT, WSKG and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
495-Catching Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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It might be possible to catch an asteroid, place it into Earth orbit, and thus provide a ready source of precious metals and water for space coloni...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
WorldCanvass: Climate Science and the Environment (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Leading experts in climate science and environmental research join WorldCanvass host Joan Kjaer to discuss the most pressing concerns facing Iowa...

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 28:38
  • 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.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fracking and Newborns
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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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
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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
Surviving a Hostile Climate on Local Food: Michael Brownlee #216 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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“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
End of Ponzi Economy: Jerry Mander #203 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
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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 only paid climate skeptic who ever flipped
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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For over 20 years, Jerry Taylor was a leading spokesperson for climate skepticism. He waged TV battles against climate activists on the likes of CN...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2017
  • Length: 41:51
Behaving Against Our Interests: Paul Ehrlich #110 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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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
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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...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Cornucopian Myth: William Catton #107 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“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
Rewriting Our Cultural Narrative: William Rees #105 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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How big is your ecological footprint? Probably bigger than you think. After all, out of sight, out of mind. As an originator of ecological footprin...

Bought by Indie3 Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Donovan Hohn - Moby-Duck
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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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
Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson (the sequel)
From: Generation Anthropocene
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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
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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