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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
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.

Bought by KCBX


  • 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.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Where does the buck stop?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was convicted of killing a protected deer, but with the rich and the powerful it’s hard to tell where the buck real...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
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
Local Food Revolution: Michael Brownlee #217 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Re-establishing our personal relationship with food and ending our role as commodity “consumers” is part of a healing, regenerative process. It’s a...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KTRL, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 20, 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
Divesting Is The First Step
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Power politics and the politics of power - this time on the show, we talk with New York Citys Chief Resilience Officer, Daniel Zarrilli, about the ...

Bought by KDNK and KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
The Free Market Assault on Science: Kerryn Higgs #212 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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What exactly are “think tanks” supposed to be thinking about? Are some of them part of a campaign to cast doubt on science when it could interfere ...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Feb 13, 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
Public Policy Brakes on Procreation? Travis Rieder #207 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Efforts to date are falling far short of achieving the greenhouse gas reduction needed to avoid catastrophic climate disruption. Bioethicist Travis...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Jan 09, 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 Write Question - David Owen - 336
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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David Owen discusses his nonfiction book, Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River. He also reads a short segment from the book.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
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...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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
Lying to Ourselves: Lorna Salzman #108 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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What went wrong with the environmental movement? Environmental activist, organizer and author Lorna Salzman shares her thoughts about climate chan...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Sep 12, 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

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