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Dr. Linda McCauley, a renowned environmental health researcher and national leader on greener health care practices, joins us today.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 24:20
Caption: Jerry McNerney
This week on Sea Change Radio we hear from U.S. Congressman Jerry McNerney, representing California’s 11th District. In an earlier appearance on Se...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Kitt Doucette
In just a couple of decades the plastic bag has become ubiquitous on this planet – these “disposable” items don’t biodegrade, however, so they’ve b...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Josh Tickell
Ask an environmentally aware friend of yours what they think about ethanol and the response will probably be negative. Critics of this long-establi...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Peter Kendall
This week on Sea Change Radio, we talk about leaf blowers, one of the least eco-friendly items found in the garage or tool-shed of your average Ame...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Jim Walsh of American Airlines
Previously on Sea Change Radio, we talked about how a single flight can virtually neutralize all the efforts a family makes in a year to reduce the...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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A proposed Canadian pipeline would transport bitumen from the tar sands of Alberta to refineries on the Gulf Coast, crossing the border. Is Keyston...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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More than 80,000 existing chemicals are actively in use in a wide range of consumer products with no assurance that they don’t pose serious health ...

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 2
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The science of man-made global climate change is irrefutable. We speak with two eminent scientists, a conservation biologist and an environmental e...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2011
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Guardian Science Weekly, Credit: guardian.co.uk
Author and activist Mark Lynas discusses his new book on global climate change The God Species

  • Added: Jul 15, 2011
  • Length: 26:37
Caption: Guardian Science Weekly, Credit: guardian.co.uk
This week Nell Boase discovers the radical and reckless side of great science when she meets Michael Brooks, who's new book Free Radicals: The Secr...

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 30:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Global warming is no longer a fear for the future. It’s threatening human civilization, now. Part 2 of a special 2 part series produced by Brian E...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: David Swierenga
Airplanes transport over 2.2 billion passengers a year but they are also a significant contributor to climate change, producing approximately 600 m...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Global warming is no longer a fear for the future. It’s threatening human civilization, now. Part 1 of a special 2 part series produced by Brian Ed...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Bill Kreutzmann
This week on Sea Change Radio we have the honor of visiting with Bill Kreutzmann, original drummer of the Grateful Dead, and organic gardener. Host...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Andrew Revkin, Credit: NY Times
The United Nations forecasts that by 2050 the world’s population will exceed 9 billion. How will that affect life on the local level, on the global...

  • Added: May 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:33
Caption: Paul Ehrlich
It took humankind 1800 years to get from a global population of about 200 million to 1 billion. But it only took us 200 years to go from a billion ...

  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: David Eagleman, Credit: eagleman.com
David Eagleman suggests prejudices may be hard-wired into our brains; a new real-time film celebrating 50 years since Yuri Gagarin went into space;...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Julian Baggini, Credit: Julian Baggini's blog
We attempt to explain 'the self' with Julian Baggini; Tim Flannery tells us how love can save the environment; Brian Cox answers the 'Hannaford que...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 34:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Vaclav Smil
This week on Sea Change Radio, a rare interview with renowned energy expert and futurist, Vaclav Smil. A Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of ...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:40
Caption: Brian Greene, Credit: www.columbia.edu
Brian Greene says mathematics shows how every decision we make creates a parallel universe; plus, we join Tim Jackson as he takes a Q&A session on ...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 42:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jonathan Bloom
This week’s guests on Sea Change Radio both are waste crusaders in their own unique ways. First, host Alex Wise speaks with conceptual artist Matth...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Josi Severson creating a design for textile use, Credit: Lisa Ostrander
Today on Art Beat we get to know a local textile artist who adds her own twist on design. Josi Severson is a local Winonan who specializes in organ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 16:49
Caption: The AAAS website, Credit: AAAS.org
The highlights of this year's AAAS science festival in Washington DC, professor David Nutt explains his latest research on reclassifying drugs; plu...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2011
  • Length: 36:11
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Caption: Jeff Hoffman working in the shuttle's cargo bay, Credit: Nasa
In an extended interview, former Nasa astronaut Jeff Hoffman reflects on 30 years of the space shuttle

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2011
  • Length: 29:53
  • Purchases: 1