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2021-10-29 Electrify Everything
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Fully electrifying our homes, cars and industries could cut the amount of total energy we need by half, says Saul Griffith, an entrepreneur, invent...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WLPR , WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 14
211029: Electrify Everything, 10/29/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Fully electrifying our homes, cars and industries could cut the amount of total energy we need by half, says Saul Griffith, an entrepreneur, invent...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
Kiss Your Gas Goodbye
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Induction cooktop demonstration at Sonoma Clean Power's Advanced Energy Center
To reach zero carbon in 2050, we must electrify 5 million buildings each year. How are we going to do that and what does it mean for your home?

Bought by WFHB, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
2021-09-03 The Fight Over Pipelines
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Hundreds of people have been arrested in Minnesota in ongoing protests against Line 3, a pipeline that will move Canadian tar sands oil, and which ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
2021-07-23 How a Manufactured Car Culture Blocks Transit
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The United States is famous for its car culture. But a hundred years ago, pedestrians didn’t want cars to take over the streets — and it took decad...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
210723: 2021-07-23 How a Manufactured Car Culture Blocks Transit , 7/23/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The United States is famous for its car culture. But a hundred years ago, pedestrians didn’t want cars to take over the streets — and it took decad...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
2021-06-25 Extreme Heat: The Silent Killer
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Extreme heat causes more deaths than any other weather-related hazard in the U.S., wreaking quiet havoc on the health and economic well-being of bi...

Bought by WGCU, Boise State Public Radio, Colorado Public Radio, KUHF, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
210625: Extreme Heat: The Silent Killer, 6/25/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Extreme heat causes more deaths than any other weather-related hazard in the U.S., wreaking quiet havoc on the health and economic well-being of bi...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
2021-05-28 Should Nature Have Rights?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, WGCU, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
210528: Should Nature Have Rights?, 5/28/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....

  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Take Care (Monthly) #13
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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The theme of this episode is, "Climate change and health".

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 52:00
Free Lyfts
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Sebastopol's free electric bus
Rural bus systems turn challenges into strengths by going fare free.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KRZA, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Healing Power of Trees
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Volunteers planting trees in Louisville
Health researchers are planting 8,000 trees in Louisville to learn how trees prevent cardiac death. No crystals and woo woo. This is solid scienc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and 'The Sea'


  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
John McClow — Water wrangling in the American West (Part two)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with water law expert John McClow.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Riding into the Future
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Want a bike lane? Then go out and paint one on the road. Citizens in Macon redesigned downtown streets to show their city what the future can be....

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Abrupt Climate Change
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses abrupt climate change with Guy McPherson, professor Emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 01:27:03
Not in Anyone’s Backyard, pushing back on landfill expansion
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Penobscot Nation lives on the river that shares their name. Just upstream from their island reservation is Juniper Ridge, Maine’s largest landf...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 23, 2017
  • Length: 13:04
  • Purchases: 2
Geological Mapping
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we visit with Dr. Dean Peterson, Director of the Precambrian Research Center and the University of Minnesota Du...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:12
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #81: Rig the System
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Domestic oil drilling offers private landowners the promise of riches in their own backyard. But what if you don’t want to live next door to an oil...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 22:39
Natural Gas in the New Bolivia
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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An anthropologist comments on the complicated relationship in Bolivia between the natural gas industry and those who want to protect the environmen...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 12:00
Dr. Martin Blank - Overpowered - Part 1
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Martin Blank, author of Overpowered: The Dangers of Electromagnetic Radiation (EMF) and...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:34
Dr. Martin Blank - Overpowered - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Martin Blank, author of Overpowered: The Dangers of Electromagnetic Radiation (EMF) and...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:34
Climate Change: It's Not Just The Sun
From: Robert Frederick
Series: The Conjectural
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Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer on how scientists know that climate change is not just due to the Sun.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 04:02
California Burning: The Mendocino Lodge Fire
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious speaks with four different public servants about how a rural community copes in times of catastrophic wildfires.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
Dr. Sandra Steingraber - Part One - Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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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