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Eating Crow? Try Eating Humble Pie, Instead!
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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If you’ve made a serious faux pas and need to acknowledge it with humility, you might be said to be “eating crow” or “eating humble pie.” In this e...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 18:43
How We Fight Back: Part I
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Zack Exley and Becky Bond
All over the world people who care about the environment are watching the US President-Elect sketch out a blueprint for disaster. To head the EPA h...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Zoe Weil: Sustainable Education, Part II
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Zoe Weil
What if every child emerged from the public educational system with an appreciation for the connectivity of all human and non-human life, and with ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
MIT Team Turning Fumes Into Fuel
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Gregory Stephanopoulos
You know that sick feeling when you look at a smokestack belching noxious gases into the air? Well, what if you knew that the gas waste coming from...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KRZA, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 4
A Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Sharing Economy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Paul Minett
Nobody hitchhikes anymore. Back in the 1980s getting a ride with a stranger became decidedly un-trendy. Rugged individualism was in and ridesharing...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:40
Keeping An Eye On The Natural Gas Boom
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neela Banerjee
Even the most casual followers of energy policy have become aware of the controversy surrounding the massive expansion of fracking in this country ...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
Creature Adventurer Chris Kratt
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Chris Kratt
If you have or even know any kids between the ages of 4 and 16, you may have heard of this week’s guest. Today on Sea Change Radio we are talking w...

Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Returns on Trash and Treasure
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dale Wannen
Today on Sea Change Radio we talk with two people working on very different fronts of the environmental movement. Our first guest is Dale Wannen, w...

Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Amanda Eaken on the Rise of Collaborative Consumption
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Amanda Eaken
With the climate crisis staring us right in the face, the need to transform our daily routines has become increasingly apparent. A part of the solu...

  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
Sustainability Adventurers
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ed Gillespie
Can a spirit of adventure lead us toward more sustainable living? This week on Sea Change Radio, we try to answer that question. First, host Alex W...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
Steve Almond Pt. 2: On The United States of Irrationality
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Steve Almond
Author Steve Almond is an astute observer of American topics as disparate as candy, rock & roll and politics. This week on Sea Change Radio, in the...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:56
Potty Talk: The Re-Invention of The Toilet
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Clement Cid
Aside from some aesthetic advances and rudimentary low-flow innovations, the modern flush toilet basically has not evolved since its prototype firs...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
“Watershed” Moment with James Redford
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: James Redford
Named for the rich red dirt that once colored its rushing waters, the Colorado River has been dammed, diverted and drained to a trickle of its form...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
The Plastic Purge: Beth Terry
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Beth Terry
The average American generates between 88 and 120 pounds of plastic waste per year. Imagine what it would mean for you to cut that down almost enti...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 30, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Making Waves, Making Energy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: George Taylor
If you sit at the edge of Pacific or Atlantic Ocean and watch as waves ferociously slap the sands, you can’t help but recognize the awesome power o...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
The New Arctic Part II: “The Eskimo and the Oil Man”
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Reiss
When he began research for his new book, The Eskimo and the Oil Man, author Bob Reiss thought that he would affirm his belief that Arctic oil drill...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Electric Vehicle Pioneer Dave Cloud
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dave Cloud's "Dolphin"
Battery operated cars. No longer the exclusive domain of little kids huddled around a remote control, electric vehicles are beginning to emerge as ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Don’t Throw It All Away: Park Spark Project & American Wasteland
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1