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2019-01-20 We're Doomed – Now What?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Can changing our consciousness hold off the climate apocalypse? When we think about the enormity of climate change and what it’s doing to our plane...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KZYX, WLPR , KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
The Movement of the Ocean: Thoughts for a New Year
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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The ocean, in its constant motion, offers solace and support for the human spirit and provides an immersion in nature for renewal and regeneration....

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 1
Reconstructing the Ice Age
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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Unexplored caves can store a wealth of information about the past. Here we talk with Dr. Tim Heaton who studies the Ice Age mammals found in caves....

Bought by WVTF, KDXI - Radio St George, and KRZA


  • Added: Dec 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 3
2018-11-25 Holiday Films on Corn, Coal, Lights, and Flights
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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It’s a holiday movie special as Climate One talks to the directors/producers of four recent documentaries that bring human drama to the climate sto...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, NPR Now, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KUNM and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Gretel Ehrlich and Christopher Merrill - 427
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Gretel Ehrlich and Christopher Merrill discuss the anthology, "Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place." They participated ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
2018-09-02 Carbon Captives
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Fossil fuels have helped bring people out of poverty around the world, and many people working in the industry are proud of their contribution. Wil...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, NPR Now, KWIT and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
479-Comet Catalina
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the e...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , KKRN, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Won't You Be My Neighbor? An Audio Portrait of Seattle's Neighborhoods
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Podcasts
Caption: RadioActive's Nina Tran went on a bicycle tour of her south Beacon Hill neighborhood. Listen to the podcast to hear what she found., Credit: KUOW PHOTO / NINA TRAN
Neighborhoods shape our perspectives and our personalities. They become a part of us, an identity we carry even if we leave. On the latest RadioAct...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 19:21
2017-09-10 Yvon Chouinard: Founding Patagonia and Living Simply
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Yvon Chouinard is a legendary climber, surfer and environmentalist. He is also the reluctant entrepreneur who founded Patagonia, Inc., one of the m...

Bought by KQUA, KBBI Alaska, WRGY, KGNU Community Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
WoodSongs 896: The Looping Brothers with Si Kahn and Still on the Hill
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Caption: Master musician and storytelling from Still on the Hill.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes German bluegrass trio the Looping Brothers with folksinger icon Si Kahn p...

Bought by WETS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WLPR , WLIW, WOUB and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
Butterflies, Toads and Fish
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Value of our estuaries and other inland water bodies are recognized while fishing, boating, swimming or viewing nature from a great vantage spot. T...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 05:16
Interview: Camille Dungy
From: Generation Anthropocene
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How do cultural constructs, like race, influence our relationship to the natural world? Poet and professor Camille Dungy explores this question by ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 25:50
370-Life's Parts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers have found the basic ingredients of life in an infant solar system.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WOUB, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Sound of Science
From: Outside Magazine
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Why environmental scientists are transforming big data into music.

Bought by KWMR and KRZA


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 19:40
  • Purchases: 2
Moral Revolution: Tom Shadyac Part 2 #202
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Hollywood director Tom Shadyac traded a mansion and private jets for a mobile home and a bicycle. He had found the traditional trappings of success...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KUNM, KVSC, and KZUM


  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Survival of the Kindest: Tom Shadyac #201
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Caption: Steve Carell and Tom Shadyac on the set
Tom Shadyac is a successful Hollywood comedy director who found the traditional trappings of success were not the key to happiness. He traded a man...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KUNM, and KVSC


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
310-Ethics and Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Should martian microbes be sacrificed to human space exploration.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, WLPR , KENW, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
298-Rosetta
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Rosetta spacecraft visited a comet and obtained interesting unique data and images.

Bought by WTIP, Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
297-White Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Millions of children will never see the Milky Way or a meteor streaking across the night sky.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Why do we love Lake Superior?
From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project
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Lake Superior is a big part of the landscape in northeastern Minnesota…and it has special meaning for most visitors and residents. In this edition ...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2016
  • Length: 06:02
275-No Place Like Home
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers are finding thousands of planets orbiting distant stars. Your home the Earth is still the only one where you could live without a space...

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Facing Climate Change: Building Resilience at the Local Level
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
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An exploration of the work being done in Washington State's Skagit Valley to better understand and prepare for the effects of a changing climate.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 54:17
Right Relationship with Mother Earth - Dr. Jim Collins and Peggy Rebol on Unspun
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Jim Collins
Unspun honors local environmental advocates, Peggy Rebol and Dr. Jim Collins, as we look at our relationships with Mother Earth and current environ...

Bought by 'The Sea' and KMUD


  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
03-11: Beloved Community: Hello, My Other Self, 4/20/2016
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Ilarion "Larry" Merculieff
In today’s radically shifting world, the name of the game is resilience - the capacity of both human and ecological systems to absorb disturbance, ...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
More on Water
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Fresh water is the topic of discussion once again on World Ocean Radio. In this episode host Peter Neill re-asserts the gravity of the global fresh...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 05:02