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Planetary Health
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Howard Frumkin
Recent events around the globe clearly demonstrates the interconnectedness of human health and the health of our planet. Heat waves in California, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Diversifying Power
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jennie C. Stephens
The inadequate response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the US has also thwarted the country’s response to the climate crisis. Some feel it’s due to le...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Global Pandemic, Climate Change, Virtual Tourism: Twenty Twenty novel predictions in 1995
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Twenty Twenty Book cover
In 1995, the late author Nigel Watts published his highly acclaimed fictional book, Twenty Twenty, that foretold the events the world is experienci...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 35:59
Under the Influence
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Robert H. Frank
It’s well understood that our environment affects our behavior. Realistically, though, it works both ways. Our behavior profoundly impacts our envi...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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We’re use to hearing about how much humans have impacted the earth. Scientists have given a name for this period to recognize human dominance over ...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
2019-06-28 The Uninhabitable Earth
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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According to David Wallace-Wells, we’re cooked – literally. In his new book "The Uninhabitable Earth," Wallace-Wells explores how climate change wi...

Bought by WCNY, WJCT, Nevada Public Radio, WCQS, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Halcyon Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we are talking about ocean calm and the ways that we are affected in mind, body and spirit by a peaceful ocean. In this episode we tell t...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:51
Morality and the Environmental Crisis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Roger S. Gottlieb
Here’s the conundrum: a good person doesn’t knowingly create devastation and suffering. Yet, that is exactly what we’re doing with our environment....

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: May 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Small Green Idea to Power Nepal
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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A research teams treks the Himalayas to investigate why tapping rivers for power works in some places, but not others.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 03:36
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...

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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
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
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
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
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
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
Cruel Hoax: Stephanie Mills #106 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Stephanie Mills made headlines in the Spring of 1969 when she vowed, in her commencement address (titled The Future is a Cruel Hoax), to conceive n...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, KTRL, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Area Voices Anishinaabenaajimon: Thoughts on Pipelines
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Professor, author and cultural trainer Anton Treuer stopped by the KBXE studio recently. In this segment of Area Voices: Anishinaabenaajimon, Tr...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 11:36
Local Food Revolution: Michael Brownlee #217
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Caption: Lynette Marie Hanthorn & Michael Brownlee, co-authors of The Local Food Revolution, Credit: Kirsten Boyer
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 KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Anthony Barnosky - Dodging Extinction - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two-part interview with Dr. Anthony Barnosky, author of Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and the Future of L...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
We Animals: a free photography archive
From: JL Fields
Series: Easy Vegan with JL Fields
Caption: A recently separated calf waits in a wheelbarrow as a farmer prepares her solitary crate. Spain, 2010 , Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur : Animal Equality
Award winning photographer Jo-Anne McArthur on her We Animals Archive - a free resource for activists to share hauntingly beautiful images of anima...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 28:28
Science Under Attack part 3
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Rush Holt
The Trump Administration is calling for drastic cuts in scientific research and development.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1