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2019-08-30 Carbon Offsets: Privileged Pollution?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Carbon offsets have been called everything from a band-aid solution to “the best thing a consumer can do right now.” A new service even offers cust...

Bought by WJCT, KTSW 89.9, KCPW Salt Lake City, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
2019-05-10 Sea Changes: Why Oceans Play a Bigger Role in Climate Than You May Think
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Global temperatures would be soaring even higher were it not for a powerful heat-trapping ally: oceans. From regulating the temperature of the plan...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMRA, WDSE, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
2018-11-11 Saudi America
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Production of oil and gas in the U.S. has surged to levels unthinkable a decade ago due to the revolution in hydraulic fracturing, which has helped...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KWIT, WLPR , KFOI Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
2018-05-06 Selling the Science of Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: David Fenton, Founder and Chairman, Fenton Communications
The scientific consensus is that human activity is cooking the planet and disrupting our economies. Yet many people still don’t believe that climat...

Bought by WJCT, KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
2018-04-08 Exposed: Dieselgate's Impact on the Auto Industry
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Volkswagen’s brazen cheating on air pollution rules rocked an industry with a history of skulduggery. The scandal has now cost the company $30 bill...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
2018-01-07 Net Zero Living
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Conservation begins at home – literally. Designing and operating a home that generates as much power as it uses is rapidly becoming a reality. Mean...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, WLPR , and NPR Now


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
2017-10-15 Elizabeth Kolbert and David Roberts: Covering Catastrophe
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Communicating about climate change and convincing the public that something needs to be done about it is a complicated proposition, one that report...

Bought by KWIT, KCPW Salt Lake City, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 5
2017-10-01 Happening with James Redford
From: Climate One
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Fossil fuels are in favor again in Washington. New opportunities are opening to mine coal and drill for oil despite the fact that the costs for fos...

Bought by NPR Now


  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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
2017-09-03 Aligning Profits with the Planet
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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“How do you move from a place of simply trying to stop bad things and asking instead how would you make products and services in a sustainable mann...

Bought by KWIT and NPR Now


  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Financing Land Without Water
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Most of us have lived our lives knowing that if we want a glass of water, we simply turn on the tap and out comes that delicious liquid. But in tod...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 06:58
2017-06-04 How Cities Can Solve the Climate Challenge
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Diane Doucette and Carl Pope
Cities around the country are reshaping their economies for a greener future. Mayors and chambers of commerce are promoting smart growth and moving...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, KWIT, KZYX, KUNM and more


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
Climate Insurance in a Changing World
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Dauphin Island, Alabama, Credit: David Helvarg, Blue Frontier Campaign/Marine Photobank
Insurance touches every aspect of our lives, protecting us from financial loss. As climate change is continually felt everywhere on the planet, how...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 05:01
The Company Behind the Gulf Oil Spill
From: Mimi Geerges
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A discussion on the oil company BP and how their risk taking and corporate culture contributed to the disaster on April 20, 2010.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
Katherine Loflin, the "City Doctor," on what attaches people to a place, and why it matters
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Dr. Katherine Loflin joined WTIP's Ann Possis recently to talk about her work in "placemaking". She advises elected officials, planners, businesspe...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:11
Peninsula Business “Props” for Wild Olympics Bill
From: Washington News Service
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OLYMPIA, Wash. - Scores of Peninsula business owners are joining local farmers, clergy and elected officials in applauding a measure introduced Thu...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
Report: Seven Sectors Driving CA's "Clean" Economy
From: California News Service
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When the state begins auctioning off cap-and-trade revenues next year, a new report suggests those dollars be put into California's clean-energy ec...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:29
Study: Per-Capita Cash Connection to Conservation in MT
From: Big Sky Connection (Montana)
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LIVINGSTON, Mont. - Adjacent public lands, and how they're managed, provide insight into the economic health and well-being of rural counties in Mo...

  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
Farming Underwater: Steve Mello’s Story
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Farmer Steve Mello has put down roots in “The Delta” in central California. But climate change is threatening the levees which protect Delta farms....

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
The Sound of Change: Hip Hop in Cuba
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We hear about hip-hop and change in Cuban society, and what people on the ground are saying about new phases in the Cuban revolution.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 30:00
Whose Water? The Struggle for Public Ownership of Freshwater
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: http://michiganwro.blogspot.com, Credit: Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
We go to Michigan, where from the city of Detroit, to the farmlands and countryside, citizens are battling to gain greater control over the bounty ...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2010
  • Length: 28:56
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
Social entrepreneurship
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Creating socially conscious businesses in North Carolina

  • Added: Jun 22, 2007
  • Length: 04:48