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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
Future Farming of America (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Southwest Virginia has seen a decline in coal and tobacco—two industries that once boomed in the region. Could hemp be a way to boost the local eco...

Bought by WJCT, 'The Sea', WYAP, KMUD, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Future Farming of America (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Southwest Virginia has seen a decline in coal and tobacco—two industries that once boomed in the region. Could hemp be a way to boost the local eco...

Bought by WCNY, KZYX, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
Aquaculture Revisited
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Offshore aquaculture operation, Credit: NMFS/NOAA
Aquaculture has long been a controversial industry fraught with conflict: waste and feed pollution, use of antibiotics, escape of genetically modif...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: 05:08
Autonomous Vehicles at a Crossroads
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alexandria Sage
The transportation sector is one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. There are vast resources currently being spent to transfo...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Ongoing Race for Arctic Oil
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Svalbard, Norway , Credit: Thomas Hallermann | Marine Photobank
The pursuit for oil continues, even as many alternatives emerge and investments are displaced. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Nei...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:50
A World Ocean Fund for Responsible Investing
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Early in 2018, BlackRock asset management chair Larry Fink issued a statement declaring growing public demand for companies to serve a social purpo...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 06, 2018
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
2018-03-04 Cloudy Days for Solar?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The price of solar power has declined dramatically in recent years. That’s good news for homeowners, the environment and the economy. Renewable pow...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3
2018-02-25 Power Shift: The End of Gasoline Cars?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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After more than a century of ruling the roads, oil is starting to lose its dominance over the auto industry. More and more automakers are introduc...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KWIT, KUHF, and NPR Now


  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 4
Rebecca Leber on the Dawn of Solar Protectionism
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rebecca Leber
I don’t know about you, but whenever I see a headline that the Trump Administration has made a new announcement, I generally assume that it’s bad n...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 27:20
  • Purchases: 1
2018-01-14 Jane Goodall and Yvon Chouinard
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Jane Goodall
World-renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall talks about her life’s work, the link between deforestation and climate change and wh...

Bought by KQUA, KPIP-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KWIT, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
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
Zero Mass Water: A New Source for H2O
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Cody Friesen
In our household we do our best to avoid buying bottled water - we're keenly aware of what those darn plastic bottles are doing to the environment....

  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Sami Grover on Planes, Trains and Automobiles of the Future
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sami Grover
As many of us prepare for the hectic holiday hustle of planes, trains and automobiles, we might be thinking about how our travel plans are going to...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 3
Sammy Roth: Desert Power Investigation
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Sammy Roth
With all the false claims about “fake news” and verifiable lies being proffered as facts by the president and others, it’s quite refreshing to be r...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending Nov. 10, 2017
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Mueller's First Indictments Stir Fear in White House; Trickle Down Hoax Ce...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
2017-09-24 The Greening of Professional Sports
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: The Golden 1 Center, home of the Sacramento Kings and the first indoor sports arena to earn LEED certification, Credit: Sacramento Bee
Climate One goes on the road to the Green Sports Alliance Summit, to talk with team owners, athletes and others who are working to reduce their maj...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, WHYY, and NPR Now


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Thinking like a vegan professional
From: JL Fields
Series: Easy Vegan with JL Fields
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Stephanie Redcross created Vegan Mainstream to empower individuals to turn their vegan passion into a vegan business. More vegan businesses mean ve...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Sep 11, 2017
  • Length: 28:31
  • 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
Tell Me Something Good: Volt Energy’s Gilbert Campbell
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Gilbert Campbell III
Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio, Gilbert Campbell III, the Co-Founder of Volt Energy, is here to remind us that sustainable energy is good,...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:20
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
Newfangled Retrofitting: BlocPower’s Donnel Baird
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Donnel Baird
Compared with new buildings, older buildings tend to eat up a lot more energy and produce and trap a lot more pollution. Whether it’s an old church...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
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