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According to Reuters, electric vehicle sales leapt 50% in the US in 2023, and are expected to grow by another 30% in 2024. But driving around your ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Did you see any of the celebrity-backed ads for the slew of now defunct crytpo businesses? Did they leave you scratching your head at the time? It ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Humans have been making steel in some form or other for over two millennia - and consistently re-using and recycling it along the way. This week on...
- Added: Oct 03, 2023
- Length: 29:00
They say home is where the heart is, and it’s also where our story begins today. This week on Sea Change Radio, we talk to two people doing their b...
- Added: May 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Have you ever been so tired behind the wheel that you needed to pull over to rest? Well, that’s one of the problems autonomous or self-driving vehi...
- Added: Jan 05, 2023
- Length: 29:00
It is estimated that over 2.5 million homes are equipped with solar panels in the U.S. And the popularity of capturing the natural power of the sun...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Have you ever watched in amazement as a visually impaired person nimbly maneuvers their way through a crowded subway station? Well, some thoughtful...
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 29:00
The next time you’re doing a load of laundry, take a second and think about all that goes into cleaning your clothes. You’ve probably contemplated ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
If you haven’t considered buying an electric vehicle yet, there’s a good chance that in the not-so-distant future, the decision will already be mad...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on Sea Change Radio, we learn about a small, innovative company that is recycling all sorts of plastics and turning them into gravel. We ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jul 27, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In the 1990s, I recall my grandfather remarking upon the new ubiquity of plastic water bottles, “When did everybody get so thirsty all of a sudden?...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Is this the end of the road for the internal combustion engine?
California isn’t the first major economy to ban gas-powered cars and trucks, and ...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KRCB 104.9, WDSE, KSQD Santa Cruz, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 9
Is this the end of the road for the internal combustion engine?
California isn’t the first major economy to ban gas-powered cars and trucks, and ...
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 58:59
The industrial revolution ushered in an era of more efficient transportation. As history has shown us, the impact of our ability to move easily acr...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Over a century ago, the industrial revolution brought wealth and opportunity to a generation of American innovators. It also brought us dirty coal ...
- Added: Jan 21, 2019
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 9
What do cork, coffee cups, lettuce, and excessive travel have in common? They are all areas of personal choice that have an environmental impact, a...
- Added: Dec 12, 2018
- Length: 29:00
If you're someone who's curious about the geopolitical implications of carbon fuel and the ecological havoc it wreaks, you've probably come across ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
Most people wouldn’t guess it, but concrete is the single most widely used material in the world. And both production and consumption are on the ri...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jul 11, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
When you think of climate activism, Wall Street doesn’t immediately come to mind. But as investors are coming to realize, they do have a voice – an...
Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WUTC, MPR News Stations, KWIT and more
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 8
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
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...
- Added: Feb 22, 2018
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 4
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
What if the roads we drove on, instead of being made of carbon-intensive petroleum sludge, were actually solar panels? And what if whenever electri...
- Added: Jul 25, 2017
- Length: 28:30
Many people living in Pacific nations, like Vanuatu, Indonesia, and the Philippines, struggle to find adequate shelter, a challenge compounded by t...
- Added: Jul 02, 2017
- Length: 30:00
Will the rapid arrival of robotic cars lead to the blissful end of traffic? Or will autonomous cars merely put drivers out of work and clog our str...
Bought by MPR News Stations
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
