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Structuring a New Economy
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part fourteen of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we assert that it's time to close our minds to pa...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:26
200904: Polluting and Providing: The Dirty Energy Dilemma, 9/4/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The cost and health burdens of electricity production have long been higher for low-income communities of color than for wealthy white ones. But fo...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
200529: Feeding a Hotter Planet, 5/29/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How do we go about feeding a planet that’s hotter, drier, and more crowded than ever? The connection between global warming and the dinner table is...

  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
The Garbage Gourmets
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Climate conscious cooks turn discards into delicacies.

Bought by WFHB, WFHB, KICI Iowa City, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Green Swan
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: https://www.techinasia.com/talk/startups-worry-black-swans, Credit: Infographic by Call Levels
Since the mid 2000s, economists have spoken of Black Swans, disruptive financial events that embody three special characteristics: they are rare, w...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 05:52
Truck It! The past, present and future of trucking in Nevada
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Look around you, wherever you are, and I’d be willing to bet that all the human-made things within your view are there because of a truck, to say n...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2020
  • Length: 33:29
200124: Drawdown / Solving Climate Change, 1/24/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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When it comes to cutting carbon pollution, where do we start? Today’s solutions are doable, but daunting: decrease global meat consumption, improve...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
200110: Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have, 1/10/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Everyday choices – like deciding which shirt to buy and what to binge-watch tonight – may impact the planet more than you think. Tatiana's Schlossb...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
2020-01-10 Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Everyday choices – like deciding which shirt to buy and what to binge-watch tonight – may impact the planet more than you think. Tatiana's Schlossb...

Bought by WJCT, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
2019-11-29 Shadows to Spotlight: Climate in the Media
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Murder, love, and the human experience are the stuff of great stories, as podcasts like Serial and Radiolab have shown us. But climate change? Not ...

Bought by WJCT, KUSU, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Maine Public Radio, WFHB and more


  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
2019-11-15 John Browne: Engineering the Future
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Can oil companies reinvent themselves as clean energy providers? John Browne attempted it over more than a decade as CEO of British Petroleum, wher...

Bought by WJCT, KUSU, WMUU-LP, KCSB-FM, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
191115: John Browne: Engineering the Future, 11/15/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Can oil companies reinvent themselves as clean energy providers? John Browne attempted it over more than a decade as CEO of British Petroleum, wher...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
RDD: The Future of the Lake
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Eric Kraus is the project founder/coordinator and President of Standing Rush, but he's also an adviser to Toledo Public School's Aerospace and Natu...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2019
  • Length: 06:12
190830: Carbon Offsets: Privileged Pollution?, 8/30/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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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...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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
A Climate Conversion
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Bath Iron Works is a subsidiary of General Dynamics and Maine's largest defense contractor and a major employer. BIW builds Zumwalt destroyers for the U.S. Navy at its shipyard on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine
This week on World Ocean Radio we're talking about solutions to the climate challenge by highlighting some modern examples of and possibilities for...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KVNF


  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 2
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
Think Business — a conversation with Brian Riepe
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness
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In this episode of Think Radio Presents Think Business host Alan Wartes talks with Brian Riepe.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
2018-10-28 Climate Silence: Why Aren't There More Votes?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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After a year of climate-amplified fires and hurricanes around the country, New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel tells host Greg Dalton how climate ...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KFOI Radio, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Fight Power With Power
From: Cooler Earth
Series: Cooler Earth Podcast
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What if we could create a profoundly more equitable world? Renewable energy has the potential to disrupt power dynamics created by fossil fuels, bu...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 23:00
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
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
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