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It comes as little surprise that the author of a book entitled Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future is a critic of...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Doug Woodring is the founder of the Ocean Recovery Alliance. His name may sound familiar to long-time listeners of Sea Change Radio because we feat...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Many planners agree that a more centralized population is a good thing for long-term environmental responsibility. But as people all over the world...
Bought by WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KVSC
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
For over a decade, Oakland has attempted to abate the illegal dumping of mattresses, electronics, furniture, and other large items onto city street...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 07:20
Last week we spoke with energy analyst Dan Dicker about the reasons behind the sudden drop in oil prices and the potential impact this could have o...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 30, 2014
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
When it comes to global oil markets, the one thing that everyone agrees on is that it’s complex. The recent plunge in oil prices has many of us sea...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
There’s a new push to get tourists in New Orleans off bourbon street and into nature. Eco-tourism is the new way to explore Louisiana according to ...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 1
Livestock, especially cattle, are Public Enemy Number One. That’s been the perceived wisdom for decades. It’s thought that cattle erode soils, poll...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that the production of cement is responsible for 5% of the carbon dioxide emissions on the planet? Our guest today on Sea Change Radio...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
California entrepreneurs saw potential in the gusty winds that blew out at the Altamont Pass, between the Central Valley and Bay Area. By the mid-’...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 07:09
“The goal is Zero Waste by 2020, and we think that is an achievable goal.”
Those words from former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom back in 2009 p...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:04
Lisa Westberg Peters shares her book, Fractured Land: The Price of Inheriting Oil, which is a look into the challenges faced by a daughter who's in...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: 11:19
- Purchases: 1
Jeff Gunderson, director of Minnesota Sea Grant, spoke with WTIP's Randy Eastlund recently about work they did with Wisconsin Sea Grant to identify...
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 12:01
Carbon is shaping our future. Those little particles we can’t even see are reshaping our natural world, and transforming our economy. And, it all e...
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
“Why would you need toxins to have a healthy food supply?” asks Mary Jo Forbord, a registered dietitian, organic farmer, and former executive direc...
- Added: Sep 11, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Economists these days are confirming what many already know – the gap between the haves and have-nots is widening. In the face of soaring productiv...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 27, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
A wide array of economic analysts are increasingly recognizing the link between economic development and gender equality. Research is showing that ...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Aug 27, 2014
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
WTIP's Dave TerSteeg spoke recently with Erin Stojan Ruccolo, director of electricity markets for Fresh Energy, about various aspects of generating...
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 12:11
Even the most casual followers of energy policy have become aware of the controversy surrounding the massive expansion of fracking in this country ...
- Added: Aug 20, 2014
- Length: 30:00
The recycling economy of southern Maine
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 07:07
The National Flood Insurance Program has paid more than $38 billion in claims since 1978. It was meant to be a self-supporting system, but currentl...
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 05:14
Shared mobility – it’s a concept that might be a little foreign to the millions of Americans who get in their cars by themselves everyday and embar...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jul 09, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Our guest today is Adam Werbach who could already have been called an environmental activist when he was just in high school. At the ripe young age...
- Added: Jul 02, 2014
- Length: 28:00
If you own an electric vehicle and you have solar panels on your house, you can drive around powered entirely by renewable energy. But what can EV ...
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 29:50
When David Gottfried come up an idea for green environmental building 20-years ago, he ran into a number of hurdles. The building industry had been...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
