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Smoking
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Recorded in August of 2002, a generational discussion about smoking

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 24:40
Jonathan Coop — At the crossroads of evolution
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with biologist and botanist Jonathan Coop.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Literacy: Weather and Climate
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Bray, France, Credit: Stijn te Strake on Unsplash
"The ocean is a major influence on weather and climate." So states the third Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 04, 2018
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
A crash, suffering pigs, and an activist's response
From: JL Fields
Series: Easy Vegan with JL Fields
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Steve Jenkins, one of Esther the Wonder Pig’s dads and co-founder of the Happily Ever Esther Farm Sanctuary, is back to talk about a horrifying inc...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
266-Colliding Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Collisions between planets, planetesimals, asteroids, and comets have produced the place where we live and breathe.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Blue Economy
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: IISD Report: State of Sustainability Initiatives Review
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill discusses a recent report entitled "The State of Sustainability Initiatives Review: Standard...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 1
259-Trans-Neptunian
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The discovery of an object which travels out to well beyond Pluto.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
238-Now Three
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Catalina Sky Survey now operates three telescopes, 24 nights per month, in the Catalina mountains north of Tucson, Arizona.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode 4: How to do science, part 2: From the beach to the lab
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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If you send scientists to the beach, they may come back with the next way to produce biofuels. But it takes a lot of collaboration along the way.

  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:36
Heading to Hell in a Handbasket
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Paul Ehrlich, author of the iconic book The Population Bomb, reflects on the history of environmentalism and his gloomy outlook for the future. [Ep...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 46:21
Peter Kareiva, the Pragmatic Conservationist
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, discusses his definition of nature and challenges the assertion that nature is fragi...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:43
An Entrepreneur's Approach to the Anthropocene
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Former HP executive Debra Dunn discusses the power of entrepreneurship, the changing culture of business and what she learned on a recent trip to C...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 20:48
Conserving Culture Through Biodiversity
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Luis Zambrano discusses preserving Aztec culture through a rare salamander in the Mexico City wetlands, and compares emerging conservation battles ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 22:05
140: The Red Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Fishing Boats at Al Hudaydah, Credit: Jane Baxter
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill discusses two such recent presentations of Red Sea and Arabian-Persian Gulf history.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2011
  • Length: 05:12
NOVA Minute: Humans and Mass Extinction
From: NOVA
Series: NOVA Minute
Caption: Sam Bowring, Credit: MIT
Sam Bowring studies mass extinctions in the Earth's past. He says humans might not be around much longer... geologically speaking.

Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 3
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
Can America Go Green? Part 1: The Addiction To Oil
From: BBC
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The United States of America produces one quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. Part one looks at how the US could retreat from its role...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2008
  • Length: 23:00
  • Purchases: 2