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Midterm Musings: Robijn Van Giesen on the ’22 Election
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Robijn Van Giesen
With less than a month to go before the midterm elections, concerned citizens across the country are deciding which candidates to support through c...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Shifting Sands: Juan Cole on Middle East Climate Woes
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Juan Cole
When it comes to the Middle East and the environment, many of us think first about the area's role in petroleum production. But climate change is h...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Sammy Roth of the LA Times: Repowering The West
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
About 24% of the US population resides in the West, a region already profoundly affected by climate change. In 2021 nearly 95% of the American West...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Bianca Fortis on Florida's Efforts to Disenfranchise Former Prisoners
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bianca Fortis
Florida sort of defines the term "swing state." The smallest of variables can push the outcome of Florida's elections in one direction or another -...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Daniel Nichanian on the Nuts and Bolts of Local Elections
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Nichanian
Anyone who paid attention to the ugly aftermath of the 2020 presidential election suddenly realized that a coterie of state-level bureaucrats had a...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Alex Gilbert on West Virginia v. EPA
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Gilbert
It seems like these days every sentence that begins with "The Supreme Court..." finishes with truly appalling news -- another draconian ruling rega...

Bought by WHFR


  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
William Moomaw: Climate Change Assessments
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: William Moomaw
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. The scale of recent changes are unprecedented over many centurie...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
David v. Goliath: Danna Smith + Leo Woodberry v. Big Conservation
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Danna Smith
With around a billion dollars in annual revenue, The Nature Conservancy is the largest organization of its kind in America. Their stated mission is...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
SF Public Defender Peter Calloway Pt. 2: Recall Rubbish
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Peter Calloway
More than 20 years ago, sociologist Barry Glassner wrote his bestseller The Culture of Fear, where he explains why Americans tend to be unreasonabl...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
SF Public Defender Peter Calloway Pt. 1: Crime And Moral Panic
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Peter Calloway
In his astute and timeless book, "How to Lie with Statistics," Darrell Huff writes, “The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-mind...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings on the Fight For Equal Rights (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kevin Jennings
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously instilled optimism with his proclamation that, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward jus...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Jesse Tran: Coffee Waste Sneakers
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jesse Tran
According to a study conducted by Quantis International, footwear production is responsible for about 700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, or...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Dan Dicker: A Basket Case Study of Oil
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dan Dicker
America loves to blame the President when gas prices are high but the fact is the U.S. President has very little control over the price we pay at t...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Adam Sobel: A Climate Science Midlife Crisis
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Adam Sobel
Imagine you go to graduate school for a bunch of years, conscientiously studying the nuanced interactions of the variables that underlie the globe'...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Ted Nordhaus: What Are Environmental Protections Protecting?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ted Nordhaus
Historian T.J. Jackson Lears once said, "All history is the history of unintended consequences." This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Ted N...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Anne Clunan on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Anne Clunan
War has suddenly returned to Europe. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been swift, shocking, and devastating. In addition to killing thousands of...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KVNF, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Celia Ouellette: The Business of Punishment in America (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Celia Ouellette
People sometimes like to quote that Bible passage about “an eye for an eye” when justifying a punitive criminal justice system focused on retributi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
John Stoehr on Critical Race Theory Pt. 2
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Stoehr
It’s right in the Declaration of Independence that everyone is created equal. So why is an entire political party so scared of talking critically a...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
John Stoehr on Critical Race Theory Pt. 1
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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Have you noticed what’s got the far right-wing of American politics hot-and-bothered lately? This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to John Stoehr...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tim Schwab: Charity and the Billionaire Class
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tim Schwab
Are billionaire-backed philanthropies making the world a better place or are they pernicious sleeper cells? The answer may be one of those "both/an...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Solving America's Traffic Cop Problem
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brett Simpson
Two summers ago, calls to defund the police swept across the nation, spurred by high-profile incidents of police brutality against people of color....

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shamus Roller on Housing Justice
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Shamus Roller
For the past year and a half, we've been watching the numbers: Covid cases, ER beds, deaths, and, more recently, immunization rates. There's anothe...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Immune To Tragedy: Gun Regulations in America
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Robyn Thomas
Globally suicide accounts for about 20% of all gun-related deaths. But in the United States, the country with the highest per-capita civilian gun o...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rebecca Leber: Breaking Down Biden’s Climate Plan
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rebecca Leber
The infrastructure bill currently being negotiated in Congress includes some important climate-related allocations. Environmentalists, of course, f...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Celia Ouellette: The Business of Punishment in America
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Celia Ouellette
People sometimes like to quote that Bible passage about “an eye for an eye” when justifying a punitive criminal justice system focused on retributi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1