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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
This Week in Water for September 26, 2021
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How the “Johnny Appleseed” of the Ocean Is Fighting Climate Change. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KGNU Community Radio, KRZA, WYAP, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2021
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 5
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
This Week in Water for September 19, 2021
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Has the Paris Climate Agreement Been Submarined? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KRZA, KKFI, and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 19, 2021
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 4
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
Rod Graham: Color-Consciousness Not Colorblindness
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rod Graham
Many of us grew up under the impression that “colorblindness,” or pretending not to see racial differences was virtuous. An important contribution ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Water for June 27, 2021
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Climate Change Is Driving Plant Die-Offs in the Desert. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KKFI, KRZA, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 4
John Englander: Moving To Higher Ground
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Englander
Summer is nearly upon us. The next time you’re at the beach, gazing upon the blue horizon, take a moment to contemplate the depths of the sea, and ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Eriel Deranger of Indigenous Climate Action
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Eriel Deranger
The list of crimes committed in the name of so called “progress” includes modern offenses such as the Trump Administration’s effort to sell off Nat...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rebecca Leber: A Green New Infrastructure Deal?
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Rebecca Leber
Infrastructure is sort of the unsung hero of a functioning society. It’s hard to get across town without a reliable road, hard to keep people healt...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Nithin Coca: Indonesian Coal Crisis
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Nithin Coca
We often associate coal consumption with China and India, countries that have indeed invested heavily into the harmful fuel but flying under the ra...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Megan Milliken Biven proposes an Abandoned Well Administration
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Megan Milliken Biven
For over a hundred years, American land and waters have been tapped for that dark and viscous substance that has propelled our economy and generate...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tim Dickinson of Rolling Stone: Anti-Vaxxer Factor
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tim Dickinson
For many of us, the increasing availability of Covid vaccinations glows brightly, a light at the end of what has been a long and dreary tunnel. For...

Bought by KWMR and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Derek Walker: New Sheriffs on Climate Action
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Derek Walker
Which of the Trump-era environmental transgressions made your heart hurt the most? Was it when they loosened CO2 emission restrictions on power pla...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Richard Heinberg: What If Preventing Collapse Isn’t Profitable?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Richard Heinberg
It’s out with the old and in with, if not something completely new, something very different. This week on Sea Change Radio, we mark the end of the...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Jim Furnish + Kate Sheppard on the Last Frontier
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jim Furnish
According to the State of Alaska website, the state’s name derives from the Aleut alyeska, meaning “great land.” Today on Sea Change Radio we talk ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Three years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. We bring you a Haymarket Books talk by Ma...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rebecca Leber: A Brand New Day
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rebecca Leber
The New York Times recently compiled a list of 104 environmental protections that the Trump administration has rolled back in four short years — th...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Castle Redmond: Hope For Racial Justice
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Castle Redmond
In his book "Lies My Teacher Told Me," James Loewen writes that "race is the sharpest and deepest division in American life." We recognize the peac...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Megan Milliken Biven: Mississippi Dredging
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Megan Biven
Some of Louisiana’s best buffers against the storms that lash its coast annually are the little spits of land in the Gulf of Mexico — they slow dow...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Barbara Freese: Industrial Strength Denial
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Barbara Freese
The next time you hear the White House assert that up is down and down is up, consider what paved the way for this template of mendacity. This week...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Frederick Kaufman: Voices Inside Our Heads
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Frederick Kaufman
When faced with something overwhelming, terrifying, or incomprehensible, the human mind can get pretty creative. This week on Sea Change Radio, we ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jeremy Miller on Foxes, Henhouses and Trojan Grouses
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jeremy Miller
The Republican habit of putting wolves in charge of our nation’s henhouses hits those who love the environment particularly hard. This week on Sea ...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
The Muckraker: Jared Yates Sexton
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jared Yates Sexton
As most of us have been cooped up doing our best to keep the pandemic at bay, the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. has decided that his j...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00