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Caption: Matt Wasson
Do you cringe when you hear the term “clean coal?” Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio feels that this term is not only an oxymoron it’s offens...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
Caption: Steve Almond
Magical thinking. According to the McGraw Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine, this is a condition, “similar to a normal stage of childhood ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:16
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The history and current status of the California State Park System is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious in a conversation with Frank Graha...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Aug 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Why would an organic farmer run for Congress? Join Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn and her guest, Anthony Flaccavento, a former Food and...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Josh Fox
Remember when the tobacco industry hired a PR firm to convince us all that smoking wasn’t addictive and didn’t cause cancer? Now we know better but...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:46
Caption: Roger Kim
Recently on Sea Change Radio, we discussed the Chevron Refinery in Richmond, California, and the social movement that’s pushing back against one of...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
Caption: Chris Mooney
If you’re listening to this show, chances are you believe that climate change is real, that it’s a problem, and that human actions have brought us ...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Lindsey Lusher Shute, Director of the National Young Farmer Coalition. Know anyone who wants...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is one of the world’s leading environmentalists. In addition to his recent success leading a coalition to stop the construction agai...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tom Vanderbilt
Has this ever happened to you: you’re sitting in your car, engine idling, watching the cars in front of you and behind you move only inches at a ti...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Stacy Mitchell
Walmart. What does the name of the world’s largest retailer evoke for you? Do you think of its reputation as a poor employer and its anti-union tac...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
Caption: Philip Cafaro
What is the United States Chamber of Commerce? Many Americans hold the misconception that it’s a government agency. It is not. It is the most signi...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Eric Berlow
Trained as an ecologist, our guest this week on Sea Change Radio uses complexity theory to map spheres of influence and find solutions to any numbe...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Environmental activists with flags on their backs bury their heads in the sand on Durban's beachfront, highlighting nations that are failing to effectively prevent climate change. , Credit: Mike Hutchings/Reuters) From TakePart.com: Ocean Gets No Respect From Durban
Climate change was in the news again recently, with reports from Durban, South Africa where another U.N. Summit took place. In this episode of Worl...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:22
Caption: Jesse Jenkins
The bankruptcy of solar startup, Solyndra, earlier this year had the clean energy naysayers up-in-arms, saying that Solyndra’s demise proved that g...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
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Imagine you're a country with 17 timezones. Your citizens want cassette players, but your factories only make tanks. What do you do?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WOUB, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17
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When the District recovered the old Capitol columns, it forgot about the other fragments that had also once held up the country's icon of democracy.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 16
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The inscription on the granite reads, “This soil and the air space extending above it shall not be a part of any nation...”

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Jeff Goodell
If you could get the President’s attention for just long enough to tell him the ten things you’d like him to do to save the planet, or at least put...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: Jerry McNerney
This week on Sea Change Radio we hear from U.S. Congressman Jerry McNerney, representing California’s 11th District. In an earlier appearance on Se...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Kitt Doucette
In just a couple of decades the plastic bag has become ubiquitous on this planet – these “disposable” items don’t biodegrade, however, so they’ve b...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Josh Tickell
Ask an environmentally aware friend of yours what they think about ethanol and the response will probably be negative. Critics of this long-establi...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Andrew Revkin, Credit: NY Times
The United Nations forecasts that by 2050 the world’s population will exceed 9 billion. How will that affect life on the local level, on the global...

  • Added: May 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:33
Caption: Paul Ehrlich
It took humankind 1800 years to get from a global population of about 200 million to 1 billion. But it only took us 200 years to go from a billion ...

  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Vaclav Smil
Last on Sea Change Radio, we heard from renowned energy expert Vaclav Smil, as he spoke about his book, Energy Transitions, the future of electric ...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 30:00