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Cutting Edge: Knives + Politics
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Adam Simha
This week on Sea Change Radio, we hear from a craftsman who makes razor-sharp kitchen knives, and with a progressive political talk show host who r...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
The Imprisonment of A Climate Hero
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Mohamed Nasheed
In the remote Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives, they don’t have the luxury of discussing climate change as an academic subject. The small countr...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dan Dicker: Deciphering Oil Prices
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dan Dicker
Some energy analysts predict that the past year’s downward trend in oil prices will continue. Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio, energy exper...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Salt Water Wilderness: Summer Brennan & Doug Woodring
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Summer Brennan
What does the word wilderness evoke in your mind? A vast field, a dense forest, a body of water? If you’re an attorney, it may simply be a legal te...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Two Decades of Solar Pioneers in Sacramento
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 27: he publicly-owned Sacramento Municipal Utility District, or SMUD, had already installed the first utility-scale PV array in the nation ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 26:02
Solar For All: An Article of Faith
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 26: Minnesota’s community solar garden program may be the envy of the nation — once the utility’s stall tactics have been stopped — but it ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 27:11
A Deep Dive on Value of Solar and the Future of Solar Energy
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 22: “Utility regulation and rates is a contact sport,” says Karl Rabago, and that makes the implementation of a new “value of solar” policy...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 34:27
Louisiana Checkup: Douglas Meffert
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Doug Meffert
As the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, we thought it would be an appropriate time to head back down to the bayou. This week on S...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
Inside Obama’s Clean Power Plan
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tim McDonnell
President Obama announced a bold new climate plan last week. The plan is being widely heralded by environmental advocates, but, perhaps unsurprisin...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Kansas City: A Royal Effort to Solarize City Rooftops
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 25: In April, ILSR’s John Farrell interviewed Charles Harris, project manager with the Kansas City. Harris suggested that the project got i...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 15:21
Raleigh: Duking it Out Over Municipal Solar
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 24: In April 2015, John Farrell talked to Robert Hinson, renewable energy coordinator with the City of Raleigh, NC. In lieu of third-party ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 19:55
Lancaster: The Leading Solar City?
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 23: Jason Caudle, city manager with the City of Lancaster, talked with John Farrell in April 2015 about his city’s solar boom. With more th...

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 19:21
  • Purchases: 1
Solar Access Warming For Renters
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Adam Browning
Is your home one of the millions that haven’t been able to get solar because you’re a renter? The cost of solar panel installation is half of what ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 2
Exxon Fuels Denial
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Suzanne Goldenberg
Children learn that lying is wrong, often in kindergarten. Apparently, somewhere on the road to becoming corporate leaders, they un-learn that less...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Abrahm Lustgarten: Water Management Breakdown
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Abrahm Lustgarten
Discussions about the West’s epic drought tend to focus on the need to cut back on residential and agricultural water usage. The importance of wate...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Behind the hijinks, with Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men
From: Waging Nonviolence
Series: We Are Many
Caption: Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men., Credit: The Yes Men
Andy Bichlbaum discusses the new Yes Men movie and how his mischievous youth led to a life of hilarious, but highly effective, activism.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 44:12
  • Purchases: 1
Science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi & "The Water Knife"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This Paonia, Colorado National Book Award finalist describes a thriller version of possible future water wars in the American Southwest. Is this an...

Bought by KRZA, Radio Newark, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 3
The Grey Lady and The EPA
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joe Romm
For the better part of the past decade, The New York Times and The Environmental Protection Agency have been frequent punching bags of the right wi...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ginger Strand
“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?” Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road” perfectly captured the essence of the American fascinati...

Bought by KVSC, WMUU-LP, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
In the Department of Poetic Justice (The song and dance genre): All I Want Is My Debt Deferred
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Contaminating Maine for Corporate Favors, Credit: Susan Cook
Well, in my state the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting published a lengthy article about a veteran lawmaker who is strongly supporting a ...

  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 03:23
Topical Tropical Dilemmas
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rhett Butler
Monoculture. It displaces native plant and animal species, it leads to long-term soil quality degradation, and, in tropical areas, it often means t...

Bought by WMUU-LP and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Andrew Revkin: Carbon Divide
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrew Revkin
This week on Sea Change Radio we hear from noted environmental journalist, Andrew Revkin, about a recent Yale/Utah State survey and mapping project...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Plight of The Condor
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kelly Sorenson
The California Condor may not be the prettiest of endangered species, but that doesn’t make it any less important to the ecosystem. Our guest this ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 29:40
Greenpeace’s Rolf Skar On Big Paper
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rolf Skar
Money doesn’t grow on trees, but if you’re a paper company, trees are definitely how you make your money. Paper production is one of the leading ca...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
Naomi Oreskes on “Merchants of Doubt”
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Naomi Oreskes
A recent Pew survey found that 48% of Americans are still unconvinced that global warming is happening and that human activity is causing it. How c...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1