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Pain At The Pumps: Understanding Gas Prices With Dan Dicker
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dan Dicker
It's hard not to notice how sky high gas prices are these days. Perhaps the universe is trying to tell us something about our personal transportati...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Jon Goldstein: The Fight To Reduce Methane Emissions
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jon Goldstein
In discussions about climate change we talk a lot about carbon dioxide, and with good reason. But did you know that per molecule, methane actually ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Following the Money: Alex Kotch on Charitable Giving
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Kotch
They say charity is a virtue, but sometimes it’s a little more complicated. The donor advised fund or DAF, has been a financial instrument for char...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rebecca Leber: Why the GOP thinks ESG is a BFD
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Rebecca Leber
Environmental, social and corporate governance, referred to as ESG, is a set of factors that conscientious capitalists use to identify worthy inves...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Alexander Zaitchik on Effective Altruism + Longtermism
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Zaitchik
As the news that thirty year-old cryptocurrency baron, Sam Bankman-Fried‘s, FTX empire suddenly collapsed, the residual effects reverberated in the...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Living Planet 08/05/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: In the Congo, new oil and gas permits are being offered up in endangered gorilla habitats and giant tropical peatlands to f...

Bought by WXDU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Aug 05, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
World in Progress 11/11/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Climate Talks and Lesotho Water challenges - Poor countries in the global South demand 'loss and damage' compensation for...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
World in Progress 11/04/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The Gap in the Panamerican Highway - The Panamerica is one of the longest roads in the world - it runs some 48,000 km th...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Nov 05, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • 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
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
2021-04-02 Entrepreneurs Creating an Inclusive Economy
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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As the spring of 2021 arrives, it would be hard to design a more challenging — or more promising — moment for implementing climate solutions. Ameri...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, WLPR , KSQD Santa Cruz, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
210402: Entrepreneurs Creating an Inclusive Economy, 4/2/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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As the spring of 2021 arrives, it would be hard to design a more challenging — or more promising — moment for implementing climate solutions. Ameri...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Living Planet 03/05/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Fossil fuel's last gasp? - As more countries seek to phase in renewable energies, coal retains a firm grip in many par...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 08, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 02/19/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Big ideas - As our planet faces unprecedented environmental crises, it's becoming clear that piecemeal solutions can't f...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 12/11/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Green politics - When it comes to the environment, politics has a big role to play. This is top of mind as the Paris Agre...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 11/27/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: What's left behind - Villagers in the Ecuadorian Amazon are wondering how they'll survive an oil spill that's contamina...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 09/10/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Climate cause and consequence - From oil development in Namibia and the "forgotten" greenhouse gas methane, to the growi...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 04/17/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Cobalt is one of the most important raw materials used to make batteries for smartphones, tablets and e-cars. About two thi...

Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 02/07/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Under threat - We have stories of activists. In one case, fighting against hydropower, despite the fact that it has hel...

Bought by KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
James Quilligan: The Commons and the Future of Democracy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: James Quilligan
What is the American dollar based on? It was based on the gold standard until 1971 when it transitioned to a floating monetary system. This week’s ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ramez Naam on the Green New Deal, Pt. 2 + Sunscreen Bans
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ramez Naam
If you've been wondering what people mean when they talk about a Green New Deal, today's episode of Sea Change Radio should help. This week we air ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Home Is Where The Heart Is: Tiny Houses and Homelessness
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Fatih Saat
Shelter is on the first rung of renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow‘s hierarchy of needs. And yet, as a society, we have not cracked the code for ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Aaron Huertas on the Green New Deal
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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Back in the 1930s, when the US was in the midst of an economic crisis, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt enacted a set of policies to protect the...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1