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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
Scooter Talk with Carter Rubin of NRDC
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Carter Rubin
The first time you saw a fleet of rent-able electric scooters huddled together on a city sidewalk, what was your reaction? Annoyance at yet another...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
2018-10-28 Climate Silence: Why Aren't There More Votes?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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After a year of climate-amplified fires and hurricanes around the country, New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel tells host Greg Dalton how climate ...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KFOI Radio, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Mark Hertsgaard on the Global Climate Action Summit
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Mark Hertsgaard
Last week in San Francisco, scientists, thought leaders, politicians and celebrities all gathered for the Global Climate Action Summit. Mark Hertsg...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Graham Sinclair on Sustainable Financial Markets
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Graham Sinclair
There is a nearly constant scroll of bad news passing before our eyes, from rampant income inequality and raging wildfires to climate devastation a...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
Keith Schneider: Malaysian Building Boom
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Keith Schneider
Over the last few decades, the skyline of Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur has mushroomed – a conglomeration of skyscrapers highlighted by The Petro...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
World in Progress 06/14/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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World in Progress: Battling inequalities - On this week’s show: Cape Town's building boom pushes people out of their homes in the city center...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Oil Primer With Dan Dicker
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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Have you forgotten the days of $5 gas from a few years ago? Well, after a period of relatively low prices, the price of the world's most-used fossi...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fight Power With Power
From: Cooler Earth
Series: Cooler Earth Podcast
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What if we could create a profoundly more equitable world? Renewable energy has the potential to disrupt power dynamics created by fossil fuels, bu...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 23:00
The (Carbon) Price is Right
From: Cooler Earth
Series: Cooler Earth Podcast
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Carbon pricing has emerged as a market based policy solution to climate change. The general idea is that by making it more costly to pollute, we wo...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 33:20
Rebecca Leber on the Dawn of Solar Protectionism
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rebecca Leber
I don’t know about you, but whenever I see a headline that the Trump Administration has made a new announcement, I generally assume that it’s bad n...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 27:20
  • Purchases: 1
Sami Grover on Planes, Trains and Automobiles of the Future
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sami Grover
As many of us prepare for the hectic holiday hustle of planes, trains and automobiles, we might be thinking about how our travel plans are going to...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 3
Sammy Roth: Desert Power Investigation
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Sammy Roth
With all the false claims about “fake news” and verifiable lies being proffered as facts by the president and others, it’s quite refreshing to be r...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending Nov. 10, 2017
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Mueller's First Indictments Stir Fear in White House; Trickle Down Hoax Ce...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
2017-10-08 California’s Climate Crusade
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, a Republican, and Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, shown last year, are both cap-and-trade proponents. , Credit: Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press
In a rare display of bipartisanship, California governor Jerry Brown and former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger sat side by side recently praising t...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Tell Me Something Good: Volt Energy’s Gilbert Campbell
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Gilbert Campbell III
Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio, Gilbert Campbell III, the Co-Founder of Volt Energy, is here to remind us that sustainable energy is good,...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:20
Newfangled Retrofitting: BlocPower’s Donnel Baird
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Donnel Baird
Compared with new buildings, older buildings tend to eat up a lot more energy and produce and trap a lot more pollution. Whether it’s an old church...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Trump on Energy: A Collection Of Contradictions
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Amy Harder
Even the most astute followers of the news may have missed that the Trump Administration is touting a series of self-proclaimed focal areas. With c...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending June 30, 2017
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: GOP House Guts Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations, Inviting Next Financial D...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ted Nordhaus: U.S. Leaves Paris
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ted Nordhaus
Are the cries for a complete transition to renewable energy from environmentalists like Bill McKibben actually undermining the work to combat clima...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Mark Murray: California Recycling in Decline
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Mark Murray
In 2013 California boasted a recycling rate of 85%. In 2017 that number is now 79% - that is the first time it has dipped below 80% since 2008. Why...

Bought by WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
The Free Market Assault on Science: Kerryn Higgs #212
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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What exactly are “think tanks” supposed to be thinking about? Are some of them part of a campaign to cast doubt on science when it could interfere ...

Bought by KTRL, XRAY.fm, KMUD, KTRL, and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
2017-05-07 The New Political Climate
From: Climate One
Caption: Debbie Dooley, President, Conservatives for Energy Freedom, Co-founder, Tea Party Movement
Can the far right and far left come together on clean energy despite the polarization in Washington DC? While Democrats and Republicans may have di...

  • Added: May 02, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
Rahwa Ghirmatzion: Green Buffalo Soldier
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rahwa Ghirmatzion
What’s a great way to lift up an impoverished population within a struggling city where utility bills can cost twice as much as rent itself? Local,...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 2