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Caption: A Dam Nice View, The Hoover Dam, Credit: Amyn Kassam
As we look for a solution to global energy problems and a way out of the climate crisis- some are turning to dams and hydroelectric power as a sour...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joan Michelson (l) of Green Connections Radio and Jaime Carlson (r) of the US Dept of Energy
Curious about how the Dept of Energy is spending your money? Where did all those billions in Recovery Act money go? What financial incentives are t...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 21:26
Caption: Kate Gordon of The Center for the Next Generation
Energy policy expert Kate Gordon of The Center for the Next Generation talks about what state and local governments, as well as Congress and the Pr...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 28:18
Caption: James Gustave Speth
Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Governor Dayton, Credit: easystand on Flickr
Minnesota's environmental health just had a checkup. The results, contained in the recently released Minnesota Environment and Energy Report Card, ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 14, 2012
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode First half: : a fable from the future told now..based on half remembered tales of the past and present. Second half: excerpts from...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 57:19
Caption: A A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests
Around the world communities are already facing the impacts of climate change. Now international organizations, like the World Bank, are pushing a...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Image: Trains stand in a flooded Metro-North's Harmon Yard, Oct. 31, 2012, on the Hudson Line, in Croton-on-Hudson, New York in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Credit: AP Photo | Metropolitan Transportation Authority
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the New York Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance and their exemplary five-point st...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 1
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The Republican Party finally addresses climate change.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:25
Caption: Fred Kaufman
This week, along with the rest of the country, we'll be piling my plate high with abundant turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and apple pie. It seem...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
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On Thursday, October 25, The Indiana Forest Alliance and environmentalists from across the state gathered to speak out against illegal logging. The...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 58:16
Caption: Ken Burns
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has produced a new film series on the dustbowl. It features survivors, experts on climate and farming, as well as s...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Neela Banerjee
Hurricane Sandy highlighted the devastating effects of a changing climate and rising sea levels like perhaps no other event we have seen in this co...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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When you're out on the northern plains, a place some call the "Big Empty," there's a freedom that comes with the loneliness of such landscapes. On ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious visits with Mark Kitchell, producer of the new film, A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle For a Living Planet, which documents 50 years of...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Ashley Hathaway
Like it or not, genetically engineered foods make up a significant portion of our nation’s food supply. Approximately ninety-three percent of all U...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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Bicyclists take to the streets en mass in a fight over the ‘right to the city’.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KTSW 89.9, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WXDU and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 13
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In February, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the expansion of an existing ban on plastic, single-use bags to apply to restaurants, ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 07:57
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: A melting iceberg in Antarctica. , Credit: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists
Is anyone out there thinking ahead about climate? In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will answer by outlining two particular or...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2012
  • Length: 06:03
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
Caption: Steve Almond
Author Steve Almond is an astute observer of American topics as disparate as candy, rock & roll and politics. This week on Sea Change Radio, in the...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:56
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A sculpture, called Carbon Sink, installed on the University of Wyoming campus, has generated a lot of controversy in the past couple of years. It ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 07:14
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A profile of Occupy's first politician

  • Added: Sep 21, 2012
  • Length: 07:06
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The plight of approximately 4000 Montana Buffalo, related to the tens of millions of buffalo who roamed North America as recently as 160 years ago,...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:01