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This week marks the 350th episode of World Ocean Radio, a weekly program of five-minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean issues from science a...
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 05:30
The Next System Project was developed to identify alternatives, foster conversations, evaluate fresh ideas, and propose solutions that will help us...
- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 05:26
The 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership has been causing conflict of late, with a broad range of disagreements over key provisions and debates inte...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 05:45
Because of persistent drought and water crises due to unsustainable practices, California is facing many challenges to its very existence. It is wa...
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 05:23
"Virtual water" is used to produce everything that we incorporate into our lives each day but is not listed on labels or calculated into price. Whe...
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 05:19
Do natural systems belong to the public or do they belong to corporate and private interests? Do corporate entities have an obligation to sustain r...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 05:30
What would the American landscape look like if we had no legislation? Would it be habitable today? In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 05:34
The “Planning with Water” series continues this week with discussion of the current water crisis in Brazil. In this episode of World Ocean Radio ho...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 05:19
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill continues discussion of the global water crisis. This week he talks about water audits conduc...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 05:31
In an effort to combat climate change and the exploitation of the planet’s resources, Bolivia is becoming the first country on Earth to give compre...
- Added: Nov 17, 2014
- Length: 05:15
Sectarian conflicts in the Middle East have been ongoing for what seems like forever. The latest violence in Syria and Turkey brought Peter Neill t...
- Added: Oct 20, 2014
- Length: 05:03
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the evolution of the petition concept and outline some of the most successful i...
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 05:12
In Part 2 of a multi-part series on the final report released by the Global Ocean Commission, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill explains the first...
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 05:36
The National Flood Insurance Program has paid more than $38 billion in claims since 1978. It was meant to be a self-supporting system, but currentl...
- Added: May 07, 2014
- Length: 05:14
Pollution is an excess of any given thing: waste, pesticide, acid, carbon—-any one thing in extreme which tips the scales, compromises stability, s...
- Added: Mar 10, 2014
- Length: 05:08
A recent legal case involving a man from Kiribati claiming refugee status from the impacts of climate has captured world media attention. In this e...
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 05:33
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss Blue Mind 3 and the conference topic of empathy. He will describe the work of o...
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 05:29
In this program recorded on site in northeastern Pennsylvania, we follow the Marcellus Shale trail and find the fracturing of the bedrock under thi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2010
- Length: 55:30
- Purchases: 2
Reverend David Bechmann, president of Bread for the World, speaks at the National Press Club about the problem of global hunger
- Added: Sep 17, 2010
- Length: 54:01
We're paying too little attention to he workers who were seriously injured or killed in the explosion that spilled tons of oil into the Gulf of Mex...
- Added: May 14, 2010
- Length: 03:48
Dr. Joanna Macy is a long-time peace, justice, and ecology activist. A celebrated Buddhist teacher, Dr. Macy’s wide-ranging work spans Eastern and ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 23, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Interviews from an indigenous climate change conference during the summer of 2009 in Alaska.
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Dec 14, 2009
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 1
Interviews with several scientists about how nature teaches us to be resilient.
Bought by WRGY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Mar 12, 2009
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Aug 11, 2008
- Length: 07:37
- Purchases: 1
Short essay by Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory
- Added: Oct 25, 2007
- Length: 04:59
