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240119: Wardrobe Malfunction: The Climate Impact of Clothing, 1/19/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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What we wear defines us in so many ways. But in recent decades we’ve moved away from long-lasting, quality pieces in favor of disposable fast fashi...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
2021-09-24 Preparing for Disasters We Don’t Want to Think About
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The COVID-19 pandemic revealed structural weaknesses and inequities that existed long before 2020. Like COVID-19, climate change is another “threat...

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


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
2021-07-23 How a Manufactured Car Culture Blocks Transit
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The United States is famous for its car culture. But a hundred years ago, pedestrians didn’t want cars to take over the streets — and it took decad...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
210723: 2021-07-23 How a Manufactured Car Culture Blocks Transit , 7/23/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The United States is famous for its car culture. But a hundred years ago, pedestrians didn’t want cars to take over the streets — and it took decad...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
The Future of Energy is Indigenous (and it wont involve pipelines!)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As Canadian oil giant Enbridge defies orders to shut down their dangerous Line 5 pipeline in Michigan, indigenous environmental activists gain mome...

Bought by KMUN, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
210514: Journey of A Former Coal Miner, 5/14/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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What motivates the activists? Grassroots activism can take many forms, from protests to letter-writing to citizen science to community organizing. ...

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
A Million Scorched Joshua Trees
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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It's almost the Great Conjunction and we've been on the run, on the road, rambling around. It was time to visit the devastation on Cima Dome, where...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
NOLA vs Nature: The Other Biggest Flood In New Orleans History
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Crevasse, viewed from the levee., Credit: The Historic New Orleans Collection
For the next few episodes TriPod dives into the city’s messy relationship with water through a new series called NOLA vs. Nature. First up: a look ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
Contagion: Responding to Infectious Disease [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Detail from Chicago Department of Health vaccination poster, produced by the Works Progress Administration, late 1930s , Credit: Library of Congress
It’s the height of the flu season, and federal public health agencies have been spending millions of dollars trying to keep this year’s virus under...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WEZU, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Weathering the Storm: A History of Extreme Weather [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Detail from Collier’s magazine cover, May 28th, 1954, Credit: Smithsonian Institution
100 years ago this week, the thermometer in Death Valley, California, hit the highest temperature ever recorded anywhere in the world: 134°F. This ...

Bought by WUFT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRIR, Louisville Public Media, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Byran Crigler of Herbal Turtle Farms Talks About Sustainable Foods
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Owners of Herbal Turtle Farms: Kate Foerster with partner Bryan Crigler and son Ayden
Local farmer and President of The Winona Farmers Market, Bryan Crigler stops by to inform us on Community Supported Agriculture, the importance of ...

Bought by KSRQ and KSRQ


  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 2
Will's Tiny House
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Will Hesch of Winona Minnesota built a tiny house in an effort to reduce his carbon footprint. Today we will learn how Will accomplished his task, ...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 16:37
Active Voice Radio 1-25-07: Joseph Romm- Hell and High Water: Global Warming the Solutions and the Politics
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Romm is a former Asst. Secretary at the Department of Energy and director of the Center for Energy and Climate

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jan 25, 2007
  • Length: 29:21
  • Purchases: 1