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Leading experts in climate science and environmental research join WorldCanvass host Joan Kjaer to discuss the most pressing concerns facing Iowa...

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 28:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Leading experts in climate science and environmental research join WorldCanvass host Joan Kjaer to discuss the most pressing concerns facing Iowans...

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 19:45
  • Purchases: 1
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How can policymakers be persuaded to abandon the most widespread public policy goal on Earth? In our last episode, Brian Czech explained that econo...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
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What do football, tobacco and oil have in common? A common narrative of deceit. When tobacco companies faced public scrutiny about the link between...

Bought by WORT, KWIT, KCPW Salt Lake City, and NPR Now


  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
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Relocalization may be the most important strategy for minimizing climate change. According to Bill McKibben, “working as communities is the most im...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
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“Gross Domestic Product has now become a fetish,” according to economist Raj Patel. Many undesirable things end up adding to GDP: wars, disease, an...

Bought by Indie3 Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Capitalocene – maybe it doesn’t roll off the tongue, but a group of thinkers argue the term is preferable to Anthropocene because it's more diagnos...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 33:19
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Radio Curious discusses whales and the history of whale hunting with Michael Dyer, senior historian at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedfor...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
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Rising sea levels are just one way climate change is reshaping the world's oceans, says Duke University oceanographer Susan Lozier.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:40
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With our piecemeal coastal policies, "We're haphazardly geo-engineering a whole coast," says Duke University economist Martin Smith.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
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The water crisis in Flint, Michigan has been dominating the news cycle for some weeks. The story points to tragic mismanagement of the city’s water...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 05:44
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Radio Curious discusses human extinction with Dr. Guy McPherson, co-author of “Extinction Dialogs:  How to Live With Death in Mind” and Professor ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer on how scientists know that climate change is not just due to the Sun.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 04:02
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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
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Art and science meet at the crossroads in this program focused on climate change, sustainability, and the future of our planet and ourselves. This ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 23:05
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
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In today’s EcoReport feature, Kim Ferraro, Water and Agricultural Policy Director for the Hoosier Environmental Council, talks about the ag-gag or ...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
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In today’s EcoReport feature, Kim Ferraro, Water and Agricultural Policy Director for the Hoosier Environmental Council, talks about the ag-gag or ...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:41
Caption: The discount supermarket Grocery Outlet is opening a new store in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley neighborhood
Almost 30 million Americans live a mile or more away from a supermarket. That may not sound very far, but for the five million plus who don’t have ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Bay Area Bike Share station in front of San Francisco City Hall, Credit: Isabel Angell
The success of Bay Area Bike Share depends on one place: downtown San Francisco. Back in August, the program. made a well-calculated gamble and stu...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 07:24
Caption: Flag of Kiribati. According to WorldAtlas.com, the blue and white bands represent the surrounding Pacific Ocean. The frigate bird flying over the rising sun is taken from the coat of arms, and is said to symbolize strength and power at sea.
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
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
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
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Michael Shellenberger addresses climate change through the eyes of his Breakthrough Institute and offers up some ideas that some see as controversi...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 19:48