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190210: Katharine Hayhoe: Why We Need to Talk About Climate Change, 2/8/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Why can it be so difficult to talk with our neighbors, colleagues and family members about climate change? Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe says ...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
2019-01-13 The Hidden Health Hazards of Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Climate change isn’t just an environmental problem – it’s also a health hazard. Air pollution and changing weather patterns give rise to heat-relat...

Bought by WJCT, KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, KMXT, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 9
2018-12-16 Mind Over Chatter: Exploring Climate Psychology
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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We all know about the environmental and physical effects of climate change. But what about its impact on our mental health? Therapists report that ...

Bought by WJCT, KVNF, KZYX, NPR Now, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
2018-11-18 Are Human Lives Improving?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In their 1968 book The Population Bomb, Paul and Anne Ehrlich warned of the dangers of overpopulation. These included mass starvation, societal uph...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KBBI Alaska, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
All Creatures Great and Small: The Vanishing Vaquita
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brooke Bessesen
How splendid would it be if humans could somehow find a way to truly co-exist with the rest of the planet’s creatures? This week on Sea Change Radi...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
2018-11-04 Prosperity and Paradox: A Conversation with Arlie Hochschild and Eliza Griswold
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Red states, blue states – when it comes to our environment, are we really two different Americas? New Yorker writer Eliza Griswold spent time in so...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, Prairie Public, KWIT, KFOI Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 7
Sammy Roth on Desert Water Tussles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
As more and more of the western United States suffers from warmer temperatures and in some places desertification, water has become perhaps the mos...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
2018-07-29 We’re Doomed – Now What?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Dr. Matthew Fox
Can changing our consciousness hold off the climate apocalypse? When we think about the enormity of climate change and what it’s doing to our plane...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WGCU, KWIT, KFOI Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
Rafael Mandelman: Inner City Blues
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rafael Mandelman
Futurists, environmentalists and planners alike generally believe that humans living in more densely populated areas has benefits for the earth – c...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Pains of Recovery (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-It’s been more than six months since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. Residents are still feeling stressed by the storm and its aftermath. ...

Bought by WJCT, KMUN, WVAS, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP and more


  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
Indivisible: Sam Ball and Joan Blades on the American Creed
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Sam Ball
Can’t we all just get along? That’s the hope of Sam Ball, the director of the new documentary film, American Creed, which tells a story of the Amer...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
In the Department of Poetic Justice: You Don't Know This But Your Civil Rights Are Violated
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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From The Great American Wrongbook and In Today's Department of Poetic Justice, a poetic tribute to the question: what's wrong with violating the ci...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2018
  • Length: 04:43
Sunbeam Us Up: Solarizing Your Roof and the Electricity Grid
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
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Senior energy analysts Laura Wisland and John Rogers from the Union of Concerned Scientists discuss all things solar, from getting solar on your ro...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2017
  • Length: 31:24
Killing The Red Pines in Charlotte: The Private Time Line of Environmental Contamination
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Red Pines on the cemetary edge in a Ted Cruz-kind-of-Christian town, Credit: Susan Cook/ Google Earth
I’ve been asking for about 9 years now why Red Pines that have thrived for hundreds of years would die. Not that I knew 9 years ago they would die....

  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
The Two and 1/2 Minute Conspiracy Theory: The Best Conspiracies Are Those In Which Co-conspirators Didn't Sign Up, Weren't Asked, Don't Know They're Part of It
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The highest production of greenhouse gases in the US comes from the West Jefferson, Alabama Miller Electric Plant. The parent company- The Southern...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:55
Interview: Admiral Lee Gunn
From: Generation Anthropocene
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How is climate change going to affect national security and the work of our armed forces? On today’s show, Admiral Lee Gunn shares his perspective ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 25:12
2017-06-25 Water Whiplash
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Barton "Buzz" Thompson, Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Credit: Ed Ritger
Over the past few years, many parts of the country have experienced wetter wets and drier drys. California has seen five years of severe drought – ...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KWIT, KHSU, RadioFreePalmer, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
2017-06-11 Inheriting Climate Change: What Will Boomers Leave Behind?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Bruce Gibney, Author, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed
Do the baby boomers owe millennials a clean planet? Or is it every generation for itself? Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving their younger...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, KZYX, KWMR, and NPR Now


  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
2017-05-28 Texas Surprise
From: Climate One
Caption: Stephanie Smith. COO, Greencastle LLC
When Californians think of Texas, images of JR Ewing and pump jacks quickly come to mind. But the Lone Star State is greener than you think – it le...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
2017-04-23 Jane Goodall in Conversation with Jeff Horowitz and Greg Dalton
From: Climate One
Caption: Dr. Jane Goodall
For much of her nearly six-decade-long career, Dr. Jane Goodall has worked to raise awareness about the importance of protecting our planet. The Ja...

Bought by MPR News Stations


  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer100: Stories in Science (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: :30
Pulitzer100: Stories in Science (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 11
Pulitzer100: Stories in Science (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on how a small town fought against pollution and the polluters. -Marc Edwards who helped uncover the water...

Bought by WJCT, WLPR , KRZA, KMUN, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 10
Life in a Goiter Belt (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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One young woman in southwest Virginia has become a super-sleuth. With a head full of questions and a heart full of concern, one college student tea...

Bought by KENW, WOUB, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 4
2017-04-09 Cigarettes and Tailpipes
From: Climate One
Caption: Lowell Bergman, Investigative Journalist
How closely does the story of climate denial mirror the story of tobacco denial? For decades, cigarette makers downplayed the dangers of smoking wi...

Bought by KZYX, KCMJ Community Radio, and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3