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2019-10-25 Cities for the Future
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Cities around the world are bracing for a growth spurt. With over half of the global population living in urban centers, and another 2.5 billion ex...

Bought by WCNY, WJCT, Nevada Public Radio, KWGS, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
2019-10-18 Law and Disorder: Climate Change in the Courts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The jury is out on whether our legal system is equipped to deal with climate change. While some parts of the country are inundated by floods, other...

Bought by WJCT, WDSE, WMUU-LP, KBBI Alaska, WFHB and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 6
190920: A Tale of Two Cities: Miami and Detroit, 9/20/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Climate change is upending Miami’s real estate markets, turning one of its poorest neighborhoods into some of the most desirable real estate around...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
2019-05-03 How Climate Broke California’s Biggest Utility
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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PG&E has had a bad few years. A series of record-breaking wildfires culminating with 2018’s devastating Camp Fire propelled the California utility ...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMUU-LP, KFCF FM, WLPR and more


  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 8
190419: Fighting Fossil Fuels All the Way to Prison, 4/19/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How far would you go to make your voice heard on climate change? College student Tim DeChristopher disrupted an auction for oil and gas leases - an...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KZYX, XRAY.fm, and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
2018-11-11 Saudi America
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Production of oil and gas in the U.S. has surged to levels unthinkable a decade ago due to the revolution in hydraulic fracturing, which has helped...

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


  • Added: Nov 08, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
2018-04-08 Exposed: Dieselgate's Impact on the Auto Industry
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Volkswagen’s brazen cheating on air pollution rules rocked an industry with a history of skulduggery. The scandal has now cost the company $30 bill...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
2018-01-07 Net Zero Living
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Conservation begins at home – literally. Designing and operating a home that generates as much power as it uses is rapidly becoming a reality. Mean...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, WLPR , and NPR Now


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
2017-10-15 Elizabeth Kolbert and David Roberts: Covering Catastrophe
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Communicating about climate change and convincing the public that something needs to be done about it is a complicated proposition, one that report...

Bought by KWIT, KCPW Salt Lake City, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 5
2017-10-01 Happening with James Redford
From: Climate One
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Fossil fuels are in favor again in Washington. New opportunities are opening to mine coal and drill for oil despite the fact that the costs for fos...

Bought by NPR Now


  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
2017-09-10 Yvon Chouinard: Founding Patagonia and Living Simply
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Yvon Chouinard is a legendary climber, surfer and environmentalist. He is also the reluctant entrepreneur who founded Patagonia, Inc., one of the m...

Bought by KQUA, KBBI Alaska, WRGY, KGNU Community Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
2017-09-03 Aligning Profits with the Planet
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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“How do you move from a place of simply trying to stop bad things and asking instead how would you make products and services in a sustainable mann...

Bought by KWIT and NPR Now


  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Douglass Simms and NRDC: Green Economy Advocay
From: Arch Street Press
Series: Innovate Podcast
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Douglass Sims is the Director of Strategy and Finance for the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Center for Market Innovation. He joined the NRDC ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 23:51
2017-07-16 Trumping the Climate: Coming in Hot
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Amy Myers Jaffe, Executive Director, Energy and Sustainability, UC Davis Graduate School of Management
On June 1, 2017, President Trump announced that he'll start to withdraw the country from the Paris Climate Agreement reached by 195 countries, clai...

Bought by WGCU, KWIT, KHSU, KWMR, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
2017-06-04 How Cities Can Solve the Climate Challenge
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Diane Doucette and Carl Pope
Cities around the country are reshaping their economies for a greener future. Mayors and chambers of commerce are promoting smart growth and moving...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, KWIT, KZYX, KUNM and more


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
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
Climate Insurance in a Changing World
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Dauphin Island, Alabama, Credit: David Helvarg, Blue Frontier Campaign/Marine Photobank
Insurance touches every aspect of our lives, protecting us from financial loss. As climate change is continually felt everywhere on the planet, how...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 05:01
2017-03-05 Killing the Colorado
From: Climate One
Caption: Fran Spivy-Weber, Vice Chair, CA State Water Resources Control Board
The story of the American West is deeply rooted in the Colorado River, which delivers fresh water to seven thirsty states before crossing the borde...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
Update: The state of renewable energy in Minnesota
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis spoke May 3 with Erin Stojan Ruccolo of Fresh Energy, and Amanda Bilek of the Great Plains Institute, about the outlook for renew...

  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 19:37
Recycling Reinvented with Nestle Waters' VP of Sustainability Michael Washburn
From: Green Connections Radio
Series: Green Connections Radio
Caption: Michael Washburn, Vice President of Sustainability for Nestle Waters
What is "Recycling Reinvented"? Nestle Waters' VP of Sustainability Michael Washburn explains this innovative, ambitious, cross-industry initiative...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 26:04
Beat 'em with a carrot!
From: Good Dirt Radio
Series: Good dirt...for a change
Caption: Go carrot power!, Credit: http://gogreenplus.org
Join us to find out how consumer power, focused as a Carrotmob, is catching on.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
Peninsula Business “Props” for Wild Olympics Bill
From: Washington News Service
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OLYMPIA, Wash. - Scores of Peninsula business owners are joining local farmers, clergy and elected officials in applauding a measure introduced Thu...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
Study: Per-Capita Cash Connection to Conservation in MT
From: Big Sky Connection (Montana)
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LIVINGSTON, Mont. - Adjacent public lands, and how they're managed, provide insight into the economic health and well-being of rural counties in Mo...

  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
Bread and Roses: Time Poverty, Super-Wealth and the Politics of Happiness
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 11
Caption: Annie Leonard
At the same time the Great Recession has inflicted enormous pain and suffering, it has also caused people to take a deeper look at what’s really im...

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM


  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Impact of Dependence on Oil
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Green Ethics
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Oil is cost-efficient as a primary energy source -- in the short term. Long-term, however, oil poses economic risks and damages the environment. Sh...

Bought by WRFA-LP, WMNF, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3