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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
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, written during a blizzard raging off the Maine coast, host Peter Neill reflects on the vulnerability of the o...
- Added: Mar 20, 2017
- Length: 05:21
In 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger launched California's attack on climate change by signing a pioneering law to reduce carbon poll...
Bought by WCPN, WCQS, and KCPW Salt Lake City
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
It's hard to let go of owning a car. What passes through those pipelines we hear so much about?
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 14:05
- Added: Oct 19, 2015
- Length: 29:58
A growing number of Californians are opting for clean electricity to run their TVs and toasters. But how much do we know about where our power rea...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Bob King ("Astrobob" blogger for Duluth News Tribune) is a favorite WTIP guest because he always shares such interesting, cool stuff about the star...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 38:40
- Purchases: 1
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 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
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
While countries like Japan, Italy and Germany begin to phase out their use of nuclear energy, the US aims to build the first new nuclear power plan...
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 29:00
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss a system which does on occasion fail us, if we don't fail it first; and he'll a...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 05:37
Half the world now lives in cities, and they are growing. Are megacities an opportunity or a threat?
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Sep 28, 2010
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, the Gulf was (and is) still in a shambles in many places. The culprits of the man-made disaster? Ridiculed but l...
- Added: Jun 09, 2009
- Length: 06:58
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
In 2005, Washington became the first state in the nation to require that all new publicly-funded schools, colleges, offices, and even prisons meet ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Sep 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
In the summer, an air conditioner can be a necessity. However, cooling down a house can be expensive, but there are ways to reduce the cost.
- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
We may be able to get drinking water from treated sewage -- and water shortages could eventually force us to rely on this option.
Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Next time you travel, forget renting that gas-guzzler. A few rental car companies are offering hybrids and cars that run on biodiesel.
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Today, hundreds of millions of people carry pocket-sized cell phones. There are more than 213 million in use in the United States, and each year, a...
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:29
- Added: Dec 29, 2005
- Length: 18:16
- Purchases: 1
Introduction to the six-part series exploring straight vegetable oil (VegOil) as a fuel
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 30, 2005
- Length: 05:21
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 07, 2005
- Length: 04:27
- Purchases: 1
Oil is heading out and wind is blowing in. So jump in the truck for a ride to the plains where wind is the new power.
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY
- Added: Oct 28, 2004
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 1
