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2017-08-27 Jane Mayer: Behind Dark Money
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Who are the people bankrolling our political system? New Yorker writer Jane Mayer takes us behind the scenes and exposes the powerful group of indi...

Bought by KWIT, WLPR , KMUD, KZUM, and NPR Now


  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
2017-08-20 Tesla: Impossible... Until It's Not
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk
Tesla is the most valuable car company in the US, recently surpassing even the auto giant, General Motors. But this high valuation is not due to th...

Bought by KWIT, WAMU, and NPR Now


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
2017-08-13 A Conversation with Jane Goodall
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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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 KQUA, KUHF, KWIT, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCQS and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Who Governs the High Seas?
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Since the creation and ratification of the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), many international experts have debated how be...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:33
2017-07-23 Chain Reaction: Why Two Wheels Are Better Than Four
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Climate Ride co-founder Caeli Quinn and Climate One host Greg Dalton, Credit: Kip Pierson
One of the simplest things that individuals can do to fight climate disruption is as easy as riding a bike. Urban planners and people working on cl...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KWIT, KHSU and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
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
Interview: Christian Parenti
From: Generation Anthropocene
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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
2017-07-02 Youth in the Streets and in the Courts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Corina McWilliams, Co-director, Earth Guardians 350 Club, South Eugene High School
As Buffalo Springfield sang in 1967, “There’s something happening here…” But today’s youth revolution is happening far beyond the Sunset Strip. The...

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


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Ocean Conference Revisited
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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As a follow up to a World Ocean Radio episode from mid-May, we offer an overview of the Ocean Conference in New York last week which sought to reac...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 04:46
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
2017-06-18 Banking on Change at Standing Rock
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Artist/activist L. Frank Manriquez
On June 1, oil began flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline. But demonstrations at the Standing Rock reservation in 2016 made national headline...

Bought by KWIT, KCPW Salt Lake City, KZYX, KWMR, and NPR Now


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
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
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending June 16, 2017
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Trump's Rationale for Withdrawing U.S. from Paris Climate Accord Based on ...

Bought by WMUU-LP and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
World Oceans Day 2017
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Dorset , Credit: Ryan Winterbotham @ryanwinterbotham for Unsplash
On June 8th we celebrate World Ocean Day, a day to recognize our relationship with the ocean through global connection and stewardship. In this epi...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 04:36
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
A New Strategy for Nature, Part One
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Since the U.S. election in November, the Trump Administration has taken bold action to change the policies, regulations, and environmental protecti...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:43
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
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending April 7, 2017
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: GOP's Failure to Replace Obamacare Opens Space to Debate Medicare-For-All ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2017-04-02 Youth in the Streets and in the Courts
From: Climate One
Caption: James Coleman, Fellow, Alliance for Climate Education, Credit: Ed Ritger
As Buffalo Springfield sang in 1967, “There’s something happening here…” But today’s youth revolution is happening far beyond the Sunset Strip. The...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending March 31, 2017
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Trump's Proposed Slash and Burn Budget Hurts the Vulnerable Most; Voices o...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Sorrowful Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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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
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
2017-03-19 Why Facts Don’t Trump the President
From: Climate One
Caption: George Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, Credit: Ed Ritger
An information war is raging in our country, in both mainstream news and on social media. The news media has been struggling with how to handle the...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
The Future of Oil and Nuclear Power
From: Climate One
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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