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20220805: REWIND: Climbing, Conservation and Capitalism, 8/5/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Rick Ridgeway estimates he’s spent about five years of his life sleeping in tents, often in the world’s most remote places alongside fellow outdoor...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
Scaling Up: Local Solutions to End Global Homelessness
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this week’s episode, we take on the global housing crisis. Ray dives deep into grassroots housing solutions across Southeast Asia, and later, is...

Bought by Classic107.3, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jul 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Greening a Rural Charging Desert: The Intertribal Electric Highway
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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A new EV charging network fills a big gap in the nation's charging map and brings electric vehicles, jobs, and healing to reservations.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WFHB


  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
2022-05-06 Big Money: Investment Managers Driving Corporate Action
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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More than half of Americans are invested in the stock market, either directly or through their retirement funds, but individual investors rarely th...

Bought by WGCU, WMUU-LP, WLPR , KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
220506: Big Money: Investment Managers Driving Corporate Action , 5/6/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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More than half of Americans are invested in the stock market, either directly or through their retirement funds, but individual investors rarely th...

  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
2022-04-01 Solar Flare-ups
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Earlier this year, California regulators were set to propose significant changes to the incentives that drive rooftop solar installations. After wi...

Bought by KUHF, KOWS, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
220401: Solar Flare-ups, 4/1/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Earlier this year, California regulators were set to propose significant changes to the incentives that drive rooftop solar installations. After wi...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
2022-03-04 Peat, Kelp and Trees: Nature-Based Carbon Capture
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Humans must dramatically rein in greenhouse gas emissions in order to slow the planetary warming caused by centuries of fossil fuel combustion. But...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 9
220304: Peat, Kelp and Trees: Nature-Based Carbon Capture, 3/4/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Humans must dramatically rein in greenhouse gas emissions in order to slow the planetary warming caused by centuries of fossil fuel combustion. But...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
2021-12-17 This Year in Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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A recent poll shows that in 2021, for the first time, a majority of Americans personally felt the effects of climate change. But has that growing a...

Bought by WSHU, New Hampshire Public Radio, Nevada Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KALW and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
211217: This Year in Climate, 12/17/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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A recent poll shows that in 2021, for the first time, a majority of Americans personally felt the effects of climate change. But has that growing a...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
2021-12-03 What the Infrastructure Deal Means for Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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President Biden recently signed the biggest piece of climate legislation in U.S. history into law. To be sure, the Infrastructure Investment and Jo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGUA, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
211203: What the Infrastructure Deal Means for Climate, 12/3/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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President Biden recently signed the biggest piece of climate legislation in U.S. history into law. To be sure, the Infrastructure Investment and Jo...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
2021-11-19 Taking Stock of COP26
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In 2015, delegates from 196 nations entered into the legally binding treaty on climate change known as the Paris Agreement, which set a goal of lim...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WGCU, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
211119: Taking Stock of COP26 , 11/19/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In 2015, delegates from 196 nations entered into the legally binding treaty on climate change known as the Paris Agreement, which set a goal of lim...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
2021-10-29 Electrify Everything
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Fully electrifying our homes, cars and industries could cut the amount of total energy we need by half, says Saul Griffith, an entrepreneur, invent...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WLPR , WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 14
211029: Electrify Everything, 10/29/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Fully electrifying our homes, cars and industries could cut the amount of total energy we need by half, says Saul Griffith, an entrepreneur, invent...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
Solving America's Traffic Cop Problem
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brett Simpson
Two summers ago, calls to defund the police swept across the nation, spurred by high-profile incidents of police brutality against people of color....

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kiss Your Gas Goodbye
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Induction cooktop demonstration at Sonoma Clean Power's Advanced Energy Center
To reach zero carbon in 2050, we must electrify 5 million buildings each year. How are we going to do that and what does it mean for your home?

Bought by WFHB, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
2021-09-03 The Fight Over Pipelines
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Hundreds of people have been arrested in Minnesota in ongoing protests against Line 3, a pipeline that will move Canadian tar sands oil, and which ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
2021-07-23 How a Manufactured Car Culture Blocks Transit
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The United States is famous for its car culture. But a hundred years ago, pedestrians didn’t want cars to take over the streets — and it took decad...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
210723: 2021-07-23 How a Manufactured Car Culture Blocks Transit , 7/23/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The United States is famous for its car culture. But a hundred years ago, pedestrians didn’t want cars to take over the streets — and it took decad...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
2021-06-25 Extreme Heat: The Silent Killer
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Extreme heat causes more deaths than any other weather-related hazard in the U.S., wreaking quiet havoc on the health and economic well-being of bi...

Bought by WGCU, Boise State Public Radio, Colorado Public Radio, KUHF, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
210625: Extreme Heat: The Silent Killer, 6/25/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Extreme heat causes more deaths than any other weather-related hazard in the U.S., wreaking quiet havoc on the health and economic well-being of bi...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
2021-05-28 Should Nature Have Rights?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, WGCU, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15