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2018-05-06 Selling the Science of Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: David Fenton, Founder and Chairman, Fenton Communications
The scientific consensus is that human activity is cooking the planet and disrupting our economies. Yet many people still don’t believe that climat...

Bought by WJCT, KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
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
Financing Land Without Water
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Most of us have lived our lives knowing that if we want a glass of water, we simply turn on the tap and out comes that delicious liquid. But in tod...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 06:58
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
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
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
2016-12-26 2016: From Paris to Trump
From: Climate One
Caption: David R. Baker, Energy Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle
As we look back at 2016, the biggest news story of the year is arguably the presidential election, from the candidates’ “faux pas of the week” to t...

Bought by Capital Public Radio


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Can Oakland successfully curb illegal dumping?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A mountain of mattresses in West Oakland, Credit: Todd Whitney
For over a decade, Oakland has attempted to abate the illegal dumping of mattresses, electronics, furniture, and other large items onto city street...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:20
The Company Behind the Gulf Oil Spill
From: Mimi Geerges
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A discussion on the oil company BP and how their risk taking and corporate culture contributed to the disaster on April 20, 2010.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
Katherine Loflin, the "City Doctor," on what attaches people to a place, and why it matters
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Dr. Katherine Loflin joined WTIP's Ann Possis recently to talk about her work in "placemaking". She advises elected officials, planners, businesspe...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:11
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
Report: Seven Sectors Driving CA's "Clean" Economy
From: California News Service
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When the state begins auctioning off cap-and-trade revenues next year, a new report suggests those dollars be put into California's clean-energy ec...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:29
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