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191220: Blackout, 12/20/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The 2018 Camp Fire was one of the most destructive in California’s history, resulting in over eighty deaths and destroying the town of Paradise. Dr...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:55
190802: Drawdown: Do We Have What It Takes to Solve Climate Change?, 8/2/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Today’s solutions for addressing climate change are doable, but daunting: decrease global meat consumption, improve family planning, shut down coal...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
2019-07-19 The Fate of Food
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How do we go about feeding a planet that’s hotter, drier, and more crowded than ever? From a remote-controlled organic farm in Shanghai to famine-s...

Bought by WCNY, WJCT, KQED, KUOW, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
190719: The Fate of Food, 7/19/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How do we go about feeding a planet that’s hotter, drier, and more crowded than ever? From a remote-controlled organic farm in Shanghai to famine-s...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
190215: Can California Go Carbon Neutral?, 2/15/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Just ten years ago, an entire state running on 100% renewable electricity seemed fanciful. But this dreamy vision became reality when, with the bac...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
2019-02-15 Can California Go Carbon Neutral?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Just ten years ago, an entire state running on 100% renewable electricity seemed fanciful. But this dreamy vision became reality when, with the bac...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KVMR, and NPR Now


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
2018-12-30 Going Carbon Negative
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The math is clear: lowering greenhouse gas emissions is not enough to keep the earth below 1.5 degrees Celsius of post-industrial warming. The late...

Bought by WJCT, KBBI Alaska, KVMR, Gallatin Valley Community Radio, WKAR and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11
2018-12-09 Fire and Water: A Year of Climate Conversations
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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From fires and floods to hurricanes and hot temperatures, 2018 put climate on the front page in ways it hadn’t been before. Yet amidst the disrupti...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WXXI Rochester, WKAR, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
2018-11-18 Are Human Lives Improving?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In their 1968 book The Population Bomb, Paul and Anne Ehrlich warned of the dangers of overpopulation. These included mass starvation, societal uph...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KBBI Alaska, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Electric Vehicles in Winona, MN: Episode 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique we conclude our coverage of electric vehicles in Winona, MN. Willard Huyck goes to Bluff Country Coop to learn ab...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2018
  • Length: 10:58
2018-03-18 Is Silicon Valley as Green as It Claims?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: L-R: Patrick Flynn, Aron Cramer, Lynelle Cameron
Tech companies are cleaning up their data centers and building shiny new buildings that sip water and energy. But are they really as green as they ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3
Arthur Firstenberg - The Invisible Rainbow
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents Arthur Firstenberg, author of The Invisible Rainbow - A History of Electricity and Life. Mr. Firstenberg is the found...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
2017-06-25 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
2017-06-11 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
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
2015-10-18 Competition for Power
From: Climate One
Caption: Geof Syphers, Sonoma Clean Power; Dawn Weisz, Marin Clean Energy; host Greg Dallton
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, checks in on all things celestial
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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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
Sandra Steingraber: Hydraulic Fracturing
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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Correspondent Lisa-Marie Napoli speaks with biologist and environmental writer Sandra Steingraber about the dangers hydraulic fracturing poses to h...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 08:03
Carol Seaman: Green Burial
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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Correspondent Lucille Bertuccio speaks with Carol Seaman, co-founder and volunteer with the Bloomington Funeral Consumer's Alliance, who discusses ...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 08:04
Remain Sustainable
From: Civic Commons
Caption: The CivicCommons.com
Taking care of trash--should we incinerate or not?

  • Added: Apr 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:41
Green Chemistry: Better Living Through Nature
From: A World of Possibilities
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The chemicals we manufacture for modern needs are complex synthetic compounds. Most are untested and some are toxic to nature and the human body. B...

Bought by 'The Sea', KZYX, WZEN.org, KWMR, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 8
Edward Glaeser on the Triumph of the City
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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"We live in an age in which it is effortless to telecommunicate across the globe, in which we could all just dial in from some sylvan suburb," says...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 1
What the Oil Spill Means for American Energy Policy
From: Next American City
Series: Metro Matters Podcast
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Next American City's Editor-in-Chief Diana Lind talks with Mark Muro of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program about the catastrop...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 16:21
Walk More
From: Smart City Radio
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This week on Smart City we'll talk with the creator of one of my favorite sites, WalkScore.com, and we'll find out what Chicago's former Sustanabil...

Bought by WFSU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Spokane Public Radio, WBEZ, and WLRN


  • Added: Oct 21, 2009
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 5