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Environmental engineer Granger Morgan explains how to use aerosols to control climate change, why it’s a “Faustian bargain,” all building to the te...
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 22:16
Curator for the Museum of PostNatural History in Pittsburgh, Richard Pell describes a new way for us to view how humans control the evolutionary pa...
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 19:03
Dr. Julia Brody, executive director of Silent Spring Institute, is a leader in research on breast cancer and the environment and in community-based...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Mar 28, 2013
- Length: 28:45
- Purchases: 1
In this interview on food security and the environment, Dave Lobell explains the global food system, the monkey-wrench of climate change, and the p...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 33:25
Geophysicist and shale gas expert Mark Zoback speaks to the science of hydro-fracking to free shale gas. He addresses many misconceptions he feels ...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 1
Biologist Peter Vitousek discusses the serious impacts humankind has had on the nitrogen cycle and how that relates to our food system. He expands ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 26:12
Brent Sockness discusses his work studying Western religious thought, the religious overtones within the environmental movement, and the often over...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 34:05
Paleobiologist and geologist Jon Payne discusses Earth’s previous mass extinctions including his work on the largest extinction in Earth’s history,...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 29:14
Human ecologist Bill Durham discusses his career trajectory including his work in the Galapagos Islands, issues surrounding the new field of eco-to...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 39:54
Environmental historian Jon Christensen discusses the mythos of the American frontier and some of his unique approaches to history. Christensen als...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 40:29
In our pilot episode, we combine voices from our entire first season to explore the boundaries of the Anthropocene. [Episode 1, Season 1]
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 46:10
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch examines the Anthropocene with thought experiments of bacteria throughout the solar system, using scientific pri...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 24:01
What are the risks of introducing genetically engineered fish into our food supply? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda H...
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2013
- Length: 10:11
- Purchases: 1
Making responsible choices as a seafood consumer has never been more complicated. An average fish-eater might be aware that tuna is high in mercury...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Former US Vice President Al Gore is perhaps the best known poster boy for climate change. Both a winner of a Nobel prize along with an Oscar, he ta...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 09:43
- Purchases: 1
One of the most alluring answers to the climate change conundrum is a transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a hydrogen-based economy. As h...
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 30:00
University of Kansas psychology professors Ruth Ann & Paul Atchley recently completed a study showing that four days out in the wild, without cell ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2013
- Length: 15:04
Each year, 10 billion pounds of BPA (Bisphenol A) are produced and put into consumer products, ranging from food and soda cans to cash register rec...
- Added: Feb 11, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Not many laboratories house mice in 3000 pounds of sand, but then not many labs research the burrowing habits of Peromyscus, either. Dr. Hopi Hoek...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KMXT, and KPVL
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 30:27
- Purchases: 3
The Living Well Show presents:
A two part interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott, MD, former professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and bes...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Jan 27, 2013
- Length: 28:37
- Purchases: 1
The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott, MD, former professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and best-...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Jan 27, 2013
- Length: 28:43
- Purchases: 1
Features a discussion with The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert about the impact of climate change on enviromental health, human health, and human ri...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 20:35
Here’s a little exercise: take a pen and a blank piece of paper and write down everything you know about nano-technology. If you do this, you may f...
- Added: Jan 23, 2013
- Length: 29:50
Michael Hansen, senior scientist at Consumers Union, will discuss Consumer Union’s latest report on antibiotic resistant bacteria found in supermar...
- Added: Jan 20, 2013
- Length: 28:00
