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Thriving Economy: Not Rocket Science – Kate Raworth #220

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

Human civilization can thrive while living within sensible limits imposed by a finite system. “Renegade economist” Kate Raworth manages to tell the...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL

Added: Jul 04, 2017
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 2

368-Asteroid Alert

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

NASA's Scout and Sentry software systems allow asteroid hunters to study and keep track of potentially dangerous asteroids.

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KRWG, KUPR low power FM and more

Added: Jun 22, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 9

Surviving a Hostile Climate on Local Food: Michael Brownlee #216

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

A scaled-up local food system may be the only way we can feed ourselves as we weather the storm of climate change. Until now, CSAs, urban gardens a...

Bought by KTRL

Added: Jun 06, 2017
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 1

Carbon Drawdown: Paul Hawken #215

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

100 real-world actions happening now have the potential to bring greenhouse gases back down to a level that won’t cause humans to join the ranks of...

Bought by KTRL

Added: May 30, 2017
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 1

Everything You Want to Know About Population: Bill Ryerson #213

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

Population Media Center President Bill Ryerson corrects misconceptions, debunks myths, and shares a variety of surprising facts about overpopulatio...

Bought by KTRL, KMUD, and KTRL

Added: May 16, 2017
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

353-Backwards

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A 2 mile diameter object bucks the solar system traffic by traveling in a direction backwards to all of the planets.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KKRN, WOUB and more

Added: May 04, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

Collision Course: Kerryn Higgs #211

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

How and why did our society come to value economic growth so highly that we pursue it at the risk of our long-term survival? For some time scientis...

Bought by KTRL and KTRL

Added: May 02, 2017
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 2

352-Worth Tracking

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A 400 foot diameter space rock's path could bring it to within an Earth diameter of the surface of our planet.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KKRN, KRWG and more

Added: Apr 27, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

350-Asteroid Defense

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Earth approaching asteroids are part of our environment.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KRWG, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more

Added: Apr 20, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

349-Big and Fast

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Large dangerous asteroids can still appear out of nowhere.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KRWG, KUPR low power FM and more

Added: Apr 20, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

348-16

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A snap shot of the kinds of objects which constantly streak past our Earth.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more

Added: Apr 13, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 6

347-Your Space Rock

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Holding an object older than any other rock on the ground which is billions of years old and has traveled an unimaginable distance to be with you w...

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more

Added: Apr 13, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 6

345-364 Days

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A small asteroid orbits the Sun in less than a year.

Bought by KENW, KKRN, KUPR low power FM, and WLPR

Added: Apr 07, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 4

Frans de Waal discusses animal intelligence

From: Janelle Brown

Host Bob Kustra talks with biologist Frans de Waal about his bestseller, "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?"

Bought by 'The Sea'

Added: Mar 31, 2017
Length: 30:30
Purchases: 1

344-Gnats

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Small asteroids swarm about the Earth in its orbit around the Sun like gnats around an outdoor light in the summer time.

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KKRN, and KUPR low power FM

Added: Mar 30, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 4

The Earth Optimism Summit

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

Caption: April 21 - 23, 2017, Credit: Earth Optimism Summit, Washington, D.C.

In September of 2016, World Ocean Observatory began a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal to promote the Earth Optimism S...

Added: Mar 28, 2017
Length: 04:42

342-That's Close

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A small asteroid, which could pass under a basketball hoop, missed the Earth by about 9,000 miles.

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KKRN, and KRWG

Added: Mar 23, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 5

341-Ballooning To Space

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A ride under a balloon can give you several hours to enjoy the wonders of the Earth and its curvature against the back drop of space.

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KKRN, and KRWG

Added: Mar 23, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 5

Pulling the Rug Out from Under Our Kids: Brian Czech #204

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

Economic growth is the number one public policy goal around the world, yet our pursuit of growth is “pulling out the rug from our own kids’ and gra...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KTRL, WYAP, and WGRN-LP 94.1

Added: Mar 13, 2017
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 4

333-Whoppers

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Large dangerous asteroids are out there for asteroid hunters to find.

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KENW, Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more

Added: Feb 23, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 9

329-Near Neighbor

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Asteroid hunters are able to find small space rocks before they make a close approach to planet Earth.

Bought by Radio Newark, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KMXT and more

Added: Feb 09, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 6

318-Caves of Mars

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

It is intriguing to consider that deep inside Mars all of the necessary ingredients for life may be present together.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, KKRN, KRWG and more

Added: Dec 30, 2016
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

317-Psyche Water

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Psyche is a small world about 116 miles in diameter and is composed of almost pure nickel-iron metal.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, KKRN, KRWG and more

Added: Dec 30, 2016
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

316-Weird Centaur

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Centaurs are named after the mythical beasts which were half human and half horse perhaps because they have characteristics of both asteroids and c...

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, KRWG, WLPR and more