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What We Want More Of: Hunter Lovins #111
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Our ecosystems contribute tens of trillions of dollars to our economy every year, but – as L. Hunter Lovins notes, “At present we’re losing every m...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Cornucopian Myth: William Catton #107
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“The age of growth and the age in which growth is going to be considered a good thing is coming to an end.” The late sociologist William R. Catton ...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Cruel Hoax: Stephanie Mills #106
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Stephanie Mills made headlines in the Spring of 1969 when she vowed, in her commencement address (titled The Future is a Cruel Hoax), to conceive n...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
What's So Smart About Growth? Al Bartlett #102
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Legendary physics professor Al Bartlett was quick to tell us “smart growth” and “dumb growth” both lead us to the same undesirable end; “smart grow...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 7
Wealthier Than You Think? Juliet Schor #101
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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According to Juliet Schor, many of us are giving up “the good life” in our quest for material possessions. Symbols of success, instead of enriching...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2015
  • Length: 25:56
  • Purchases: 10
High-School Students Should Study Earth Science. Here's Why.
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Into the Earth
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What students learn before college - and what they don't - has drastic consequences for our planet.

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 11:06
  • Purchases: 2
Humankind special: Radioactive
From: David Freudberg
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Ideal for broadcast around Earth Day (4/22/15), produced in association with WGBH/Boston. This documentary examines different sides of the new deba...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. David Carpenter, MD - Public Health Implications of Hydraulic Fracturing - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents: A two part interview with Dr. David Carpenter, MD author of numerous scholarly articles including Public Health Imp...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:36
The Challenge of Our Time
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re continuing our “money machine” series on the cost of carbon capitalism. Gas gets cheaper, the weather gets warmer, and for our guests the env...

Bought by KMXT, KZYX, and WRPI


  • Added: Jan 31, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 3
Mike Magner - A Trust Betrayed - Part 1
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Mike Magner, author of A Trust Betrayed: The Untold Story of Camp Lejeune and the Poisoning...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:36
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Tyrone Hayes - Rebel WITH a Cause
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents Rebel WITH a Cause - Dr. Tyrone Hayes is a Harvard trained biologist that has courageously stuck to his research find...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:35
Dr. Sandra Steingraber - Part Two - Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents: A two part interview with Dr. Sandra Steingraber, award winning author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:33
Adapting to Climate Change
From: Spectrum Radio
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Adapting to Climate Change explores the ambitious plans that engineers, scientists, government officials, business leaders, NGOs, and community gro...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KRCB 104.9, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 39
High Tide
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: High Tide book cover, Credit: jacket design by Kata Jancso
One week before super storm Sandy hit, oceanographer John Englander released his book about the short, medium and long term scenarios we can expect...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Moon in the Nautilus Shell
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Daniel Botkin
According to a recent Gallup Poll, 46 percent of Americans believe in creationism. Is this belief hurting our planet? In his new book, professor, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
193: the Architecture That Comes Next
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Sahara Forest Project's greenhouse-power plant hybrid proposal , Credit: Sahara Forest Project, 2009
In "Eaarth, Making a Life on a Tough New Planet", author Bill McKibben analyzes the damage we've done to our terrestrial and marine environment, ou...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:22
183: From Research to Responsibility
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that scientists and organizations should advocate through responsible research ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 05:34
181: From Natural System to Social System
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The Ocean, Our Future, Credit: Mario Soares, Independent World Commission on the Future of the Oceans
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that we must move beyond the narrow perception of the ocean as a natural system...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:38
165: Hydraulic New York
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: New York City's Green Infrastructure Plan and Sustainability Management
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will have us look no further than New York City and the Green Infrastructure Plan as a real ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:19
164: Mega-Cities by the Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Coastal mega-city Mumbai. Mumbai lies on the Arabian Sea on the west coast of India and is the most populous city in the country and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million. Along, Credit: http://thegreatindian.tripod.com/mumbai.htm
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss these places of development, industry, and manufacturing and will argue that we...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2012
  • Length: 06:18
157: A Self-Healing Place
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The Delray Beach ocean outfall discharges 13 million gallons per day of treated sewage up-current of a coral reef. , Credit: Steve Spring | Marine Photobank.
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the invisible impacts of our actions, will argue against the exploitation of Na...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2012
  • Length: 05:13
155: The Exhausted Land We Live In
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Smog over Chongqing, China. , Credit: (Feng Li/Getty Images)
We often think of the ocean as a place apart, but it is not so. The ocean is as threatened by exhaustion as the land around us. As population incre...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
152: Ocean Health Index
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will ask how it's possible to reduce the ocean's health to a single number, and will outline...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 05:52
Look Up People!
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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What exactly is Geo-Engineering and how does it affect you? Michael J. Murphy co-producer of What In the World Are they Spraying? answers this ques...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 28:44
Is Air Pollution Really Harming Us?
From: Dueling Docs
Series: Dueling Docs
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A new government report says be careful out there. Others disagree.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:00