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Why are we breaking records for the hottest day on record?
From: Possibly
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When people talk about climate change, it’s often described as something that might happen in the future. But, we’ve been breaking records for the ...

Bought by Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 3
03-13: Disruptive Design: What Good Looks Like, 6/28/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Cheryl Dahle
Aligning business with biology, disruptive design uses systems thinking to create models that show what “good” really looks like. Two winners of th...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
What's a passive house?
From: Possibly
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Recently, Rhode Island certified its first multi-family “Passive House.” What does that mean? And will we all live in one someday?

Bought by Raven Radio, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 5
13-11: Molecular Psychology: Good Chemistry with Nature’s Green Chemistry, 3/15/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Amy Cannon
Did you ever ask yourself who in their right mind would invent a convenience to keep food fresh that would one day litter the landscape, wash up on...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
12-16: Growing Collective Intelligence: Democratizing Technology and Citizen Science, 1/19/2022
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Ben Knight
A new wave of technologies designed to regenerate people, planet and democracy is emerging in ingenious ways. Designers are creating online softwar...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
05-12: Millions of Elders: Biomimicry and How Nature Would Do It, 11/24/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Dayna Baumeister
Biomimicry is decoding astonishing treasures from nature’s recipe book that we can mimic for our technological and industrial practices. Biomimicry...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
04-17: Power Struggle: The Unstoppable Rise of the Clean Energy Era, 3/31/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
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Today in the fossil fuel-induced age of escalating climate disruption, the joker in the deck is the climate imperative to transition rapidly off fo...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Spectrum 02/05/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Do I scare you? - "Careful, he's Chinese." It was a throwaway comment whispered in a German pedestrian zone. But it jo...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 11/12/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: You be careful out there - Indoor plants aren’t as good for you as you might think, why 12 million seahorses died (and ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 11/01/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Adaptation & Change - How do we inspire the fundamental changes that are needed to safeguard our planet? On this program...

Bought by WRGY, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
Spectrum 07/09/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Send in the bots! - Right now, hundreds of power plants around the world are splitting atoms. But when a reactor malfunc...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jonathan Ballesteros — Water wizard
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness
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In todays episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness host Alan Wartes spoke with founder and CEO of Geyser Technologies, Jonathan Ballesteros.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 05/07/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Kaboom - Like destroying things? We all do. So much so that scientists in even Europe are planning a 100-kilometer meg...

  • Added: May 08, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Living Planet 01/11/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Humans have an interesting relationship with meat. Some love it, some object to it and some simply want other options fro...

Bought by KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Jan 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:58
  • Purchases: 3
Hearts in the Ice
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Citizen Scientists Hilde Fålun Strøm and Sunniva Sorby , Credit: Hearts in the Ice
This week on World Ocean Radio we introduce listeners to two women who are planning to embark on an unsupported exploration in the Arctic: 270 days...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2018
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 08/14/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Spectrum: Robot for chronically ill children - On this week's show: can a robot really stop loneliness for sick kids? We talk to a researcher ...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
World in Progress 05/03/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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World in Progress: A lab for the future – Smart Cities in Finland - The "Smart cities" of the future will be digital and connected, using smar...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Food Sleuth Radio, Jeanne Rizzo Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that most breast cancer is the result of exposures to environmental toxins in combination with genetic susceptibility, and stage of li...

Bought by KFOI Radio and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio, Paul D. Thacker Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that the biotech industry works to discredit and silence scientists who question the health and safety of genetically engineered crops...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Carey Gillam Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that glyphosate is the most commonly used herbicide globally, and decades of scientific research link it to a range of diseases, inclu...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Abby Youngblood Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that consumer demand for organic food continues to grow, despite the struggle of U.S. farmers to keep up with demand? Do you understan...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio, Will Allen, Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Do you know the real cost of cheap food? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Will Alle...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Percy Schmeiser Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that Canadian canola farmer, Percy Schmeiser, was sued by Monsanto when his farm was contaminated with Monsanto’s GMO canola seed? Joi...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
07-11: Globalocal: The Migration of Grassroots Solutions, 5/18/2016
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Mallika Dutt
Innovations usually arise locally. If conditions are right, they spread globally. That story is playing out around the world today. In India, human...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
12-10: From Bows and Arrows to Laptops: Marrying Traditional Knowledge with Web Technology to Save the Amazon , 12/23/2015
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui
Forty years ago when a logging road was blasted deep into the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the outside world discovered the Surui people. Contact...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:30