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Anyone who is on social media knows how often you can be inundated with picayune details of your friends’ daily lives. But what if all that over-sh...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 1
In Part 2 of a multi-part series on the final report released by the Global Ocean Commission, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill explains the first...
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 05:36
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will highlight some of the major announcements made during the Our Ocean 2014 Conference hos...
- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: 05:56
If you own an electric vehicle and you have solar panels on your house, you can drive around powered entirely by renewable energy. But what can EV ...
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 29:50
When David Gottfried come up an idea for green environmental building 20-years ago, he ran into a number of hurdles. The building industry had been...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will discuss how pervasive plastics have become by describing microbeads, particulates found ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2014
- Length: 05:12
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill describes what a transformed Arctic might look like, and suggests that we should be encourag...
- Added: Jun 16, 2014
- Length: 05:27
What do we see in a single drop of ocean water? A recent image captured by David Liittschwager for National Geographic reveals an impressive abunda...
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 04:14
In May 1975, Popular Mechanics published an article called “Cities In The Sky”, about plans for space colonies by 1995. Flash forward forty years a...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
We're getting closer and closer to making fusion power a reality - limitless energy created by fusing hydrogen into helium, the same process that p...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Solar-Roadways-4How often do you hear of an idea so big, so revolutionary, that you immediately start to dream of the possibilities? This week on S...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KVSC
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Researchers have presented a paper on the concept of floating nuclear power stations, the results of which are outlined in a recent article in The ...
- Added: May 27, 2014
- Length: 05:22
When was the last time you were really in the wilderness? Or, maybe you’re like the millions of Americans who’ve never even been in the wild before...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
The Ocean Exchange, founded in 2010 and based in the United States, offers a platform for identifying, accelerating and promoting the solutions and...
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 05:23
By the middle of the 20th century electromagnets were common and engineers had begun experimenting with using them to levitate vehicles, including...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Today on Sea Change Radio we talk with two people working on very different fronts of the environmental movement. Our first guest is Dale Wannen, w...
Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
We may be at the edge of our climate moment. Public opinion appears to be turning toward a fuller understanding of the impacts of climate change an...
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 10:44
The Western United States has entered a very difficult drought season. Nevada’s water supply is in danger. Realistically California is not any bett...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
No place on Earth is immune from strategic oil. Technological advances have aided us in our objectives toward growth at all cost, and our capacity ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 05:31
Noise pollution is a growing problem. Effecting everything from the lives of people living under airplane flight paths, to marine life. On this edi...
- Added: Mar 30, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Of all the types of waste in the marine ecosystem, plastic is perhaps the best known: it shows up on beaches, in the stomachs of shore birds, fish ...
- Added: Mar 24, 2014
- Length: 05:27
Imagine how you’d feel if instead of paying you the usual $5,000 a month, your employer suddenly whittled your paycheck down to $500 a month – in o...
- Added: Mar 19, 2014
- Length: 29:50
On this episode, Tom Ruginis tells us about his company, HappiLabs.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WRNC-LP
- Added: Mar 11, 2014
- Length: 13:57
- Purchases: 2
