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2024-05-10 Big Plastic: The New Big Oil
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that the...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 9
240510: Big Plastic: The New Big Oil, 5/10/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that the...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
Secrets of Soil
From: Jim Metzner
Series: Pulse of the Planet
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Not only does soil support virtually every tree, plant and crop on earth, it can control toxic waste and help mitigate climate change.

  • Added: May 01, 2024
  • Length: 12:58
240419: Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts , 4/19/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
2024-04-19 Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Drinking Plastic with Mike Belliveau
From: Doug Wood
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Every plastic bottle is filled with hundreds of thousands of tiny pieces of plastic. Here's what you need to know.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 28:25
2023-03-10 Stop, Listen, What’s that Sound?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Every place we inhabit has its own tapestry of sound, whether you’re hiking through the woods or sitting in a cafe with a friend. And not only are ...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
20230310: Stop, Listen, What’s that Sound? , 3/10/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Every place we inhabit has its own tapestry of sound, whether you’re hiking through the woods or sitting in a cafe with a friend. And not only are ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
2022-09-09 No Going Back: EVs and Clean Tech Tipping Points with Albert Cheung
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In the tech world, there’s a common belief that once a new device hits 5% market penetration, it rapidly goes from a niche to mass adoption. Accord...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WGCU, WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGUA and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
20220909: No Going Back: EVs and Clean Tech Tipping Points with Albert Cheung, 9/9/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In the tech world, there’s a common belief that once a new device hits 5% market penetration, it rapidly goes from a niche to mass adoption. Accord...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
2022-07-22 Turning Down the Heat: Decarbonizing Cement and Steel
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Along with aviation, the construction industry is one of the hardest to decarbonize sectors in the global economy. Cement and steel production toge...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Maine Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
20220722: Turning Down the Heat: Decarbonizing Cement and Steel, 7/22/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Along with aviation, the construction industry is one of the hardest to decarbonize sectors in the global economy. Cement and steel production toge...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
624-In Coming
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a movi...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
The poison PFAS which is in most of us and wildlife!
From: Debra Grobman
Series: Green Under Pressure
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The stuff in Scotchguard and Teflon coatings is poisoning water supplies and never goes away It's even been found in animals on the North Pole! Wit...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 05:27
Limits to Growth: Dennis Meadows #116 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“Our computer-generated scenarios all showed this growth stopping in the early decades of the 21st century, and, I must say, looking back now, it s...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Cornucopian Myth: William Catton #107 (Encore)
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 KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KTRL


  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
What's So Smart About Growth? Al Bartlett #102 (Encore)
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 Indie3 Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Aug 01, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
349-Big and Fast
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
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
Our Ocean Conference 2016, Report
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In September the World Ocean Observatory was invited to attend the Our Ocean Conference hosted by the U.S. State Department in Washington D.C. Duri...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:30
Teaching Forward Toward a Sustainable Future
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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"Are we training our best new minds in the worst ways?" In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill asks this question and more of...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 05:10
The Economics of Climate Change V. The Cost of Business-As-Usual with Dr. Mark Jacobson
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Mark Jacobson
Dr. Mark Jacobson, distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, is on-air with us to explain the economic...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:24
  • Purchases: 1
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
Rewriting Our Cultural Narrative: William Rees #105
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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How big is your ecological footprint? Probably bigger than you think. After all, out of sight, out of mind. As an originator of ecological footprin...

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


  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 7
Air
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Clean air is as valuable as clean water: both are essential requirements for human health and survival. Statistics and data on emissions from burni...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 05:10