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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
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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
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For those of us who love to travel, climate guilt weighs heavily. Civil aviation accounts for about 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and that...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
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For those of us who love to travel, climate guilt weighs heavily. Civil aviation accounts for about 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and that...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
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As the CEO of the California utility giant PG&E, Patti Poppe is charged with navigating the company through massive wildfires, disrupted energy mar...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
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As the CEO of the California utility giant PG&E, Patti Poppe is charged with navigating the company through massive wildfires, disrupted energy mar...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
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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
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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
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83% of people in the United States live in urban areas. And these days that’s where important climate progress is happening. Cities all over the co...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KGUA, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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83% of people in the United States live in urban areas. And these days that’s where important climate progress is happening. Cities all over the co...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Global sales of electric vehicles more than doubled in 2021. Projections for this year are for another huge gain as more automakers introduce more ...

Bought by WGCU, Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Global sales of electric vehicles more than doubled in 2021. Projections for this year are for another huge gain as more automakers introduce more ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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It has been 3 million years since we’ve had this much CO2 in the atmosphere. Even if we stop all burning of fossil fuels today, humans have already...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KWIT, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
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It has been 3 million years since we’ve had this much CO2 in the atmosphere. Even if we stop all burning of fossil fuels today, humans have already...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
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In a 20-year time frame, methane is 80 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. Nationally, 37% of methane emissions come from cows....

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
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In a 20-year time frame, methane is 80 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. Nationally, 37% of methane emissions come from cows....

  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
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Ride along with a sanitation worker who collects everything in San Francisco’s blue bins, and learn some dos and don’ts of recycling at a Recology ...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
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Since the first rail line was completed in Minnesota in 1862, the railroad has had a storied existence in the state. Fire is part of that story. KF...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: team installing water heater controllers
The refrigerator or water heater in your home can be part of the clean energy revolution.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Fracking is popping up everywhere and we look at various responses. In Newfoundland (Canada), they create art. In the UK, they (pretend to) frack t...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
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We have now created temperatures hotter than the Sun inside two buildings here on Earth. We are trying to create stars on Earth to reproduce the n...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2015
  • Length: 14:45
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Noise pollution is a growing problem. Effecting everything from the lives of people living under airplane flight paths, to marine life. On this edi...

Bought by WFHB and WXDU


  • Added: Mar 30, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Life is everywhere and we have a tough time killing it when sending our spacecraft off to Mars. However, in the lab, life is elusive. We look at th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2012
  • Length: 15:03
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on The EnvironMinute . . . tracking fish for sustainable fisheries, resolving potable water issues, using bats to restore rainforests, an...

Bought by KOSU and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2