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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
2024-04-26 Building a Better Battery Supply Chain with JB Straubel and Amiee Boulanger
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Batteries are a critical part of the transition away from fossil fuels. From electric vehicles to grid scale storage for wind and solar, demand for...

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


  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
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
2024-02-23 Geothermal: So Hot Right Now
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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When most people hear the phrase renewable energy, they imagine fields full of solar panels or giant spinning wind turbines. But another source may...

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


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
240223: Geothermal: So Hot Right Now, 2/23/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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When most people hear the phrase renewable energy, they imagine fields full of solar panels or giant spinning wind turbines. But another source may...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
2024-02-09 Busted: The Newest Emission Cheaters
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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A settlement for the largest civil penalty resulting from the Clean Air Act has just been reached. The EPA, DOJ and the State of California have ag...

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


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 9
240209: Busted: The Newest Emission Cheaters, 2/9/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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A settlement for the largest civil penalty resulting from the Clean Air Act has just been reached. The EPA, DOJ and the State of California have ag...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
Look For The Helpers - Part 1
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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In the first part of this special Clean Transportation mini-series Jess talks with Adam Browning of Forum Mobility about the future of heavy-duty e...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
2023-12-29 REWIND: Just a Walk or Bike Ride Away: The 15-Minute City
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Can you imagine if everything you needed in your everyday life was just a walk or bike ride away? That’s the goal of the 15-minute city, a new name...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KCBX, Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KALW and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 13
231229: REWIND: Just a Walk or Bike Ride Away: The 15-Minute City, 12/29/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Can you imagine if everything you needed in your everyday life was just a walk or bike ride away? That’s the goal of the 15-minute city, a new name...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
Chathu Gamage: Forging Cleaner Steel
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Chathu Gamage
Humans have been making steel in some form or other for over two millennia - and consistently re-using and recycling it along the way. This week on...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
2023-09-15 The Nuclear Option
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. Massive, traditional nuclea...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Maine Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
230915: The Nuclear Option, 9/15/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. Massive, traditional nuclea...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
2023-09-08 Rethinking Economic Growth, Wealth, and Health
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Since the industrial revolution, the global north has seen massive economic growth. Yet that growth has been linked to increasing greenhouse gas em...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Nevada Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
230908: Rethinking Economic Growth, Wealth, and Health, 9/8/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Since the industrial revolution, the global north has seen massive economic growth. Yet that growth has been linked to increasing greenhouse gas em...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
2023-08-25 The Road to Zero Emission Trucking
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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As the build out of infrastructure for electric passenger vehicles gets underway, another segment of transportation is just starting down the road ...

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


  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
230825: The Road to Zero Emission Trucking, 8/25/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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As the build out of infrastructure for electric passenger vehicles gets underway, another segment of transportation is just starting down the road ...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
2023-07-28 Building a Better Battery Supply Chain with JB Straubel and Amiee Boulanger
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Batteries are a critical part of the transition away from fossil fuels. From electric vehicles to grid scale storage for wind and solar, demand for...

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


  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
230728: Building a Better Battery Supply Chain with JB Straubel and Amiee Boulanger, 7/28/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Batteries are a critical part of the transition away from fossil fuels. From electric vehicles to grid scale storage for wind and solar, demand for...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
The Truth About Hydrogen: Green Fuel or Greenwash?
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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The fossil fuel industry has been promoting hydrogen as a reliable, low carbon, next-generation fuel to power cars, heat homes, and generate electr...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
ZeroHouz: The Challenge of A Zero Emissions Home
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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What would it take to transform a 100 year old house sitting near oil fields into the most sustainable clean energy zero-emissions house? That was ...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
A Poison Life No Other
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mat Simon, Credit: Wired magazine
Our world is surrounded by microplastic pollution. It’s in the air we breathe. It’s in the food we eat. Our homes are among the most polluted place...

Bought by KMUN and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
2022-08-19 Will Sustainable Aviation Ever Take Off?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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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
20220819: Will Sustainable Aviation Ever Take Off?, 8/19/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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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