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The basic idea of the circular economy is that in production, nothing should be wasted, and everything at the end of its life should be made into s...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 14:00
A recent report from the U of MN's Energy Transition Lab indicates that biomass and solar energy expansion could add over 2,000 jobs to the NE Minn...
- Added: Jul 05, 2016
- Length: 17:52
Is the biofuel craze of a few years ago really dead? This week’s guest on Sea Change Radio, Pat Gruber, thinks not. While plummeting oil prices may...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Jun 15, 2016
- Length: 28:20
- Purchases: 2
The City of Bloomington's Department of Economic and Sustainable Development has entered its website rentrocket.org into an MIT sponsored competit...
- Added: Apr 25, 2016
- Length: 08:04
The glamour of the limousine is undeniable - who wouldn't want to be shuttled about town without a care in the world? Traffic, parking, sobriety? S...
- Added: Mar 29, 2016
- Length: 30:00
Minnesota's largest solar power project went online in December atop two parking ramps at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. Dennis Probst, who spea...
- Added: Jan 12, 2016
- Length: 17:31
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 22:24
- Purchases: 1
Cook County's local electric co-op, Arrowhead, recently installed a community solar array, and members can subscribe to the output. WTIP's Dave Ter...
- Added: Oct 20, 2015
- Length: 26:30
Imagine a world where every window-laden skyscraper generates its own solar power, where the skylights in your ceiling are a source of light and el...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Have you ever driven by a hillside covered with wind turbines and wondered, “Who owns those, and is the energy produced up there making it to my ho...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A handful of global business leaders are blazing trails to a biologically based “eco-nomics.” They are fundamentally recalculating core assumptions...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
We’ve all deliberated ad nauseum about which road to take to avoid traffic. Today’s discussions about transportation choices are more about the mod...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that the production of cement is responsible for 5% of the carbon dioxide emissions on the planet? Our guest today on Sea Change Radio...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
California entrepreneurs saw potential in the gusty winds that blew out at the Altamont Pass, between the Central Valley and Bay Area. By the mid-’...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 07:09
“The goal is Zero Waste by 2020, and we think that is an achievable goal.”
Those words from former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom back in 2009 p...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:04
WTIP's Dave TerSteeg spoke recently with Erin Stojan Ruccolo, director of electricity markets for Fresh Energy, about various aspects of generating...
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 12:11
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
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
Interview with Robert Workman, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Goal Zero, based in Bluffdale, Utah.
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 28:29
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
A couple of decades who could have imagined that a gust of wind wafting across a Wyoming plain could power an air conditioner as far off as Souther...
- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 30:00
Are you one of the many people who thinks about taking your bike to do an errand more often than actually taking your bike for that errand? If one ...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Bitcoin-accepted-hereIf you've heard about Bitcoin on the evening news or seen a headline about it, you might have been left with the impression th...
- Added: Jan 22, 2014
- Length: 29:30
The "silk road" of Marco Polo's 13th century journey to the East is being revived, as is its ocean parallel, the "maritime silk road" which is fast...
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 05:11
