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Caption: James Gustave Speth
Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Paul Ehrlich, author of the iconic book The Population Bomb, reflects on the history of environmentalism and his gloomy outlook for the future. [Ep...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 46:21
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Richard Alley, a climate researcher and the host of PBS’s Earth: The Operators’ Manual, discusses rapid changes in Earth’s climate through history ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 27:55
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Literary critic and pop culture enthusiast Ursula Heise dissects environmental storytelling and its relation to science… both real and fiction. [Se...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 34:06
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In this interview, we learn from James Holland Jones how diseases emerge and spread as humans encroach into the wilderness, and how the patterns wi...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 37:41
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Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, discusses his definition of nature and challenges the assertion that nature is fragi...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:43
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Spirited biologist Rodolfo Dirzo discusses the complex interplay of climate change with other systems, and his personal relation to the Anthropocen...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 46:56
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Andy Hoffman, a Professor at the University of Michigan business school, shares examples of the integration of environmental issues into corporate ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 27:45
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Dive into water policy with Buzz Thompson, leading expert in environmental and natural resources law. From his grandfather’s farm to the US Suprem...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 41:29
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Conservation biologist Terry Root discusses the road to triage and her somewhat controversial approach to saving species in the face of climate cha...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 37:16
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Former HP executive Debra Dunn discusses the power of entrepreneurship, the changing culture of business and what she learned on a recent trip to C...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 20:48
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Luis Zambrano discusses preserving Aztec culture through a rare salamander in the Mexico City wetlands, and compares emerging conservation battles ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 22:05
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How might toxic elements in our air, water and food explain the recent staggering rise of autism spectrum disorders ? Join Food Sleuth Radio host, ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:56:29
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How does the Farm Bill influence the food on our plates? Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Ariane Lotti, Legislative Specialis...

  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Still from the film 'Burning the Future: Coal in America' , Credit: http://www.burningthefuture.org
The endless search for fossil fuels is polluting our waterways, and our water supplies. The fight to protect clean drinking water is motivating Ame...

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  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Still from the film 'Burning the Future: Coal in America', Credit: http://www.burningthefuture.org
The endless search for fossil fuels is polluting our waterways, and our water supplies. The fight to protect clean drinking water is motivating Ame...

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  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Al Bartlett talks about how we must achieve a sustainable world. This piece has aired on KGNU Boulder.

  • Added: May 02, 2012
  • Length: 24:14
Caption: Bill McKibben
Into the national conversation about climate change and our planet's natural resources comes The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2012
  • Length: 28:40
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Dr. Helen Caldicott describes how the nuclear disasters that began in Japan on March 11, 2011, with the massive 9.0 point earthquake and resulting ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: NASA Scientist James Hansen
Earthbeat Host and IPS Fellow Daphne Wysham conducted a special one-hour interview with Dr. James Hansen, NASA's top climate scientist.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2011
  • Length: 52:53
Caption: Science Weekly podcast from guardian.co.uk, Credit: guardian.co.uk
We dial up researchers investigating climate change in Antarctica; plus, internet guru Clay Shirky explains his answer to this year's Edge Question

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This includes John Latimer's Phenology Report and Talk Backs. Plus A Talk on the Wild Side with Harry Hutchinson, Eli Sagor on non-timber products ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2010
  • Length: 59:36
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We find out how brownfields are converted into something useful and why Dow Chemical chose Midland, Michigan, for their plant location. Chemical Ag...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2009
  • Length: 11:57
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The Waxman-Markey Climate Bill is making its way through Congress, and stirring up controversy within the environmental movement between those who ...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2009
  • Length: 29:36