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In the 20th century, U.S. waterways had become dumping grounds for industrial, urban, and agricultural waste. Today many of these waterways are get...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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World Ocean Radio is set to embark on a series highlighting optimistic projects, perspectives, and organizations helping to raise awareness at the ...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 06:05
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Rising sea levels are just one way climate change is reshaping the world's oceans, says Duke University oceanographer Susan Lozier.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: Lee Newgent, Building Trades
Interview by Mark Lowry: Lee explains the complex Sound Transit 3 and why we should vote for the ballot measure.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 27:52
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Three women share their first hand perspective of the pipeline protest at Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 13:09
  • Purchases: 2
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Interview by Gary Kanter: Alex explains how ending the use of fossil fuels can be a ‘Just Transition.’

  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:26
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With our piecemeal coastal policies, "We're haphazardly geo-engineering a whole coast," says Duke University economist Martin Smith.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: An Oregon lawsuit, spearheaded by Our Children's Trust, could force the state of Oregon to take a more aggressive stance against the carbon emissions warming the earth and destroying the environment., Credit: Our Children's Trust
The public trust doctrine is designed to protect our natural resources for the benefit of future generations. Plaintiffs in a number of legal cases...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 05:10
Caption: Cover image from "The Once and Future Ocean: Notes Toward a New Hydraulic Society" by Peter Neill, Credit: NASA "Perpetual Ocean"
The age of unlimited growth driven by fossil fuels is over. A new world view is required now, one around which we can organize our values and behav...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 05:16
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It's hard to let go of owning a car. What passes through those pipelines we hear so much about?

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 14:05
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:51
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In January of 2016 the UN General Assembly accepted a 1,752 page report entitled "The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment: World Ocean Assess...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 05:21
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Last night a group of experts on environmental policy converged to debate the merits of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Just last week, the Supreme Cou...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 09:42
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The water crisis in Flint, Michigan has been dominating the news cycle for some weeks. The story points to tragic mismanagement of the city’s water...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 05:44
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Fresh water is the topic of discussion once again on World Ocean Radio. In this episode host Peter Neill re-asserts the gravity of the global fresh...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 05:02
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Employees of the Bloomington Utilities Department met with local residents on Friday for another in a series of Town Hall meetings put on by the ci...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:41
Caption: From the Mystic Aquarium's "Beluga Encounter" exhibit.  From their site: "Mystic Aquarium is a leader in beluga research, care and training. Through long-standing animal care and research relationships with other institutions across the nation, Mystic Aqu
There are many whale-related hot button topics being discussed today: hunting (particularly by the Japanese), seismic testing, inexplicable strandi...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2016
  • Length: 04:42
Caption: An Arctic mountain at the north west coast of Svalbard, Credit:  Thomas Hallermann | Marine Photobank
The conversation continues about the future of the Arctic this week with further outcomes from the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland. Du...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 05:16
Caption: ,Map based on NSIDC sea ice extent data. , Credit: Climate.gov
The Arctic Circle, an assembly founded by the President of Iceland and held annually to help define the deliberations of the Arctic Council, was he...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 05:35
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An anthropologist comments on the complicated relationship in Bolivia between the natural gas industry and those who want to protect the environmen...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 12:00
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On this edition of God Matters, host Peter Kreten welcomes Sister Mary Ellen Howard. Sister Mary Ellen is a Sister of Mercy, and resident of Detroi...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:43
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Episode 27: he publicly-owned Sacramento Municipal Utility District, or SMUD, had already installed the first utility-scale PV array in the nation ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 26:02
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Episode 26: Minnesota’s community solar garden program may be the envy of the nation — once the utility’s stall tactics have been stopped — but it ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 27:11
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Episode 22: “Utility regulation and rates is a contact sport,” says Karl Rabago, and that makes the implementation of a new “value of solar” policy...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 34:27
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Episode 25: In April, ILSR’s John Farrell interviewed Charles Harris, project manager with the Kansas City. Harris suggested that the project got i...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 15:21