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Unspun Looks at the Sixth Great Extinction with Paul Ehrlich, Biologist, Environmentalist and Author
From: Doug BennettSeries: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Unspun peers into the future at the Sixth Great Extinction with Paul Ehrlich. Paul R. Ehrlich is the Bing Professor of Population Studies and the ...
Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Sep 27, 2015
- Length: 57:49
- Purchases: 1
In the summer of 1901, San Francisco’s mayor, James D. Phelan, hiked up to an oak tree near the north bank of the Tuolumne River in Yosemite’s Hetc...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 14:02
Marine biologist Jon Stern studies cetaceans: porpoises, dolphins and whales. Stern is a professor at San Francisco State and also leads field stud...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 08:14
Our biggest source of freshwater is running out -- everywhere.
Bought by WABE, WLPR , and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jul 23, 2015
- Length: 06:31
- Purchases: 3
Our relationship with water is changing, and we can’t ignore that water’s moods are getting a lot more dramatic.
Bought by WLPR and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jul 23, 2015
- Length: 08:13
- Purchases: 2
Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer says scientists don't yet know if climate change is affecting the timing of the se...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 1
Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer on how scientists know that climate change is not just due to the Sun.
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 04:02
Colorado is one of many states that has tried to create a cash for recycling program, or bottle bill. However, opposition from some surprising sour...
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 06:31
For such a small region, this sprawling landscape of the Bootheel has some of the most productive farmland in the U.S. A solid water supply and nut...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:50
Dr. Doug Craig, great blogger at Climate of Change and his Free Therapy blog on ANewscafe, co-hosts with us again. We discuss Global Warming denie...
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 59:09
In 2014, Florida voters passed Amendment 1—the Florida Water and Land Conservation Amendment—by a sweeping 75%. Advocates believe this should send ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2015
- Length: 11:42
Reporter Anna Simonton takes us down to Southern Louisiana, where the Houma people have been battling BP--and the entire oil industry--for decades,...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 11:49
- Purchases: 1
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, not everyone is “back to normal.” On this edition, we follow BP’s trail fro...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Unspun talks about Nuclear Insanity with Dr. Helen Caldicott . Helen Caldicott is a Harvard Pediatrician, scholar, educator, author of several boo...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 58:29
Dr. Doug Craig co-hosts with me, as Unspun revisits the most serious issue of our time, Climate Change (of course), with Dr. Michael Mann. Dr. Mic...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 58:25
Unspun sits down with Anne Petermann, Ex. Dir. of the Global Justice Ecology Project. Long time forest protection and indigenous rights activist. ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 58:52
Mauro Oliviera co-hosts on Unspun, and we talk with Lauren Regan, Exec. Director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center. Lauren Regan is a leading a...
- Added: Feb 10, 2015
- Length: 57:47
The Searsville Dam is causing big trouble on the peninsula. The 122-year-old, 65-foot-tall dam is closed to the public, hidden away on 1,200 acres ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:41
In 2002, Juan Carlos Cancino, was riding his bike around town and found an entire city block of dilapidated greenhouses, near a hill in the Portola...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 08:44
We are no strangers to earthquakes here in the Bay Area. But there’s been nothing in recent memory to match the 9.0 quake that shook Japan on March...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 16:21
For over a decade, Oakland has attempted to abate the illegal dumping of mattresses, electronics, furniture, and other large items onto city street...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 07:20
There’s a new push to get tourists in New Orleans off bourbon street and into nature. Eco-tourism is the new way to explore Louisiana according to ...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 1
A group of citizens continues to work to delay a measure adopted by the Bloomington City Council to thin out the deer population at Griffy Lake – t...
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 07:45
Kesterson Wildlife Refuge had a little known problem back in 1982: selenium contamination was leading to birth defects and death in fish and birds....
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 16:03
- Purchases: 1
Freda Huson and Toghestiy live full time at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade. The kind folks at radio-net.com lent me some audio to use for this p...
- Added: Sep 21, 2014
- Length: 29:23