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Episode 86: Unequal Protection from Pollution
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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As Congress and the Trump Administration roll back environmental protections, some communities are especially harmed. But Professor David Konisky e...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 25:59
Alex Gilbert: Environmental Roots of a Scandal
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Gilbert
It has been a bit difficult to keep up with the news since January. Every few hours it seems like there is a new revelation in the global political...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Mark Murray: California Recycling in Decline
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Mark Murray
In 2013 California boasted a recycling rate of 85%. In 2017 that number is now 79% - that is the first time it has dipped below 80% since 2008. Why...

Bought by WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
Measure For Measure: Aclima's Davida Herzl
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Davida Herzl
Galileo said we should, “Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.” This week on Sea Change Radio, we take a look at two ways...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Take Care #113
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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Episode topics: The right way to fall and better living through green buildings.

Bought by WNMU-FM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Free Market Assault on Science: Kerryn Higgs #212
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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What exactly are “think tanks” supposed to be thinking about? Are some of them part of a campaign to cast doubt on science when it could interfere ...

Bought by KTRL, XRAY.fm, KMUD, KTRL, and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
The Bret Stephens Debate: 50 Shades of the Grey Lady
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Pamela Paresky
Is the New York Times enabling a debate that most rational people think is long over? The latest conservative pundit to be hired by the New York Ti...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 02, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Collision Course: Kerryn Higgs #211
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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How and why did our society come to value economic growth so highly that we pursue it at the risk of our long-term survival? For some time scientis...

Bought by KTRL and KTRL


  • Added: May 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Rahwa Ghirmatzion: Green Buffalo Soldier
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rahwa Ghirmatzion
What’s a great way to lift up an impoverished population within a struggling city where utility bills can cost twice as much as rent itself? Local,...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 2
Invasion of the Lionfish Snatchers
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Erika Angle
Perhaps it’s cold comfort but it turns out that we human beings are not the only species on earth hell-bent on destroying our own habitat. We share...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Time To Filibuster, Buster!
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rick Hasen
When we last covered the Supreme Court it was after Justice Antonin Scalia passed away in February 2016. At that time many of us naively assumed th...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 1
Kaz Makabe on Japan's Nuclear Shutdown
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kaz Makabe
In 2011, in the wake of the devastating nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor, thousands of Japanese people relocated, the world held i...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 28, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Anonymous Engineer Discusses Gold Mining
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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Did you know that a metric ton of electronic waste can contain 8 to 16 ounces of gold? Whether we like it or not, precious metals show up in more t...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
High & Dry: Talking Groundwater
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rosemarie and William Alley
With drought-stricken California enjoying its wettest winter in decades, it can be easy to forget that water scarcity is among the globe's most dea...

Bought by WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 3
Lead-Headed Hunting Laws
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kelly Sorenson
On his first day on the job, newly appointed Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, rode to work on a horse. This was obviously a rugged, outdoor e...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Kirk Lombard, Sea Forager
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kirk Lombard
As more of us are becoming aware of the dark side of the seafood industry, the locavore revolution has been moving full throttle into seafood. This...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Teens Sue U.S. Gov’t over Climate Change
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Philip Gregory
What do a 13 year old in Louisiana, a 14 year old in Oregon and a 16 year old in Hawaii all have in common besides possibly the number of hours a d...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
Larry Nielsen: Environmental Trailblazers
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Larry Nielsen
There’s no denying that the current moment is grim, for the environment, civil rights, and plain old human decency. But I once heard a wise man say...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sammy Roth: Rewiring the West
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
What do you think of when you hear the word, "billionaires?" Ruthless capitalists? Decadent narcissists? Evil cheese-puffs? What about renewable po...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
Dave Zirin on Tom Brady and ConflateGate
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dave Zirin
It has been a nightmarish week. The new president has kicked off his reign with a series of illegal and immoral executive orders and a set of prepo...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Eating Crow? Try Eating Humble Pie, Instead!
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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If you’ve made a serious faux pas and need to acknowledge it with humility, you might be said to be “eating crow” or “eating humble pie.” In this e...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 18:43
If The Dutch Ruled The World
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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When liberal politicians suggest we look for policy-making inspiration from social democracies in Europe, the automatic reaction from some corners ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
Sustainable Investing in the New Gilded Age
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Mark Tulay
This week on Sea Change Radio, we get an update on the sustainable and responsible investment community from Mark Tulay, the Director of the Strate...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Incoming EPA Chief: Fox In The Henhouse
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rebecca Leber
When someone sues an organization repeatedly and then gets put in charge of that agency it’s a pretty classic example of the fox guarding the henho...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KFCF FM, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Four Strong Winds: First US Offshore Wind Project Launches
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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As the public learned of the recent opening of America’s first offshore wind power project, many wondered why it took so long? This week on Sea Cha...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2

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