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MIT Team Turning Fumes Into Fuel
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Gregory Stephanopoulos
You know that sick feeling when you look at a smokestack belching noxious gases into the air? Well, what if you knew that the gas waste coming from...

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


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 4
Desalination: Is It Time To Drink The Pacific?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
Transforming ocean water into potable drinking water seems so remarkably cool on so many levels. But alas, desalination remains both expensive and ...

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


  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 3
David Rolf: The $15 Minimum Wage Fight
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Rolf
Back in 2014 we spoke with David Rolf, president of the Pacific Northwest branch of SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, about his effo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tim Dickinson: Sunshine State In The Dark
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tim Dickinson
Think about the sunniest states in the U.S. Florida, the place that calls itself "the sunshine state" is sure to come to mind. Indeed, the solar i...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Alex Camacho: Supreme Court Climate
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Camacho
Remember the Paris Climate Agreement, when it looked for a moment like world leaders were actually going to address our shared global concern? Well...

Bought by KVNF, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Salt Of The Earth: Farm Zero’s Mike Fawcett
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Mike Fawcett
Farm Zero is a five year-old startup company that’s a concept for sustainable agricultural systems that use sea water rather than fresh water as th...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Johan Rockström: A Swedish Perspective On Climate Change
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Johan Rockstrom
Given its northern latitude, Sweden is warming more rapidly than many other places in the world. Johan Rockström, one of Sweden’s leading environme...

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


  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
Roy Scranton’s Arctic Cruise
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Roy Scranton
When we try to visualize the Arctic, we usually think of ice as far as the eye can see. But, unfortunately, that’s changing. This week’s guest on S...

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


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
Richard Lunt: Transparent Solar Cells (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Richard Lunt
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 WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
We'll Always Have Paris: Vivienne Walt on COP21
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Vivienne Walt
Victor Hugo said of Paris that nothing was more fantastic, more tragic, or more sublime. Will the same ever be said of the COP 21 climate agreement...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
Bill McKibben: Putting the X in XL
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bill McKibben
The drawn-out fight to prevent the Keystone XL pipeline recently ended in a triumph for environmental activists, when President Obama announced he ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cutting Edge: Knives + Politics
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Adam Simha
This week on Sea Change Radio, we hear from a craftsman who makes razor-sharp kitchen knives, and with a progressive political talk show host who r...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
Water Pressure 4: Water's Taking it Back
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
Caption: Melting Alaskan glacier, Credit: Rupa Shenoy
Water is claiming more coastal land, everywhere. So, do we prepare for that, or protect against it?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 1
Climate Change: Affecting The Seasons?
From: Robert Frederick
Series: The Conjectural
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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 Change: It's Not Just The Sun
From: Robert Frederick
Series: The Conjectural
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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
Part Three: The Small But Mighty Rice Farm
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: Chuck Earnest's rice fields near Steele, Mo., are a waterfowl sanctuary during the non-growing season., Credit: Kristofor Husted
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
Troubled Coastlines From Louisiana To Maine, Pt. II
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Marshall
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we spoke with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Bob Marshall about Louisiana’s shrinking coastline. And this week we...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
Bob Marshall: Louisiana Encroachment, Pt. I
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Marshall
With so much focus on the BP oil spill and the havoc it has wrought on the Gulf Coast, it's easy to overlook the broader, more long-term environmen...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Divest: Pulling the Plug on Fossil Fuels
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Student divestment campaigners at CU Boulder, Credit: Hannah Leigh Myers
Fossil fuels are a trillion dollar industry but environmentalists say they have a plan to pull the plug on the industry: divestment. The campaign t...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Scientists Work to Protect Region's Last Coastal Wilderness
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Virginia's barrier islands shelter more than 250 species of raptors, songbirds and shorebirds., Credit: Lindsay Renick Mayer
Efforts are underway to restore the fragile ecosystem of the shifting, changing land masses known as Virginia's barrier islands.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 1
Yemen: Scarce Water, Security Threat?
From: War News Radio
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The ten most water-stressed countries in the world – gosh, it sounds like a bad Buzzfeed article - are all in the Middle East or North Africa. Yeme...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 08:12
  • Purchases: 1
Get The Lead Out: Kevin Drum & Sarah Hess
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kevin Drum
The policy decisions we make today will have an impact on the next hundred years and beyond. It kind of makes you think, what policy decisions from...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
State Fireworks Ban Doesn't Stop Fireworks Sales
From: Colorado News Connection
Caption: PRX default Piece image
ARAPAHOE COUNTRY, Colo. - Tents and makeshift stores selling holidays goods have popped up throughout Colorado in the past few weeks leading up to ...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:45
CO Wildfires Explode in Record Heat
From: Colorado News Connection
Caption: PRX default Piece image
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Triple-digit record temperatures, wind, and extreme low humidity combined to spark five new wildfires in Colorado this weeken...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
Peninsula Business “Props” for Wild Olympics Bill
From: Washington News Service
Caption: PRX default Piece image
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Scores of Peninsula business owners are joining local farmers, clergy and elected officials in applauding a measure introduced Thu...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 02:01