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Sounds of Space
From: Generation Anthropocene
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When we think of space, we typically think of beautiful images taken by powerful telescopes and interplanetary rovers. We think of the rings around...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 31:19
Don't Lose Your Cool: Katie Herzog on A/C
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Katie Herzog
Who doesn't enjoy that refreshing feeling when you walk in from 90 degree heat to the cool blast of an air-conditioned room? Last month extreme hea...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Peak Phosphorous
From: Generation Anthropocene
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Five things you may not know about phosphorus (but probably should): 1) It’s an essential element to all life on Earth – so it’s a critical ingredi...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 12:00
  • Purchases: 1
No Ordinary Garbage
From: Generation Anthropocene
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Trash. Garbage. Refuse. Waste. Call it whatever you like, this is the stuff we deal with everyday that we no longer want in our lives. It’s not tha...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
Rare Earth Elements
From: Generation Anthropocene
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“Oil is the blood; steel is the body; but rare earth elements are the vitamins of a modern society.” While many of us can’t even pronounce elements...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 30:16
Inside the Cloud
From: Generation Anthropocene
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A core tension at the center of many environmental debates has to do with our relationship to technology. After all, the environmental movement tha...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 12:26
The Ecosystem Within
From: Generation Anthropocene
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The microbiome is the term doctors use to describe the countless organisms each one of us carries in and on our bodies. In the last few years there...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 10:12
The Stakes
From: Generation Anthropocene
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Climate change is one of the many defining characteristics of the Anthropocene. But it’s about more than greenhouse gases, energy consumption, and...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2016
  • Length: 18:25
Cool off! Count seals in Antarctica from the comfort of your couch
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: baby Weddell seal, Credit: Samuel Blanc, Wikimedia Commons
You can count seals in Antarctica, right from your couch, via satellite images. Dr. Michelle LaRue is a research ecologist at the U of MN Departmen...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 15:18
Food Sleuth Radio, Percy Schmeiser Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that Canadian canola farmer, Percy Schmeiser, was sued by Monsanto when his farm was contaminated with Monsanto’s GMO canola seed? Joi...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Daniel Kirk-Davidoff: Electric Grids of Tomorrow
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Kirk-Davidoff
This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise chats with Daniel Kirk-Davidoff, a climate scientist at the University of Maryland and at MDA Informa...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
Renewable energy projects could add many jobs to NE Minnesota economy
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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A recent report from the U of MN's Energy Transition Lab indicates that biomass and solar energy expansion could add over 2,000 jobs to the NE Minn...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 17:52
Come Fly With Me: Gevo CEO Patrick Gruber
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Patrick Gruber
Is the biofuel craze of a few years ago really dead? This week’s guest on Sea Change Radio, Pat Gruber, thinks not. While plummeting oil prices may...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 2
Frozen Piano Listening to Itself
From: David Merleau
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A Piano stands on a frozen lake in Northern Ontario. Steel wire connects its soundboard to an old camper two hundred feet away. Aeolian tones (.....

  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 14:13
Bloomington Housing Website Participates in Sustainability Competition
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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The City of Bloomington's Department of Economic and Sustainable Development has entered its website rentrocket.org into an MIT sponsored competit...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 08:04
Ideas Books: John Fialka - Car Wars
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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Interview with Award-winning former Wall Street Journal reporter John Fialka about his latest book, Car Wars. The resurgence of the electric car in...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 23:50
  • Purchases: 1
Alexandria Sage on Self-Driving Vehicles
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Alexandria Sage
The glamour of the limousine is undeniable - who wouldn't want to be shuttled about town without a care in the world? Traffic, parking, sobriety? S...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
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
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending March 25, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Challenging Elite Bipartisan Consensus: Primary Election Results Reflect G...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
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
L'accord de Paris -- Groks Science Show 2016-01-13
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
David Victor discusses the Paris climate agreement.

Bought by WMUU-LP and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 14, 2016
  • Length: 24:11
  • Purchases: 2
The Economics of Climate Change V. The Cost of Business-As-Usual with Dr. Mark Jacobson
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Mark Jacobson
Dr. Mark Jacobson, distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, is on-air with us to explain the economic...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:24
  • Purchases: 1
Algae Systems and Other Miracles: John Perry Barlow
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Perry Barlow
Who doesn't need a miracle? As the lyricist for many timeless Grateful Dead classics, as a privacy rights activist, or as the founder of the biofue...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Largest solar array in state goes online at MSP airport
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Minnesota's largest solar power project went online in December atop two parking ramps at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. Dennis Probst, who spea...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 17:31