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Have you ever driven by a hillside covered with wind turbines and wondered, “Who owns those, and is the energy produced up there making it to my ho...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
What’s behind the sudden surge in earthquakes in the middle of the United States?
- Added: Jun 13, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
While going about their daily routines, marine animals outfitted with sensors can collect data on ocean conditions in places that would be dangerou...
- Added: Jun 13, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: May 23, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Researchers look into whether the sounds produced by wind farms disturb some imperiled birds.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: May 23, 2015
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Baleen whales have rubbery nerves that allow them to stretch to twice their length when they feed.
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
Last week we spoke about the prospect of decentralized energy systems supplying clean electricity to the developing world with Daniel Kammen, a UC...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
How easy it is to take our electrified world for granted. Right now about 1.2 billion people or about 20% of the global population live without acc...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A handful of global business leaders are blazing trails to a biologically based “eco-nomics.” They are fundamentally recalculating core assumptions...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
Some of the best minds on the planet are busy cataloguing possible solutions to the crisis of climate chaos. Scientists, entrepreneurs, and educato...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
Bathing suits modeled on sharkskin that win the Olympics. Low-energy display screen based on peacock feathers. Nature has done everything human soc...
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 28:30
Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
What's it like to see an idea grow into something bigger than you ever imagined? This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise sits down with entre...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
We’ve all deliberated ad nauseum about which road to take to avoid traffic. Today’s discussions about transportation choices are more about the mod...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
The potential damage posed by hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” to ground water, its contribution to earthquake risk, and overall deceptive pract...
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 30:00
The foods we put on our plates have ripple effects way beyond our personal health. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda He...
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Did you know that the production of cement is responsible for 5% of the carbon dioxide emissions on the planet? Our guest today on Sea Change Radio...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Thousands of years ago, the mosquitoes that now transmit dengue fever made the switch from biting forest animals to seeking out humans.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 16, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Master green chemists and educators John Warner and Amy Cannon say the radical growth of green chemistry is showing we can have good chemistry with...
- Added: Oct 24, 2014
- Length: 28:30
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we learned about the new shale gas boom in China. This week, in the second part of my discussion with Jaeah Lee and ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 28:00
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Nobody hitchhikes anymore. Back in the 1980s getting a ride with a stranger became decidedly un-trendy. Rugged individualism was in and ridesharing...
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 29:40
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
When life gives you lemons they say to make lemonade. And what if life gives you sewage released into an enclosed bay, what can you make? Certainly...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
