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How does the Farm Bill influence the food on our plates? Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Ariane Lotti, Legislative Specialis...

  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Still from the film 'Burning the Future: Coal in America' , Credit: http://www.burningthefuture.org
The endless search for fossil fuels is polluting our waterways, and our water supplies. The fight to protect clean drinking water is motivating Ame...

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  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Still from the film 'Burning the Future: Coal in America', Credit: http://www.burningthefuture.org
The endless search for fossil fuels is polluting our waterways, and our water supplies. The fight to protect clean drinking water is motivating Ame...

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  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Want to find the “smoking gun” for domestic water well pollution near fracking in Wyoming? Put a tracer in fracking fluids. That’s one recommendati...

  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 01:50
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Texas has been fracking for years...so what does Ohio's gas exploration future look like?

  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
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Al Bartlett talks about how we must achieve a sustainable world. This piece has aired on KGNU Boulder.

  • Added: May 02, 2012
  • Length: 24:14
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The House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources holds a field hearing in Denver this week on proposed federal regulations for the process kn...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:50
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Lindsey Lusher Shute, Director of the National Young Farmer Coalition. Know anyone who wants...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Michael E. Mann
In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
Caption: Marty Whiteman found himself in a struggle with Chesapeake Energy, which leased the gas under his farm. , Credit: Reid R. Frazier
What happens when your land sits on top of a rich natural gas deposit, but you don't own the mineral rights. In Wetzel County, West Virginia, many ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:05
Caption: Tom Ries in Cockroach bay, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
40 years after the Clean Water Act became law, the landscape of our water supply has been transformed, and regulation is being framed by some as an...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Carnegie Council's Evan O'Neil ponders the future of mega-cities, and leading Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun discusses China's air and water crisi...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2012
  • Length: 23:23
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As we enter into the new year, our thoughts turn to the strengths and weaknesses of the existing proposals and plans for future actions on behalf o...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 04:35
Caption: Environmental activists with flags on their backs bury their heads in the sand on Durban's beachfront, highlighting nations that are failing to effectively prevent climate change. , Credit: Mike Hutchings/Reuters) From TakePart.com: Ocean Gets No Respect From Durban
Climate change was in the news again recently, with reports from Durban, South Africa where another U.N. Summit took place. In this episode of Worl...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:22
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With the 17th annual global climate change talks foundering in Durban, little hope is left for a worldwide initiative designed to combat global war...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: UMA, a chemical carrier ship, is waiting to be cut in a ship breaking yard at Sitakunda in Chittagong, Southeastern Bangladesh. There are many ship breaking industries along this coastal region that contribute a huge amount of environmental pollution., Credit: Wahid Adnan/Marine Photobank
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we'll discuss environmental inequality and a number of organizations around the globe active in this area, inc...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2011
  • Length: 05:40
Caption: Coastal Development - Southern California, Credit: (c) Wolcott Henry 2005/Marine Photobank
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill lists a few actions, however improbable each might sound, to outline changes in policy, plan...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:21
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A proposed Canadian pipeline would transport bitumen from the tar sands of Alberta to refineries on the Gulf Coast, crossing the border. Is Keyston...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Indian farmer and his wheat, Credit: Petr Kosina / CIMMYT
Journalist Christian Parenti speaks about his new book, "Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence." He connects the effect...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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On the 22nd of July 2011, witnessed by Africa’s top elephant conservationists, the Kenya Government burned 5 tons of ivory worth 15 million dollars...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 03:08
Caption: Torbjörn Törnqvist says sea-level rise will overtake natural subsidence as a cause of land loss., Credit: Barry Yeoman
Most of us shudder to imagine the impact of another large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and for good reason. A spill in future decades could hav...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:36
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Every year, in cities across the world, cyclists throw off their clothes and ride naked as part of the World Naked Bike Ride - a global protest mov...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 18:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: This is a view of a brownfield across the street from Exelon City Solar. The plant cleaned up about half the brownfield space in Chicago's 34th Ward.
Long-abandoned factories have scarred the Midwest landscape for generations. Tens of thousands sit vacant across the region, the tally growing by ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2011
  • Length: 06:27
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A two part interview with Dr. James Rodger Fleming author of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control. As alarm over gl...

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 28:44
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A two part interview with Dr. James Rodger Fleming author of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control. As alarm over gl...

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 28:45