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You can’t see them on the surface. But at the bottom of some of the world’s largest bodies of water are areas called dead zones where fish and othe...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMXT, and KWMR


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Jessica Yu, San Francisco, CA 5/1/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Filmmaker Jessica Yu talks water, spin, and denial.

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 09:58
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Radio Curious Assistant Producer, Christina Aanestad speaks with Darryl Cherney, the Earth First! activist who along with Judi Bari, was car bombed...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: Monique Verdin and Sharon Linezo Hong
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmakers Monique Verdin (Houma) and Sharon Linezo Hong about their new film, My Louisiana Love.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2012
  • Length: 18:03
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews award winning filmmaker Jan Weber. Based in Brooklyn, but born in Wisconsin, Weber travels b...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week our writers all experience the incredible power of Mother Nature, from crashing waves to lightning strikes to shooting stars. Stories by ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Charles Margulis
Have you ever tasted a strawberry whose DNA was altered to include fish genes? In the United States, genetically modified foods are not generally l...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:51
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Andrew Revkin
You are planning a nice dinner party and you want to buy a bottle of wine. How do you stay true to your environmental commitment when choosing a wi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Jim Riddle, University of Minnesota Organic Outreach Coordinator. Riddle has worked for ove...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Maria Rodale, CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc., and author of “The Organic Manifesto. Maria...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is one of the world’s leading environmentalists. In addition to his recent success leading a coalition to stop the construction agai...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Stephenie Caughlin, farmer and owner of Seabreeze Organic Farm in San Diego, CA. What makes...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Chris Martenson
Author, economic analyst, scientist and futurist Chris Martenson has written and spoken extensively on key issues surrounding our energy-based econ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tom Vanderbilt
Has this ever happened to you: you’re sitting in your car, engine idling, watching the cars in front of you and behind you move only inches at a ti...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Marshall Curry, San Francisco, CA 12/19/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Oscar(tm)-nominee Marshall Curry talks objectivity, comparative religion, and being fair.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2012
  • Length: 15:35
Caption: Marc Gunther
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we spoke with Stacy Mitchell, a researcher and author who believes that Walmart’s sustainability efforts over the pa...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 29:45
Caption: Stacy Mitchell
Walmart. What does the name of the world’s largest retailer evoke for you? Do you think of its reputation as a poor employer and its anti-union tac...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
Caption: Philip Cafaro
What is the United States Chamber of Commerce? Many Americans hold the misconception that it’s a government agency. It is not. It is the most signi...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Eric Berlow
Trained as an ecologist, our guest this week on Sea Change Radio uses complexity theory to map spheres of influence and find solutions to any numbe...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Graham Sinclair
Socially responsible capitalism – is this an oxymoron? Not according to this week’s guest on Sea Change Radio. Graham Sinclair is a South African s...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jesse Jenkins
The bankruptcy of solar startup, Solyndra, earlier this year had the clean energy naysayers up-in-arms, saying that Solyndra’s demise proved that g...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: David Johnson
Do you ever try to envision a world where all the cars are electric – quiet, clean and carbon-neutral? Sounds great, but the truth is that the shif...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dr. Dickson Despommier
We often hear about vertical economic growth and vertical integration in business but the idea of growing our food vertically sounds fantastical. ...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Kathryn Flagg
Remember when Lex Luthor designed a weather-controlling machine? Superman, of course, foiled his sinister plans…or did he? Using technology to cont...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Karl Gawell
Humans have been capturing and using geothermal heat from the earth for a very long time. Geothermal energy was being used in China back in the 3rd...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 30:00