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2021-05-28 Should Nature Have Rights?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, WGCU, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
210528: Should Nature Have Rights?, 5/28/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....

  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Nicole Taylor of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Nicole Taylor
This past year has been trying for everyone, with the economically vulnerable particularly hard hit. In a heartening turn, there has been an uptick...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - Sand Shortage, Recorder Lessons, ADHD & Cannabis
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Sand Shortage; Topic 2 - Recorder Lessons; Topic 3 - ADHD & Cannabis

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WYAP, RadioStPete Florida, and KOWS


  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 51:45
  • Purchases: 4
Breaking Point
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 3: Sea Level Rise
Caption: Charleston, SC
With waters rising in Charleston, South Carolina we explore what, if any, breaking point there is for people living and working in this city. And w...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:56
Rwanda Heroes, Water Quality, Burger History
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: A study of Rwanda rescuers. Topic 2: Water quality in the United States. Topic 3: The hamburger's true origins.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 50:08
  • Purchases: 1
How to Get More People to Ride the Bus
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means Podcast
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What motivates commuters to leave their cars behind, and take the bus or a bike to work instead? A government innovation team in Durham, North Caro...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 15:20
  • Purchases: 1
Take Care (Monthly) #13
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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The theme of this episode is, "Climate change and health".

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 52:00
Free Lyfts
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Sebastopol's free electric bus
Rural bus systems turn challenges into strengths by going fare free.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KRZA, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Healing Power of Trees
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Volunteers planting trees in Louisville
Health researchers are planting 8,000 trees in Louisville to learn how trees prevent cardiac death. No crystals and woo woo. This is solid scienc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and 'The Sea'


  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Young Environmental Activist
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California
Caption: The Allen Co. drilling site in South Los Angeles., Credit: Photo by Claire Heddles
Generation Z has been called a lot of things: The internet generation. The Instagram generation. And as some say: the activist generation. Claire H...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 08:29
Crosstown Traffic: The Preven Report
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joshua and Eric Preven
They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to two brothers who are trying to make a little noise for the i...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
John McClow — Water wrangling in the American West (Part two)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with water law expert John McClow.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Riding into the Future
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Want a bike lane? Then go out and paint one on the road. Citizens in Macon redesigned downtown streets to show their city what the future can be....

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
All Creatures Great and Small: The Vanishing Vaquita
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brooke Bessesen
How splendid would it be if humans could somehow find a way to truly co-exist with the rest of the planet’s creatures? This week on Sea Change Radi...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Sammy Roth on Desert Water Tussles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
As more and more of the western United States suffers from warmer temperatures and in some places desertification, water has become perhaps the mos...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Abrupt Climate Change
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses abrupt climate change with Guy McPherson, professor Emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 01:27:03
Rafael Mandelman: Inner City Blues
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rafael Mandelman
Futurists, environmentalists and planners alike generally believe that humans living in more densely populated areas has benefits for the earth – c...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Indivisible: Sam Ball and Joan Blades on the American Creed
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Sam Ball
Can’t we all just get along? That’s the hope of Sam Ball, the director of the new documentary film, American Creed, which tells a story of the Amer...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
The Free Market Assault on Science: Kerryn Higgs #212 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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What exactly are “think tanks” supposed to be thinking about? Are some of them part of a campaign to cast doubt on science when it could interfere ...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Durable Future: Bill McKibben #115 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
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Relocalization may be the most important strategy for minimizing climate change. According to Bill McKibben, “working as communities is the most im...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
Not in Anyone’s Backyard, pushing back on landfill expansion
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Penobscot Nation lives on the river that shares their name. Just upstream from their island reservation is Juniper Ridge, Maine’s largest landf...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 23, 2017
  • Length: 13:04
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 86: Unequal Protection from Pollution
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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As Congress and the Trump Administration roll back environmental protections, some communities are especially harmed. But Professor David Konisky e...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 25:59
The New England Whale Hunt  
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses whales and the history of whale hunting with Michael Dyer, senior historian at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedfor...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Valerie Plame Wilson - The Dangers of Nuclear Proliferation - Part 1
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Valerie Plame Wilson, former covert CIA operations officer and author whose covert status w...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2016
  • Length: 28:34