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Caption: Ralph Steadman
Confronted with the topic of extinct birds, filmmaker and author Ceri Levy took an unorthodox route to raising awareness. He enlisted the irreveren...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 29:50
Caption: Heather Millar
Here’s a little exercise: take a pen and a blank piece of paper and write down everything you know about nano-technology. If you do this, you may f...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:50
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Microbial ecologist Jack Gilbert joins us to discuss the Earth Microbiome Project.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, WRNC-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 31:58
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Kevin Drum
The policy decisions we make today will have an impact on the next hundred years and beyond. It kind of makes you think, what policy decisions from...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: James Gustave Speth
Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joe Romm
How will our current climate policies and actions be viewed by future generations? Our first guest this week on Sea Change Radio is pretty sure our...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Richard Heinberg
Last year, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and energy consultant Daniel Yergin published his long-awaited sequel to the The Prize called The Quest: E...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Englander
Our planet’s rising oceans are no longer the purview of pessimistic doomsayers – they are the new reality. This week’s guests on Sea Change Radio a...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: Gina Coplon-Newfield
For better or for worse, cars are not leaving the American landscape anytime soon. The automobile is woven into the cultural fabric of our country ...

Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Nuclear Roulette, Credit: cover design by Matthew Simmons
In his new book, Gar Smith dismantles the core arguments behind the nuclear industrial complex’s “Nuclear renaissance.” While some critiques are fa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Water is our most important nutrient, but the major threats to clean water may surprise you. Join Food Sleuth Radio Host and Registered Dietitian, ...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Fred Kaufman
This week, along with the rest of the country, we'll be piling my plate high with abundant turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and apple pie. It seem...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
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As Superstorm Sandy made clear, natural disasters can wreak havoc on rich and poor countries, alike. However, the Western media's coverage often ti...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ken Burns
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has produced a new film series on the dustbowl. It features survivors, experts on climate and farming, as well as s...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Neela Banerjee
Hurricane Sandy highlighted the devastating effects of a changing climate and rising sea levels like perhaps no other event we have seen in this co...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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Are genetically engineered foods safe to eat? Would labeling help consumers? Join Food Sleuth Radio Host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelga...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Daniel Botkin
According to a recent Gallup Poll, 46 percent of Americans believe in creationism. Is this belief hurting our planet? In his new book, professor, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Matt Wasson
Do you cringe when you hear the term “clean coal?” Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio feels that this term is not only an oxymoron it’s offens...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
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With real economic benefits and perceived environmental ones, local food has been branded as an ethical alternative to the mass-produced variety. B...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:10
Caption: Steve Almond
Magical thinking. According to the McGraw Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine, this is a condition, “similar to a normal stage of childhood ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:16
Caption: Steve Almond
Author Steve Almond is an astute observer of American topics as disparate as candy, rock & roll and politics. This week on Sea Change Radio, in the...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:56
Caption: Clement Cid
Aside from some aesthetic advances and rudimentary low-flow innovations, the modern flush toilet basically has not evolved since its prototype firs...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jason Mark
Have you ever been to the dump? It’s a pretty smelly place. Part of what you’re smelling is methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that’s created as bi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Michael Reynolds
What do you get when you combine the contoured and colorful aesthetic of Gaudi with the sensibility of an ecological innovator? You might get my gu...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 29:51
Caption: James Redford
Named for the rich red dirt that once colored its rushing waters, the Colorado River has been dammed, diverted and drained to a trickle of its form...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2012
  • Length: 30:01