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Joseph McFadden: A Cattle Biologist Explains Feed Additives
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joseph McFadden
Did you know that India accounts for about one-third of the world’s one billion head of cattle? Last week on Sea Change Radio, we spoke to the head...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
David Messina: Rumin8 Strives To Reduce Cow Methane Emissions
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Messina
When we think about greenhouse gas emissions, automobiles, airplanes, and power plants usually figure more prominently than livestock. The methane ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Nithin Coca: The Impacts of Plant-Based Meats
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Nithin Coca
The new generation of veggie burgers do taste more like meat than their sawdust-leaning predecessors. And most agree that plant-based meat alternat...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
An Upfront Talk About Carbon With Lloyd Alter
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lloyd Alter
For some time now, ecologists and environmentalists have been promoting life-cycle analyses – calculations of the environmental impact of a product...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Chuck Collins: Disturbing The Very Comfortable
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Chuck Collins
The novelist David Foster Wallace once said, “Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” This week on Sea Change ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
John Platt: In Search of The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Platt
When you visit the World Wildlife Fund’s list of critically endangered species, the first animals named are large, beloved mammals like the African...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
05-17: Nature’s Phoenix: Fire As Medicine, 9/6/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Chad Hanson
Contemporary Western fire science is integrating what Indigenous Peoples discovered over thousands of years of observation, and trial and error: fi...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
06-13: Amazon Visions: Solutions for Saving the Lungs of the Planet, 8/30/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Atossa Soltani
If the rate of destruction doesn’t change, by the year 2020 most of the Amazon ecosystem – the lungs of the planet - will be destroyed or irreparab...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:31
Living Planet 08/18/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Life in the Arctic & Russia's exiled environmentalists. We hear from Russian climate activists and environmental organizatio...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WXDU, KMXT, and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 4
Chef Jimmy Hill, award-winning instructor of the Food Tech training program at the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater, MI.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that incarcerated individuals who participate in Chef Jimmy Hill’s culinary training program have a 6% recidivism rate? Join Food Sleu...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
2023-08-18 Navigating Science and Feelings on a Destabilized Planet
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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This year is shaping up to be the hottest year in 125,000 years. It may also be the coolest year a child born today will ever see. In “The Quickeni...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Nevada Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
230818: Navigating Science and Feelings on a Destabilized Planet, 8/18/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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This year is shaping up to be the hottest year in 125,000 years. It may also be the coolest year a child born today will ever see. In “The Quickeni...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
World in Progress 08/10/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: How our overuse of antibiotics puts us all at risk of superbugs that are immune to the drugs we currently have. Plus the dan...

Bought by WFHB and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 29:57
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 08/11/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet – How did we become planet plastic? Each year, the world produces 430 million tons of plastics – and that figure is set to triple by...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
10-17: Vice to Virtue: From Carbon Crisis to Carbon Farming, 8/16/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: John Wick
How does a virtue become a vice? How does a basic building block of life turn into a threat to life? And how do you turn that vice back into a virt...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Terrapins and Terriers (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KXCV, WRMU and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Terrapins and Terriers (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, WYAP, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Terrapins and Terriers (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Terrapins Terriers (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by WABE, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
RESCUE, part 27: How to Advance Ocean Literacy
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio we continue the RESCUE series with recommendations to further protect the ocean--by building ocean literacy into eve...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2023
  • Length: 05:06
Elizabeth James-Perry (Wampanoag- Aquinnah)--Making Art Through Native Lifeways
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
Caption: Elizabeth James perry
Wampum & Fiber Artist and 2023 National Heritage Fellow Elizabeth James-Perry (Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, Aquinnah) discusses her artistic practi...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Kristina Marusic, author of A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that only seven to nine percent of global cancer funding goes towards prevention? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 07/27/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week's show is all about the power of books. We visit a bookstore in Istanbul where a Russian and Ukrainian have teamed up to bring people tog...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WFHB, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Chris Jones, Ph.D., author of The Swine Republic: Struggles with the Truth about Agriculture and Water Quality.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that 70 percent of the land in the state of IA is planted in a corn/soy rotation, and that almost none of the decisions driving this c...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
2023-07-21 Anand Giridharadas: Persuaders in a Hot and Polarized World
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In a democracy, meaningful change often requires adapting views and building coalitions. Some believe finding common ground and building rapport is...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 11

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