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The Rising Tide (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Mapping the sinking shores of Tangier Island - Where do you go when your homeland disappears? - Measuring hurricanes with new technology - A previe...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
The Rising Tide (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Mapping the sinking shores of Tangier Island - Where do you go when your homeland disappears? - Measuring hurricanes with new technology - A previe...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Rising Tide (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Mapping the sinking shores of Tangier Island - Where do you go when your homeland disappears? - Measuring hurricanes with new technology - A previe...

Bought by WJCT, 'The Sea', WCQS, WVAS, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Tangier Island Sinking (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Residents of Tangier Island could become some of America’s first climate refugees—unless they get a much needed sea wall. Through a partnership wit...

Bought by KENW, WOUB, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 3
Orange County: Wastewater Reuse Leader
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Mike Markus
What would you say to the idea of drinking a tall, cool glass of wastewater? On the face of it, it sounds, well, yucky. But it turns out you've pro...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
Takin' It To The Streets: Solar Roadways Update
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Scott and Julie Brusaw
What if the roads we drove on, instead of being made of carbon-intensive petroleum sludge, were actually solar panels? And what if whenever electri...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
Are Our Pets Making Us Sick? (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Can the notorious brain-hijacking parasite "toxoplasma" affect humans? Is there a vaccine against Lyme Disease for humans in the pipeline?

Bought by WJCT, KWMR, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN, WCQS and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 8
Nev Hyman: Shelter From The Storm (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Nev Hyman
Many people living in Pacific nations, like Vanuatu, Indonesia, and the Philippines, struggle to find adequate shelter, a challenge compounded by t...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
The Music of the Glaciers (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Composer Matthew Burtner, Credit: Matthew Burtner
Listen to how the sounds of melting glaciers are being frozen in time and woven into haunting electronic musical compositions. We also talk about d...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 10
The Music of the Glaciers (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Composer Matthew Burtner, Credit: Matthew Burtner
Listen to how the sounds of melting glaciers are being frozen in time and woven into haunting electronic musical compositions. We also talk about d...

Bought by WJCT, KMUN, WCQS, WNMU-FM, WNSB and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Music of the Glaciers (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
Caption: Composer Matthew Burtner, Credit: Matthew Burtner
Listen to how the sounds of melting glaciers are being frozen in time and woven into haunting electronic musical compositions. We also talk about d...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
2017-06-25 Water Whiplash
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Barton "Buzz" Thompson, Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Credit: Ed Ritger
Over the past few years, many parts of the country have experienced wetter wets and drier drys. California has seen five years of severe drought – ...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KWIT, KHSU, RadioFreePalmer, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
2017-06-11 Inheriting Climate Change: What Will Boomers Leave Behind?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Bruce Gibney, Author, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed
Do the baby boomers owe millennials a clean planet? Or is it every generation for itself? Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving their younger...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, KZYX, KWMR, and NPR Now


  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
Measure For Measure: Aclima's Davida Herzl
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Davida Herzl
Galileo said we should, “Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.” This week on Sea Change Radio, we take a look at two ways...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2017-05-14 Amory Lovins: Peak Car Ownership
From: Climate One
Caption: Amory Lovins, Co-Founder, Rocky Mountain Institute
Will the rapid arrival of robotic cars lead to the blissful end of traffic? Or will autonomous cars merely put drivers out of work and clog our str...

Bought by MPR News Stations


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Exploring the link between immune system disease and the environment
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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The recent rapid rise of diseases that affect the immune system (like rheumatoid arthritis or inflammatory bowel disease) suggest that factors in t...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 17:21
  • Purchases: 1
Invasion of the Lionfish Snatchers
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Erika Angle
Perhaps it’s cold comfort but it turns out that we human beings are not the only species on earth hell-bent on destroying our own habitat. We share...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio, Will Allen, Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Do you know the real cost of cheap food? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Will Alle...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending April 14, 2017
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: With Rollback of Obama Climate Regulations, Trump Declares War on Planet E...

Bought by WMUU-LP and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Apr 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
RDD: Innovating Food
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll hear from Rebecca Singer from CIFT Innovations.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:48
U of MN "Super Sponge" can clean mercury from lakes
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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A research team at the U of MN has developed a sponge that can absorb mercury from a polluted water source in seconds. WTIP's Dave TerSteeg talked ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 12:04
Anonymous Engineer Discusses Gold Mining
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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Did you know that a metric ton of electronic waste can contain 8 to 16 ounces of gold? Whether we like it or not, precious metals show up in more t...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
2017-03-12 Remaking the Planet
From: Climate One
Caption: Oliver Morton, The Economist, Credit: Ed Ritger
In an emergency, we’re told to “break the glass” and reach for the fire extinguisher. Some would argue we’re in the midst of a climate emergency –...

Bought by KRZA, KZYX, and KMUD


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
2017-02-19 Can Clean Tech Clean Up Our Future?
From: Climate One
Caption: Holmes Hummel, Founder, Clean Energy Works, Credit: Ed Ritger
With stock market values at near-record highs, how is the clean tech sector doing? What technologies are most promising for making money and getti...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Carbon Eating Microbes Make Fish Food
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Planet Watch
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Merc Martinelli and Brian Sefton, owners of Oak Bio, discuss their company's plans to use carbon from the atmosphere to create products like fish f...

Bought by KFOI Radio and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 2