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This Week in Water for July 31, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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One Solution to the Climate Crisis is...a Pane in the Glass. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 6
What's the environmental impact of living our lives online?
From: Possibly
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Since the pandemic started, we’ve learned how to move our classes, meetings, and even parties online. It’s definitely convenient, but I’ve been won...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 25, 2022
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 3
2022-07-22 Turning Down the Heat: Decarbonizing Cement and Steel
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Along with aviation, the construction industry is one of the hardest to decarbonize sectors in the global economy. Cement and steel production toge...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Maine Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
20220722: Turning Down the Heat: Decarbonizing Cement and Steel, 7/22/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Along with aviation, the construction industry is one of the hardest to decarbonize sectors in the global economy. Cement and steel production toge...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
How does space travel compare to taking a plane ride?
From: Possibly
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Today we’re answering a question from listener Molly Magid. She wants to know- what are the environmental impacts of space travel and how does it c...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 2
This Week in Water for July 10, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How Salt Can Predict Rain. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KMXT, KRZA, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2022
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 4
Does my charger still use power when it's not connected to a phone?
From: Possibly
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Today, we have a question from Michael in Charlestown, Rhode Island. He wants to know: does a charger still use some power when it's plugged into a...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 2
06-24-2022 Rebuilding for Climate: Successful City Strategies
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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83% of people in the United States live in urban areas. And these days that’s where important climate progress is happening. Cities all over the co...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KGUA, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
20220624: Rebuilding for Climate: Successful City Strategies, 6/24/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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83% of people in the United States live in urban areas. And these days that’s where important climate progress is happening. Cities all over the co...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
699-Last One(485)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The last of the day's sunlight pokes through a monsoon storm building up over the northwest area of the valley, generating lightning strikes but little precipitation, Saturday, July 8, 2017, Tucson, Ariz., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed break...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Can you put your recycling and trash in one bin?
From: Possibly
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Imagine if you didn’t have a recycling bin anymore- You just put everything in the trash, but somehow the reusable stuff still got recycled? Some p...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
Neel Dhanesha: Nurdle Hurdles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petr...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Water for May 22, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Ships that Run on Ocean Plastic. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 6
695-A Large Visitor(480)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Can the grid handle charging lots of electric cars?
From: Possibly
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Last week, we broke down the basics of how our electric grid works. Today, we're tackling a more specific question. If we all switch over to elec...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 1
How does our electricity grid work?
From: Possibly
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With the effects of climate change all around us, there's a push to power more of our lives with renewable electricity, including things that used ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Water for May 1, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Using Old Face Masks to Cut Carbon. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio, KRZA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 01, 2022
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 7
Do we use more or less energy on air conditioning than we used to?
From: Possibly
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With the weather getting warmer, I’ve been thinking about air conditioning. I know that ACs are getting more efficient, but more people are using t...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 25, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Water for April 24, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Denver Is Using Its Sewage to Fight Climate Change. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRZA, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2022
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 6
Should I buy online or in the store?
From: Possibly
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These days, we can buy almost anything we want online—fancy food, designer clothes, new computers, the works. But is all this online shopping creat...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 1
689-Botswana Bound(471)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the asteroid 2018 LA scattered over a wide area in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve., Credit: Alexande Proyer
A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course wi...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
2022-04-08 Can We Get Clean Energy Without Dirty Mines?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Global sales of electric vehicles more than doubled in 2021. Projections for this year are for another huge gain as more automakers introduce more ...

Bought by WGCU, Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
20220408: Can We Get Clean Energy Without Dirty Mines?, 4/8/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Global sales of electric vehicles more than doubled in 2021. Projections for this year are for another huge gain as more automakers introduce more ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
687-Returnee(465)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Is it possible to turn my gas car into an electric vehicle?
From: Possibly
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Two years ago, we aired an episode responding to a question from a listener named Monica. She wanted to know if it was possible to convert her gas ...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 2