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2018-06-10: Al Gore and Bill Nye
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Looking for a movie that takes climate science to the masses? In the first part of this week’s episode, former Vice President Al Gore joins Climate...

Bought by WJCT, KUHF, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KPIP-LP, KCBX and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
World Oceans Day
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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On June 8th we celebrate World Oceans Day, an annual day set aside to recognize our relationship with the ocean through global connection. In this ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
2018-05-20 Paris Progress Report
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In June 2017, President Trump announced his plan to withdraw the country from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, claiming it disadvantaged the United S...

Bought by WJCT, KPIP-LP, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, NPR Now and more


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
Vital Emergency Response Programs
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Shaky Ground
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Geologist Lori Dengler talks about NOAA's National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program. This program provides and facilitates vital warning systems a...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fight Power With Power
From: Cooler Earth
Series: Cooler Earth Podcast
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What if we could create a profoundly more equitable world? Renewable energy has the potential to disrupt power dynamics created by fossil fuels, bu...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 23:00
A Dystopian Future
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Kotkin
Population growth is causing us to rethink our urban and suburban lifestyles, and with that, redesigning cities is a new fad.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nature and the Rule of Law, part two
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part 2 of a two-part series on environmental law, host Peter Neill provides a series of examples of systems w...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 05:14
Grand Canyon for Sale
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Stephen Nash
Using the Grand Canyon as the trailhead for his book, journalist Stephen Nash sounds an alarm of urgency for protecting our national parks.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Notes from the Economist Ocean Summit (and from the Center of the Earth)
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently returned from the Economist World Ocean Summit in Cancún, Mexico where he gathered with 400 ocean leade...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2018
  • Length: 05:52
2018-03-11 Dooley and Pelosi: Bridging the Partisan Divide
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Christine Pelosi and Debbie Dooley
Executive Committeewoman of Democratic National Committee Christine Pelosi, as well as staunch Trump supporter and clean energy advocate, Debbie Do...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
Toward the Tipping Point
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jeremy Lent
In November, 2017, over fifteen thousand scientists from 184 countries issued a warning to humanity.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2018-02-04 EPA Then and Now
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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It was in 1970, under President Nixon, that the Environmental Protection Agency was founded. While the Agency enjoyed tremendous bipartisan support...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KUNM, KWIT, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
March for the Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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On June 9th, 2018, a March For The Ocean (M4O) will take place in Washington, D.C. and in cities around the world. In this episode of World Ocean R...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Christopher Bosso Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps, is the largest expenditure in our Federal Fa...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Revolution: Tom Shadyac Part 2 #202 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Hollywood director Tom Shadyac traded a mansion and private jets for a mobile home and a bicycle. He had found the traditional trappings of success...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Arctic Futures, Part Five
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker YAMAL. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Who Owns the Economic Rights to Arctic Resources? This week on World Ocean Radio: part five of a multi-part series on the Arctic. In this episode, ...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2017
  • Length: 05:12
Nature Doesn't Negotiate: Robert Jensen #112 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“One of the ways that radical ideas become more mainstream is when those of us who hold them aren’t afraid to speak about them.” This thought has g...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Arctic Futures, Part One
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Glacial Ice growler. New Alesund, Svalbard, Norway, Credit: Thomas Hallermann/Marine Photobank
This week on World Ocean Radio: part one of a four-part series on the Arctic. In this episode, host Peter Neill examines governance, oversight, res...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:57
Running on Empty: Rex Weyler #109 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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As a young man, Rex Weyler joined early Greenpeace expeditions to document and stop commercial whaling. He went on to co-found Greenpeace Internati...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Interview w/ enviornmentalist JAMES "Gus" SPETH about his memoir "Angels By the River"
From: Out of Bounds
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Speth focuses on his memoir 'Angels By the River:Reflections on Race, Environment, Politics and Living on the Front Lines of Change.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Cruel Hoax: Stephanie Mills #106 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Stephanie Mills made headlines in the Spring of 1969 when she vowed, in her commencement address (titled The Future is a Cruel Hoax), to conceive n...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, KTRL, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
2017-08-27 Jane Mayer: Behind Dark Money
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Who are the people bankrolling our political system? New Yorker writer Jane Mayer takes us behind the scenes and exposes the powerful group of indi...

Bought by KWIT, WLPR , KMUD, KZUM, and NPR Now


  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
About World Ocean Observatory
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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After more than 430 episodes of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill takes this week to outline what the World Ocean Observatory does, and the ways ...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
Build it and Then What?
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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He saw it coming. John thought that water would not be an issue but the County and State of Washington had not quite worked out how groundwater tha...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 05:58
The Ocean Conference Revisited
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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As a follow up to a World Ocean Radio episode from mid-May, we offer an overview of the Ocean Conference in New York last week which sought to reac...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 04:46