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221014: Countdown to COP27: Feeling the Heat, 10/14/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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For decades, scientists and activists have called for action to slow the pace of global warming. The political process has struggled and largely fa...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
What Brittney Griner’s Detention Can Teach Us About Putin’s War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we tell the stories of two Americans detained abroad—not by rogue terrorist groups but established foreign governments.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Oct 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Shifting Sands: Juan Cole on Middle East Climate Woes
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Juan Cole
When it comes to the Middle East and the environment, many of us think first about the area's role in petroleum production. But climate change is h...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Cryptomania: How Cryptocurrency Can Save—or Destabilize—a Country
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we take a deep dive into the global world of cryptocurrency.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Boris Out, Liz In: The Global Impact of the British Election
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we break down the global implications of new British leadership and then travel to Northern Ireland, where the fate of a B...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Sammy Roth of the LA Times: Repowering The West
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
About 24% of the US population resides in the West, a region already profoundly affected by climate change. In 2021 nearly 95% of the American West...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Zero Sum, Zero Change: What Racism Costs Everyone
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this week’s episode of World Affairs, Ray examines the legacy and lived-reality of zero-sum economics at home and abroad.

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Blurred Civilian/Soldier Line? Accountability and Ethics in the Age of Drones
From: Mateo Schimpf
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First, Ray talks with journalist Azmat Khan about accountability remote warfare and later, with professor Shannon French, about the ever-evolving f...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
2022-08-12 The Inflation Reduction Act: What’s in the Sausage?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For nearly six decades, the US government passed no comprehensive climate legislation. Now that’s changed. The Inflation Reduction Act contains app...

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 12
20220812: The Inflation Reduction Act: What’s in the Sausage?, 8/12/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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For nearly six decades, the US government passed no comprehensive climate legislation. Now that’s changed. The Inflation Reduction Act contains app...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
Learning to Listen in Different Ways, with Graham Bodie of the Listen First Project
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Logo: America Talks
It’s no secret that polarization is deepening divides across the US. Over the past few years, many people have started or joined what are called br...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
“Nixing” the Gold Standard: The Secret Meeting Behind Today’s Inflation
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we return to a conversation between NPR’s Chief Economics Correspondent Scott Horsley and economist Jeffrey Garten about Nixon's decisio...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The impact of fentanyl on communities, with SF Substance Use Expert Dr.Phillip Coffin
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore the sharp increase in fentanyl deaths across the country, including in San Francisco and the Bay Area, which had thus f...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Biden’s Ukraine Strategy, At Home and Abroad
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, Ray Suarez discusses President Biden’s Ukraine strategy with US State Department Counselor Derek Chollet. Then, KPBS’s Gust...

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  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
William Moomaw: Climate Change Assessments
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: William Moomaw
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. The scale of recent changes are unprecedented over many centurie...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The End of Neutrality? Finland’s NATO Bid
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode of WorldAffairs, we tackle the question, how does a country–or an individual–survive the threat of Russian aggression?

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  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Can China Erase History in Hong Kong
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week's episode, we hear about the various ways that Beijing is tightening the screws on Hong Kong's freedom of expression, speech, and press.

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
SF Public Defender Peter Calloway Pt. 1: Crime And Moral Panic
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Peter Calloway
In his astute and timeless book, "How to Lie with Statistics," Darrell Huff writes, “The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-mind...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
The Overdose Crisis in San Francisco: Part Two
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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In this episode, the second in a two-part series, we talk to experts about what measures have been taken to address this health crisis, how people ...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Dan Dicker: A Basket Case Study of Oil
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dan Dicker
America loves to blame the President when gas prices are high but the fact is the U.S. President has very little control over the price we pay at t...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Data shows an increase in street fires, but that’s not the whole story
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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A look at homeless encampment fires in the Bay Area with Three journalists at the San Francisco Public Press and Mission Local have been tracking f...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
2022-03-18 Playing With Fire: Russia, Ukraine and the Geopolitics of Energy
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The IPCC released its latest report the same day as the U.S. Supreme Court heard the most environmentally significant case in a decade, all while R...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, WGCU and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
220318: Playing With Fire: Russia, Ukraine and the Geopolitics of Energy, 3/18/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The IPCC released its latest report the same day as the U.S. Supreme Court heard the most environmentally significant case in a decade, all while R...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Anne Clunan on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Anne Clunan
War has suddenly returned to Europe. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been swift, shocking, and devastating. In addition to killing thousands of...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KVNF, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
An American Hostage Story
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we hear Jason Rezaian's story of being held hostage in Iran, and why he thinks it’s essential that the US government and me...

Bought by Classic107.3, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3