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Forever chemicals with Dr. David Bond
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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The sad story of, and everything you need to now about, PFAS.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:43
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 17 - 'Ecological Reality' feat Dr. Julian Caldecott
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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How changing our hearts and minds will change how we approach our relationship with the planet.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
Gender Justice Requires more than Money say the Feminists Taking on Philanthropy during Covid
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently made a splash by donating nearly $3 billion to more than 280 nonprofits working in ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Cults in America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Robert Jay Lifton
Following decades researching cults, Robert Jay Lifton concludes “that the psychological relationship between extremist political movements and fan...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Naomi Klein on the Case for a Green New Deal
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Author and activist Naomi Klein discusses her new book, On Fire, in which she argues that addressing the climate crisis requires more than simply r...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Radicalized
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cory Doctorow
How we deal with the possibilities of tomorrow are very dependent on how we handle those possibilities today. Sounds simple, however, even when we ...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Skin Off His Back: Exposing the North to Slavery's Lash
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:25
313: What Is Wrong With Men? / 314: The Art of Reinvention, 10/6/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "What Is Wrong With Men?" - The Proud Boys are a fraternal drinking club that thinks feminism has gone to far. We'll share their story as...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Near-Term Human Extinction: Guy McPherson #218 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Award-winning scientist Dr. Guy McPherson has concluded that for human civilization, the end is near. He advises the rate of change of our climate ...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
SOUND and FURY Radio: Praise and Pass Redux
From: David Goodman
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Produced for the radio program "SOUND and FURY," this feature is a reaction to the mass shooting in Las Vegas (and elsewhere) and explores our att...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 13:48
243: What Is Wrong With Men? / 244: Time Travel, 2/3/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "What Is Wrong With Men?" - The Proud Boys are a fraternal drinking club that thinks feminism has gone to far. We'll share their story as...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
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
Lying to Ourselves: Lorna Salzman #108 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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What went wrong with the environmental movement? Environmental activist, organizer and author Lorna Salzman shares her thoughts about climate chan...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Near-Term Human Extinction: Guy McPherson #218
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Award-winning scientist Dr. Guy McPherson has concluded that for human civilization, the end is near. He advises the rate of change of our climate ...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Jun 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Deadly River: Cholera & Cover-Up in Post Earthquake Haiti
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Epidemiology Professor Ralph Frerichs
A controversy involving United Nations Peacekeeping forces, the World Health Organization, and scientists --- not to mention the people of Haiti -...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
St. Martin Mayor Jim Rothstein Speaks at the Stearns History Museum about the JFK Assassination
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s edition of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack sits down with St. Martin Mayor Jim R...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 31:27
Unspun Ringside With Paul Beckwith, Climate Researcher, At COP21 - Paris
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Paul Beckwith
Paul Beckwith, engineer, physicist, climate researcher, talks with us from COP21 Climate Summit in Paris. He has been reporting back on his blog: ...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 58:10
Do You Believe Conspiracy Theories?
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO, DECEMBER 2015
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Well, you might believe some, of course. "Watergate" was a conspiracy, indeed.... Touching on a more recent national trauma, author Rob Brotherton ...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Limits to Growth: Dennis Meadows #116
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“Our computer-generated scenarios all showed this growth stopping in the early decades of the 21st century, and, I must say, looking back now, it s...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WMUU-LP, KMUD and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Nature Doesn't Negotiate: Robert Jensen #112
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 Bandon Community Radio, WYAP, WMUU-LP, KRZA, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
WorldCanvass Studio: The Human in Human Rights
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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International writers from the 2015 University of Iowa International Writing Program (IWP) residency join activists and members of the academic com...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Unspun Grieves with Guy McPherson Over the Demise of Homo Sapiens
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Guy McPherson
Guy McPherson, professor emeritus of natural resources and the environment at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2015
  • Length: 59:37
Author Ms. Pinky Stanseski's Book: "The History of Juvenile System and Civil Corruption in Pennsylvania"
From: Ms. Pinky Stanseski
Caption: My book's cover
Ms. Pinky's book:"The History of Juvenile System and Civil Corruption in Pennsylvania"

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:14
Golden Holocaust
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Golden Holocaust cover, Credit: jacket design by Jackie Drooker
The CIGARETTE is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. Few discoveries have been so consequential. So begins the work by his...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
Surveillance by unmanned aircraft...is our privacy at stake?
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently released a report on the growing domestic use of unmanned aircraft for surveillance. Chuck Samue...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 27:44