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Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
It’s Been a Year Since the East Palestine Toxic Train Derailment. Since then, the Rail Industry Spent Millions in Congress to Stop More Regulation.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WUTC, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Dan Dicker
It's hard not to notice how sky high gas prices are these days. Perhaps the universe is trying to tell us something about our personal transportati...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Jon Goldstein
In discussions about climate change we talk a lot about carbon dioxide, and with good reason. But did you know that per molecule, methane actually ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Alex Kotch
They say charity is a virtue, but sometimes it’s a little more complicated. The donor advised fund or DAF, has been a financial instrument for char...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rebecca Leber
Environmental, social and corporate governance, referred to as ESG, is a set of factors that conscientious capitalists use to identify worthy inves...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Ryan caught up with the former treasury secretary — and thorn in the side of Biden White House economists — Larry Summers on the sidelines of the A...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 40:25
Caption: Jesse Tran
According to a study conducted by Quantis International, footwear production is responsible for about 700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, or...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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
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Worries that real estate investors are buying multi-unit housing properties in San Francisco, then evicting tenants to turn a quick buck. has promp...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Tim Schwab
Are billionaire-backed philanthropies making the world a better place or are they pernicious sleeper cells? The answer may be one of those "both/an...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Celia Ouellette
People sometimes like to quote that Bible passage about “an eye for an eye” when justifying a punitive criminal justice system focused on retributi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Richard Heinberg
It’s out with the old and in with, if not something completely new, something very different. This week on Sea Change Radio, we mark the end of the...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: James Quilligan
What is the American dollar based on? It was based on the gold standard until 1971 when it transitioned to a floating monetary system. This week’s ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This a news radio piece about a cannabis business conference in San Francisco, and more largely, about the weed industry in California, a year into...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 13:04
Caption: Ramez Naam
If you've been wondering what people mean when they talk about a Green New Deal, today's episode of Sea Change Radio should help. This week we air ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Fatih Saat
Shelter is on the first rung of renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow‘s hierarchy of needs. And yet, as a society, we have not cracked the code for ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Back in the 1930s, when the US was in the midst of an economic crisis, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt enacted a set of policies to protect the...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Carter Rubin
The first time you saw a fleet of rent-able electric scooters huddled together on a city sidewalk, what was your reaction? Annoyance at yet another...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Mark Hertsgaard
Last week in San Francisco, scientists, thought leaders, politicians and celebrities all gathered for the Global Climate Action Summit. Mark Hertsg...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Graham Sinclair
There is a nearly constant scroll of bad news passing before our eyes, from rampant income inequality and raging wildfires to climate devastation a...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Keith Schneider
Over the last few decades, the skyline of Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur has mushroomed – a conglomeration of skyscrapers highlighted by The Petro...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: The U.S. Capitol dome is seen bathed in golden early morning sunlight., Credit: jantos/Flickr
All the legal marijuana news and headlines for Thursday, June 28, 2018.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 10:07
Caption: A pair of well-budded marijuana colas are in focus against a blurry indoor background of green sister plants., Credit: Mark/Flickr
All the legal marijuana news and headlines for Wednesday, June 27, 2018.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2018
  • Length: 09:37
Caption: The frame is filled with green marijuana leaves shot from overhead as they just start to bud., Credit: Casino Collection/Flickr
All the legal marijuana news and headlines for Tuesday, June 26, 2018.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2018
  • Length: 10:13
Caption: Marijuana entrepreneur Alison Ettell is seen in a screenshot while on the phone calling police on an 8-year-old girl for selling water on the sidewalk., Credit: Twitter
All the legal marijuana news and headlines for Monday, June 25, 2018.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2018
  • Length: 09:56