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In this episode, we explore carbon offsets, and how their promise as a way to mitigate carbon emissions - and thus climate change - have not yet pa...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
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Dog is My Copilot Founder, President, and Pilot, Dr Peter Ernest Rork is a retired Orthopedic Surgeon that is Saving Mans Best Friend and Building ...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 27:10
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, we explore the impacts of News Deserts and Ghost Newspapers - parts of the U.S. where there’s either no local paper, or where the ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nicole Taylor
This past year has been trying for everyone, with the economically vulnerable particularly hard hit. In a heartening turn, there has been an uptick...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, we discuss the current state of California’s climate - how it’s changed in recent years, and what we face in 2021, including a sig...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: headshot: Laura Specker Sullivan
In this episode, we explore the role and power of language - words and phrases - in how we discuss the issues that affect us and that drive our new...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
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In this episode, we explore how journalists experience trauma and manage - or fail to manage - the stressors that are inherent to the job. My guest...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
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In his recent book, Rural Rebellion, author and journalist Ross Benes takes a multi-decade look at how Nebraska went from being a progressive state...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Former NSA analyst Reality Leigh Winner was convicted in 2018 of leaking information about Russian hacking into the 2016 American elections. She re...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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The Psycology of the Covid-19 Health Crisis. A look at Mental Health and Media Use with Clinical Psycologist Dr Russell Bourne. In practice for ove...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 13, 2021
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Experts have warned us that COVID-19 is just one example of climate change-related diseases on the rise. And while climate disruption, environmenta...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
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Experts have warned us that COVID-19 is just one example of climate change-related diseases on the rise. And while climate disruption, environmenta...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
Caption: Logo: La Casa de las Madres
In this episode, we discuss domestic violence – an issue that affects one third of women and teen girls in the U.S. As the COVID-19 pandemic has le...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 05, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dave Kaplan
In this episode, we explore how to inform publics through a nonprofit journalism model, and the importance of bringing journalists together and sup...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
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Army Futures Command (AFC) is partnering with Austin Community College (ACC) in Texas to create a new Software Factory, which will be a software de...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2020
  • Length: 33:53
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Fear Vs. Fact with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Author of A Sensible & Compassionate Anti-COVID Strategy.  Dr Jay Bhattacharya is a Professor of Medicine a...

Bought by WCNY and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Logo: News In Context, Credit: Joyce Cheng
Welcome to News in Context. I’m Gina Baleria. In this episode, we take a closer look at journalism – in particular how news outlets covered the 20...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
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About 70 percent of Americans - Democrats, Independents and Republicans - say the election caused a significant amount of stress. That’s up from ab...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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The 2020 campaign season has finally come to a close. And days after November 3rd has passed, the country is still reeling. About seventy percent o...

Bought by WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
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In this episode, we talk with four college students from and/or attending school in the Bay Area - all of them taking classes right now online. Th...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
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Can we break up the political log jam on climate? “The brokenness of our politics,” says Republican political strategist Stephen Schmidt, “is tha...

Bought by WAMU, WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 8
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Can we break up the political log jam on climate? “The brokenness of our politics,” says Republican political strategist Stephen Schmidt, “is tha...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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How can Philanthropy help bring a silver lining during the dark cloud of Covid-19 ? With Elizabeth Barbella President of The Community Foundation M...

Bought by WCNY and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Twenty years ago, Julia Roberts won an Oscar for her portrayal of maverick environmental activist Erin Brockovich in the film of the same name. The...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
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Wildfires are nothing new – they’ve been part of the west’s ecology for millennia. But burning fossil fuels and suppressing the burning of forests ...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 58:57