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2018-12-16 Mind Over Chatter: Exploring Climate Psychology
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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We all know about the environmental and physical effects of climate change. But what about its impact on our mental health? Therapists report that ...

Bought by WJCT, KVNF, KZYX, NPR Now, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
2018-11-18 Are Human Lives Improving?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In their 1968 book The Population Bomb, Paul and Anne Ehrlich warned of the dangers of overpopulation. These included mass starvation, societal uph...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KBBI Alaska, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
All Creatures Great and Small: The Vanishing Vaquita
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brooke Bessesen
How splendid would it be if humans could somehow find a way to truly co-exist with the rest of the planet’s creatures? This week on Sea Change Radi...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
2018-11-04 Prosperity and Paradox: A Conversation with Arlie Hochschild and Eliza Griswold
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Red states, blue states – when it comes to our environment, are we really two different Americas? New Yorker writer Eliza Griswold spent time in so...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, Prairie Public, KWIT, KFOI Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 7
Sammy Roth on Desert Water Tussles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
As more and more of the western United States suffers from warmer temperatures and in some places desertification, water has become perhaps the mos...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Anthony, Adams Esq.: A Deeply Romantic Public Defender, etc.
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Our guest in this edition of Radio Curious is Anthony Adams, Esq., is currently, among other things, a Deputy Public Defender in Mendocino County, ...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
2018-07-29 We’re Doomed – Now What?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Dr. Matthew Fox
Can changing our consciousness hold off the climate apocalypse? When we think about the enormity of climate change and what it’s doing to our plane...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WGCU, KWIT, KFOI Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
A Targeted Divide: Crime, Decline, and the Rise of the Citizen-Protector
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Act for America" (anti-Muslim rally), Lansing, Michigan, Credit: Theresa Rosado
For our second show in our three-part series, A Targeted Divide, we bring you “Crime, Decline, and the Rise of the Citizen-Protector: How the Meani...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
Rafael Mandelman: Inner City Blues
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rafael Mandelman
Futurists, environmentalists and planners alike generally believe that humans living in more densely populated areas has benefits for the earth – c...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Making America Patriotic Again with Jorge Bernardo National Monument Tour Guide Extraordinaire
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Making America Patriotic Again with Jorge Bernardo National Monument tour guide extraordinaire. Mr. Bernardo helps thousands relive & believe in t...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2018
  • Length: 27:17
  • Purchases: 2
Confronting Nazi Art Looting in the 21st Century
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Phillips de Koninick, Portrait of a Boy, 1673, Eskenazi Museum of Art 2001.45.
From 1933 until the end of World War II, a number of Nazi units known as the Kuntschutz, plundered gold, silver and important art works from all ov...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:37
Mentally Ill, Stuck in Jail
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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If you commit a crime in Utah and a judge says you’re too mentally ill to defend yourself in court, you’ll get sent to Utah State Hospital in Provo...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 17:45
  • Purchases: 1
Exceptions Aren’t the Rule: When Grit Isn’t Enough
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is the founding headmaster of The Boston Arts Academy, Boston’s first public high school for the visual and performing arts, Linda Nathan...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
Indivisible: Sam Ball and Joan Blades on the American Creed
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Sam Ball
Can’t we all just get along? That’s the hope of Sam Ball, the director of the new documentary film, American Creed, which tells a story of the Amer...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Exceptions Aren’t the Rule: When Grit Isn’t Enough
From: Volunteer Staff
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Our guest is the founding headmaster of The Boston Arts Academy, Boston’s first public high school for the visual and performing arts, Linda Nathan...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
Daniel Monti MD on how Jefferson University & Hospital is taking Integrative Medicine Education and Practices to new Heights.
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Dr. Daniel Monti choses Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" to release this amazing announcement first. Making History with Firsts as a Hospital...

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The New Minority (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A look at what's motivating Trump's most loyal base - The invention of immigration - Why getting facts on immigration is so tough - Inside one of V...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
The New Minority (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A look at what's motivating Trump's most loyal base - The invention of immigration - Why getting facts on immigration is so tough - Inside one of V...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
The New Minority (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A look at what's motivating Trump's most loyal base - The invention of immigration - Why getting facts on immigration is so tough

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Evolution of AIDS
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Human hands unwittingly unleashed the AIDS epidemic and can now overcome it, if we learn the lessons of the past. This week on Interchange guest ho...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:04
The Bluff of the Century: Nixon, Alger Hiss, and the Cold War
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Congressman Nixon & Robert Stripling examine Pumpkin Papers microfilm
The conviction of Alger Hiss for perjury in 1950, continues to define the terms of what it means to American. But the definition seems always profe...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WRGY


  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Degrees of Separation: School Systems (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the debate over charters, examine new ways school distric...

Bought by WHFR and WCPN


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Degrees of Separation: School Systems (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the debate over charters, examine new ways school distric...

Bought by WHFR, KWMR, WMUU-LP, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Degrees of Separation: School Systems (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the heated debate over charters.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Degrees of Separation: School Systems (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the debate over charters, examine new ways school distric...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1