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2019-11-22 Letters to the Boss: Help Fix Our Planet
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Climate change has become a major risk factor for corporations. With groups like the Carbon Disclosure Project grading companies on their carbon fo...

Bought by WJCT, WMUU-LP, WWNO, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 10
2019-12-06 High Risks, High Hopes: A Year of Climate Conversations
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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2019 has been a year of climate rising. Youth activists skipped school and took to the streets, the Green New Deal thrust climate equity into the s...

Bought by WJCT, WRIR, WGBH Radio Boston, KUPR low power FM, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 26
191025: Cities for the Future, 10/25/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Cities around the world are bracing for a growth spurt. With over half of the global population living in urban centers, and another 2.5 billion ex...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
2019-10-25 Cities for the Future
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Cities around the world are bracing for a growth spurt. With over half of the global population living in urban centers, and another 2.5 billion ex...

Bought by WCNY, WJCT, Nevada Public Radio, KWGS, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
191018: Law and Disorder: Climate Change in the Courts, 10/18/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The jury is out on whether our legal system is equipped to deal with climate change. While some parts of the country are inundated by floods, other...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
2019-10-11 Scorched Earth: Culture and Climate Under Siege
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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From the Amazon to the Congo to California, our planet’s forests are being decimated. And along with them, the stability of our climate. Why? Becau...

Bought by WJCT, KTSW 89.9, MPR News Stations, KCPW Salt Lake City, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11
191011: Scorched Earth: Culture and Climate Under Siege, 10/11/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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From the Amazon to the Congo to California, our planet’s forests are being decimated. And along with them, the stability of our climate. Why? Becau...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
190920: A Tale of Two Cities: Miami and Detroit, 9/20/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Climate change is upending Miami’s real estate markets, turning one of its poorest neighborhoods into some of the most desirable real estate around...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
2019-09-20 A Tale of Two Cities: Miami and Detroit
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Climate change is turning one of Miami’s poorest neighborhoods into some of the most desirable real estate around. But there’s only so much Little ...

Bought by WJCT, WMRA, WLPR , Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 7
2019-08-23 Tom Steyer: Power Disruptor?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Businessman and activist Tom Steyer doesn’t just want to impeach President Trump, he wants to replace him. Steyer insists that America’s shortcomin...

Bought by WJCT, WWNO, WMUU-LP, WLPR , KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
2019-08-09 Land of Dreams and Drought
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In his new book The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California, author Mark Arax reveals the tumultuous history behind the myth of abund...

Bought by WJCT, WMUU-LP, WLPR , KFCF FM, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 7
190802: Drawdown: Do We Have What It Takes to Solve Climate Change?, 8/2/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Today’s solutions for addressing climate change are doable, but daunting: decrease global meat consumption, improve family planning, shut down coal...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
190705: Winners and Losers, 7/5/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The new climate reality means that even those living on a hill will be affected by flooding in the valley, and those living in the North will be af...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
Stonewall 100: Riotous Past, Rapturous Futures
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Fifty years ago at The Stonewall Inn, gay pride took the form of a riot, not a parade. Today, the question remains as relevant as ever: Just how do...

Bought by WRIR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
190607: Mindful Travel, 6/7/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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We’ve all heard that hopping on a plane is one of the worst things we can do for the climate. So how do we justify the environmental costs of world...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
2019-05-17 Republicans and a Democrat on Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The Green New Deal is shaking up climate politics in Washington. The resolution’s ambitious clean energy goals are championed by several leading De...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMUU-LP, KFCF FM, KVMR and more


  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 8
190517: Republicans and a Democrat on Climate, 5/17/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The Green New Deal is shaking up climate politics in Washington. The resolution’s ambitious clean energy goals are championed by several leading De...

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
2019-05-03 How Climate Broke California’s Biggest Utility
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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PG&E has had a bad few years. A series of record-breaking wildfires culminating with 2018’s devastating Camp Fire propelled the California utility ...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMUU-LP, KFCF FM, WLPR and more


  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 8
190419: Fighting Fossil Fuels All the Way to Prison, 4/19/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How far would you go to make your voice heard on climate change? College student Tim DeChristopher disrupted an auction for oil and gas leases - an...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KZYX, XRAY.fm, and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
2019-04-19 Fighting Fossil Fuels All the Way to Prison
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How far would you go to make your voice heard on climate change? College student Tim DeChristopher disrupted an auction for oil and gas leases - an...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, NPR Now, KVMR, WDSE and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 7
190308: If Global Warming Exists, Why is it so Cold Outside?, 3/8/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
190315: EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler on Cars, Coal, and Climate, 3/15/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The U.S. Senate recently confirmed Andrew Wheeler as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Greg Dalton sits down for a rare in...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
2019-03-15 EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler on Cars, Coal, and Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The U.S. Senate recently confirmed Andrew Wheeler as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Greg Dalton sits down for a rare in...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, Nevada Public Radio, NPR Now, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
2019-03-08 If Global Warming Exists, Why is it so Cold Outside?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KUHF, KFCF FM, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
2019-02-10 Katharine Hayhoe: Why We Need to Talk About Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Katharine Hayhoe, recipient of the 2018 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Science Communication
Many of us find it daunting to talk with our neighbors, colleagues and family members about climate change. But climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe ...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KBBI Alaska, KVMR, MPR News Stations and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8