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761: You're Not OK. That's OK. / 762: Writing The Climate Change Story, 1/21/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "You're Not OK. That's OK." - One of our producers created a yard sign. It reads: "You're not OK. That's OK." 300 signs later, it's causi...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
221223: This Year in Climate, 12/23/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves through global energy markets, destabilized international food security, and continues to kee...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
Bill McKibben & Akaya Windwood: Boomers, Big Banks & Solving the Climate Crisis (Release Date: 10/12/2022)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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(Release Date: 10/12/2022) Hey Boomers: When it comes to the climate crisis, are you the problem, the solution or both? In this episode Laura sits...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, WNYE and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Constant Wonder - Where Is Hope? Towns Rebuild Their "Lifescapes" After Disaster Strikes
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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After the Camp Fire consumed the town of Paradise, CA, the high school football team played a special role in bringing the town back to life.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Captains for Clean Water on The Front Lines of the War to Save Planet Earth.
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Captains for Clean Water on The Front Lines of the War to Save Planet Earth. We have a conversation with Captain Chris Wittman, Co-Founder, that tr...

Bought by KVSC and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 26:57
  • Purchases: 2
Conservation Corps MN/IA with Hollis Emery
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Today on DCK, we learn about Conservation Corps Minnesota and Iowa, which is an AmeriCorps agency that provides opportunities for young people to w...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 27, 2022
  • Length: 19:12
  • Purchases: 1
What you believe in will carry you through
From: Jody Porter
Caption: Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug is a fly-in First Nation in northern Ontario, Canada, Credit: Jody Porter
After saying no to a mining company, six Indigenous leaders from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug in northern Ontario, Canada, were sent to jail. They'...

  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:05
Earth Day- Greenpeace at 50: The Climate Crisis is a Fight Not an Argument
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this special feature for Earth Day, we focus on just one group: Greenpeace, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The environmental group h...

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


  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Clean Truck Coalition Puts Pedal to the Metal
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Sierra Club staff and volunteers attending virtual meeting of California Air Resources Board, Credit: Sierra Club
Activists accelerate states' switch to zero emission big rigs

Bought by WFHB, KICI Iowa City, and WFHB


  • Added: Apr 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
EE 22-13: Ask Frances Moore Lappé what’s changed since her 1971 groundbreaking book, 3/25/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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It started as a one-page handout and grew into a multi-million copy best seller. Lappé shares the origin story of Diet for a Small Planet, and whe...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
Your Neighborhood in your Hands: A Model from the South Bronx
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Real estate development conjures up images of gentrification with sleek buildings and polished store fronts often built under the guise of urban re...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
12-14: Is Nothing Sacred? A Spiritual Response to the Ecological Crisis, 11/10/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Dekila Chungyalpa
Religion is the oldest, most compelling moral framework for social action. As director of World Wildlife Fund’s Sacred Earth Program, Buddhist Deki...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Building Concrete Ecological Solutions That Go Beyond Concrete
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The climate crisis seems to be in full effect. Everywhere one looks, historic storms, droughts, fire, and floods are wreaking havoc on society and ...

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


  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Raj Patel and Rupa Marya, INFLAMED & Jimmie Allen, MY VOICE IS A TRUMPET
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with physician and activist Rupa Marya and her co-author writer and food activist Raj Patel about their book, Inflamed: Deep Medicine and t...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Shades of Blue
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio we reflect on "blue" and the profound stages of meaning beyond the color of the sea and sky to encompass depth, stab...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:57
The Future of Energy is Indigenous: Water Protectors v.s. Enbridge's Line3 Pipeline
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As Canadian oil giant Enbridge defies orders to shut down their dangerous Line 5 pipeline in Michigan, indigenous environmental activists gain mome...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KWMR, and KVNF


  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
210604: Finding the Heart to Talk About Climate, 6/4/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Ever have a difficult conversation about climate? Pretty much everyone has. Knowing all the facts and figures only goes so far when talking to some...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
GN_3.12_ #NoDAPL
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Peaceful activists come together to protect sacred Native American land from the cruel, crude oil industry.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.32_San Fran Styro Ban
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Styrofoam has long been the bane of environmentalists. In San Francisco, this harmful material is finally getting banned.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.56_Nature As A Person
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Nature is just as alive as any human, so why doesn't it have rights? Thanks to 25 youth activists in Columbia , that's changing for part of the Ama...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.62_Turtle Triumph
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A local lawyer, and environmentalist proves many hands make light work by encouraging Mumbai citizens to help clean up beaches and save the Olive R...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM


  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Saving COVID's Car Free Streets
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Activists organize to preserve COVID's silver lining, streets safe for cyclists that provide routes across the city.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WFHB


  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
GN_3.26_Life After Life
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Why be buried in a casket when you can be buried as a tree? Bios urns are giving people a second shot at life after death.

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_4.08_Small Town Buzz
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Bees are good for much more than stinging. With bee populations rapidly declining, Cedar Rapids is finding a way to give them a second shot.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_6.34_ Tree Army
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In an effort to combat their high levels of air pollution and reduce their carbon footprint, the People’s Liberation Army has deployed over 60,000 ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24