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Will Solar & Wind Power Our Future? Part 2
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Leia Guccione and Robert Bryce continue the conversation about whether or not solar and wind could one day power the world.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 03, 2024
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 1
Will Solar & Wind Power Our Future? Part 1
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Robert Bryce, a best-selling author, and Leia Guccione, Managing Director of Carbon Free Electricity at RMI, discuss solar and wind energy.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 2
What’s the Future of Natural Gas?
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. Naomi Boness, Managing Director of the Natural Gas Initiative at Stanford University and Rachel Fakhry, Analyst for the Climate & Clean Air pro...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 18, 2024
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 1
How Should We Respond To Climate Change?
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. Steve Koonin, a former U.S. Secretary of Science, and Dr. Michael Greenstone, Director of the Energy Policy Institute at University of Chicago,...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 1
2023-12-29 REWIND: Just a Walk or Bike Ride Away: The 15-Minute City
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Can you imagine if everything you needed in your everyday life was just a walk or bike ride away? That’s the goal of the 15-minute city, a new name...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KCBX, Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KALW and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 13
231229: REWIND: Just a Walk or Bike Ride Away: The 15-Minute City, 12/29/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Can you imagine if everything you needed in your everyday life was just a walk or bike ride away? That’s the goal of the 15-minute city, a new name...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
20230421: Missed Connections: Modernizing Our Multiple Grids, 4/21/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Thousands of renewable energy projects are ready to be built and start producing fossil-free power, but they’re stuck in a long limbo for one essen...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Public or Private Ownership? A Conversation with Blair Levin
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 132: Ever since the last time Chris Mitchell spoke with Blair Levin on Episode 37, we have wanted to have him back for a friendly discussi...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 37:30
Starting Up (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Designed to be the front page of the Internet, Reddit is now one of the most talked about and influential spots on the web. We talk with one of its...

Bought by WCNY, WABE, KUNV, KKRN, and KPVL


  • Added: Apr 03, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 5
Planning with Water, Part 4
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill continues discussion of the global water crisis. This week he talks about water audits conduc...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 05:31
The Future of Higher Education (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The decision by Harvard and MIT to begin providing free courses to anyone, anywhere sparked an intense debate about the future of a bricks and mort...

Bought by WCNY, KPVL, CHSR-FM 97.9, KKRN, and Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
Pathways to Exploration: Space Analyst John Logsdon on the National Research Council Human Spaceflight Report
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Gemini Spacewalker, Credit: NASA
The National Research Council released its long-awaited report June 4th. Distinguished space policy analyst John Logsdon returns to Planetary Radi...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
New Treatments for Lymphoma and Heart Disease
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Discussions with renowned doctors about advances in both lymphoma and heart disease.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WEZU, WLIW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Affordable Healthcare: From Dr Bob Lahita's Point of View
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Making Sense of Affordable Healthcare for February 18, 2014. From Dr. Bob Lahita's Point of View

  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 42:45
The Future of Higher Education (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In May of 2012, Harvard and MIT announced a partnership to provide free courses to anyone, anywhere, sparking an intense debate about the future of...

Bought by WCNY and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2
Keeping Tabs: Personal Data Collection in America
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: An enumerator interviews a woman for the 1940 census, Credit: National Archives
In June, Americans learned that the NSA has been collecting data on millions of American’s phone calls, and tapping into data gathered by tech comp...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUFT, KBRP Community Radio, KREV-LP, WRPI and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Coming Prosperity
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In spite of the current state of the economy, the next 25 years will see an unprecedented rise in human wellbeing.

  • Added: Sep 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Voting Databases
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
New voter databases may leave some registered voters off the list

Bought by WSCS-FM


  • Added: Sep 18, 2006
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 1
Cyber Crime
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Cyber Crime's impact on the average computer user can be expensive

  • Added: Jun 08, 2006
  • Length: 04:08