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Could Hydrogen Be Our Energy Future?
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. Julio Friedmann, a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, and Dr. Steve Hamburg, the Chief Scien...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 10, 2024
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 1
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
Plastic in the Placenta with Dr. Marcus Garcia
From: Doug Wood
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The scientist who isolated tiny pieces of plastic in human placenta tissue is our guest.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 1
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
The BabySafe Project with Patti Wood
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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After discussing the environmental news, Patti & Doug talk about how and why to protect your baby from wireless radiation.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 1
2024-05-10 Big Plastic: The New Big Oil
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that the...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 10
240510: Big Plastic: The New Big Oil, 5/10/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that the...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
240419: Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts , 4/19/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
2024-04-19 Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
794-An Apollo Space Rock to Follow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Itakowa, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carjaval was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Minor with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. ...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Children's Health & the Environment with Dr. Mark Miller
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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The Director Emeritus of the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unity at UC San Francisco talks about children and their environmental exposu...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 28:19
  • Purchases: 1
The H2O Situation with John Rumpler
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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Attorney and Environment America's water specialist John Rumpler talks about the threats to our water.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2
Drinking Plastic with Mike Belliveau
From: Doug Wood
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Every plastic bottle is filled with hundreds of thousands of tiny pieces of plastic. Here's what you need to know.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 28:25
Testing for Toxins with Leah Segedie
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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Mamavation is the leading site for independent testing of consumer products. We talk with founder Leah Segedie.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 1
Is Wireless Tech Making You Sick?
From: Doug Wood
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The story of Ruth Moss, her smart meter, and her fight to establish a single name for the physical symptoms of exposure to RF radiation.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Stink Over PFAS with Tracy Frisch
From: Doug Wood
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Scientist Dr. Tracy Frisch explains why spreading fertilizer from sewage sludge is a really bad idea.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 1
240112: Pairing Scientists with Community Advocates, 1/12/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're stru...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
Planetary Boundaries Breached
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Six out of nine planetary systems key to the survival of the human species are under threat. Is Earth still a safe operating space for human beings...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:33
Poisoning the Hudson...Again - with Dr. Gordon Edwards
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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What's wrong with dumping a million gallons of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River?

Bought by WRFA-LP, WYAP, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 3
05-17: Nature’s Phoenix: Fire As Medicine, 9/6/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Chad Hanson
Contemporary Western fire science is integrating what Indigenous Peoples discovered over thousands of years of observation, and trial and error: fi...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 18
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:14
The Environmental Nightmare of Plastic with Erica Cirino
From: Doug Wood
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was just the beginning for author and photographer Erica Cirino.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:25
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 16
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Sandra Witelson, Credit: David Kattenburg
Powerful new antibiotics discovered using artificial intelligence. Sitting in a restaurant, staring at a piece of fish. Is it really that expensive...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:52
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 13
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Long Covid -- a complex ailment driving lots of people down. Moms, babies and bacteria -- the relationship starts before you’re born, then you’re c...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 57:27