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2021-04-04 Does Science Over-reach?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are there questions that science is powerless to answer?

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
2018-07-22 Conversations with Climate Storytellers
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: L-R: Andrew Revkin, Elizabeth Kolbert, David Roberts
Science and environmental reporter Andrew Revkin has been writing about climate change since the 1980s, including 21 years for The New York Times. ...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
2018-02-11 Climate On Your Plate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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What should climate-conscious people do to eat most sustainably? How people approach their diet is deeply personal and can be extremely controversi...

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
2017-12-03 High Tide on Main Street
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Kiran Jane, John Englander, and Greg Dalton
The coastline has been basically in the same place for all of human civilization and now that’s changing in very unpredictable and unsettling ways....

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Arctic Fisheries Management
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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As fisheries worldwide are being depleted by over-fishing and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU), interest in an ever-expanding Arc...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 05:16
2017-08-13 A Conversation with Jane Goodall
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For much of her nearly six-decade-long career, Dr. Jane Goodall has worked to raise awareness about the importance of protecting our planet. The Ja...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Who Governs the High Seas?
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Since the creation and ratification of the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), many international experts have debated how be...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:33
2017-07-02 Youth in the Streets and in the Courts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Corina McWilliams, Co-director, Earth Guardians 350 Club, South Eugene High School
As Buffalo Springfield sang in 1967, “There’s something happening here…” But today’s youth revolution is happening far beyond the Sunset Strip. The...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Can Our Connected Lives Be Green and Safe?
From: Climate One
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The "Internet of things" promises a world with smart connected devices such as refrigerators that automatically order food and robots that anticipa...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #105: In Studio: Heroin Town
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Want to know how heroin treatment centers in Canada, the Affordable Care Act, President Trump’s new budget, and Henrietta Lacks all fit into one co...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
2017-01-29 Ecological Intelligence
From: Climate One
Caption: Josh Freedman, George Lakoff, Daniel Goleman, Greg Dalton, Credit: Ed Ritger
Evolution designed our brains to protect us from immediate, day-to-day threats to our survival. But environmental change is a less than clear, less...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Optimism and the Law
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus, Alaskan Arctic , Credit: Marine Bio | Sharing The Wonders of the Ocean
This week we continue the Earth Optimism Series, a 24-episode project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal, to address oc...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:20
Between Two Worlds
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we continue the Earth Optimism Series, a 24-episode project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal, to address oc...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 05:21
Seagrass in Tampa Bay
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In the 20th century, U.S. waterways had become dumping grounds for industrial, urban, and agricultural waste. Today many of these waterways are get...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
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What's Next? (pt 1)
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: thenextsystem.org, Credit: The Next System Project
What is the possibility of a post-capitalism economic model to support the values and behaviors for a new era filled with alternative technologies,...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2015
  • Length: 05:24
The Ebola Agenda
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
Caption: Commentary by John C. Brice, JD
Ebola is Airborne and the Government knows it. But they're telling you it isn't. And they're not closing off air traffic from the affected countr...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:59
Are We Numb to Nukes
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re thinking our way through a plausible nuclear emergency with Elaine Scarry who reminds you – we’ve got a weapons monarchy in this democracy. H...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
Putting the "Eco" Back into Economics with David Suzuki
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: David Suzuki
Author, radio host, and scientist David Suzuki has spent a lifetime working to protect the environment. But he says that work is failing, and a pa...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
181: From Natural System to Social System
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The Ocean, Our Future, Credit: Mario Soares, Independent World Commission on the Future of the Oceans
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that we must move beyond the narrow perception of the ocean as a natural system...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:38
160: Sustainability
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will argue for the ocean as the true commons, a reservoir of natural capital without which t...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 05:34
Atavism -- Groks Science Show 2010-04-07
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
James Rollins discussed atavism in the Alter of Eden.

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2010
  • Length: 22:24
  • Purchases: 1
Healthy Medicine #40: The Stress Response
From: Steven Ayres
Series: Healthy Medicine
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Dr. Zieve talks with international consultant and nutritionist Larry Wilson MD about understanding and rebalancing the stress response using hair a...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
  • Length: 48:08
Medea Hypothesis -- Groks Science Show 2009-08-19
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Peter Ward discussed the Medea Hypothesis.

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2009
  • Length: 26:14
  • Purchases: 1
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 ...

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Elevate this!
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Scientists are studying a new emotion: elevation. Ian heads straight for the basement.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2008
  • Length: 02:03