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Global Plastics Crisis with Dr. Leo Trasande
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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After the news, Dr. Trasande, a delegate to the UN conference on plastics, talks about plastic as a human health issue.

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 1
The ABC's of PFAS with Tracey Frisch
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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Forever chemicals in fertilizer are getting into the food we eat. Tracey Frisch explains how.

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Forever chemicals with Dr. David Bond
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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The sad story of, and everything you need to now about, PFAS.

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:43
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 17 - 'Ecological Reality' feat Dr. Julian Caldecott
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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How changing our hearts and minds will change how we approach our relationship with the planet.

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
Nuclear Weapons in Space with Karl Grossman
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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How the military is preparing space for the next world war.

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:45
  • Purchases: 2
Blue Light Trouble with Dr. Josh Rosenthal
From: Doug Wood
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Blue light from device screens can upset your body's internal clock with dangerous consequences.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:51
Is This the End of Humans? with Dr. Shanna Swan
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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World renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan has an important warning for couples planning to have a baby.

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 3
Return, Rebury, Repatriate
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.

  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 56:58
The Glyphosate-Autism Connection with Dr. Stephanie Seneff
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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How the world's most popular pesticide is impacting kids

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:18
  • Purchases: 1
Breast Cancer in a Bottle with Polly Marshall
From: Doug Wood
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Chemicals in personal care products millions of women use everyday increase your risk of breast cancer.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:21
Children & Toxins
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Philip Landrigan
Thousands of new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Yet, most of those chemicals ...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Radicalized
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cory Doctorow
How we deal with the possibilities of tomorrow are very dependent on how we handle those possibilities today. Sounds simple, however, even when we ...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Don’t Pull No Punches: Dahr Jamail on the End of Ice
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Ponds on the Ocean" - Sea ice atop the Arctic Ocean. NASA image acquired July 12, 2011
Dahr Jamail asks us to begin to grieve for the world that is surely lost and to find a way toward adaptive change so that something may be salvaged...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 59:09
David Inouye — A passion for pollinators
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with biologist and ecologist, David Inouye.

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Near-Term Human Extinction: Guy McPherson #218 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Award-winning scientist Dr. Guy McPherson has concluded that for human civilization, the end is near. He advises the rate of change of our climate ...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Near-Term Human Extinction: Guy McPherson #218
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Award-winning scientist Dr. Guy McPherson has concluded that for human civilization, the end is near. He advises the rate of change of our climate ...

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Deadly River: Cholera & Cover-Up in Post Earthquake Haiti
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Epidemiology Professor Ralph Frerichs
A controversy involving United Nations Peacekeeping forces, the World Health Organization, and scientists --- not to mention the people of Haiti -...

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  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Limits to Growth: Dennis Meadows #116
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“Our computer-generated scenarios all showed this growth stopping in the early decades of the 21st century, and, I must say, looking back now, it s...

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Nature Doesn't Negotiate: Robert Jensen #112
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“One of the ways that radical ideas become more mainstream is when those of us who hold them aren’t afraid to speak about them.” This thought has g...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Unspun Grieves with Guy McPherson Over the Demise of Homo Sapiens
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Guy McPherson
Guy McPherson, professor emeritus of natural resources and the environment at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2015
  • Length: 59:37
Ebola's Exponential Rate of Contagion
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
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The World Health Organization this week announced a horrendous fact: the number of Ebola cases in West Africa is doubling every 20 days. If this t...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 04:41
"James Rollins discusses The 6th Extinction"
From: Steven Nester
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James Rolllins is the New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers that have been translated into more than forty languages. Known ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 19:57
PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America - part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: PTSD book cover, Credit: Lexington Books
This is a continuation of a conversation with sociologist Jerry Lembcke. His book, -PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America.

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Cold, Hungry and in the Dark
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bill Powers
Not long ago, we were told that North America had entered a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. Or, have we? If you’ve listened to ex...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Man, Nature, and Climate Change with Elizabeth Kolbert
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features a discussion with The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert about the impact of climate change on enviromental health, human health, and human ri...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 20:35