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2022-08-19 Will Sustainable Aviation Ever Take Off?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For those of us who love to travel, climate guilt weighs heavily. Civil aviation accounts for about 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and that...

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


  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
20220819: Will Sustainable Aviation Ever Take Off?, 8/19/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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For those of us who love to travel, climate guilt weighs heavily. Civil aviation accounts for about 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and that...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
2022-07-29 Patti Poppe: Reinventing Utilities During a Climate Emergency
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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As the CEO of the California utility giant PG&E, Patti Poppe is charged with navigating the company through massive wildfires, disrupted energy mar...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
20220729: Patti Poppe: Reinventing Utilities During a Climate Emergency, 7/29/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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As the CEO of the California utility giant PG&E, Patti Poppe is charged with navigating the company through massive wildfires, disrupted energy mar...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
2022-04-08 Can We Get Clean Energy Without Dirty Mines?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Global sales of electric vehicles more than doubled in 2021. Projections for this year are for another huge gain as more automakers introduce more ...

Bought by WGCU, Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
20220408: Can We Get Clean Energy Without Dirty Mines?, 4/8/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Global sales of electric vehicles more than doubled in 2021. Projections for this year are for another huge gain as more automakers introduce more ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
615: Our Virtual Reality / 616: Getting Jazzed, 8/28/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Our Virtual Reality' - Not everyone has a big yard to stretch out in while sheltering in place. But maybe all you need is a virtual spac...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
Railroads & Fire
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Since the first rail line was completed in Minnesota in 1862, the railroad has had a storied existence in the state. Fire is part of that story. KF...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Tribesourcing Film Project
From: KUNM
Series: Augmented Humanity
Caption: Jennifer Jenkins
Jennifer Jenkins, Principal Investigator with the Tribesourcing Southwest Film Project, works at the intersection of literature, film, and archival...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 6: #BAWSELady, Lauren Maillian
From: L. Michelle Smith
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This beauty doesn’t have to speak to be heard, but she has something to say. Introducing to few, reintroducing to many Lauren Maillian, best-sellin...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2018
  • Length: 46:32
Do You Need that Kidney?
From: Distillations
Caption: Advertisement encouraging people to donate a kidney., Credit: Science Museum, London, Wellcome Images
Rethinking the ethics of organ transplants.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 21:10
Free Basics?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Modi and Zuckerberg
Is net neutrality just a right for the West and a luxury for the rest. And must poor countries be told, be grateful, half an internet is better tha...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
The Animal Orchestra Is Quieting
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Animals communicate with each other like instruments in an orchestra. This natural soundscape is now quieting which can have an effect on humans as...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2013
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 3
Origins Research Motives
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Life is everywhere and we have a tough time killing it when sending our spacecraft off to Mars. However, in the lab, life is elusive. We look at th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2012
  • Length: 15:03
  • Purchases: 2
The Liar Paradox
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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This paradox resists a solution and inspires major advances from Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 2
Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technologies
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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Author Alexis Madrigal examines the history of green technologies in America and shows how they have been entangled with culture, ethics, and gover...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 1
Jobs: Computers versus Humans
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Could the slow job growth rate of the Great Recession be attributed to new technologies replacing human labor and intelligence? Is artificial intel...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
IDs, Personal Privacy, and India
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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The Indian government plans to give all 1.2 billion Indians a fingerprint ID. Are you in favor of a national biometric ID to prevent identity theft...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
WikiLeaks: Trust or Transparency?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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U.S. diplomatic cables exposed through WikiLeaks raise several questions about transparency and trust. Should governments employ secrecy in diploma...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Music for Your Epic Quest
From: Jeremy Richards
Caption: Composer Martin O'Donnell
Renowned composer Martin O'Donnell reflects on his path from creating jingles for Flintstones vitamins to scoring blockbuster video games like "Hal...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 08:36
Gems of Bluegrass # 835 Is the Perfect the Enemy of the Good?
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
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segment suggested for Aug 23 - 29, 2008

Bought by KZYX and WAMU


  • Added: Aug 16, 2008
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 2