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This week on World Ocean Radio we're sharing some methods and means to make small and large changes that can have effects on the climate and sustai...
- Added: Apr 24, 2024
- Length: 05:15
Taxes are necessary for a civilized society, and most ordinary people pay their fair share. But there's one group that pays nothing at all, while ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Wake up and view the solar eclipse, last one 'til 2044. If you think really has no significance except crazy superstition, think again. Ancient voi...
- Added: Apr 05, 2024
- Length: 02:30
A nocturne is a short musical composition: dreamy, romantic, suggestive of the night, a passage from one place to the next. This week we're asking:...
- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: 05:07
In business, as in life, there is a balance sheet, a statement of assets, profit and loss, income and expense, showing whether our accounts are in ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 05:07
The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" may be true, but it leaves out an important component -- the real "mothers" and "aunts" and "...
- Added: Mar 12, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Seafood is a world staple, under siege by increased consumption and over-fishing. Aquaculture is the necessary alternative, yet is a polarizing iss...
- Added: Mar 06, 2024
- Length: 05:18
The sun is the greatest energy source available for our needs, thought we view it more today as an enemy than a resource and friend. If we are to a...
- Added: Mar 04, 2024
- Length: 05:07
"We are not blind to the overall problem, and if we were in doubt, recent climate-explained events, near and far, should open our eyes more widely....
- Added: Mar 04, 2024
- Length: 05:13
Females are without question the stars of Hollywood costume design, raking in Oscars in numbers that far outstrip the men. They get lots of well de...
- Added: Feb 28, 2024
- Length: 02:30
In this episode and the next, World Ocean Radio reports on the status quo, business-as-usual, tunnel vision conclusions at COP28 in Dubai, hosted b...
- Added: Feb 14, 2024
- Length: 04:51
A November visit to Gloucester Massachusetts for an Ocean Literary Conference (NEOSEC 2023) afforded W2O staff an opportunity to take a field trip ...
- Added: Feb 13, 2024
- Length: 05:20
In 2009 Lilly Ledbetter learned she had been paid 40% less than men in the same Goodyear Tire & Rubber job. It was a long slog, but she won, and wo...
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Devastating weather and water events abound worldwide. Rain, flooding, strong winds, extreme high tides, coastal erosion and inundation have caused...
- Added: Jan 24, 2024
- Length: 05:25
This week we are celebrating our 700th episode of World Ocean Radio--5-minute reflections featured as podcast and interstitial radio syndicate for ...
- Added: Jan 10, 2024
- Length: 04:45
This holiday season on World Ocean Radio we return with a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson writte...
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 04:03
Christmas traditions around the world have different origins and different meanings -- not all Santa and elves, sometimes funny, many surprising.
- Added: Dec 19, 2023
- Length: 03:00
In part three of this 3-part series, we continue to explore the recent publication related to marine biomimetics and the deep sea, identifying the ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 05:14
In these three episodes of World Ocean Radio we are exploring a recent publication entitled “A Forgotten Element in the Blue Economy: Marine Biomim...
- Added: Dec 08, 2023
- Length: 05:07
The term Guns or Butter? goes back to World War I and protests over prioritizing the production of munitions over the production of dairy products....
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 03:01
December 7, 1941 was one of the deadliest days in American History. The massive assault on Pearl Harbor drove the American military to do something...
- Added: Dec 04, 2023
- Length: 03:00
Nov 7 marked the one year countdown to the 2024 Presidential election. It was both a kick in the pants and clown show on the Republican side, and a...
- Added: Nov 12, 2023
- Length: 03:00
Over the next few editions of World Ocean Radio we will be discussing a recent publication entitled “A Forgotten Element in the Blue Economy: Marin...
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 05:05
This week on World Ocean Radio are two forward-looking government-proposed initiatives that offer opportunities for progress in climate policy, inv...
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 05:18
This week on World Ocean Radio we're talking about the megaphonics of ocean communications. How do we as communicators break through? How do we cre...
- Added: Oct 12, 2023
- Length: 05:15
