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How do I recycle damaged clothes or fabrics?
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Today, we’re talking about textiles. What can you do with a ripped sweatshirt or pillowcase you accidentally bleached? We’re wondering – is it poss...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 3
What is wilderness?
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Last summer, our reporter Charlie Adams spent ten weeks working in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. It’s a slice of northwest Montana that’s over one m...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 04:02
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What does the future of natural gas look like in Rhode Island? Part 2
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Series: What does a Public Utilities Commission have to do with climate change?
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Today, we’re continuing our coverage of the future of energy in Rhode Island. Since the state burns too much natural gas to reach net-zero by 2050,...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 2
What does the future of natural gas look like in Rhode Island?
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Series: What does a Public Utilities Commission have to do with climate change?
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It’s getting colder, and a lot of people are turning on their furnaces. Many of those run on “natural” gas, which is basically methane, a potent gr...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 2
What's a Public Utilities Commission?
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Series: What does a Public Utilities Commission have to do with climate change?
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If we want to avoid the worst of climate change, it’s pretty clear that we need to start getting our energy from sources that don’t create greenhou...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 2
Why did we see so many beach closures this year?
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Like any good Rhode Islander, I love to hang out at the beach in the summer. This year though, I’ve noticed that beaches have been closed more tha...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 2
What do you do when rising waters threaten a neighborhood?
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Warren, Rhode Island is one of the smallest towns in the smallest state — but when it comes to dealing with climate change, it has big plans. Locat...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
Should we be turning our lights off for birds?
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Today’s question comes from one of our listeners. Dorothy wrote in to ask us: “Efforts to turn off lights for migrating birds are taking off acros...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 1
Why are we seeing more floods in cities?
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Last year, Kolya from our Possibly team I worked with the Providence Stormwater Innovation Center. Their job was to track flooding across the cit...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 3
What should I do with clothing I don't want anymore?
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We all have those clothes that just sit in the back of our closets for years and never get used. Maybe it’s that t-shirt from college or that senti...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
What happened to the hole in the ozone layer?
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When I was growing up, I remember hearing about a hole in the ozone layer. It was a big deal. But I don’t really hear about that issue anymore. Is...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 3
Do I need to rake my lawn?
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I have two huge trees in my yard and they dump a lot of leaves. Sometimes I wonder, what would happen if I just let those piles of leaves stay on ...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 2
Does cloud computing use a lot of energy?
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These days, I can log on to my phone and pull up a file that’s stored thousands of miles away. It’s pretty awesome. But does access to all of this ...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 3
Should I compost my body when I die?
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When a loved one passes away, we often just have two choices- burial or cremation. But there’s a new option in some states that claims to use less ...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 3
Is natural grass or artificial turf better for the environment?
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Nowadays, many athletic fields have been converted from natural grass to artificial turf. Which made us wonder- which option is better for the envi...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 2
Would it be possible to get all of our food from local farms?
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Today, we’re digging into urban agriculture. Would it be possible to get all of our food from local farms?

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2022
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 3
Can you make "leather" out of mushrooms?
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Are you looking for a new leather jacket or pair of shoes? Well get this– they might be made from mushrooms! Here to tell us about this new materia...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 2
Can you put your recycling and trash in one bin?
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Imagine if you didn’t have a recycling bin anymore- You just put everything in the trash, but somehow the reusable stuff still got recycled? Some p...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
Can the grid handle charging lots of electric cars?
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Last week, we broke down the basics of how our electric grid works. Today, we're tackling a more specific question. If we all switch over to elec...

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  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 1
How does our electricity grid work?
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With the effects of climate change all around us, there's a push to power more of our lives with renewable electricity, including things that used ...

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  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
Can we build things with our plastic waste?
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Today we’re taking a look at a fun way to be more aware of the amount of plastic we put into the world.

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  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 1
Should I buy online or in the store?
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These days, we can buy almost anything we want online—fancy food, designer clothes, new computers, the works. But is all this online shopping creat...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 1
What's the most sustainable way to travel down the East Coast?
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Today we’re answering a question about sustainable travel. What’s the best way to take a trip down the East Coast?

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
Is it possible to turn my gas car into an electric vehicle?
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Two years ago, we aired an episode responding to a question from a listener named Monica. She wanted to know if it was possible to convert her gas ...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 2
Water is rising all around us. What should we do?
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Our oceans are rising and taking over more land every year. Most governments try to fix this by blocking the water out and sealing the humans in. B...

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 2