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What are the five areas of our collective existence on earth where the ocean matters most? If we are looking for a context to drive motivation and ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2024
- Length: 04:48
This week on World Ocean Radio we're weighing in on the debate of water as food. Many are certain that it is not because it does not have the same ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2022
- Length: 04:30
In this brief series we have explored technologies, initiatives and other advancements for aquaculture with the power to improve efficiency and saf...
- Added: Nov 02, 2021
- Length: 04:32
In this brief series we're exploring disruptive technologies for aquaculture, specific initiatives and other advancements to improve efficiency and...
- Added: Oct 26, 2021
- Length: 04:57
In this brief series we're exploring disruptive technologies for aquaculture, specific initiatives and other advancements to improve efficiency and...
- Added: Oct 19, 2021
- Length: 05:14
Without mitigation of consumption and illegal fishing, we face a global crisis of protein supply to feed a growing world population. Over the next ...
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 05:14
Fish markets are the noisy, colorful, exiting, authentic and lively centers of any coastal city, the place where mongers and customers, tourists an...
- Added: Nov 19, 2019
- Length: 05:23
Food webs describe who eats whom in an ecological community. In the aquatic food web, humans feed down the food chain, consuming lesser and lesser ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 05:27
Aquaculture has long been a controversial industry fraught with conflict: waste and feed pollution, use of antibiotics, escape of genetically modif...
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 05:08
China is the world's largest consumer, producer, and exporter of every fish species caught by their vast industrial fishing fleet, at a rate on tra...
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 05:27
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss two ideas--floating farms and saltwater agriculture--that are using ocean and renewable resources t...
- Added: Jan 31, 2017
- Length: 04:40
World fisheries are in crisis, with many species pushed to the edge of extinction. The current system is a recipe for disaster: demand is up; exter...
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 05:25
The global water crisis and the prospects for future water resources is forcing adjustments for how we measure the water that is used, how it is va...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 05:19
A new approach at discussing wine by treating it as a movie or book review. Talking about why it is what it is in hope of taking away the stigma of...
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 07:25
Because of persistent drought and water crises due to unsustainable practices, California is facing many challenges to its very existence. It is wa...
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 05:23
"Virtual water" is used to produce everything that we incorporate into our lives each day but is not listed on labels or calculated into price. Whe...
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 05:19
As the world population has grown, the demand for food has increased, technologies for more efficient harvest have evolved, and our natural systems...
- Added: Dec 29, 2014
- Length: 05:46
An article published by The Guardian in October provides a stark exposé of one of the largest Chinese suppliers of premium tuna to the Japanese mar...
- Added: Nov 24, 2014
- Length: 05:16
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 1
The strange evolution of the iconic Pop-Tart.
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 01:51
- Purchases: 2
Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an ind...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, and WRPI
- Added: Nov 07, 2011
- Length: 55:01
- Purchases: 4
Florida's highly exploited tomato pickers are aiming at new targets in their nationwide struggle to win decent wages and working conditions
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 04:35
This discusses the attempts of Burger King to undo agreements by its major fast-food competitors to improve the shameful conditions of tomato pickers.
- Added: Dec 06, 2007
- Length: 03:52
A strong movement is under way to win decent treatment for the miserably treated tomato pickers whose work is essential to the hugely profitable fa...
- Added: Apr 26, 2007
- Length: 03:24
This commentary notes the great need for President Bush to provide much more relief to the thousands of farmworkers who've been struggling to meet...
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Mar 15, 2007
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
