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Since the mid 2000s, economists have spoken of Black Swans, disruptive financial events that embody three special characteristics: they are rare, w...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 05:52
This week on World Ocean Radio we're talking about solutions to the climate challenge by highlighting some modern examples of and possibilities for...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KVNF
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 05:38
- Purchases: 2
In Kolkata Starbucks is not just coffee, it’s clearly cachet.
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 06:00
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
The pursuit for oil continues, even as many alternatives emerge and investments are displaced. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Nei...
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 04:50
Early in 2018, BlackRock asset management chair Larry Fink issued a statement declaring growing public demand for companies to serve a social purpo...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Mar 06, 2018
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
Arctic ice is melting at record levels, revealing an ocean open and vulnerable to enterprise and extraction. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, ...
- Added: May 01, 2017
- Length: 05:07
Insurance touches every aspect of our lives, protecting us from financial loss. As climate change is continually felt everywhere on the planet, how...
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 05:01
Waste and the management of it are new challenges in recent decades. How do we dispose of toxic waste, plastic packaging, electronics, and other di...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Feb 22, 2017
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 1
A currency note is a promise. The Indian government is holding that promise in abeyance, even breaking that trust, by promising a better future.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 28, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The World Ocean Council is an international leadership alliance focused on ocean sustainability, stewardship and science. In this week's episode of...
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 05:24
It's FM91's 40th birthday! WGTE FM in Toledo began broadcasting May 2, 1976 and for four decades has continued to deliver the highest quality arts,...
- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 06:20
In last week's edition of World Ocean Radio we urged listeners to measure their water footprint using the WaterFootprint.org water calculator. In t...
- Added: Jul 13, 2015
- Length: 05:34
The National Flood Insurance Program has paid more than $38 billion in claims since 1978. It was meant to be a self-supporting system, but currentl...
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 05:14
Over the past few years, demand for seaweed has grown beyond its status as a long-lived local, seasonal harvest. Today it is used for fertilizer, h...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:18
The "silk road" of Marco Polo's 13th century journey to the East is being revived, as is its ocean parallel, the "maritime silk road" which is fast...
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 05:11
The thing about living in a small town is doing errands takes a loooong time because you know everyone...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Apr 05, 2010
- Length: 02:47
- Purchases: 1
Got pride in your hometown? "We're a marshmallow town, but that don't mean we're soft..."
- Added: Apr 05, 2010
- Length: 02:51
One way to get your small company paid
- Added: Apr 21, 2004
- Length: 03:19
How a professional organizer cured my spring cleaning fever.
- Added: Apr 16, 2004
- Length: 02:34
