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Why does it take five years to build a wind farm?
From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast
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The United States has a goal to power the country with 100% clean electricity by 2035. Unfortunately, our energy regulations are not set up to make...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 14:31
A public health expert’s guide to climate change
From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast
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We all want to live full, healthy lives. But climate change is threatening a growing number of people’s lives and well-being. Professor of public h...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 11:20
  • Purchases: 1
Don't throw away your refrigerator
From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast
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Refrigerants are in every refrigerator, freezer and air conditioner, and the world is on track to make a lot more of them in the years to come. The...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 14:21
  • Purchases: 1
The military is converting to electric vehicles on bases, but charging them remains a challenge
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: An electric vehicle owned by the Army recharges at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. The base plans to eventually have hundreds of electric vehicles to comply with a Pentagon mandate that all military branches convert their fleets of non-combat vehicles from, Credit: Jonathan Ahl / St, Louis Public Radio
In order to comply with a Pentagon mandate to electrify its non-tactical vehicles, one base in Missouri is outsourcing the charging stations to the...

Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KUT, and KPBS


  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 4
Save the Planet, Go Solar With A Friend
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Solar United Neighbors is building a movement by helping neighbors go solar.

Bought by KZYX, WFHB, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Health Care’s Climate Change Contradiction
From: Tradeoffs
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The U.S. health care system is responsible for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss how health care contributes to climate ch...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 15:11
  • Purchases: 1
Minnesota Native News - Line 3 Construction Stops in Aitkin County
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
Caption: Dawn Goodwin prays in the path of the Line 3 oil pipeline., Credit: Dawn Goodwin
In early December - after years of resistance from many tribes and Native communities - Enbridge Energy company began construction on the new Line ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WGZS, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KVSC, WDSE and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Air Force says social media helped prompt action to clean up mold in the dorms
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A screenshot from a July 23 Facebook post shows mold on a mattress at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. Other photos posted by airmen showed moldy shoes, walls, and uniforms., Credit: "Air Force amn/nco/snco" Facebook group
Mold has long been a problem at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas. But when airmen started posting photos on Facebook, the Air Force stepped...

Bought by Texas Public Radio, WOUB, KPBS, North Country Public Radio, WUSF and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2019
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 6
Despite a massive cleanup effort, people near some military bases still can't drink their tap water
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: El Paso County, Col. resident Liz Rosenbaum spends about $70 per month on bottled drinking water rather than drink from her tap., Credit: Dan Boyce / American Homefront
The military is spending millions of dollars to clean up water contamination around bases throughout the country. But people living with the contam...

Bought by KPBS, WUSF, and Texas Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 09, 2019
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 3
Demand for Power
From: Claudine Ebeid McElwain
Series: Broken Ground
Caption: by the Southern Environmental Law Center
An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging proje...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:53
Special Report: Whose Economy Is It? Ours
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rising Green From the Ashes
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Wildfire victims rebuild all solar, all electric homes with help from their community energy program. Hear one family's story, learn what makes a h...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
NYC Activists Call for End to Noise Pollution from Helicopter Tourism
From: Bo Hamby
Caption: The Downtown Manhattan Heliport in New York City
The helicopter crash in the East River that killed all five of its passengers renewed a call to ban helicopter tourism in NYC. But one group has be...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 03:44
Life in a Goiter Belt (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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One young woman in southwest Virginia has become a super-sleuth. With a head full of questions and a heart full of concern, one college student tea...

Bought by KENW, WOUB, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 4
EcoReport - September 8, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 30:04
EcoReport - July 28, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 28:33
EcoReport - July 21, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 28:27
EcoFeature - Katherine Tilghman of ICEY Bloomington Discusses Solar Renewable Energy
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In today's EcoFeature, Norm Holy interviews Katherine Tilghman, local teenager and member of Interfaith Community of Environmentalist Youth (ICEY B...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 08:47
EcoReport - July 14, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 28:48
EcoFeature - Rutgers University Professor Jennifer Francis Discusses Climate Change and Arctic Ice Melt
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In this week's EcoReport feature, Norm Holy interviews Jennifer Francis, a research professor at Rutgers University, about climate change and arcti...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 08:46
EcoReport - July 7, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 1
EcoReport Feature
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In this week's EcoReport feature, Norm Holy interviews horticulturist Larry Caplan about the current growing conditions and things listeners should...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 08:50
EcoReport
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 29:11
EcoReport - June 16, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:44
EcoFeature - Interview with Marcia Veldman, Director of the Bloomington Farmer's Market
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In today's EcoReport feature, Norm Holy interviews Marcia Veldman, director of the Bloomington Farmer's Market. They discuss new and exciting aspec...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 08:21