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Caption: Dan Dicker
It's hard not to notice how sky high gas prices are these days. Perhaps the universe is trying to tell us something about our personal transportati...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption:  SVB sign in front of Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, California., Credit: Minh Nguyen, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
We talk to John Nichols and Jeet Heer from The Nation about the decisions that led up to the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and why it wasn't just an...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rebecca Leber
Environmental, social and corporate governance, referred to as ESG, is a set of factors that conscientious capitalists use to identify worthy inves...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Alex Zaitchik
As the news that thirty year-old cryptocurrency baron, Sam Bankman-Fried‘s, FTX empire suddenly collapsed, the residual effects reverberated in the...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Dan Dicker
America loves to blame the President when gas prices are high but the fact is the U.S. President has very little control over the price we pay at t...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Tim Schwab
Are billionaire-backed philanthropies making the world a better place or are they pernicious sleeper cells? The answer may be one of those "both/an...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Celia Ouellette
People sometimes like to quote that Bible passage about “an eye for an eye” when justifying a punitive criminal justice system focused on retributi...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: The crackdown on dissent and the situation for Chinese ethnic minorities, in Xingiang and Inner Mongolia. And we'll explore...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: EU leaders reach a deal on a coronavirus recovery package. Families in France fight to repatriate their 'Islamic State' lov...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on the show: we're bringing you a special about coffee and the injustice that comes with it. In Guatemala, coffee farmers are losing out...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Fatih Saat
Shelter is on the first rung of renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow‘s hierarchy of needs. And yet, as a society, we have not cracked the code for ...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Back in the 1930s, when the US was in the midst of an economic crisis, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt enacted a set of policies to protect the...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Anxiety rises in Ireland over Theresa May's Brexit deal. Could Russia and Ukraine's naval standoff escalate? The Berlin ...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Mark Hertsgaard
Last week in San Francisco, scientists, thought leaders, politicians and celebrities all gathered for the Global Climate Action Summit. Mark Hertsg...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Graham Sinclair
There is a nearly constant scroll of bad news passing before our eyes, from rampant income inequality and raging wildfires to climate devastation a...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Keith Schneider
Over the last few decades, the skyline of Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur has mushroomed – a conglomeration of skyscrapers highlighted by The Petro...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
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Have you forgotten the days of $5 gas from a few years ago? Well, after a period of relatively low prices, the price of the world's most-used fossi...

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  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rebecca Leber
I don’t know about you, but whenever I see a headline that the Trump Administration has made a new announcement, I generally assume that it’s bad n...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 27:20
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sami Grover
As many of us prepare for the hectic holiday hustle of planes, trains and automobiles, we might be thinking about how our travel plans are going to...

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  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Gilbert Campbell III
Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio, Gilbert Campbell III, the Co-Founder of Volt Energy, is here to remind us that sustainable energy is good,...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:20
Caption: Donnel Baird
Compared with new buildings, older buildings tend to eat up a lot more energy and produce and trap a lot more pollution. Whether it’s an old church...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Amy Harder
Even the most astute followers of the news may have missed that the Trump Administration is touting a series of self-proclaimed focal areas. With c...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
Caption: Ted Nordhaus
Are the cries for a complete transition to renewable energy from environmentalists like Bill McKibben actually undermining the work to combat clima...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mark Murray
In 2013 California boasted a recycling rate of 85%. In 2017 that number is now 79% - that is the first time it has dipped below 80% since 2008. Why...

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  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
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Food stamps, Social Security, and Medicaid are not the only, or even the largest, social welfare programs in America. Professor Suzanne Mettler rev...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 23:45