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Renewed Energy for Renewables
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Shalini Ramanathan
A couple of decades who could have imagined that a gust of wind wafting across a Wyoming plain could power an air conditioner as far off as Souther...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
Peter Gleick on the California Drought
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Peter Gleick
2013 was the driest year on record in California, and the state’s snowpack is at 12% of what it should be. Considering that this state alone houses...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:50
  • Purchases: 1
Jem Bendell: Making Heads or Tails of Bitcoin
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jem Bendell
Bitcoin-accepted-hereIf you've heard about Bitcoin on the evening news or seen a headline about it, you might have been left with the impression th...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:30
Correcting the Record on the “Cleantech Crash”
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Katie Fehrenbacher
If you watched last weekend’s 60 Minutes piece on the so called “Cleantech Crash,” you might have taken a moment to check the channel and make sure...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2014
  • Length: 29:45
Lab-Grown Beef: A Meat Pie in the Sky?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tom Levitt
Cruelty free products abound in our 21st Century market place, from cosmetics to fake fur. But can you imagine a cruelty free filet mignon? It soun...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Post-Plastic Entrepreneurs
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Eben Bayer
Can you think of two everyday materials with a worse environmental rep than Styrofoam and plastic bottles? From production through disposal, these ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
Beer Is Good: Alaskan Brewing Co.'s Geoff Larson
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Geoff Larson
Do you think beer is good? If you do, you’re not alone. Beer is the most widely consumed alcoholic beverage worldwide, and one of the earliest ferm...

Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Empowered By Light + California’s Lone Wolf
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Moira Hanes
Today’s show starts off in Zambia. Worldwide, an estimated 1.5 billion people do not have access to electricity. In Zambia more than 80% of the pop...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:50
The Latest Buzz On Bees
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Hannah Nordhaus
Back in 2010 we had entomologist John Hafernik on Sea Change Radio to explain what was going on with the honey bees and colony collapse disorder. T...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Alex Trembath on Obama's Climate Change Speech
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Trembath
Did you see how they covered President Obama’s recent big environmental speech on the Sunday political talk shows? No? That’s because none of the S...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:40
Point-of-Sale Social Networking Gets People Talking about Your Product When They Are Ready to Buy
From: Nancy Lin
Piece image
Forget about point-of-sale displays. What if you could get people talking about your products right before they are ready to buy? Takuro Yoshida, C...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 43:00
Amanda Eaken on the Rise of Collaborative Consumption
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Amanda Eaken
With the climate crisis staring us right in the face, the need to transform our daily routines has become increasingly apparent. A part of the solu...

  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
The Science of Longevity -- Groks Science Show 2013-05-01
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Professor Ted Anton joins us to discuss his new book, "The Longevity Seekers: Science, Business, and the Fountain of Youth"

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KFOK-LPFM, and KPVL


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 27:10
  • Purchases: 4
Down The Line: Steven Mufson on the Keystone XL Pipeline
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Steven Mufson
Are you interested in knowing the facts about the Keystone XL pipeline? Well, depending on the source, the “facts” vary wildly. Proponents tout the...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Michael Skelly on Wind Energy: Blowing Over Barriers
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Michael Skelly
Promoters and detractors of wind power have one point of agreement - both see the transmission lines that carry wind energy as inefficient and very...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 29:50
  • Purchases: 1
Robert Boyd on the Hydrogen Economy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Robert Boyd
One of the most alluring answers to the climate change conundrum is a transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a hydrogen-based economy. As h...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
Teeny Weeny Technology: Heather Millar on Nanoparticles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Heather Millar
Here’s a little exercise: take a pen and a blank piece of paper and write down everything you know about nano-technology. If you do this, you may f...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:50
Walking in Our Footprints
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joe Romm
How will our current climate policies and actions be viewed by future generations? Our first guest this week on Sea Change Radio is pretty sure our...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Richard Heinberg: “The Quest” For Truth
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Richard Heinberg
Last year, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and energy consultant Daniel Yergin published his long-awaited sequel to the The Prize called The Quest: E...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Thought Leader: Victor Cha
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
Piece image
"Technology creates all this open space that needs to be filled. And if you leave space to be filled, people fill it by saying things that don't ma...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 03:38
Driving Change in What We Drive
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Gina Coplon-Newfield
For better or for worse, cars are not leaving the American landscape anytime soon. The automobile is woven into the cultural fabric of our country ...

Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Nuclear Roulette
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nuclear Roulette, Credit: cover design by Matthew Simmons
In his new book, Gar Smith dismantles the core arguments behind the nuclear industrial complex’s “Nuclear renaissance.” While some critiques are fa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Matt Wasson: A Mountain Hugger on the Myth of “Clean Coal”
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Matt Wasson
Do you cringe when you hear the term “clean coal?” Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio feels that this term is not only an oxymoron it’s offens...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
Potty Talk: The Re-Invention of The Toilet
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Clement Cid
Aside from some aesthetic advances and rudimentary low-flow innovations, the modern flush toilet basically has not evolved since its prototype firs...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Dirt on Compost: Jason Mark
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jason Mark
Have you ever been to the dump? It’s a pretty smelly place. Part of what you’re smelling is methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that’s created as bi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1