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Caption: David Ho
Carbon offsets are often touted as a solution to humanity’s bad habit of emitting an awful lot of CO2. But how many of us actually know what things...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Oct 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ziv Aviram
Have you ever thought about what you'd do to save the planet if you were a billionaire? Well, this week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with billiona...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Cheryl Dahle
Aligning business with biology, disruptive design uses systems thinking to create models that show what “good” really looks like. Two winners of th...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Amy Cannon
Did you ever ask yourself who in their right mind would invent a convenience to keep food fresh that would one day litter the landscape, wash up on...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: John Warner
Nontoxic hair color from the recipes of beetles, and a potential Alzheimer’s cure derived from applying nature’s operating instructions. The world-...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Janine Benyus
The genius of nature’s design, recipes and principles is serving as the inspiration for redesigning human civilization. This Biomimicry revolution ...

  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Ben Knight
A new wave of technologies designed to regenerate people, planet and democracy is emerging in ingenious ways. Designers are creating online softwar...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Dayna Baumeister
Biomimicry is decoding astonishing treasures from nature’s recipe book that we can mimic for our technological and industrial practices. Biomimicry...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Paul Wheaton
Many of us are spending a whole lot more time at home these days, and are consequently knee-deep in a bunch of home improvement projects. A great a...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Liz Kimbrough
Looking for some good news as we enter yet another week of sheltering-in-place? Perhaps you feel like doing a Google search to discover an upside t...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Cook County is home to one of the darkest skies in the nation, and adventurers, artists, and photographers from around the world travel here to exp...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 22:16
Caption: Mallika Dutt
Innovations usually arise locally. If conditions are right, they spread globally. That story is playing out around the world today. In India, human...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Gregory Stephanopoulos
You know that sick feeling when you look at a smokestack belching noxious gases into the air? Well, what if you knew that the gas waste coming from...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KRZA, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Janine Benyus, Credit: Tim Porter
Some of the best minds on the planet are busy cataloguing possible solutions to the crisis of climate chaos. Scientists, entrepreneurs, and educato...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Janine Benyus
Bathing suits modeled on sharkskin that win the Olympics. Low-energy display screen based on peacock feathers. Nature has done everything human soc...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: John Warner
Master green chemists and educators John Warner and Amy Cannon say the radical growth of green chemistry is showing we can have good chemistry with...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
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The most common element in all accidents is the human element. In the quest to eliminate driver error and make our roads safer, we’ve been searchin...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Professor William E. Halal
There are no crystal balls. No one really knows the direction technology is going to take us. But, there are always those best guesses.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 08, 2013
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: George Taylor
If you sit at the edge of Pacific or Atlantic Ocean and watch as waves ferociously slap the sands, you can’t help but recognize the awesome power o...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dave Cloud's "Dolphin"
Battery operated cars. No longer the exclusive domain of little kids huddled around a remote control, electric vehicles are beginning to emerge as ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dr. Dickson Despommier
We often hear about vertical economic growth and vertical integration in business but the idea of growing our food vertically sounds fantastical. ...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: PRX default Piece image
First, pollution and over-harvesting caused the population of Puget Sound oysters to plummet. And then, a new sea creature came to town! The "arche...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Car sharing is catching on in cities across the country. Today, about 92,000 people belong to car-sharing services like Zipcar and Flexcar.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Small but mighty is one way to describe the organism called "salp." A report in the journal Deep Sea Research suggests that salp, along with the ti...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30