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John Stoehr: Let’s Impeach the President
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Stoehr
We have our hands full at Sea Change Radio just trying to cover important stories relating to the environment and social justice. But we also recog...

  • Added: May 01, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Falter: Bill McKibben's Latest Warning
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bill McKibben
Environmentalists have been talking for a long time about the threat to the planet. Now, a prominent voice is directing our attention to a related ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Minnesota Native News: Moving Forward in a Good Way
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
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This week on Minnesota Native News, the passing of two powerful tribal leaders leads to new elections, and urban Native leaders in Minneapolis seek...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KMSU, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 11
Midterm Thanks: John Stoehr + Emily Atkin
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Emily Atkin
This week, as we inventory the things for which we are thankful, many of us may include some of the midterm election results in our accounting. Tod...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Sammy Roth on Desert Water Tussles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
As more and more of the western United States suffers from warmer temperatures and in some places desertification, water has become perhaps the mos...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
477-Hannes's Discoveries
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, my newest Catalina Sky Survey Teammate, Hannes Groeller, had an excellent training night, working with Greg Leonard, on our 60 inch teles...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Dwarf Planet Ceres Thrills as a Dying Visitor Closes In
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This simulated perspective view shows Occator Crater, measuring 57 miles (92 kilometers) across and 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) deep, which contains the brightest area on Ceres. This region has been the subject of intense interest since Dawn's approach to th, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Ceres is the queen of the asteroid belt. Her first Earthly visitor is nearing its last days in spectacular style. Dawn Mission Director and Chief...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Living Planet 05/11/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: A journey to Africa - Rwanda’s mountain gorillas were once headed for extinction. Their numbers are now slowly recove...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 29:57
  • Purchases: 3
Humane Policing
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Conversation with both Darron Spencer, a former Colorado Sheriff's deputy and author of the book "Humane Policing" and Albuquerque Police officer S...

Bought by KVNF, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Lisa Song: Mississippi Levee Wars
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lisa Song
Sometimes we lose sight of what Audrey Hepburn called "that old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second." This week on Sea Change...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
“Catch Colt Draws A Coffin Cart”: Remembering John Perry Barlow
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead lyricist, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and environmentalist, died in his sleep this past week ...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Maya van Rossum and the Green Amendment Movement
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Maya van Rossum
When the crafters of the Declaration of Independence affirmed “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as inalienable rights, they could not h...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Where There’s Smoke: California Wildfires
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ed Struzik
Most of us associate Napa and Sonoma counties with delicious wine and rolling hills. But this year those hills were ablaze. Dozens lost their lives...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Eye on the Sun (In the Middle of a Lake)
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Goode Solar Telescope at the NJIT Big Bear Solar Observatory, Credit: Mat Kaplan
The world’s most powerful solar telescope sits in Big Bear Lake, high above southern California. It has just been renamed for the man responsible f...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WTJU, KRZA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Emily Lakdawalla on the Last Orbits of Cassini
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cassini took this photo on June 4, 2017, close to periapsis on its seventh "Grand Finale" orbit, when it passed between the planet and the rings., Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Emily Lakdawalla
The Cassini Mission has less than two months to go before it ends with a spectacular plunge into the beautiful ringed world. Planetary Society Sen...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WTJU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Toxic in Texas
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week takes us to Texas, where we hear from Candice Bernd, speaking at the 2nd Fight Toxic Prisons Conference, which took place earlier this mo...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:59
Happy Asteroid Day!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of massive asteroid impact, Credit: NASA
Asteroid Day, June 30th, marks the anniversary of the great Tunguska impact that leveled a Siberian forest. It reminds us that a Near Earth Object ...

Bought by WTJU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Julie Webster and the Art of Spacecraft Endurance
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: February 21, 1997--Julie Webster, Cassini’s manager of spacecraft operations (kneeling, right), and the rest of the mission's assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) team pose with the spacecraft outside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Space Simulator, Credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Caltech / Bob Brown
How do you keep a dazzlingly complex spacecraft in good health after 20 years in space? That’s the challenge for Julie Webster and her team of eng...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Spectacular Jupiter!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Jupiter’s south pole imaged by the Juno spacecraft from 52,000 km above the planet., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles
Have you seen its stunning image of Jupiter’s south pole? The Juno orbiter is surpassing expectations and delivering surprising science. Scott Bo...

Bought by KVSC, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTJU, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Buzz Aldrin and Other Martians
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Apollo astronaut and engineer Buzz Aldrin, Credit: Gage Skidmore
He walked with Neil Armstrong on the moon, but that may not be his greatest legacy. Buzz Aldrin was joined by other space stars at the recent Human...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTJU, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Alex Gilbert: Environmental Roots of a Scandal
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Gilbert
It has been a bit difficult to keep up with the news since January. Every few hours it seems like there is a new revelation in the global political...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Human Spaceflight: Coming Back to America
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and the SpaceX Crew Dragon approaching the International Space Station., Credit: NASA
Astronauts may soon ride on US rockets and in US spaceships for the first time since the last Space Shuttle flight. Jon Cowart of NASA is working w...

Bought by KVSC, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTJU, KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 24, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Visiting Worlds Fantastic with Bonnie Buratti
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Planetary scientist Bonnie Buratti's new book, Credit: Cambridge University Press
Veteran Jet Propulsion Lab planetary scientist Bonnie Buratti talks with Mat about the wonder of our solar neighborhood that she explores in Worlds...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
McDonald Observatory and the Quest for Dark Energy
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: McDonald Observatory Hobby-Eberly Telescope, Credit: Mat Kaplan
The University of Texas at Austin’s observatory is high in the hills of west Texas. In this special episode, Mat Kaplan joins the tens of thousands...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Aerospace Corporation President and CEO Steve Isakowitz
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s concept of Brane Craft about to wrap itself around space debris. The paper-think spacecraft will then slow and deorbit the potentially dangerous object., Credit: The Aerospace Corporation
The Aerospace Corporation has been innovating since 1960. Now it’s headed by a former leader of “New Space” company Virgin Galactic. President and...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KRZA, WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8