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Pain At The Pumps: Understanding Gas Prices With Dan Dicker
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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
Rebecca Leber: Why the GOP thinks ESG is a BFD
From: Alex Wise
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
Alexander Zaitchik on Effective Altruism + Longtermism
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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
Dan Dicker: A Basket Case Study of Oil
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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
Tim Schwab: Charity and the Billionaire Class
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Celia Ouellette: The Business of Punishment in America
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Home Is Where The Heart Is: Tiny Houses and Homelessness
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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 ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Aaron Huertas on the Green New Deal
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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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...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mark Hertsgaard on the Global Climate Action Summit
From: Alex Wise
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
Graham Sinclair on Sustainable Financial Markets
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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
Keith Schneider: Malaysian Building Boom
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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
Oil Primer With Dan Dicker
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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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...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rebecca Leber on the Dawn of Solar Protectionism
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 27:20
  • Purchases: 1
Sami Grover on Planes, Trains and Automobiles of the Future
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 3
Tell Me Something Good: Volt Energy’s Gilbert Campbell
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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
Newfangled Retrofitting: BlocPower’s Donnel Baird
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Trump on Energy: A Collection Of Contradictions
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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
Ted Nordhaus: U.S. Leaves Paris
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Mark Murray: California Recycling in Decline
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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...

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


  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
Rahwa Ghirmatzion: Green Buffalo Soldier
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rahwa Ghirmatzion
What’s a great way to lift up an impoverished population within a struggling city where utility bills can cost twice as much as rent itself? Local,...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 2
Kaz Makabe on Japan's Nuclear Shutdown
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kaz Makabe
In 2011, in the wake of the devastating nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor, thousands of Japanese people relocated, the world held i...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 28, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sammy Roth: Rewiring the West
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
What do you think of when you hear the word, "billionaires?" Ruthless capitalists? Decadent narcissists? Evil cheese-puffs? What about renewable po...

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


  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
Four Strong Winds: First US Offshore Wind Project Launches
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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As the public learned of the recent opening of America’s first offshore wind power project, many wondered why it took so long? This week on Sea Cha...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
The “F” Words: Talking Fossil Fuel with Daniel Dicker
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dan Dicker
Fossil fuel is sort of a dirty word in environmental circles, but it still comprises over 80% of the world’s energy consumption. This week on Sea C...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Andrew Winston on the North American Clean Economy Agreement
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrew Winston
What would it take for North America to really reduce pollution? At a minimum, Canada, the U.S., and Mexico would have to jointly commit to increas...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3