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Ideas Books: Will Atkinson, Class
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Will Atkinson
Interview with author Will Atkinson about his book, Class. The topic of class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
Zoe Weil: Sustainable Education
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Zoe Weil
What’s the purpose of schooling? Reading, writing and ‘rithmetic, right? Well, our guest today begs to differ. Zoe Weil, author and the founder of ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Leaving The Station: John Rennie Short on Public Transit
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Rennie Short
If you live in the US, chances are you have at some point been frustrated that our public transit systems don’t do a great job linking urban center...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KFCF FM, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
David Rolf: The $15 Minimum Wage Fight
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Rolf
Back in 2014 we spoke with David Rolf, president of the Pacific Northwest branch of SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, about his effo...

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


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Methane Disdain
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tim McDonnell
Along with the Affordable Care Act, the Clean Power Plan may end up being one of President Obama’s signature accomplishments. We learned recently, ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 2
Pathways for Peace (Hour Long)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Many displaced Iraqis returning to their homes are finding landmines and booby-traps left for them by ISIS fighters. One woman opened her refrigera...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 6
Tim Dickinson: Sunshine State In The Dark
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tim Dickinson
Think about the sunniest states in the U.S. Florida, the place that calls itself "the sunshine state" is sure to come to mind. Indeed, the solar i...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Alex Camacho: Supreme Court Climate
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Camacho
Remember the Paris Climate Agreement, when it looked for a moment like world leaders were actually going to address our shared global concern? Well...

Bought by KVNF, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Johan Rockström: A Swedish Perspective On Climate Change
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Johan Rockstrom
Given its northern latitude, Sweden is warming more rapidly than many other places in the world. Johan Rockström, one of Sweden’s leading environme...

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


  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
Roy Scranton’s Arctic Cruise
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Roy Scranton
When we try to visualize the Arctic, we usually think of ice as far as the eye can see. But, unfortunately, that’s changing. This week’s guest on S...

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


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
The Speed of Sound: Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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The Smashing Pumpkins released their most recently celebrated album, Monuments To An Elegy, in 2014. Kyle Meredith caught some microphone time wit...

Bought by WLPR , KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 3
National Park Service at 100: Wild At Heart
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jason Mark
As we ring in the new year, we should recognize that 2016 marks the centennial of the National Park Service. Today on Sea Change Radio we speak wit...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
We'll Always Have Paris: Vivienne Walt on COP21
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Vivienne Walt
Victor Hugo said of Paris that nothing was more fantastic, more tragic, or more sublime. Will the same ever be said of the COP 21 climate agreement...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
On to Paris: Pacific Environment’s Alex Levinson
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Levinson
Many of us would like to be at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, kicking off this week in Paris. Well, today on Sea Change Radio, we...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
23: Mia Birdsong & Pam Scott, Redefining Solutions: Poverty and Teen Pregnancy
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Mia Birdsong
Guest Mia Birdsong of Family Story is addressing the entrenched problem of poverty a new way--by starting with redefining what we think of as a 'tr...

Bought by KSJD, KZYX, WMUU-LP, WRIR, and KSJD


  • Added: Nov 27, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Speed of Sound: St. Vincent
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Ask me who the greatest artist to come out of the past decade and I’ll tell you St. Vincent without a doubt. She’s not only produced some of the mo...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, KHNS, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bill McKibben: Putting the X in XL
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bill McKibben
The drawn-out fight to prevent the Keystone XL pipeline recently ended in a triumph for environmental activists, when President Obama announced he ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Canary In The Coalmine
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tim Murphy
The former CEO of Massey Energy, Don Blankenship, is currently on trial for conspiracy to violate mandatory mine safety and health standards, makin...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Cutting Edge: Knives + Politics
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Adam Simha
This week on Sea Change Radio, we hear from a craftsman who makes razor-sharp kitchen knives, and with a progressive political talk show host who r...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
The Imprisonment of A Climate Hero
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Mohamed Nasheed
In the remote Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives, they don’t have the luxury of discussing climate change as an academic subject. The small countr...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dan Dicker: Deciphering Oil Prices
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dan Dicker
Some energy analysts predict that the past year’s downward trend in oil prices will continue. Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio, energy exper...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
15: Judge Noel Wise & Ilana Lipsett, Building Safe Communities
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Noel Wise, Judge
What is 'creative place-making'? We talk with the founder of FreeSpace in San Francisco, CA about how the use of vacant real estate can actually br...

Bought by KSJD, KWMR, KMUD, and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 4
Salt Water Wilderness: Summer Brennan & Doug Woodring
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Summer Brennan
What does the word wilderness evoke in your mind? A vast field, a dense forest, a body of water? If you’re an attorney, it may simply be a legal te...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Global Tax Avoidance: Who's Responsible?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Impact: Where Business and Ethics Meet
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We investigate the complex world of tax avoidance, starting with the mining industry in Zambia. Activists, documentarians, and economists give pers...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:04
Louisiana Checkup: Douglas Meffert
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Doug Meffert
As the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, we thought it would be an appropriate time to head back down to the bayou. This week on S...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2