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2019-02-10 Katharine Hayhoe: Why We Need to Talk About Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Katharine Hayhoe, recipient of the 2018 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Science Communication
Many of us find it daunting to talk with our neighbors, colleagues and family members about climate change. But climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe ...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KBBI Alaska, KVMR, MPR News Stations and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
2019-01-27 Cool Clean Tech
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Davida Herzl, CEO and Co-Founder, Aclima
Over a century ago, the industrial revolution brought wealth and opportunity to a generation of American innovators. It also brought us dirty coal ...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 9
Teaching Ethics
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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How do you teach ethics to engineering students? Guests Dr. Beccy Hambright and Richard Burgess talk about their experience tackling that question...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 48:02
  • Purchases: 1
New Movies You Can See With Family During the Holidays
From: Jon Negroni
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It’s that time of year again, when film lovers spend their days off from work and school with family and friends as the holidays kick into full ge...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 51:22
2018-12-16 Mind Over Chatter: Exploring Climate Psychology
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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We all know about the environmental and physical effects of climate change. But what about its impact on our mental health? Therapists report that ...

Bought by WJCT, KVNF, KZYX, NPR Now, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
2018-12-02 A Four-Zero Climate Solution
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Stabilizing our climate is going to take some hard truths – and hard numbers. “If you look at 1.5 degrees, it's about 13 years,” says Stanford’s Ar...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KMXT, NPR Now, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
2018-11-18 Are Human Lives Improving?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In their 1968 book The Population Bomb, Paul and Anne Ehrlich warned of the dangers of overpopulation. These included mass starvation, societal uph...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KBBI Alaska, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
2018-11-04 Prosperity and Paradox: A Conversation with Arlie Hochschild and Eliza Griswold
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Red states, blue states – when it comes to our environment, are we really two different Americas? New Yorker writer Eliza Griswold spent time in so...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, Prairie Public, KWIT, KFOI Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 7
Leaving Teaching for Tech
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Former teacher and current tech worker Sophia talks about why she left the classroom, how people perceive teachers, how to bring STEM to four-year-...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2018
  • Length: 34:51
2018-07-29 We’re Doomed – Now What?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Dr. Matthew Fox
Can changing our consciousness hold off the climate apocalypse? When we think about the enormity of climate change and what it’s doing to our plane...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WGCU, KWIT, KFOI Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
2018-07-08 Making the Grade: Corporations and the Paris Climate Accord
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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When you think of climate activism, Wall Street doesn’t immediately come to mind. But as investors are coming to realize, they do have a voice – an...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WUTC, MPR News Stations, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 8
A Targeted Divide: Crime, Decline, and the Rise of the Citizen-Protector
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Act for America" (anti-Muslim rally), Lansing, Michigan, Credit: Theresa Rosado
For our second show in our three-part series, A Targeted Divide, we bring you “Crime, Decline, and the Rise of the Citizen-Protector: How the Meani...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
Straightening Gayness: Mainstream Representation Under the Male Gaze
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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For this first Tuesday of LGBT Pride Month we bring you, “Straightening Gayness: Mainstream Representation Under the Male Gaze” about television’s ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 2
2018-06-03 Mark Kurlansky and Anna Lappé: Plate to Planet
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Anna Lappé, Author, Diet for a Hot Planet
Mark Kurlansky and Anna Lappé are two of the country’s most prolific and influential authors writing about feeding a crowded planet with a destabil...

Bought by WJCT, KPIP-LP, KWIT, NPR Now, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 8
2018-04-29 The Population Bomb, 50 Years Later: A Conversation with Paul Ehrlich
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Paul R. Ehrlich, President, Center for Conservation Biology, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
In 1968, the best-seller “The Population Bomb” (written by Paul and Anne Ehrlich, but credited solely to Paul) warned of the perils of overpopulati...

Bought by WJCT, KPIP-LP, KUHF, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WUTC and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
Exceptions Aren’t the Rule: When Grit Isn’t Enough
From: Volunteer Staff
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Our guest is the founding headmaster of The Boston Arts Academy, Boston’s first public high school for the visual and performing arts, Linda Nathan...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
Math Anxiety
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Anxiety in engineering education sometimes comes from doing math. What does math anxiety feel like? What are its causes and effects? How do you dea...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2018
  • Length: 27:40
Florida Gun Murders---Will Vermont Respond?
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Alt - Center
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It’s barely four months since the Las Vegas massacre, and already it’s all but forgotten. Now comes the Florida high school mass shooting and we mu...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2018
  • Length: 03:16
Freedom to Exit: The Libertarian Use of Market Ideology
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Original Walton's Five and Dime, now the Wal-Mart Visitor's Center, Bentonville, Arkansas., Credit: Photo taken by Bobak Ha'Eri. (CC BY-SA 2.5)
Elizabeth Anderson joins us to talk about her book Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). In many workp...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
2018-01-14 Jane Goodall and Yvon Chouinard
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Jane Goodall
World-renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall talks about her life’s work, the link between deforestation and climate change and wh...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
The New Cosmology or Upbeat in the Anthropocene
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: The Ark of Space by Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1968)
Today’s show is kin to last week’s, Honey From a Weed…but instead of seeing the human as capable of flourishing in concert with the natural, in thi...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
Leon Trotsky, or The Revolution Betrayed: The Russian Revolution (Part Three)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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From within this crucible the revolutionary theorist, ruthless Red Army commander and plausible dictator in waiting, leader of the left opposition ...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
Ep. 4: Frederick Wiseman
From: Todd Melby
Series: The Drunk Projectionist
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Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman discusses "Titicut Follies," his controversial 1967 film about a hospital for the criminally insane. In thi...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 20, 2017
  • Length: 27:12
  • Purchases: 2
Women and Children First: The Dialectic of Sex
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Shulamith Firestone in about 1970, the year “The Dialectic of Sex” was published. Credit Michael Hardy
The Dialectic of Sex is widely considered the most influential book of Second Wave Feminism. In it Firestone argues that the biological sexual dich...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
Giving Account: Thoreau at 200
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Thoreau's grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery , Credit: Doug Storm
On this occasion of the birth of Thoreau we are forced to confront the vexed nature of our reception of his genius. So many of us hate Thoreau, whi...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 58:05