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Quenching The Thirsty Earth
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Peter Brewitt
This week on Sea Change Radio we are talking about the California drought – getting an update on weather-related aspects, and finding out about an ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Richard Lunt: Transparent Solar Cells
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Richard Lunt
Imagine a world where every window-laden skyscraper generates its own solar power, where the skylights in your ceiling are a source of light and el...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Todd Thorner on Independent Power Producers
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Todd Thorner
Have you ever driven by a hillside covered with wind turbines and wondered, “Who owns those, and is the energy produced up there making it to my ho...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Daniel Kammen: Electricity For All, Part II
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Kammen
Last week we spoke about the prospect of decentralized energy systems supplying clean electricity to the developing world with Daniel Kammen, a UC...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Daniel Kammen: Electricity For All, Part I
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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How easy it is to take our electrified world for granted. Right now about 1.2 billion people or about 20% of the global population live without acc...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Solazyme Co-Founder Harrison Dillon
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Harrison Dillon
What's it like to see an idea grow into something bigger than you ever imagined? This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise sits down with entre...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Getting Around: Urban Transport Solutions
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Amanda Eaken
We’ve all deliberated ad nauseum about which road to take to avoid traffic. Today’s discussions about transportation choices are more about the mod...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fracking: There’s Something In The Air
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Caroline Cox
The potential damage posed by hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” to ground water, its contribution to earthquake risk, and overall deceptive pract...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
Trash Talk: The Persistence of Waste
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Buckhorn Mesa landfill., Credit: courtesy of Flickr user Alan Levine.
During our short time on Earth we humans have created a lot of stuff. Some of it's life-altering, like the device you’re using right now and some o...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WTJU


  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 39:39
  • Purchases: 2
What the Lobster Knew: Biomimicry + Concrete
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brent Constantz
Did you know that the production of cement is responsible for 5% of the carbon dioxide emissions on the planet? Our guest today on Sea Change Radio...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fracking Moves To China, Part II
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: James West
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we learned about the new shale gas boom in China. This week, in the second part of my discussion with Jaeah Lee and ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Jonathan Trent and the OMEGA Project
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jonathan Trent
When life gives you lemons they say to make lemonade. And what if life gives you sewage released into an enclosed bay, what can you make? Certainly...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Picking Up The Pieces: Jeff Kirschner
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jeff Kirschner
Anyone who is on social media knows how often you can be inundated with picayune details of your friends’ daily lives. But what if all that over-sh...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
The Latest In Sun Roofs
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Mike Tinskey
If you own an electric vehicle and you have solar panels on your house, you can drive around powered entirely by renewable energy. But what can EV ...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:50
Scott Brusaw: Revolutionary Road
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Scott Brusaw
Solar-Roadways-4How often do you hear of an idea so big, so revolutionary, that you immediately start to dream of the possibilities? This week on S...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KVSC


  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Wilderness Too Tame?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jason Mark
When was the last time you were really in the wilderness? Or, maybe you’re like the millions of Americans who’ve never even been in the wild before...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Abrahm Lustgarten Exposes Chesapeake Energy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Abrahm Lustgarten
Imagine how you’d feel if instead of paying you the usual $5,000 a month, your employer suddenly whittled your paycheck down to $500 a month – in o...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:50
Origami Electronics
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: ASU Research Team
Advertisers love to talk about the art of engineering. But this week’s guests on Sea Change Radio truly are fusing their high-tech research with ar...

Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Renewed Energy for Renewables
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Shalini Ramanathan
A couple of decades who could have imagined that a gust of wind wafting across a Wyoming plain could power an air conditioner as far off as Souther...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
Peter Gleick on the California Drought
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Peter Gleick
2013 was the driest year on record in California, and the state’s snowpack is at 12% of what it should be. Considering that this state alone houses...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:50
  • Purchases: 1
Jem Bendell: Making Heads or Tails of Bitcoin
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jem Bendell
Bitcoin-accepted-hereIf you've heard about Bitcoin on the evening news or seen a headline about it, you might have been left with the impression th...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:30
Correcting the Record on the “Cleantech Crash”
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Katie Fehrenbacher
If you watched last weekend’s 60 Minutes piece on the so called “Cleantech Crash,” you might have taken a moment to check the channel and make sure...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2014
  • Length: 29:45
Lab-Grown Beef: A Meat Pie in the Sky?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tom Levitt
Cruelty free products abound in our 21st Century market place, from cosmetics to fake fur. But can you imagine a cruelty free filet mignon? It soun...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Post-Plastic Entrepreneurs
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Eben Bayer
Can you think of two everyday materials with a worse environmental rep than Styrofoam and plastic bottles? From production through disposal, these ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
Beer Is Good: Alaskan Brewing Co.'s Geoff Larson
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Geoff Larson
Do you think beer is good? If you do, you’re not alone. Beer is the most widely consumed alcoholic beverage worldwide, and one of the earliest ferm...

Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2