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Shamus Roller on Housing Justice
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Shamus Roller
For the past year and a half, we've been watching the numbers: Covid cases, ER beds, deaths, and, more recently, immunization rates. There's anothe...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Geo Maher, A WORLD WITHOUT POLICE and John Cavanagh & Robin Broad, THE WATER DEFENDERS
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Geo Maher about his new book, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete. Then, we hear the thrilling and hope...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 01:07:08
Beth Hoffman: Betting The Farm
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Beth Hoffman
It’s a familiar theme from television, the movies, and literature: city folk, sick of the hustle and bustle of urban life, decamping to a bucolic e...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tru Earth CEO Brad Liski: Detergent Insurgent
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brad Liski
The next time you’re doing a load of laundry, take a second and think about all that goes into cleaning your clothes. You’ve probably contemplated ...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Immune To Tragedy: Gun Regulations in America
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Robyn Thomas
Globally suicide accounts for about 20% of all gun-related deaths. But in the United States, the country with the highest per-capita civilian gun o...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sami Grover: We’re All Hypocrites Now
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sami Grover
Have you ever heard the term climate hypocrite? Maybe you’ve noticed as it was applied to some high profile celebrity or advocate flying across the...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rebecca Leber: Breaking Down Biden’s Climate Plan
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rebecca Leber
The infrastructure bill currently being negotiated in Congress includes some important climate-related allocations. Environmentalists, of course, f...

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  • Added: Sep 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...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rod Graham: Color-Consciousness Not Colorblindness
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rod Graham
Many of us grew up under the impression that “colorblindness,” or pretending not to see racial differences was virtuous. An important contribution ...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jim Motavalli: EV Updates
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jim Motavalli
If you haven’t considered buying an electric vehicle yet, there’s a good chance that in the not-so-distant future, the decision will already be mad...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Arqlite: Turning Plastic Into Gravel
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sebastian Sajoux
This week on Sea Change Radio, we learn about a small, innovative company that is recycling all sorts of plastics and turning them into gravel. We ...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Who Speaks For The Water?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Varsha
In the film adaptation of The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss, the unscrupulous Aloysius O’Hare sells oxygen. The audience is shocked and dismayed by this want...

Bought by WFHB and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sammy Roth: Shutting Down Diablo Canyon
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
We are on the brink of the hottest months of the year. For those of us in California this means getting ready for the nuisance of rolling blackouts...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Crystal Kolden: Prepping For Wildfire Season
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Crystal Kolden
Yes, there will be millions of collective sighs as the deadliest pandemic in a century begins to abate and a more open summer kicks off. But summer...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Scott Lerner: Hydrogen Vehicle Update
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Scott Lerner
Back in February of 2013 when we spoke to hydrogen vehicle expert Robert Boyd, the mass market appeal of hydrogen cars seemed somewhat limited to s...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Malavika Vyawahare: Commercial Tuna Pirates
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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When we hear the term “resource curse,” it usually refers to the exploitation of countries with rich stores of natural resources like fossil fuels ...

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  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nicole Taylor of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Nicole Taylor
This past year has been trying for everyone, with the economically vulnerable particularly hard hit. In a heartening turn, there has been an uptick...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Within Our Grasp: Sharman Apt Russell on Childhood Malnutrition
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sharman Russell
As Anne Frank wrote in her diary, “hunger is not a problem, it is an obscenity.” This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to author Sharman Apt Russ...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
John Englander: Moving To Higher Ground
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Englander
Summer is nearly upon us. The next time you’re at the beach, gazing upon the blue horizon, take a moment to contemplate the depths of the sea, and ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Eliot Peper, VEIL & Paul Greenberg, THE CLIMATE DIET
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Eliot Peper about his Cli-Fi novel, Veil. It’s about what happens when a tech CEO decides to geo-engineer the climate—in secret. Then...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:03
Meet environmental poet Camille T. Dungy
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Camille Dungy, Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Award-winning writer and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T. Dungy discusses her work as an ecopoet.

Bought by WSLR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 3
Eriel Deranger of Indigenous Climate Action
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Eriel Deranger
The list of crimes committed in the name of so called “progress” includes modern offenses such as the Trump Administration’s effort to sell off Nat...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Writer’s Voice: Simon Winchester, LAND & Isabella Tree, WILDING
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Simon Winchester about his new book Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World. Then we revisit part of our 2020 int...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Rebecca Leber: A Green New Infrastructure Deal?
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Rebecca Leber
Infrastructure is sort of the unsung hero of a functioning society. It’s hard to get across town without a reliable road, hard to keep people healt...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Nithin Coca: Indonesian Coal Crisis
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Nithin Coca
We often associate coal consumption with China and India, countries that have indeed invested heavily into the harmful fuel but flying under the ra...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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