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A Green Swan
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: https://www.techinasia.com/talk/startups-worry-black-swans, Credit: Infographic by Call Levels
Since the mid 2000s, economists have spoken of Black Swans, disruptive financial events that embody three special characteristics: they are rare, w...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 05:52
200124: Drawdown / Solving Climate Change, 1/24/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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When it comes to cutting carbon pollution, where do we start? Today’s solutions are doable, but daunting: decrease global meat consumption, improve...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
2020-01-24 Drawdown / Solving Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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When it comes to cutting carbon pollution, where do we start? Today’s solutions are doable, but daunting: decrease global meat consumption, improve...

Bought by WJCT, KJZZ, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP, WMRA and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
A Haiku for Ocean Innovation in Japan
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio we highlight the innovative work of the Sasagawa Peace Foundation in Tokyo, Japan, an organization using philanthrop...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2020
  • Length: 05:48
Moken: People of the Water
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: A Moken fisherman of the Myeik Archipelago, Myanmar, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Moken is a Thai word meaning sea people, people of water, sea nomads or sea gypsies. The Moken are a group of Austronesian people of an archipelago...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:32
200110: Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have, 1/10/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Everyday choices – like deciding which shirt to buy and what to binge-watch tonight – may impact the planet more than you think. Tatiana's Schlossb...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
2020-01-10 Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Everyday choices – like deciding which shirt to buy and what to binge-watch tonight – may impact the planet more than you think. Tatiana's Schlossb...

Bought by WJCT, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
Ocean Alchemy: Clean Water for Kiunga and Beyond
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Fresh drinking water from brackish seawater in Kiunga, Kenya , Credit: © GivePower
In the middle ages, alchemists for a time believed they could turn base metal into gold. This early endeavor may be the origin story for modern inv...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2020
  • Length: 04:31
191213: Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells, 12/13/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," David-Wa...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
2019-12-13 Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," David-Wa...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Adversity and the Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio we explore the lessons of the ocean and the concept of adversity: adversity at sea due to weather, unpredictability,...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2019
  • Length: 05:09
191206: High Risks, High Hopes: A Year of Climate Conversations, 12/6/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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2019 has been a year of climate rising. Youth activists skipped school and took to the streets, the Green New Deal thrust climate equity into the s...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
2019-11-29 Shadows to Spotlight: Climate in the Media
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Murder, love, and the human experience are the stuff of great stories, as podcasts like Serial and Radiolab have shown us. But climate change? Not ...

Bought by WJCT, KUSU, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Maine Public Radio, WFHB and more


  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Sound of Water
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Kalhuthukala Magu Malé, Maldives
How many ways do we hear the sound of water? In this episode of World Ocean Radio we explore water, the most essential element on earth, and the wa...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 04:45
2019-12-06 High Risks, High Hopes: A Year of Climate Conversations
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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2019 has been a year of climate rising. Youth activists skipped school and took to the streets, the Green New Deal thrust climate equity into the s...

Bought by WJCT, WRIR, WGBH Radio Boston, KUPR low power FM, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 26
An Ode to the Fish Markets of the World
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Varvakeios Municipal Fish Market, Athens, Greece, Credit: Aris Sfakianakis
Fish markets are the noisy, colorful, exiting, authentic and lively centers of any coastal city, the place where mongers and customers, tourists an...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:23
2019-11-15 John Browne: Engineering the Future
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Can oil companies reinvent themselves as clean energy providers? John Browne attempted it over more than a decade as CEO of British Petroleum, wher...

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
191115: John Browne: Engineering the Future, 11/15/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Can oil companies reinvent themselves as clean energy providers? John Browne attempted it over more than a decade as CEO of British Petroleum, wher...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Gathering In as the Seasons Change
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reflects on the coming of winter and the collection of the last of the harvest to sustain us-...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
2019-11-08 California’s Story: How Did It Get Here?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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California has long led the country in environmental action. It established strong automobile emission standards; it preserved fragile lands from d...

Bought by WJCT, WMUU-LP, WFHB, KBBI Alaska, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
191108: California’s Story: How Did It Get Here?, 11/8/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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California has long led the country in environmental action. It established strong automobile emission standards; it preserved fragile lands from d...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Eight Urgent Steps for Our Ocean Planet
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Earthrise, NASA image AS08-14-2383, taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission
A scientific paper published in May 2019 states that eight urgent, simultaneous actions are needed to head off potential ecological disaster in the...

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
191101: Beer and Wine in a Disrupted Climate, 11/1/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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America’s most popular alcoholic beverages are about to take a hit from climate. Mild, sunny growing conditions have made California king of a $62 ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
2019-11-01 Beer and Wine in a Disrupted Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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America’s most popular alcoholic beverages are about to take a hit from climate. Mild, sunny growing conditions have made California king of a $62 ...

Bought by WJCT, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WMUU-LP, WFHB, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7