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This week on the show: a unique approach to dealing with illegal gold mining in Mozambique, how Indigenous crabbers in the Pacific Northwest of th...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 09, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ted Nordhaus
Historian T.J. Jackson Lears once said, "All history is the history of unintended consequences." This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Ted N...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Andrew Winston
In 1970, the economist Milton Friedman wrote a controversial piece for the New York Times Magazine entitled “The Social Responsibility of Business ...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, we tackle a few thorny subjects. In South Africa, we look at poaching – not of animals, but of plants! Plants that could be sitting on y...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bob Berwyn
The Marshall Fire that swept through the Boulder, Colorado area in the last days of 2021 seemed to be an aberration - a destructive wildfire raging...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Raj Thamotheram
In these times, small investors may feel uneasy, not to mention unsure of how to use their investment power conscientiously. This week on Sea Chang...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Sacred forests, a destructive pilgrimage and religious leaders speak out - Most religions have a connection to the Earth...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Oct 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Air conditioning & peatlands – simple solutions, big climate impacts - Today we take a look at things that are often over...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: 'Reality check': IPCC and phasing out fossil fuels We talk about the IPCC's grave warning to the world and why we urgently...

Bought by WXDU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KSFR, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
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...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Defining wilderness - We ask some deep environmental questions: What rights does nature have? Should people be consider...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Styrofoam has long been the bane of environmentalists. In San Francisco, this harmful material is finally getting banned.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Recycling is so important, there should be a holiday to celebrate it. Well, now there is and many countries are getting involved.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In 1979, a sixteen year old boy starts planting trees to save his island, and it works.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Megan Milliken Biven
For over a hundred years, American land and waters have been tapped for that dark and viscous substance that has propelled our economy and generate...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rebecca Leber
The New York Times recently compiled a list of 104 environmental protections that the Trump administration has rolled back in four short years — th...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Lifestyle choices - We learn about how much our food should really cost, what decluttering a family home can entail, and ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week's show: Resilience rising - As the world experiences the harsh impacts of climate change firsthand, societies and experts alike are a...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Oct 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Elephants and dingos and bears (oh my!) - From Zimbabwe to Australia to Italy, we meet the communities living alongside ...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dan Dicker
In the words of the late US Senator Everett Dirksen, “the oil can is mightier than the sword.” Whether it is mightier than the COVID-19 virus remai...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Fossil fuel damages - As a major oil spill threatens coral reef ecosystems off Mauritius, locals are asking who'll pay f...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, WXDU, and WFIU


  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4