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What are the five areas of our collective existence on earth where the ocean matters most? If we are looking for a context to drive motivation and ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2024
- Length: 04:48
This week on World Ocean Radio we're weighing in on the debate of water as food. Many are certain that it is not because it does not have the same ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2022
- Length: 04:30
In this brief series we're exploring disruptive technologies for aquaculture, specific initiatives and other advancements to improve efficiency and...
- Added: Oct 19, 2021
- Length: 05:14
Without mitigation of consumption and illegal fishing, we face a global crisis of protein supply to feed a growing world population. Over the next ...
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 05:14
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
Food webs describe who eats whom in an ecological community. In the aquatic food web, humans feed down the food chain, consuming lesser and lesser ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 05:27
Aquaculture has long been a controversial industry fraught with conflict: waste and feed pollution, use of antibiotics, escape of genetically modif...
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 05:08
Chickens cannot fly. That’s according to Air India, India’s national airline. It has just announced that it’s going to stop serving non-vegetaria...
- Added: Jul 25, 2017
- Length: 06:00
China is the world's largest consumer, producer, and exporter of every fish species caught by their vast industrial fishing fleet, at a rate on tra...
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 05:27
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss two ideas--floating farms and saltwater agriculture--that are using ocean and renewable resources t...
- Added: Jan 31, 2017
- Length: 04:40
The global water crisis and the prospects for future water resources is forcing adjustments for how we measure the water that is used, how it is va...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 05:19
"Virtual water" is used to produce everything that we incorporate into our lives each day but is not listed on labels or calculated into price. Whe...
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 05:19
As the world population has grown, the demand for food has increased, technologies for more efficient harvest have evolved, and our natural systems...
- Added: Dec 29, 2014
- Length: 05:46
Fish supplies are being rapidly depleted due to overfishing, especially in the deep ocean outside of national jurisdiction. The EU has developed ac...
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 05:20
Proposal by PETA to replace cows' milk with mothers' milk makes Ian squirmy.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 02:07
Florida's highly exploited tomato pickers are aiming at new targets in their nationwide struggle to win decent wages and working conditions
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 04:35
This discusses the attempts of Burger King to undo agreements by its major fast-food competitors to improve the shameful conditions of tomato pickers.
- Added: Dec 06, 2007
- Length: 03:52
A strong movement is under way to win decent treatment for the miserably treated tomato pickers whose work is essential to the hugely profitable fa...
- Added: Apr 26, 2007
- Length: 03:24
This commentary notes the great need for President Bush to provide much more relief to the thousands of farmworkers who've been struggling to meet...
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Mar 15, 2007
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
A commentary on the Bush administration's successful attempt to allow U.S. growers to continue using methyl bromide, the highly toxic pesticide ban...
- Added: Nov 18, 2006
- Length: 02:54
The "Wheatland Riot" nine decades ago laid the foundation for creation of an effective union and other steps to improve the miserable conditions of...
- Added: Jul 23, 2006
- Length: 03:14
A writer ponders the intersection of food and the environment.
Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WMPG, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 11, 2004
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 3
