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We’ve celebrated Earth Day in the United States for more than 50 years. Today, we’re taking a look at what made the first Earth Day in 1970 such a ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 04:00
Last week we learned that individuals’ home water consumption doesn’t really make a dent in the water supply, and the benefit of personal water con...
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 03:37
Saving water might not seem all that important in a humid climate like Rhode Island. But actually, there are plenty of reasons why water conservati...
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 03:26
Today, we’re taking a look at how we dispose of our food. Next time you’re scraping a plate, should that food go into compost, your sink disposal, ...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 1
This week on World Ocean Radio we're discussing a recent trip to Lisbon, Portugal to attend the Economist Ocean Summit. One such conversation we pa...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 1
Taxes are necessary for a civilized society, and most ordinary people pay their fair share. But there's one group that pays nothing at all, while ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 03:00
In business, as in life, there is a balance sheet, a statement of assets, profit and loss, income and expense, showing whether our accounts are in ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 05:07
Today’s question comes from a listener here in Rhode Island. They’ve been following local efforts to pass a bottle bill- that’s where you get money...
Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
"We are not blind to the overall problem, and if we were in doubt, recent climate-explained events, near and far, should open our eyes more widely....
- Added: Mar 04, 2024
- Length: 05:13
In this episode and the next, World Ocean Radio reports on the status quo, business-as-usual, tunnel vision conclusions at COP28 in Dubai, hosted b...
- Added: Feb 14, 2024
- Length: 04:51
A November visit to Gloucester Massachusetts for an Ocean Literary Conference (NEOSEC 2023) afforded W2O staff an opportunity to take a field trip ...
- Added: Feb 13, 2024
- Length: 05:20
The term Guns or Butter? goes back to World War I and protests over prioritizing the production of munitions over the production of dairy products....
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 03:01
Nov 7 marked the one year countdown to the 2024 Presidential election. It was both a kick in the pants and clown show on the Republican side, and a...
- Added: Nov 12, 2023
- Length: 03:00
In another episode, we talked about a state agency that can play a big role in helping us get more of our energy from renewable sources. Here in Rh...
Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 18, 2023
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 2
Joe Biden and other world leaders landed in Delhi to a grand multicolored G-20 welcome. But the beautification of the city left some of its reside...
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Summer in August is known as “dog days” – hot and muggy, panting canines with tongues hanging out, alongside their disgruntled people.
Some of th...
- Added: Aug 18, 2023
- Length: 03:00
April was Dalit History Month in India. But even though caste-ism is officially outlawed in India, some of the old biases remain.
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Iridescence As Camouflage
- Added: Apr 17, 2023
- Length: 02:00
Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.
- Added: Mar 30, 2023
- Length: 01:59
Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.
- Added: Mar 13, 2023
- Length: 01:59
Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.
- Added: Mar 09, 2023
- Length: 01:59
This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series by featuring some successful initiatives and ocean progress, with examples of policies related t...
- Added: Feb 22, 2023
- Length: 05:03
This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a conversation about consensus, a policy-making tool that has historically served to progre...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 04:51
In this episode we provide three examples of initiatives, proposals and financial solutions that could change the shape of our climate future, incl...
- Added: Dec 08, 2022
- Length: 05:11
The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) closed recently in Egypt. Reactions to outcomes of the climate change conference have been mixed, and t...
- Added: Nov 30, 2022
- Length: 05:15
