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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
Long before the United States became a nation and implemented American democracy as we know it today, there were town meetings. Nearly 400 years l...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
How do we describe the relationship between human society and nature? This week on World Ocean Radio we discuss what it means to be a stakeholder, ...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
This week on World Ocean Radio we conclude our four-part series devoted to "The Outlaw Ocean", a new book by award-winning New York Times investiga...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 04:39
Women Rising Radio chronicles the rise of three different
movements to advocate for immigrant rights in the USA,
and to support immigrants and refu...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Sep 27, 2019
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
While some organizations and individuals believe there is multidimensional inequality in the U.S., this PEACE TALKS RADIO program
is only about eco...
Bought by KCSB-FM
- Added: Sep 26, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on World Ocean Radio we offer part three of a four-part series devoted to "The Outlaw Ocean", a new book by award-winning New York Times ...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 04:56
The outlaw ocean, a space apart, hidden from view, a place of rampant criminality and exploitation. This week on World Ocean Radio we offer part on...
- Added: Sep 19, 2019
- Length: 05:32
In the United States, planning and reparation for coastal flooding and damage has been administered under a National Flood Insurance Program that s...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 04:43
Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity's annual demands on Nature exceed the capacity for Earth's ecosystems to regenerate those resource...
- Added: Aug 13, 2019
- Length: 05:14
A two-part program. Part one shares the story of the victim of a sexual assault who winds up cooperating with her contrite perpetrator to help spr...
- Added: Jul 25, 2019
- Length: 58:59
This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill highlights the dark side of what happens at sea in the context of a forthcoming book by Pulitzer Pr...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 05:34
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we look back at the most egregious actions and decisions taken by individuals, corporations and governments th...
- Added: Jun 25, 2019
- Length: 05:25
June 2019 marks ten years since then President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted in a military coup.
In this program, Dr. Dana Frank, author ...
- Added: Jun 10, 2019
- Length: 29:59
Children who experience social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools are less likely to drink alcohol, take drugs, or smoke. On the plus side the...
- Added: Jun 08, 2019
- Length: 52:25
Bridges are physical structures born from the ingenuity and hard work of humankind, engineered to connect things from one side to another. Bridges ...
- Added: May 07, 2019
- Length: 04:38
The Green New Deal has received much attention in the United States recently as one possible response to the challenging circumstances we face worl...
- Added: Apr 30, 2019
- Length: 05:16
There has never been a better time to be a citizen scientist--those individuals interested in the collection of data toward solutions, the expansio...
- Added: Apr 19, 2019
- Length: 04:49
World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently returned home from a trip to Antarctica aboard MS Island Sky with scientists from Woods Hole and a film...
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 04:52
The word 'indigenous' is used a lot these days, especially in terms of territorial rights to land and of invasive species of flora and fauna. In th...
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 04:30
We wrap up our seven-part thematic overview of the ocean edge this week by discussing the cultural edge: the place alongshore where we interact wit...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 05:03
We have long enjoyed the ocean edge for leisurely ends: as a place to gather with family and friends to enjoy surf and sand, and to relax in the fr...
- Added: Jan 29, 2019
- Length: 04:35
We speak with author Paul Kivel about his book, Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. The discussion offers a framework f...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Dec 28, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
There were thousands of organizers, activists and local social justice leaders around the world who died in 2018. As we do every December, we brin...
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
