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240426: Building a Better Battery Supply Chain with JB Straubel and Amiee Boulanger, 4/26/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Batteries are a critical part of the transition away from fossil fuels. From electric vehicles to grid scale storage for wind and solar, demand for...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
Climate Change: Leaders in the Hot Seat
From: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Series: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
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Climate change is already hitting businesses’ bottom lines – and those business costs are only beginning. As guest Kim Campbell – the former Prime ...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
2023-01-27 Blue Carbon: Sinking it in The Sea
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. Yet blue carbon, a new name for storing carbon ...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
20230127: Blue Carbon: Sinking it in The Sea, 1/27/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. . Yet blue carbon, a new name for storing carbon...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
Nurdle Hurdles + Turning Plastic Into Gravel
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petr...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
2022-01-21 Corporate Net Zero Pledges: Ambitious or Empty Promises?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Corporate pledges of reaching net zero carbon emissions have quickly become commonplace. Critics argue that such pledges are mere greenwashing, and...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 9
220121: Corporate Net Zero Pledges: Ambitious or Empty Promises?, 1/21/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Corporate pledges of reaching net zero carbon emissions have quickly become commonplace. Critics argue that such pledges are mere greenwashing, and...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:55
Daniel Oberhaus: Our Super-Charged Future (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Oberhaus
New iterations of the smartphone often focus on bells, whistles and other fancy features, when what we all really want for our devices are batterie...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Laura Vandenberg Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that industries use a variety of tactics to manipulate public opinion about products that can harm our health and environment? Join Fo...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Straw: Mark Marinozzi + Romain Troublé (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Romain Trouble
The next time you sip on a drink from a straw, you may want to think twice because humans are producing an inordinate amount of plastic waste on st...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Why Tyson Foods is Bad for Workers, Farmers, and the Entire State of Arkansas
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: Got Science?
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Economist Rebecca Boehm and Nina Lakhani, journalist at The Guardian, expose the harms of near-monopolistic chicken production practices at Tyson F...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WCNY


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 2
Alex Gilbert on the Texas Blackouts
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Gilbert
All eyes have been on the Lone Star State recently, watching the grim and undeniable impact of climate change on a population completely unprepared...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Woke Washing, Operation Condor, Hibernation
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Can Brands Be True Advocates for Social Issues? Topic 2: How We're Saving the California Condor. Topic 3: How Bear Hibernation Might Work ...

Bought by KOWS


  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 51:46
  • Purchases: 1
Sammy Roth: Salton Sea Lithium
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
If you follow tech news, it’s pretty hard to miss stories reminding us of the tremendous potential that lithium-ion batteries have in store for the...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2019-06-21 Can a Circular Economy Salvage the Climate?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Produce, consume, discard; we all know the routine. Raw materials are extracted, produced into goods, and used -- sometimes only once -- before tur...

Bought by WJCT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KWIT, WCQS, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 10
Strange Brew: Atomo Bean-less Coffee
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Atomo Coffee
Many people around the world wouldn’t dream of starting their day without their coffee ritual. And they tend to be pretty particular about it — wha...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
UnCommonCore Podcast Episode 19 | Reef-A-Palooza: Part 3
From: Tom Howell
Series: Reef-A-Palooza
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The UnCommonCore Podcast explores the ideas, experiences and perspectives that make us all different. Content includes everything from live to tape...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2018
  • Length: 38:02
2018-01-14 Jane Goodall and Yvon Chouinard
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Jane Goodall
World-renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall talks about her life’s work, the link between deforestation and climate change and wh...

Bought by KQUA, KPIP-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KWIT, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Fart-fegnugen: Jack Ewing on VW Emissions Scandal
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jack Ewing
When a West Virginia University research team won a grant in 2012 to run some tests on diesel cars, they could not have imagined that their relativ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
U of MN researchers develop new technology to make car tires from trees & grasses
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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A team at the University of Minnesota has invented a new technology to produce renewable car tires from trees and grasses. Lead researcher Prof. P...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 10:38
2017-01-22 Nature’s Price Tag
From: Climate One
Caption: Larry Goulder, Tony Juniper, Greg Dalton, Credit: Sonya Abrams
It’s hard to put a price on something that’s always been free, but if Mother Nature were a corporation, she’d be a large-cap stock. Think about it ...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
Saving Our Skin: Conservation on Land and Sea
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Paul Salaman
There’s more than one way to support ecological conservation. Today on Sea Change Radio we talk with two individuals working on different fronts fo...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cod Willing: David Abel on the Cod's Resurgence
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Abel
Since 1992, fish’n’chips fans may have noticed that there was no cod in their classic fried dish. That’s the year that the Canadian government issu...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 2
Geophysicist Ole Kaven on Man-Made Earthquakes
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ole Kaven
Apparently things are moving and shaking in Oklahoma, literally. In the past 8 years earthquakes in the “Sooner State” have increased from 2 a year...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
How might climate change affect North Shore tourism? Researcher offers ideas
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Prof. Mae Davenport of the University of Minnesota Department of Forest Resources, along with colleagues from many other fields, has just completed...

Bought by KVSC and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 13:48
  • Purchases: 2