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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
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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
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There’s not a business on the planet that isn’t impacted by weather at some level. Leaders must prepare their organizations for what’s to come. It’...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:01
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Embracing life's mysteries. Using shadow exploration, Tai Chi, and dreamwork retired professor Bill Judge is on a personal journey guided by his dr...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:50
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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
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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
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
Caption: Diane Rosenfeld sees a social structure in bonobo apes that makes human society look positively primitive in comparison.
People like to think humanity is at the top of cultural achievement, the pinnacle of evolution’s craftwork. But one glance at the daily headlines p...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2022
  • Length: 50:46
Caption: Fearing uncertainty is part of our biology. But we can hack our mindsets, Dr. Hartanov says, so we see uncertainty's opportunities instead.
When you face uncertainty, how do you react? We’re biologically wired to meet uncertainty with concern, even panic or anxiety: it triggers our fig...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 57:19
Caption: Dr. Maryanna Klatt leads Ohio State's Center for Integrative Health -- and has found mindfulness, yoga, and other practices to have highly beneficial results when practiced regularly.
Mindfulness is mainstream. So is yoga. There's renewed interest in Ayurvedic medicine, an Indian system that's thousands of years in the making. Ho...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 56:24
Caption: Jonathan Reams cofounded the Center for Transformative Leadership; he discusses how critical mindsets are for good leaders.
Leadership is nothing without thought -- and research shows we (literally!) think with our hearts as well as our minds. Neurocardiology is just on...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 57:10
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
Caption: Dr. JJ Walcutt: From psychology to neurology, she studies ways the human brain can be optimized for peak cognitive performance.
To be competitive over the next decade, businesses must not only help employees optimize the body for physical and mental health purposes, but it w...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 53:58
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Oceana Coffee Founders on Love, Passion, Award Winning Roasting and More. Art of Coffee making begins with the bean, it's concious harvesting, orig...

  • Added: May 30, 2021
  • Length: 25:21
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


  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Spinoff 21 has been published online by NASA., Credit: NASA
We examine a few of the thousands of technologies and innovations developed by NASA that are making lives better around our planet.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KIYU-FM, WFHB, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
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
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This week on the show: What, exactly, is behind the frightening surge in Europe's COVID-19 numbers? And are we blaming the wrong groups of people ...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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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
Caption: Barbara Freese
Corporations have a very long history of denying wrongdoing. Think Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, Exxon Mobile. The list is lengthy. In fact ,the persist...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1