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Maria Gallucci: Zero Emission Marine Vessels
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Maria Gallucci
When it comes to energy transitions, marine vessels tend to get overlooked, even though they are some of the worst polluters of our oceans and air....

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Below the surface: The stories behind underwater world records
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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As part of NautiWeek, Audacious brings you two people who broke world records underwater! One is for breath-holding, the other is for living underw...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Andrea Thompson: Battling Extreme Heat Fatigue
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrea Thompson
While you're shoveling snow out of the driveway this week, you may not want to hear about extreme heat - but then again, maybe you do! This week on...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Salt Lake City Water Reclamation Center
From: KRCL
Series: Ways of Water
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Connor visited the site of the new Salt Lake City Water Reclamation Center. This is the largest public utilities project in SLC's history, coming i...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 08:54
Matt Simon on Microplastics, Pt. 2
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Matt Simon
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we learned that the plastics industry plans to triple production in the next 40 years, reaching 3 trillion pounds of...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Matt Simon on Microplastics, Pt. 1
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Matt Simon
Look around you: at this very moment, chances are that within a one-foot radius of your body, there’s something plastic. The ubiquity of plastic co...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
David Ho on Carbon Offsets: Much Ado About Nothing?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Ho
Carbon offsets are often touted as a solution to humanity’s bad habit of emitting an awful lot of CO2. But how many of us actually know what things...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Oct 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Israeli Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Ziv Aviram on the EcoBridge Initiative
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ziv Aviram
Have you ever thought about what you'd do to save the planet if you were a billionaire? Well, this week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with billiona...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Constant Wonder - A Humble Farmer Walks the Globe and Meets the World's Elite
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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By age 25, a young Croatian had come down with a bad case of wanderlust. So much wanderlust that he lived out his days as a perpetual pedestrian, w...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
2023-09-15 The Nuclear Option
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. Massive, traditional nuclea...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Maine Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
230915: The Nuclear Option, 9/15/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. Massive, traditional nuclea...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
2023-03-03 Has Hydrogen’s Moment Finally Arrived?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Not long ago, it was said that “hydrogen is the fuel of the future - and always will be.” Now, with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law tagging $9.5 ...

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


  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
230303: Has Hydrogen’s Moment Finally Arrived?, 3/3/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Not long ago, it was said that “hydrogen is the fuel of the future - and always will be.” Now, with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law tagging $9.5 ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
The Truth About Hydrogen: Green Fuel or Greenwash?
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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The fossil fuel industry has been promoting hydrogen as a reliable, low carbon, next-generation fuel to power cars, heat homes, and generate electr...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
A Poison Life No Other
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mat Simon, Credit: Wired magazine
Our world is surrounded by microplastic pollution. It’s in the air we breathe. It’s in the food we eat. Our homes are among the most polluted place...

Bought by KMUN and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Neel Dhanesha: Nurdle Hurdles
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...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
20220311 Turning Air into Stone: Tech-Based Carbon Removal
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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It has been 3 million years since we’ve had this much CO2 in the atmosphere. Even if we stop all burning of fossil fuels today, humans have already...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KWIT, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
20220311: Turning Air into Stone: Tech-Based Carbon Removal, 3/11/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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It has been 3 million years since we’ve had this much CO2 in the atmosphere. Even if we stop all burning of fossil fuels today, humans have already...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
2022-02-25 Cow Poop and Compost: Digesting the Methane Menace
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In a 20-year time frame, methane is 80 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. Nationally, 37% of methane emissions come from cows....

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
20220225: Cow Poop and Compost: Digesting the Methane Menace, 2/25/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In a 20-year time frame, methane is 80 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. Nationally, 37% of methane emissions come from cows....

  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Andrea Copping: The Latest on Marine Energy Projects
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrea Copping
We hear a lot about solar and wind power, but a renewable source of clean energy that continues to be largely untapped is the ocean. According to t...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Energy Sources for the Future with Magnetic Miles
From: Ken Grey
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Energy Sources for the Future with Magnetic Miles. Magnetic Miles COO John Pierson and Maximum Health Radio talk self-perpetuating magnetic energy,...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2021
  • Length: 27:04
2021-07-02 Clearing the Air on Carbon Offsets
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For over two decades, carbon offset programs have promised individuals and businesses that they can reduce their overall carbon footprint by paying...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
210702: Clearing the Air on Carbon Offsets, 7/2/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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For over two decades, carbon offset programs have promised individuals and businesses that they can reduce their overall carbon footprint by paying...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
2021-05-21 Hot Cities, Methane Leakers and the Catholic Church
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Mapping has emerged as a powerful tool for helping humans combat climate disruption. Technology for measuring the totality of global carbon emissio...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11