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Global Plastics Crisis with Dr. Leo Trasande
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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After the news, Dr. Trasande, a delegate to the UN conference on plastics, talks about plastic as a human health issue.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:09
The ABC's of PFAS with Tracey Frisch
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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Forever chemicals in fertilizer are getting into the food we eat. Tracey Frisch explains how.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Forever chemicals with Dr. David Bond
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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The sad story of, and everything you need to now about, PFAS.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:43
  • Purchases: 1
Drinking Plastic with Mike Belliveau
From: Doug Wood
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Every plastic bottle is filled with hundreds of thousands of tiny pieces of plastic. Here's what you need to know.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 28:25
The Glyphosate-Autism Connection
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT talks about her research linking pesticide residues in food to the destruction of gut bacteria and link to autism.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Stink Over PFAS with Tracy Frisch
From: Doug Wood
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Scientist Dr. Tracy Frisch explains why spreading fertilizer from sewage sludge is a really bad idea.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 1
Henrietta Lacks' Immortal Cells
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: Henrietta Lacks, Credit: Courtesy: Lacks family & Estate
David Kattenburg speaks about Henrietta Lacks and medical racism in America with Dorothy Roberts. Roberts is Professor of Law and Sociology at the ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2023
  • Length: 34:56
The Ocean is Telling Us - with Dr. Sandra Steingraber
From: Doug Wood
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Author and biologist Sandra Steingraber talks about the impact of fossil fuels on our oceans, ahead of the March to End Fossil Fuels.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:48
Poisoning the Hudson...Again - with Dr. Gordon Edwards
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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What's wrong with dumping a million gallons of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River?

Bought by WRFA-LP, WYAP, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 3
Is This the End of Humans? with Dr. Shanna Swan
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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World renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan has an important warning for couples planning to have a baby.

Bought by WRFA-LP, WMUU-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 3
The PFAS Problem with Dr. Arlene Blum
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The class of chemicals known as PFAS causes cancer and disrupts the endocrine system, and will pollute the world forever.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 2
Farming - recorded 4/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A 3 generation family farm business discusses farming

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 23:15
221-Human Geological Epoch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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We humans are writing a record of our activities into the rock layers currently being produced on planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Limits to Growth: Dennis Meadows #116
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“Our computer-generated scenarios all showed this growth stopping in the early decades of the 21st century, and, I must say, looking back now, it s...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WMUU-LP, KMUD and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Unspun Grieves with Guy McPherson Over the Demise of Homo Sapiens
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Guy McPherson
Guy McPherson, professor emeritus of natural resources and the environment at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2015
  • Length: 59:37
Near Term Human Extinction Part One & Part Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses human extinction with Dr. Guy McPherson, co-author of “Extinction Dialogs:  How to Live With Death in Mind” and Professor ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
Cyber Crime
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Cyber Crime's impact on the average computer user can be expensive

  • Added: Jun 08, 2006
  • Length: 04:08
Glacier Melts
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Glaciologists use wireless sensors to research glacial ice melt due to Global Warming.

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: May 11, 2006
  • Length: 09:27
  • Purchases: 1
Data Shredder
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Examining a program that "shreds" then reassembles scrambled data

  • Added: May 11, 2006
  • Length: 06:14
Bogus Electronics
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Counterfeit electronic goods wreak havoc on market

  • Added: Apr 07, 2006
  • Length: 05:35
Sonar and Whales
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Sonar's deadly effect on several whale species

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 08, 2006
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Reindeer People
From: Lorne Matalon
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Mongolia's remaining reindeer herders are trying to find their way in post-Communist Mongolia.

Bought by The Nature Podcast, WNIN, KFAI Minneapolis, WGCU, and KLCC


  • Added: Dec 21, 2004
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 5