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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
Caption: Jason F. McLennan, Credit: Alex Akamine Photography
What would it feel like to live in a world where our built environment was as elegant as nature's designs? What if our living and working spaces nu...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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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
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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
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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: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A start-up company in the Netherlands is looking for new solutions for renewable energy and finding them in plants.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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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
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When institutional investors divest from fossil fuel companies, does it make a difference, or is the impact merely symbolic? Some advocate keeping ...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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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
Caption: Ice breaks away from a frozen coastline near the Norwegian Arctic town of Longyearbyen April 23, 2007 , Credit: REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
Arctic ice is melting at record levels, revealing an ocean open and vulnerable to enterprise and extraction. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, ...

  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 05:07
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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
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
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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
Caption: Ken Geiser
When you see an ad sponsored by the chemical industry espousing the wonders of chemicals, you probably roll your eyes like most of us. But how much...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Is there an alternative to toxic chemicals for controlling weeds and eradicating noxious, invasive plants? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Register...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In this edition of the Cannabis Radio News we go inside the Texas state legislature and hear from the author of a bill that would remove all crimin...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Jeff Gunderson, director of Minnesota Sea Grant, spoke with WTIP's Randy Eastlund recently about work they did with Wisconsin Sea Grant to identify...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 12:01
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Over the past few years, demand for seaweed has grown beyond its status as a long-lived local, seasonal harvest. Today it is used for fertilizer, h...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:18
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will provide multiple references to opinions and data relative to water rights, disputes, fi...

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:49
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Recently, the Global Environmental Facility and the United Nations Development Program combined their talents and experience to address ocean solut...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:21
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Gas prices in California are always a big problem. And this year, the average price per gallon is set to hit four dollars – the highest average eve...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:10
Caption: Amory Lovins, Credit: doenerg.blogspot.com
Bioneers are successfully employing the economics of nature to demonstrate how we can solve two of our most intractable environmental challenges: e...

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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The idea of keeping shopping close to home is picking up speed, with local foods increasing in popularity and availability. Harder to understand mi...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:37
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1