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Solar Panel Recycling
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. Serasu Duran, Assistant Professor, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, and Dr. Garvin Heath, Distinguished Member of the Resear...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nuclear Colonialism and The Story “Oppenheimer” Didn’t Tell (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Image of the explosion after the Trinity detonation on July 16, 1945, Credit: United States Department of Energy
Oppenheimer swept the Golden Globes, but what did it leave out? We talk about the impact of nuclear colonialism on New Mexico with Myrriah Gómez, a...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WORT


  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Where do we go from here?
From: Aspen Public Radio
Series: Aspen Psychedelic Symposium 2023
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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “Where do we go from he...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Pollinators, Pesticides, and Politics with NRDC's Dan Raichel
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Attorney Dan Raichel talks about the scourge of neonic pesticides and what to do about them.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 2
07-18: Plastic Planet: Stopping Big Oil, Big Plastic, and Big Misdirection, 10/4/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Anna Cummins
After World War II, the U.S. government worked with industry to create a single-use, disposable consumer culture as a way to ensure ongoing market ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
The 12 Million People Lost in a Maze of Medicare and Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
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Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 22, 2023
  • Length: 24:12
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for August 2, 2023
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: ‘Step Aside Joe’ Campaign Underscores Risks for Democracy as Biden Runs fo...

Bought by WFHB, WETS, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 19, 2023
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Ohio GOP’s Aug. 8th ‘Issue One’ Referendum Threatens to Impose Minority Ru...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Jul 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Meteoric Rise of Private Medicare Advantage Insurance
From: Tradeoffs
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Medicare is in the midst of a pretty dramatic transformation. Before long, two out of every three enrollees will likely have a private Medicare Adv...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jun 16, 2023
  • Length: 24:09
  • Purchases: 1
America's Drug Price Nightmare: Public Production Can Save Lives
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What progress is being made to tackle America’s killer drug price problem?

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
‘That Rotten Spot’
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900, the public health department singled out Chinatown—as if Chinatown were the problem.

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 51:34
Return, Rebury, Repatriate
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.

  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 56:58
Will ChatGPT Do More Harm Than Good?
From: Open to Debate
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ChatGPT is all the rage. But despite the chatbot’s growing popularity, it’s not without controversy. Critics raise privacy and ethical concerns, an...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 8
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Extinction Rebellion protests pack London streets; human beings have commandeered an astonishing quarter of Earth’s natural productivity, decimatin...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for December 14, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Georgia GOP Voter Suppression the Media Missed, Likely to Spread Across th...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for June 29, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Overturning Roe v. Wade: American Women Now Second Class Citizens; Supreme...

Bought by WETS, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for May 25, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: GOP’s Embrace of ‘Replacement Theory’, Violence Imperils U.S. Democracy; N...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WETS


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
2022-05-13 Russ Feingold on Biodiversity, Climate and The Courts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Russ Feingold became a household name co-authoring the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, more commonly known as McCain-Feingold. It’s the only major ...

Bought by KGUA, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, WLPR , Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 10
20220513: Russ Feingold on Biodiversity, Climate and The Courts, 5/13/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Russ Feingold became a household name co-authoring the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, more commonly known as McCain-Feingold. It’s the only major ...

  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for May 11, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: US Goal to Degrade Russia’s Military Risks Dangerous Ukraine War Escalatio...

Bought by WETS, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WKPW


  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
How One Doctor Is Prepping for a World Without Roe
From: Tradeoffs
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A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade has health care providers scrambling. We talk with an OB-GYN at the University...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 12:53
  • Purchases: 1
How One Alzheimer’s Drug Is Changing the U.S. Drug Approval Conversation
From: Tradeoffs
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After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 22:11
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for April 13, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Big Oil Makes Big Profits Amid Catastrophic War in Ukraine, interview with...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WETS


  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Unequal Justice: the Criminalization of Black Youth
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nearly two thirds of all children in the U.S. juvenile justice system are kids of color. That’s according to a report by the Children’s Defense Fun...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Overdose Crisis in San Francisco: Part One
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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San Francisco saw more people die from drug overdoses than from COVID-19 over the last two years. We take a deep dive into the complex factors cont...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:30