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The Unwanted Chemicals in Every Plastic Bottle with Mike Belliveau
From: Doug Wood
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When you drink from a plastic bottle, you're getting much more than you think. An array of toxic chemicals is going down your throat.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:11
Beware What You Wear with Alden Wicker
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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After the news, author and investigative journalist Alden Wicker talks about toxic chemicals in the fashion industry.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 2
Let's Unmake Something: On the Unconstructable Earth
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our rising awareness that we have destroyed our planet has simultaneously provided us not with remorse or resolve but with a new fantasy: that the ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Three Little Words - End Fossil Fuels
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is Three Little Words and our guest is Holly Buck, author of Ending Fossil Fuels - Why Net Zero Is Not Enough just out from Verso. We’re ...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
2021-07-30 Vandana Shiva and the Hubris of Manipulating Nature
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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From clearing land for pasture to building dams, humans have long changed the face of the Earth. But Indian eco-feminist Vandana Shiva is highly cr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
210730: Vandana Shiva and the Hubris of Manipulating Nature, 7/30/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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From clearing land for pasture to building dams, humans have long changed the face of the Earth. But Indian eco-feminist Vandana Shiva is highly cr...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Subjects of Captivity: Personhood Rights and Nonhuman Animals
From: WFHB
Caption: Th mirror self-recognition test.
Our show is about the legal status of nonhuman animals - are they subjects or objects, persons or things? And currently those are the only options ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
2019-06-28 The Uninhabitable Earth
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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According to David Wallace-Wells, we’re cooked – literally. In his new book "The Uninhabitable Earth," Wallace-Wells explores how climate change wi...

Bought by WCNY, WJCT, Nevada Public Radio, WCQS, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
2018-02-11 Climate On Your Plate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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What should climate-conscious people do to eat most sustainably? How people approach their diet is deeply personal and can be extremely controversi...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KUHF, KUNM, KBBI Alaska, KWIT and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
The only paid climate skeptic who ever flipped
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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For over 20 years, Jerry Taylor was a leading spokesperson for climate skepticism. He waged TV battles against climate activists on the likes of CN...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2017
  • Length: 41:51
Behaving Against Our Interests: Paul Ehrlich #110 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Today it could be argued that human beings daily act against our own self-interests. How? Biologist Paul Ehrlich and fellow scientists tell us we a...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Martin Ford, author of "Rise of the Robots"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Martin Ford, author of "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future."

  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 30:10
Martin Ford, author of Rise of the Robots
From: Janelle Brown
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Ford about his new book, which looks at how new technologies could soon make many jobs obsolete.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2016
  • Length: 30:37
What's So Smart About Growth? Al Bartlett #102
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Legendary physics professor Al Bartlett was quick to tell us “smart growth” and “dumb growth” both lead us to the same undesirable end; “smart grow...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 7
PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America - part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: PTSD book cover, Credit: Lexington Books
This is a continuation of a conversation with sociologist Jerry Lembcke. His book, -PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
183: From Research to Responsibility
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that scientists and organizations should advocate through responsible research ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 05:34
181: From Natural System to Social System
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The Ocean, Our Future, Credit: Mario Soares, Independent World Commission on the Future of the Oceans
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that we must move beyond the narrow perception of the ocean as a natural system...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:38
174: World Oceans Day
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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June 8 is World Oceans Day when we celebrate our relationship with the ocean through global connection. A recent survey conducted by The Ocean Proj...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 05:46
155: The Exhausted Land We Live In
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Smog over Chongqing, China. , Credit: (Feng Li/Getty Images)
We often think of the ocean as a place apart, but it is not so. The ocean is as threatened by exhaustion as the land around us. As population incre...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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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