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Near-Term Human Extinction: Guy McPherson #218
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Award-winning scientist Dr. Guy McPherson has concluded that for human civilization, the end is near. He advises the rate of change of our climate ...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Jun 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Surviving a Hostile Climate on Local Food: Michael Brownlee #216
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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A scaled-up local food system may be the only way we can feed ourselves as we weather the storm of climate change. Until now, CSAs, urban gardens a...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Anthony Barnosky - Dodging Extinction - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two-part interview with Dr. Anthony Barnosky, author of Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and the Future of L...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
Collision Course: Kerryn Higgs #211
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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How and why did our society come to value economic growth so highly that we pursue it at the risk of our long-term survival? For some time scientis...

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  • Added: May 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Cultural Metamorphosis: Mike Nickerson #208
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“We could be having so much fun that there just isn't time to consume resources on a quantity, or produce waste on a quantity that would be problem...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Science Under Attack part 3
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Rush Holt
The Trump Administration is calling for drastic cuts in scientific research and development.

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science Under Attack part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Ben Santer, Credit: Commonwealth Club
President Donald Trump has sent conflicting message about climate change. One time he calls it an urgent problem. Then he refers to it as a hoax.

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Science Under Attack – part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: March for Science
President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order. Its purpose is to reverse efforts to shrink America’s carbon footprint.

Bought by WCPN, KVSC, and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Moral Basis for Small Families: Travis Rieder #206
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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With human activity disrupting the climate, do we have a moral imperative not to have children, or to have only one child? Bioethicist Travis Riede...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KTRL, and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Mar 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Trickle-Down Consumption: Brian Czech #205
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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How can policymakers be persuaded to abandon the most widespread public policy goal on Earth? In our last episode, Brian Czech explained that econo...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Pulling the Rug Out from Under Our Kids: Brian Czech #204
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Economic growth is the number one public policy goal around the world, yet our pursuit of growth is “pulling out the rug from our own kids’ and gra...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KTRL, WYAP, and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Sound Ecology: Allen's Hummingbird
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the amazing migration of Allen's Hummingbirds along the pacific flyway. Best aired late winter through spring and su...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
02-13: The New Abolitionists: Farewell, Fossil Fuels, 1/11/2017
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Sandra Steingraber
Facing climate disruption, it's imperative to fast-forward the transition to power civilization on clean energy. The growing global movement to tra...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
The Natural World as Seen and Expressed by Alex Beard - painter and environmental advocate
From: WCWP
Series: Taking Care of Business with Richard Solomon
Caption: Mokogodo Warriors, Credit: Martin Wheeler
Fueled by curiosity about the cultures and wildlife, Alex Beard has spent much of his life traveling to the some of the world’s most remote wildli...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
Food Sleuth Radio, Grace Gershuny Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that organic farming is biologically based, ecologically sound, and protects biodiversity, soil and water quality? Join Food Sleuth ...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Tyrone Hayes Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that 70 percent of all amphibians, globally, are in decline or at threat of going extinct? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered ...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Caitlin Shetterly Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that our immune system could be affected by GMOs? And that scientists who question the safety of GMOs often risk intimidation? Join F...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sound Ecology: Macrofungi
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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Mycologist Terry Henkel discusses the diversity of fungi, loosely called mushrooms, and their importance to ecosystem health and the Klamath bioreg...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Klamath Conifers
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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A discussion of the unparalleled conifer biodiversity in the Klamath mountain region. Taking the long view through geologic time, this segment of ...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Real Cost of Fracking - Dr. Michelle Bamberger and Dr. Robert Oswald - Part 1
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Michelle Bamberger and Dr. Robert Oswald, authors of The Real Cost of Fracking: How Ame...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 28:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Real Cost of Fracking - Dr. Michelle Bamberger and Dr. Robert Oswald - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Michelle Bamberger and Dr. Robert Oswald, authors of The Real Cost of Fracking: How Ame...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 28:37
Episode 7: The Big Data of Nature
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 1
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Environmental issues are mounting, and the stakes are huge. So how might big data be used to tackle the issues of sustainability, climate change, h...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 34:51
Food Sleuth Radio, Charles Benbrook Interview, Part I
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that the vast majority of genetically engineered crops are engineered to withstand spraying with the herbicide, glyphosate? And that o...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
06-11: Future Generations Are Screaming At Us: The Clean Energy Climate Challenge , 5/11/2016
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: James Hansen
The climate crisis is a crisis of governance and leadership. Will we move rapidly enough to realign our policies, politics and economy to stabilize...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
Steven Druker Altered Genes, Twisted Truth - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents an unprecedented three part interview with Steven Druker author of Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to G...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 1