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240426: Building a Better Battery Supply Chain with JB Straubel and Amiee Boulanger, 4/26/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Batteries are a critical part of the transition away from fossil fuels. From electric vehicles to grid scale storage for wind and solar, demand for...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
240419: Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts , 4/19/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
2024-04-05 Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Even before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KALW and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
240405: Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between, 4/5/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Even before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
240322: Climate Migration: Should I Stay or Should I Go?, 3/22/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The places that most people call home are coming under increasing threat from climate change. From rising seas and more frequent floods to stronger...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
2024-03-22 Climate Migration: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The places that most people call home are coming under increasing threat from climate change. From rising seas and more frequent floods to stronger...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 8
2024-01-12 Pairing Scientists with Community Advocates
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're stru...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Spokane Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
231215: This Year in Climate: 2023, 12/15/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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It’s been a year of weather extremes – again. But there’s also been cause for renewed hope about our climate future. On the heels of this year’s i...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
2023-10-20 Community Resilience: Knowing Your Neighbor Could Save Your Life
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Disasters caused by burning fossil fuels are becoming more frequent, and in the aftermath of hurricanes, floods and wildfires, federal and state re...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KOWS and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
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
Gut Microbes & Hospital Wine
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Feed your head, Grace Slick cried in the song White Rabbit. How about feeding the bacteria in your gut? Beer won’t make you smart. How about wine, ...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2023
  • Length: 56:05
Wet Hot American Summer
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Jess talks with UCLA climate scientist and Weather West blogger Dr. Daniel Swain about this summer of extremes.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 21
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Rwandan genocide museum, Credit: David Kattenburg
Bacteria in your gut tweak your brain. Sometimes friendly, sometimes not. The hundred-day genocide in Rwanda -- recalling the mayhem on its 29th an...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:49
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 20
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Artificial Intelligence -- existential threat to humanity, or just to basic civil rights? Personal DNA testing – you never know what you’ll find. ...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:54
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 19
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Crawford Lake, Credit: David Kattenburg
After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:05
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 18
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:14
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 17
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Humanity’s impact on Planet Earth has a name: the Anthropocene. The start of Earth’s human age can be pinpointed in ice and biological cores, and t...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 1
Special Episode - Under Pressure
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Jess speaks from her experience conducting deep ocean research to answer questions raised by UCS scientists and staff about the recent disasters of...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 19:00
2023-01-27 Blue Carbon: Sinking it in The Sea
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. Yet blue carbon, a new name for storing carbon ...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
20230127: Blue Carbon: Sinking it in The Sea, 1/27/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. . Yet blue carbon, a new name for storing carbon...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
2022-12-16 Stefan Rahmstorf: 2022 Schneider Award Winner
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Every year, Climate One grants an award in memory of pioneering climate scientist Steve Schneider, who fiercely took on the denial machine from the...

Bought by 90.5 WESA, WMUU-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
20221216: Stefan Rahmstorf: 2022 Schneider Award Winner, 12/16/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Every year, Climate One grants an award in memory of pioneering climate scientist Steve Schneider, who fiercely took on the denial machine from the...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
OutCasting 54x -- Medical transition for trans youth -- part 2 of 2
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Dr. John Steever, Dr. Matthew Oransky, Mt. Sinai Hospital, NYC
What are the factors to consider when young transgender people want to medically transition? OutCaster Lauren talks with Dr. John Steever, a physi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
How the Soil Sponge and Essential Biological Workers are Changing the World - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Listen to author Didi Pershouse [https://www.didipershouse.com/], founder of the Land & Leadership Initiative [http://www.landandleadership.org], s...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We talk to Raj Patel and Rupa Marya about their new book "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice."

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1