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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
Nurdle Hurdles + Turning Plastic Into Gravel
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petr...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Daniel Oberhaus: Our Super-Charged Future (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Oberhaus
New iterations of the smartphone often focus on bells, whistles and other fancy features, when what we all really want for our devices are batterie...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Laura Vandenberg Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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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
The Last Straw: Mark Marinozzi + Romain Troublé (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Romain Trouble
The next time you sip on a drink from a straw, you may want to think twice because humans are producing an inordinate amount of plastic waste on st...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
GN_3.50_Planting Power
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
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
Alex Gilbert on the Texas Blackouts
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Gilbert
All eyes have been on the Lone Star State recently, watching the grim and undeniable impact of climate change on a population completely unprepared...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Truck It! The past, present and future of trucking in Nevada
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Look around you, wherever you are, and I’d be willing to bet that all the human-made things within your view are there because of a truck, to say n...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2020
  • Length: 33:29
Sammy Roth: Salton Sea Lithium
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
If you follow tech news, it’s pretty hard to miss stories reminding us of the tremendous potential that lithium-ion batteries have in store for the...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2019-06-21 Can a Circular Economy Salvage the Climate?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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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
Strange Brew: Atomo Bean-less Coffee
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Atomo Coffee
Many people around the world wouldn’t dream of starting their day without their coffee ritual. And they tend to be pretty particular about it — wha...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
2018-01-14 Jane Goodall and Yvon Chouinard
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Jane Goodall
World-renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall talks about her life’s work, the link between deforestation and climate change and wh...

Bought by KQUA, KPIP-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KWIT, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Fart-fegnugen: Jack Ewing on VW Emissions Scandal
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jack Ewing
When a West Virginia University research team won a grant in 2012 to run some tests on diesel cars, they could not have imagined that their relativ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Saving Our Skin: Conservation on Land and Sea
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Paul Salaman
There’s more than one way to support ecological conservation. Today on Sea Change Radio we talk with two individuals working on different fronts fo...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cod Willing: David Abel on the Cod's Resurgence
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Abel
Since 1992, fish’n’chips fans may have noticed that there was no cod in their classic fried dish. That’s the year that the Canadian government issu...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 2
Geophysicist Ole Kaven on Man-Made Earthquakes
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ole Kaven
Apparently things are moving and shaking in Oklahoma, literally. In the past 8 years earthquakes in the “Sooner State” have increased from 2 a year...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Ken Geiser: Our Chemical World
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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
Imitations: On GMOs and Concrete
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brooke Borel
Now that Stephen Colbert has put his alter ego to bed, some of you may be missing broadcasters pretending to be someone else. Well, apparently, Col...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio, Lani Malmberg Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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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
Measuring Methane
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lisa Song
When we think of the potential dangers of fracking for natural gas, what may come to mind is the dramatic image of flaming tap-water. But the prosp...

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


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cannabis Radio News #39
From: Cannabis Radio News
Series: Cannabis Radio News - weekly show
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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
Keeping An Eye On The Natural Gas Boom
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neela Banerjee
Even the most casual followers of energy policy have become aware of the controversy surrounding the massive expansion of fracking in this country ...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
Gone Fishin’: Australis Aquaculture CEO Josh Goldman
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Josh Goldman
Making responsible choices as a seafood consumer has never been more complicated. An average fish-eater might be aware that tuna is high in mercury...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
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