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Courtney White: Grass, Soil, Hope
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Courtney White
What if the solution for reducing our collective carbon footprint were right under our feet? Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio believes it is...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:20
Shellfish
From: Hillary Sanders
Series: Peril on the Salish Sea
Caption: Shellfish larvae at Penn Cove Shellfish Farm., Credit: Hillary Sanders
Shellfish farmers, researchers, and chefs share their concerns about water contamination in the Sound and the danger is poses to shellfish.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2014
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 1
Doug Fine: Hemp Bound
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Doug Fine
All of us have seen the explosion of hemp-based products – hemp seed oil and hemp clothing seem to be everywhere. But, up until now, all of these i...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Scrambling to Adapt to Climate Change
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Impact: Where Business and Ethics Meet
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For years, climate change activists avoided "adaptive" solutions because they thought it was admitting defeat. But with the reality of extreme weat...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2014
  • Length: 09:58
Dr. Sandra Steingraber - Part One - Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents: A two part interview with Dr. Sandra Steingraber, award winning author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal...

Bought by WPCA-LP


  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 1
Making Labs ... Happy? -- Groks Science Show 2014-03-05
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
On this episode, Tom Ruginis tells us about his company, HappiLabs.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 13:57
  • Purchases: 2
Origami Electronics
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: ASU Research Team
Advertisers love to talk about the art of engineering. But this week’s guests on Sea Change Radio truly are fusing their high-tech research with ar...

Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Scientists Work to Protect Region's Last Coastal Wilderness
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Virginia's barrier islands shelter more than 250 species of raptors, songbirds and shorebirds., Credit: Lindsay Renick Mayer
Efforts are underway to restore the fragile ecosystem of the shifting, changing land masses known as Virginia's barrier islands.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 1
Planet of the Apes -- Groks Science Show 2014-02-19
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dale Peterson joins us to discuss chimpanzee behavior.

Bought by 'The Sea', 'The Sea', WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 27:44
  • Purchases: 5
Post-Plastic Entrepreneurs
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Eben Bayer
Can you think of two everyday materials with a worse environmental rep than Styrofoam and plastic bottles? From production through disposal, these ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
Dr. Seth Moore: Tribal partnerships
From: WTIP
Series: Dr. Seth Moore - Grand Portage Tribal Wildlife Biologist
Caption: Dr. Seth Moore radio collars a moose at Grand Portage., Credit: Grand Portage Trust Lands
Dr. Seth Moore is a wildlife biologist with the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and a regular guest on WTIP North Shore Community Rad...

Bought by KSRQ and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Jul 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 2
Rhett Butler on the Palm Oil Industry
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rhett Butler
The global expansion of the palm oil industry is one of the largest upheavals in modern agricultural history - and one that many Americans know not...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
Helping oysters help us -- Groks Science Show 2013-06-19
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. George Waldbusser discusses oysters and ocean acidification.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
Environmental Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Dr. Frank R. Spellman, author of Environmental Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing talks to us about the topic of his book. He discusses all aspects o...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:36
Food Sleuth Radio, Anne Mosness Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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What are the risks of introducing genetically engineered fish into our food supply? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda H...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Author Anthony Brandt and "The Man Who Ate His Boots"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 1
212: Catalyzing Ocean Finance II
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Catalyzing Ocean Finance Vol. II, Credit: GEF/UNDP
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill continues a discussion of the Global Environment Facility/ United Nations Development Progra...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 05:33
211: Catalyzing Ocean Finance
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Recently, the Global Environmental Facility and the United Nations Development Program combined their talents and experience to address ocean solut...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:21
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
Robert Boyd on the Hydrogen Economy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Robert Boyd
One of the most alluring answers to the climate change conundrum is a transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a hydrogen-based economy. As h...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
Digging Peromyscus -- Groks Science Show 2013-02-06
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Not many laboratories house mice in 3000 pounds of sand, but then not many labs research the burrowing habits of Peromyscus, either. Dr. Hopi Hoek...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KMXT, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 30:27
  • Purchases: 3
Teeny Weeny Technology: Heather Millar on Nanoparticles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Heather Millar
Here’s a little exercise: take a pen and a blank piece of paper and write down everything you know about nano-technology. If you do this, you may f...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:50
Jack and the Microbiome -- Groks Science Show 2013-01-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Microbial ecologist Jack Gilbert joins us to discuss the Earth Microbiome Project.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, WRNC-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 31:58
  • Purchases: 4
Walking in Our Footprints
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joe Romm
How will our current climate policies and actions be viewed by future generations? Our first guest this week on Sea Change Radio is pretty sure our...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Richard Heinberg: “The Quest” For Truth
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Richard Heinberg
Last year, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and energy consultant Daniel Yergin published his long-awaited sequel to the The Prize called The Quest: E...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1