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Playlist: Climate Change

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RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities (Series)

Produced by Claire Schoen

RISE is a series of 3 hour-long radio documentaries about the impact of climate change on coastal cities.

Most recent piece in this series:

RISE: Part I Sounding the Waters

From Claire Schoen | Part of the RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities series | 00:59:00

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Peace Talks Radio: Climate Change and Conflict (59:00 / 54:00)

From Good Radio Shows, Inc. | Part of the Peace Talks Radio: Hour Long Specials series | 00:57:25

Two scholars who have studied the impact of climate change on peace and security reflect on the awarding of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to climate crisis crusader Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Action Speaks! - What Now?: 1951 - The Rise of Levittown

From Action Speaks | 00:59:00

Can the suburbs be fixed? What does sustainability look like in a land of three-car garages, shopping malls, single use zoning and houses on steroids? This week, Action Speaks takes a look at a birthplace of suburban utopia, Levittown.

World Tour Radio presents Mining, Miners, and Music

From Andrew Reissiger | 00:58:56

A look at the mining communities that support our unquenchable thirst for energy.

BackStory - Environmental Crisis!!!!

From BackStory with the American History Guys | 00:53:51

Climate change may be the most far-reaching environmental threat Americans have ever faced, but it's certainly not the first. The Father of Environmentalism, Bill Cronon, weighs in and BackStory goes hiking. More on the environment from Backstory.

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Battling Climate Change

From Smart City Radio | 00:58:54

This week on Smart City we're looking at our carbon footprints. We'll talk with Julia Parzen of the Urban Sustainability Director's Network and Architect Gordon Gill about tackling climate change both in policy and in our built environment.

Heavy Weather

From Barbara Bernstein | 00:54:06

Hour-long documentary explores connections between increasing extreme weather and our changing climates and landscapes.

Buying Into A Dying World

From Alex Smith | Part of the Radio Ecoshock Show series | 00:53:05

Check out everything from Radio Ecoshock. Great interviews about climate and the environment.

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Skeptic Check: Climate Clamor

From Big Picture Science | 00:54:01

Arctic ice is melting, atmospheric temperatures are climbing - yet the science is under attack - find out what factors are contributing to climate change skepticism.

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Encounters Erosion

From Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North | Part of the Encounters series | 00:29:00

Kivalina is a small island in the Bering Sea that is experiencing the impacts of global climate change first-hand. Head out to this remote and special place with producer Elizabeth Arnold.

Coal and Climate – We Shall Remain

From Eric Mack | 00:29:00

Just in time for the global climate summit in Copenhagen and the debate on a climate and energy bill in Washington, this half-hour special from High Plains News takes a look at the effects of our reliance on coal-fired power on our air, water, climate and communities.

Moving the Village

From Gabriel Spitzer | 00:29:00

Climate change is displacing a thousand-year-old community.


Cutaways (5:00-8:59)

Climate change in Shishmaref Alaska

From Alaska Teen Media Institute | 00:07:09

Three teens from Shishmaref, Alaska have seen the impacts of climate change first-hand. Here they discuss how the warm weather is impacting them and their elders.


Drop-Ins (2:00-4:59)

Part 1: A Long History of Dioxin Delays

From The Environment Report | Part of the Dioxin Delays series | 00:03:40

The first in a 5-part series of feature reports on how a huge corporation can delay the clean-up of toxic chemicals in a community where people are being harmed. Check out the whole series!

Tales...Story 4: Watershed 263

From Soundprint | Part of the Tales from Urban Forests series | 00:04:40

An urban project in Baltimore, Maryland where scientists, city officials, and community organizations have joined forces to regreen neighborhoods in the inner city to improve stormwater runoff, and the quality of life for the residents.

Check out the whole series about how trees affect urban environments.

Acidic Seas

From KQED | Part of the QUEST series | 00:04:57

What's global warming doing to the ocean? Check out the whole QUEST series on climate change.

Alleviating Poverty in Africa - a Climate Change Challenge

From Paula Kahumbu | 00:03:54

Poor people living in African countries are feeling the brunt of global climate change even though it is believed that most Africans cause hardly any green house gas emissions. To find out more about the average Kenyan carbon footprint I spoke to my neighbor Rhoda, a domestic worker in Nairobi.

Howard Rides the Wind

From NPR Economic Training Project | 00:04:31

The small town of Howard, South Dakota stands to benefit from green energy bill being considered in congress. But not everyone in town is backing the measure.


Copenhagen Programming

The Miner's Canary: First Peoples on Climate Change

From A World of Possibilities | 00:54:58

Interviews from an indigenous climate change conference during the summer of 2009 in Alaska.

Copenhagen, Climate Change, and Communities

From Audrey Quinn | 00:05:17

Political leaders from around the world have spent the last two weeks meeting in Copenhagen. They seek global and national solutions to the problem of climate change. Last week, Science reporter Audrey Quinn attended a climate change summit of a smaller scale. At a panel organized by Puget Sound publication YES! Magazine she listened to local leaders discuss how to address climate change at a community and individual level.

Climate Collision: What Comes After Copenhagen?

From A World of Possibilities | 00:55:03

The Copenhagen climate summit saw fierce jockeying for advantage among the great powers but few tangible results.

Copenhagen: America & Africa in Climate Decline

From Alex Smith | Part of the Radio Ecoshock Show series | 00:54:00

The Copenhagen mess. Guest Paul Kingsnorth says civilization IS climate change. Nobody wants to change Western comforts. Opens with a digest of alternative reports from Copenhagen. America, wealthiest polluter, versus Africa, poorest victims. What Obama can do.

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Boulder Shares Climate Lessons at Copenhagen

From Grace Hood | 00:04:17

For the past week, the world’s leaders have hashed out policy details at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change. Now some of the spotlight will fall on local governments to discuss their role.


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