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Clean Money
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: John Bohn, CEO of Renewable Energy Trust, Credit: Rikki Ward
The sun provides less than one percent of American electricity. But there is a solar surge underway and the number of installations grew 75 percent...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
Lueken’s Grocery Embracing 21st Century Ideas
From: Zach Wenzel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Brent Sicard, President and CEO of Lueken’s Village Foods grocery stores, announced plans for the local chain to grow and sell its own produce, as ...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 20:16
Jazz's Great Songwriting Teams
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Tin Pan Alley duo Rodgers and Hart
This week on the show, it's an hour with jazz's legendary songwriting teams—from Tin Pan Alley duo Rodgers and Hart, to Duke Ellington and Billy St...

Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRGY, KPVL, KDRP Community Radio, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Tabled Fables 7 Jack and the Beanstalk
From: Amy Kraft
Series: Tabled Fables
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In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:35
Oil and Water
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Bill McKibben, Founder, 350.org and John Hofmeister, former President, Shell Oil, Credit: Sonya Abrams
Environmentalists and oil executives don’t often sit down to talk to each other. In this program we will have two candid conversations with promine...

Bought by KWGS and KAZU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
Climate and Political Science
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Dr. James Hansen, NASA Scientist, Credit: Ed Ritger
Today we are discussing the science behind the national debate on climate disruption. In this hour we will hear from four scientists about current ...

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
2013 San Francisco Silent Film Festival Winter Event -- Anita Monga Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Anita Monga, San Francisco, CA 2/1/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Artistic Director Anita Monga talks the context of German Expressionism, the birth of celebrity culture, and why Buster Keaton will always be cont...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 18:40
March 30: Georgiana Molloy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Fair Sex Calendar
Caption: Georgiana Molloy
Georgiana Molloy (March 30, 1830): An early settler in Western Australia, who is remembered as one of the first botanical collectors in the colony...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
Living a Low Carbon Lifestyle
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: David Friedman Deputy director, Union of Concerned Scientists, Credit: Ed Ritger, Photographer
Today we are checking out low carbon lifestyles. In this hour we’ll tackle green myths and discuss what choices are good for your wallet and the pl...

Bought by KUOW, KWIT, 90.5 WSNC, WBEZ, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
Energy and Building Innovation
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Richard Lester, Director, MIT Industrial Performance Center and audience members, Credit: Rikki Ward, Photographer
Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are working on better ways of powering the American economy. Some are developing new solar and wind t...

Bought by Nevada Public Radio and KJZZ


  • Added: Dec 26, 2012
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
New Orleans Jazz
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: New Orleans' Preservation Hall Jazz Band. , Credit: Joe Crachiola
Jazz was born in New Orleans, right? Well it depends on who you ask. This week on the show, we get to the bottom of that question and tour the site...

Bought by WRGY, WNCU, WCAI / WNAN, KMUN, KPVL and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Culturology: Minnesota Crossroads series - Ely, Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Culturology
Caption: Susan Shurke, Credit: Britt Aamodt
Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 09:56
Volatile Climate and Economics
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Host Greg Dalton, Credit: Rikki Ward, Photographer
Today we look at the global economy and the fuels that run it. After a hundred years of growth propelled by subsidized fossil fuels and cheap credi...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 23, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
1965 Griswold v. Connecticut
From: Action Speaks
Series: Private Rights and Public Fights
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Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 5 - Climate One Radio
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Marc Lifsher Los Angeles Times, Felicity Barringer New York Times, Greg Dalton Host, Credit: Ed Ritger, Photographer
Today we are exploring the nexus of national media, energy and our limping economy. In this hour we’ll learn about news coverage of climate change,...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
1992 First Critical Mass Ride
From: Action Speaks
Series: Private Rights and Public Fights
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Bicyclists take to the streets en mass in a fight over the ‘right to the city’.

Bought by KPVL, WBEZ, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 5
What Happened to the Great Lakes Perch?
From: Chris Bocast
Series: Aquaculture and You
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Human impact on the Great Lakes has forever changed the original ecosystem and has led to profound changes in the fisheries that have developed the...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 22:58
Adlai Stevenson: A Candidate in the Age of Television
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 3
Humankind: The Diet-Climate Connection (Hour 1)
From: David Freudberg
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What was the carbon footprint of your dinner last night? This special documentary project examines how the foods we eat affect the planet we inhabi...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KPVL, Iowa Public Radio, WHRV, and Vermont Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 4-Climate One
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Jay Friedland: EV advocate with Plug In America, Credit: Ed Ritger, Photographer
Today we delve into the global auto industry. Sales and profits are up and carmakers are starting to chart a future beyond oil. This spring sales o...

Bought by KWMR-FM


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kansas City Jazz
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Adopted Kansas City hero Mary Lou Williams swingin' in 1946. , Credit: William Gottlieb
In this hour, we go in search of the storied and sordid roots of the famed Kansas City sound.

Bought by WRGY, WNCU, KZYX, KMUN, KPVL and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Extreme Weather
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University, Credit: Ed Ritger, Photographer
Today we look at what’s driving the extreme weather that’s hitting much of the country. The summer of 2012 brought thousands of heat records, unusu...

Bought by KWMR-FM


  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2-Climate One Radio
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: Environmental advocate and author, Credit: Ed Ritger, Photographer
Today we look at the shadow side of the economic growth that’s propelled the American economy since World War II, including the health impacts of c...

Bought by KWMR-FM


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain gorillas save researchers from militia gunfire
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Silverback Kabirizi, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Fewer than 800 Mountain Gorillas remain making them one the world's most endangered species. For more than 20 years people around the world have be...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 11:06
Hog Island part 1
From: WHRV
Series: Our Eastern Shore
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Ever wonder how Hog Island got its name?…

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:30