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The strident opponents of a rapid, unregulated re-introduction of alewives to the St. Croix believe that at one important juncture in the river, ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 04:40
Civilization was built by the sea. The 20th century waterfront was an accumulation of functions that were best placed on or near the coast. As popu...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 05:45
Paul Ehrlich, author of the iconic book The Population Bomb, reflects on the history of environmentalism and his gloomy outlook for the future. [Ep...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 46:21
Richard Alley, a climate researcher and the host of PBS’s Earth: The Operators’ Manual, discusses rapid changes in Earth’s climate through history ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 27:55
Michael Shellenberger addresses climate change through the eyes of his Breakthrough Institute and offers up some ideas that some see as controversi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 19:48
In this interview, we learn from James Holland Jones how diseases emerge and spread as humans encroach into the wilderness, and how the patterns wi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 37:41
Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, discusses his definition of nature and challenges the assertion that nature is fragi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 29:43
Spirited biologist Rodolfo Dirzo discusses the complex interplay of climate change with other systems, and his personal relation to the Anthropocen...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 46:56
Conservation biologist Terry Root discusses the road to triage and her somewhat controversial approach to saving species in the face of climate cha...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 37:16
Luis Zambrano discusses preserving Aztec culture through a rare salamander in the Mexico City wetlands, and compares emerging conservation battles ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 22:05
In this feature, WTIP North Shore Community Radio reporter/producer Carah Thomas accompanies Dr. Moore on an electrofishing survey of Susie Island,...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 09:35
- Purchases: 1
The only thing more powerful than human will is Mother Nature. At San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, the two forces have done battle for years over wave ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2012
- Length: 07:14
In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 28:59
The San Francisco Bay is a place of beauty and biological diversity. But sea level rise and extreme weather will change human life along its coastl...
Bought by KVMR, North Country Public Radio, WXXI, Prairie Public, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Sep 09, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 14
Rising waters threaten the lands of a farmer and of a developer, yet they and their families dismiss all warnings of danger. Why are so many of us ...
Bought by KVMR, North Country Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXXI, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Sep 09, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
Adapting to climate change will be a messy and painful business. And in the short term there will be winners and losers. Chuey Cazarez’s family is ...
Bought by North Country Public Radio, KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXXI, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Sep 09, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
Now more than just a battery that powers your car, 22 year-old engineer Hunter Wu is implementing a plan to install electric pads into the nation's...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 29:30
Not THAT Martha Washington, but a 29-year-old Passenger Pigeon who spent her entire life in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. Of billions of birds f...
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00
David Eagleman suggests prejudices may be hard-wired into our brains; a new real-time film celebrating 50 years since Yuri Gagarin went into space;...
Bought by Public Radio Remix and KVSC
- Added: Apr 08, 2011
- Length: 28:53
- Purchases: 2
Go to an area in Alaska that has one of the highest grizzly bear populations in the world and find out how humans can live near bears safely.
Bought by KMXT, Public Radio Remix, KSJD, WMNF, and Remix Radio
- Added: Aug 11, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 5
Kivalina is on the frontlines of global climate change where an island is literally washing away.
Bought by WMNF, KRUA, Remix Radio, and CKMO
- Added: Apr 29, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 4
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
Chemtrail Guru Clifford Carnicom visits The Camp, once again, to wake our campers up about the government lies about Chemtrails. Plus, talks about...
- Added: Feb 09, 2009
- Length: 01:00:47
Take a tour of the greenest building in Manhattan.
- Added: Jul 02, 2008
- Length: 19:56
- Added: Mar 12, 2007
- Length: 03:38
