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Speculations on Conjunctural Futures: What Might We Expect, What Must We Do? With Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future
There are lots of dystopian futures floating around in the air and on the air. Imagining the future is never really about the future;...
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Plutonium Pit Production--The Risks and Costs of US Plans to Build New Nuclear Weapons with Dr. Dylan K. Spaulding of the Union of Concerned Scientists
Nuclear weapons have been with us for 80 years. There are fewer today than was the case at the height of the Cold War,...
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Trump’s War on California’s Environment, with Jason Rylander and Hollin Kretzmann from the Center for Biological Diversity
The Trump Administration has declared war on California and is hell-bent on eliminating any and all of the state’s environmental protections. As part of...
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The Santa Cruz Mountains Stewardship Network With Dylan Skybrook, Network Manager
The Santa Cruz Mountains cover more than 1,000 square miles of the Central California Coast, running from just south of San Francisco all the...
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The San Francisco Bay Area—An Environmental History With David D. Schmidt
Over the past four centuries, the transformation of the Greater San Francisco Bay Region has been extraordinary. What was once a near paradise for...
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Secret Sounds of Ponds and Other Animal Music with Professor David Rothenberg, NJ Institute of Technology
Who knew that ponds make music? To the eye and ears, they seem silent and tranquil—except at night when, maybe, choruses of frogs serenade...