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The Past and Future of Sustainable Communities with Peter Calthorpe, Architect & Urban Designer
The world’s cities are big and getting bigger. By 2050, 80% of the world’s people will live in cities. Can cities be made sustainable? ...
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Biologists Unite! The Rise and Fall of Ecosystem Services with Professor Daniel Suarez, Middlebury College
Over the past several decades, there has been a concerted effort by biologists, economists and others to put a value on nature’s services: what...
176
The Water Remembers—My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life with Amy Bowers Cordalis Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group
The removal of four dams from the Klamath River in Northern California is rapidly becoming one of the great recent success stories in conservation...
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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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The Living Green Myth: The Promise and Limits of Lifestyle Environmentalism with Dr. Michael Maniates
Many listeners are probably familiar with the tags found in hotel bathrooms that read: “Save Our Planet,” followed by instructions about reusing and replacing...
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Microplastics in Lake Tahoe: What are They Doing There? What are they Doing? With Madison “Madio” Wallner
Lake Tahoe is one of California’s natural jewels but it is under siege and increasingly awash in plastic wastes, as visitors carelessly dispose of...