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The Path to an Energy Efficient, Electric Future, with Amory Lovins
Energy has been with us for a long time and, over the past 100 years, fossil fuels have been cheap and plentiful. Now we...
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What's in Your Water? Nitrate Pollution on California's Central Coast with Chelsea Tu of Monterey Waterkeeper
Monterey Waterkeeper is part of a coalition of organizations seeking to reduce nitrate pollution in the region’s groundwater. Nitrate contamination, the result of over-application...
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Firepower and Global Security: Past, Present and Future, with Professor Simon Dalby
According to Simon Dalby, Professor in the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, global politics over the past...
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Will Small Modular Reactors Save the Nuclear Industry? with Prof. Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear power is being touted as a way of providing clean energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and paving the way to a zero-emission future....
Would the world beat a path to your door for a fully compostable plastic? with Raegen Kelly of Better for All
Long-time listeners to Sustainability Now! know that we periodically turn to a focus on plastic, whose production is predicted to skyrocket over the next...
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Replanting Burned Over Sequoia Groves in the Sierras, with Dr. Christy Brigham, National Park Service, and Dr. Chad Hanson, John Muir Project
Sequoias are among the oldest living things on Earth, and most of the world’s sequoias are in Sequoia and King’s Canyon National Parks. Since...