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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...
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The Life Beneath Our Feet, with Dr. Chelsea Carey, Point Blue Conservation Science
When you go out into the world and walk on the Earth, have you ever wondered what was beneath your feet? Animals and plants,...