World Ocean Radio
World Ocean Radio is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean topics. Available for syndicated use at no cost by college and community radio stations worldwide.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 261
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Batteries, the Rare Earth Quandary and the Deep Sea
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-eight of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we talk about batteries, increasingly in demand as we push toward a carbon-neutral future. There …
00:05:26 |
Mon 08 Mar 2021
Value Trade Off
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-seven of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we talk about a carbon-free future: one that requires batteries that currently rely on rare metal…
00:05:39 |
Mon 01 Mar 2021
Value Through Innovation
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-six of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we introduce listeners to Molly Burhans, a young activist and founder of GoodLands, who is using ge…
00:05:39 |
Tue 23 Feb 2021
How to Understand the Ocean
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-five of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode: the importance of ocean literacy and ocean education to transform our understanding of the ocean'…
00:05:15 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
Valuing Cultural Resources
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-four of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode: the myriad ways that UNESCO World Heritage Sites--on land and at sea--are an essential part of a …
00:05:40 |
Tue 09 Feb 2021
Units of Calculation
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-three of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode: the importance of including true accounting costs for natural resources extracted or exploited; …
00:05:19 |
Tue 02 Feb 2021
Mapping the Ocean: Material Survey
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-two of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we discuss the history of resource extraction on land and sea and the ways that new modes of thinki…
00:04:54 |
Mon 25 Jan 2021
Mapping the Ocean: Physical Cartography
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-one of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we introduce listeners to the concept of ocean mapping and the GEBCO Seabed 2030 project which prom…
00:05:19 |
Tue 19 Jan 2021
The Ocean as Natural Capital
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we discuss natural capital and the true cost of things both financial and social. And we argue that the…
00:05:26 |
Tue 12 Jan 2021
Financial Tools
This week on World Ocean Radio: part nineteen of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we discuss the financial tools such as subsidies, regulation and private investment that have histori…
00:05:09 |
Mon 04 Jan 2021
At the Fishhouses
Our annual gift to fellow ocean lovers: a reading of "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop, a poem from 1955 that distills Bishop's seaside meditations and evokes the clarity of meaning contained i…
00:04:38 |
Mon 28 Dec 2020
Reciprocity and the Art of Giving Back to Nature
This week, as we lean into the holiday season of giving and gratitude, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill asks us to consider the concept of reciprocity--a give and take with the land and sea. And he…
00:05:13 |
Tue 22 Dec 2020
Blue Bonds
This week on World Ocean Radio: part eighteen of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we discuss the concept of blue bonds and a new Nature Conservancy program designed for small island a…
00:05:29 |
Mon 14 Dec 2020
Insurance and the Ocean
This week on World Ocean Radio: part seventeen of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we ask a series of questions that challenge the current insurance system in the US, including a visi…
00:05:13 |
Tue 08 Dec 2020
Ocean Equity Banking
This week on World Ocean Radio: part sixteen of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we talk about the blue and the green economy in the context of profit motive and how it can be good bu…
00:06:09 |
Tue 01 Dec 2020
Central Banking
This week on World Ocean Radio: part fifteen of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we look at the Federal Reserve in the USA through the lens of environmental destruction, biodivers…
00:05:46 |
Tue 24 Nov 2020
Structuring a New Economy
This week on World Ocean Radio: part fourteen of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we assert that it's time to close our minds to past ways, open our eyes to new ones, and imagine …
00:05:26 |
Tue 17 Nov 2020
The Quest for Solutions
This week on World Ocean Radio: part thirteen of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we ask listeners to consider implementation of a new paradigm of managed growth based on the conserva…
00:05:17 |
Tue 10 Nov 2020
The Challenge of Technological Change
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twelve of the multi-part BLUEprint series. As we embark on our collective quest for a sustainable future, we argue that we must embrace science and technology as …
00:05:30 |
Tue 03 Nov 2020
Realizing Equity
This week on World Ocean Radio: part eleven of the multi-part BLUEprint series. As we launch headlong into a new phase in the series we'll begin to present ideas for a new foundation built on fresh a…
00:04:15 |
Mon 26 Oct 2020
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