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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet

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Songs to inspire action justice for and a cooler planet.

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00:19:22

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 33

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2026/02/01

Episode 33 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet strikes a somber note to the chaos unfolding in our streets – violence led by agents of destruction wearing ICE uniforms. These are dark times in our country, around which we hope music can shed some light, echo what’s in our hearts, generate a little catharsis, and maybe even light a spark of resistance.

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00:22:13

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 31

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2026/01/02

Episode 31 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet meets the New Year with new resolve to inspire all our listeners to do something healing for our planet. It can be making “good trouble,” as John Lewis once told us; it can be raising awareness with song; it can be coming together in community. Or simply being a caring person to those around you. We dedicate this episode to the future.

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00:46:55

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 30

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/12/15

Episode 30 (Season 2) is a profile of the legendary activist collective The Church of Stop Shopping, led by Reverend Billy (William Talen) and Savitri D. Beginning with anti-consumerist actions in New York's Times Square in the 1990s, the church grew into a powerful performing force, with infectious gospel grooves, dozens of voices in harmony, and Reverend Billy's heartfelt, eloquent anti-consumption message delivered in true prophetic voice. Warren Senders' interview with Reverend

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00:23:14

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 29

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/12/01

Episode 29 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet enters the holiday season with songs and talk about coming together to make things better. Whether it’s finding peace in sharing voices musically, even in the midst of war; of joining hands to combat social injustice; of convening world leaders to confront climate change; or just helping each other through the dark times of recent decades. We enjoin you to dispense with the consumerism of the season, and spend quality time with those you love. Share more –

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00:47:10

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 28

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/11/15

Episode 28, "Thinking About Farms," hosted by Warren Senders, features a long interview with NYT Bestselling author Michael Grunwald about his new book, "We Are Eating The Earth," which examines the problematic role of our farming and agriculture systems in climate change. Grunwald's perspectives are interwoven with examples of music from all over the world on farming and agricultural themes. You'll never think of farms and farmers the same way ever again!—— Music and

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00:25:08

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 27

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/11/01

Episode 27 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet starts out with a song about ordinary Americans banding together this month to celebrate No Kings Day. But most of the show will be focused on the disparity between the obvious importance of food and farming, to the struggles that farmers have faced every day for over a century – from sharecroppers to struggling family farms, to the plight and heroism of Hispanic farmworkers in today’s fields. Along the way we’ll hear short clips from an interview with

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00:45:11

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 26

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/10/15

Episode 26 profiles the Climate Music Project, a San Francisco-based team that brings together scientists, musicians, and graphic artists to create new ways to communicate climate science. The CMP's innovative multi-media presentations offer hard data with an emotional score and compelling visuals to transform audience members' personal engagement with climate change. We feature interviews with co-founders Stephen Crawford and Fran Schulberg, climatologist Garrett Boudinot, and composer

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00:20:38

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 25

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/10/01

Episode 25 is a mixed bag of tunes, starting out with Pay Attention by Joyce Johnson Rouse, singing with her group, Earth Mama. It’s a simple – even childlike – doo-wop kind of song that asks us to pay attention to the earth, and all the wonderful things it gives us. But it also makes clear our responsibility to keep it clean and whole.Building on Earth Mama’s insistence to take responsibility for our planet, next is Crys Matthews, singing her Waking Up the Dead, a song about our generational

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00:43:03

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 24

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/09/15

Episode 24 — "Old and New Sunlight"When we remember that fossil fuels are simply the sunlight that fell on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, it changes our perspective on energy use. It's ALL solar power; the only difference is whether it's old or new. All these forms of energy have their own music, and this episode of "Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet" brings together songs of coal miners and anti-mining activists, the songs of oil drillers and of those fighting to

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01:16:10

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Season 2 Episode 1

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/09/01

Airing September 1 is a special edition of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet - it's our one year anniversary. We're offering an expanded show this time, with each of our producers looking back on what we've accomplished, and presenting a variety of music videos that stand out as representative of the year gone by. Some of the songs are reprises from earlier episodes, others are new. And for the centerpiece of the episode, we are proud to present an interview with the renowned environmentalist

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00:45:08

Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet-Episode 22

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/08/15

Episode 22: Music Beyond Humanity — A Profile of Inter-species Musician David RothenbergClarinetist, author, and philosopher David Rothenberg has spent his life making music far removed from the usual contexts of performance stages or recording studios. Rothenberg's collaborators have included cicada swarms, katydids, nightingales, lyrebirds, warblers, whales, and dolphins. His experiences have given him a unique and valuable perspective on our human musicality and how it relates to the

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00:27:11

Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 21

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/08/01

The August episode of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is a somber one, commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, 1945, ending World War II and unleashing the atomic age. Our feelings about that momentous event have evolved over time, from triumph to uncertainty to horror - and our music has reflected those changes: country songs with pride and religious fervor, pop songs with dark humor and irony, folksongs of protest, jazz and classical both elevated and discordant,

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00:47:08

Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet-Episode 20

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/07/15

"Thinking About Woody" offers a cornucopia of perspectives on the life and legacy of the great American balladeer Woody Guthrie. Interviews with Guthrie scholars Will Kaufman and Gus Stadler are interwoven with spoken and musical excerpts from Woody himself as well as Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Mile Krajina, Adama Kammisoko, John McCutcheon, Joshuah Brian Campbell, Watermelon Slim, Tantrum Zentrum, David Amram, Sihasin, The Missin' Cousins, Tim Grimm, Keith

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00:31:50

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 19

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/07/01

This episode of Cool Tunes for a Hot planet is all about the power of music to help bend the arc of the moral universe. Today we highlight songs about social injustice, asking questions like who are we, and where are we going? Song is the most sacred form of peaceful resistance, and we need to sing it over and over, as was done during the Civil Rights movement with the anthem We Shall Overcome - a song we'll take a deeper dive into, looking at its cross-cultural importance as far away as India -

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00:41:29

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 18

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/06/15

Changing the climate conversation in India! Episode 18 features passionate performances of Indian classical music in wild settings: rainforests, riverbanks, beaches — and the musicians' fascinating conversations with Indian environmentalists and scientists — all documented in beautifully producedvideo. We profile the "Blue Planet" project, from the Mumbai-based video production group First Edition Arts, under the direction of Devina Dutt.Musicians include:Ramakrishnan MurthyPantula

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00:22:58

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 17

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/06/01

The theme of episode 17 is "Planting Hope," which is much needed now. There are four songs in this episode. The first is Mark Lagerwey's "Plant a Tree," which reminds us, if we want to leave a viable planet for our children and our children's children, we need to think on the time scale of the trees, some of which can live for hundreds of years -- if we don't cut them down or create unsustainable conditions. We can find a better balance and a purpose through

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00:42:08

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 16

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/05/15

Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet Episode 16 is all about bees. This fascinating 40-minute video/podcast shares songs and instrumental music from all over the world, along with interviews, history, facts and faces. Meet Rev. Charles Butler, who transcribed honeybee music and turned it into a choral fantasy...in 1609! Meet Bramhari Devi, the bee goddess of India. Listen to "Burt's Bees," an original piece by world-famous composer Terry Riley.Three special guests: bumblebee scientist Jessica Braun, honey

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00:31:34

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 15

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/05/02

Episode 15 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet kicks off May 1st. May Day has been celebrated for centuries as a celebration of rebirth, fertility, and the mystery of life - and then a further declaration of workers' rights since the late 19th century. But in addition to name-checking May Day, today's episode presents songs by singer-songwriters from MusicToLife.org - a nonprofit organization that mentors young musicians with a mission to work in their communities for social and environmental

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00:22:50

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 14

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/04/22

This is Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet’s EARTH DAY episode, offering three very different strains of eco-music. Solartopia, by David Bernz, Harvey Wasserman, and Pete Seeger– the renowned elder statesman of folksong and righteous causes – envisions a day when our energy needs will all be met by the sun. I Wanna Be Cool, by Will Kimbrough and Brant Miller, is a rousing international collaboration about all the ways we ferventlywish for a cooler planet. And Que Corra el Rio is Karla Lara’s beautiful,

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00:34:09

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 13

Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet ·

2025/04/15

Global Notes: Meet flautist & composer Linda J. Chase, whose oratorio "For Our Common Home — Resounding Ecojustice" will receive its world premiere in May! Ms. Chase talks about her work with host Warren Senders, and shares excerpts from a preview performance of the music, which blends classical, jazz, gospel, and other world traditions in a heartfelt setting of Pope Francis' 2015 climate-change encyclical "Laudato Si."

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