Episode
Theme/Title
Artist/Composer
Song title
| S1 /Episode 1 | Labor of Love | James Kahn | • Risin’ of the Seas |
| Sept. 2, 2024 | Purly Rae Gates | • In Cleaner, Greener Texas | |
| Eliza Gilkyson | • Promises to Keep; Peace in My Heart |
| S1 /Episode 2 Sept. 23, 2024 | Get Out the Vote! | • Roy Zimmerman • Hattie-Purl & the Poll Cats • Distant Thunder • Seth Handelman | • My Vote, My Voice, My Right • Vote 4 Mom! • Hold On • The Returns |
S1 / Episode 3 | In Honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day | • Larry Long with Honor the Earth |
Oct.27, 2024 | VOTE! | • Lisa Rogers & The Therapy Sisters • Zoe Lewis • Baba Brinkman & Friends |
Nov.18, 2024 | Change | • Crys Matthews • Seth Bernard • Emma’s Revolution • Seth Handelman |
Dec.9, 2024 | Healing Spirits | • Mark Lagerwey • James Kahn • Toad the Wet Sprocket • Melanie DeMore |
Dec. 30, 2024 | New Moon, New Year/Peace on Earth | • Carrie Newcomer • Seth Handelman • Purly Rae Gates • Emma’s Revolution (performed by singers & musicians around the world) |
Jan. 20, 2025 | Keep Hope Alive | • Tim Grimm • Jean Rohe • Kim Moberg | • Resist |
Feb. 10, 2025 | Water | • Gabrielle Agachiko • James Kahn • Watermelon Slim |
Mar. 20, 2025 | Lola Perrin Interview (Global Notes) | • All Music by Lola Perrin (Pianist/Composer) | • The Cusp • Play Piano for the Planet • We are the crew of a large-ish spacecraft for 9 billions • … Unless we get a grip on ourselves. • Imagine Better Create for All of Us • Solarpunk Symphony |
Apr. 1, 2025 | Resist ! | • Tom Paxton, John McCutcheon & Friends • James Kahn • Larry Lobert • Various Chilean Musicians |
Apr. 12, 2025
| Linda Chase Interview (Global Notes) | • Linda Chase | (for voice, piano, and strings)
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Apr. 22, 2025
| Earth Day | • Pete Seeger • Will Kimbrough & Brant Miller • Karla Lara • Ishaan Rao and the • Taiwan “Recorder Lovers” | • Solartopia,
• from Global Notes • “ “ “ |
May 1, 2025 | May Day | • Ken Bramman • Joselyn & Don • Liz Sunde • Hilje • Heather Masse • Lara Herscovitch • Sunniva Brynnel & Andreas Jansson | • Welcoming in May • Talk about Music to Life Project • Fjorden Er Ikke Var • The Change’s Gonna Come • Swedish Folk Song |
May 15, 2025 | Bees ! Interviews with Jessica Braun, Brian Woener, Dr. Jennifer Richards (Global Notes) | • Henry Barnes • Rimsky-Korsakov • From the film: Mission Kashmir • Shashank Maktedar • Greeshma Kateel (vocals) / Umesh Kotyan Vamadapadu (music) • Pooja Sanil (vocals) • Mallika Matti (vocals) • Gunaprasad Kukkatte (voice) / Greeshma Kateel (music) • Tampa Red • Muddy Waters • Charles Butler, performed by the Choir of Little St Mary • Layne Redmond • Terry Riley & Sara Miyamoto | • Remix • Bumbro bumbro shyam rang bumbro • Raga Bahar • Mahadevi Kateeleshwari • Appe Bhramarambike • Kateel Durga Parameshwari • Bramarigu Bhaktidarathi • Melissomelos (Bees Madrigal) • Burt’s Bees |
Jun. 1, 2025
| Planting Hope (interview with Sophia Mirto – Young Activist Spotlight (Austin, TX)) | • Mark Lagerwey • Harriet Jerusha Korim • Atlas Soul • Rees Shad
| • Live Performance |
Jun. 16, 2025
| Changing the Climate Conversation in India (Global Notes) | • Uday Bhawalkar (Voice)
• Debashish Bhattacharya (sarod), Indranil Mallick (tabla) • Ramakrishnan Murthy (voice)
• Pantula Rama (voice)
• Waseem Ahmed Khan (voice), Bivash Sanghai (table), Sarwar Hussain (sarangi)
• Nava: Vignesh Ishwar & Christopher Gurusamy
• Budhaditya Mukherjee (surbahar)
• TM Krishna (voice), Vlttal Rangan (violin), Praveen Sparsh (mridangam), Chandrasekara Sharma (ghatam)
• Vishnudev KS (voice), HN Bhaskar (violin), Delhi Sairam (mridangam), Anirudh Atreya (Kanjira)
| • Dhrupad in Raga Mian Ki Todi
• Gat in Raga Ahir Lalit
• Ragam Yamuna – Jambupate Mam Pahi
• Ragam Darbar – Mundu Venuka
• Chhota khyal in Raga Lachari Todi
• Ragamalika – Mayura
• Alap in Raga Yaman
• Ragam Bhupalam – Agayam
• Ragamalika-Pookaalam
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Jul. 4, 2025 | The Power of Music to Bend the Arc of the Moral Universe | • Larry Lobert and Chris Stoddard • Harriet Jerusha Korim • Michael Cross, Joanna Howerton, Byrd & Street, Dave Scher | • The Song That Need To Be Sung • Circus
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Jul. 18, 2025
| Thinking about Woody (Interview with Will Kaufman, author of Woody Guthrie, American Radical; Woody Guthrie’s Modern World Blues: “Mapping Woody Guthrie”) (Global Notes) | • Mile Krajina (voice & gusle) • Adama Kamissoko (voice&kamalen ‘n’goni • Woody Guthrie • John McCutcheon • Josh Brian Campbell • Watermelon Slim • David Amram & The Colorado Symphony
• Tantrum Zentrum
• Sihasin
• Woody Guthrie • Woody Guthrie
• The Missin’ Cousins • Woody Guthrie • Keith Secola (vocal) • Benya Stewart (vocal)
• Woody Guthrie
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• Hunter’s Tale
• Do-Re-Mi • Miss Pavlichenko / Lady • Strophe
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Aug. 1, 2025 | Commemorating the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | • The Buchanan Brothers • Atom and Evil • Charles Mingus • Sun Ra and His Orchestra • Vera Lynn • Toshiko Akiyoshi • Toshiko Akiyoshi • Toshiko Akiyoshi • Paul Seeger • Malvina Reynolds • Rena Branson and Friends | • Oh Lord, Don’t Let Them • Futility-Tragedy • Survivor Tales • Hope |
Aug. 20, 2025
| Music Beyond Humanity – Featuring David Rothenberg (Global Notes) | • Bug Music” Video produced by Lewis Rapkin, Oscillator Media
• Lewis Rapkin, Oscillator Media
•Paul Winter Consort •R. Murray Schafer •Video documentary by Jennifer Berglund & Ian MacLellan
•Mahisu, Wam Tribesman, Warengema Village, East-Sepik, New Guinea. Recording by Robert MacLennan, 1961
•Princeton, NJ, June 2, 2021 Video produced by Reuters
•Video produced by Lewis Rapkin •Directed by François Noulens, Produced by Christophe Cosse.
•Film by Maria Batlle, 2017 All other video and audio material by David Rothenberg.
| • Summer Symphony
• Helsinki Nightingale Clarinet Dawn
• Wolf Eyes • Music For Wilderness Lake • Sweden “Bug Music: David Rothenberg’s Insect Choir”
•”Sago Beetle & Mouth Resonator”
•”Cicadas and Clarinet”
•”Dawn Chorus Plus One”
•Live with Humpback Whales in Hawaii
•”Whale Muse Seek”
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Sep. 1, 2025
| One Year Anniversary Edition
| • Mark Largerway • Purly Rae Gates • Music: Reynolds/Seeger, Performed by Warren Senders and String Theory Trio • Lola Perrin xox • Personal needed • Dorothy Carter / Dulcimer and Voice
•James Kahn • Janelle Chang • Pamela Falkenberg & Jack Cochran
• Jean Rohe
• Bright Morning Star
| • The Fossil Fuel Undertakers • From Way Up Here
• Happy Birthday Cool Tunes • Video: No More Pipeline Blues • The Squirrel Is A Funny Thing
• Sundown • Shots from The Hundred Years Binge/Our Current Predicament
• National Anthem: Arise! Arise!
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Sep. 15, 2025
| Old and New Sunlight (Global Notes)
| • Big Bill Broonzy
• Hazel Dickens • Nimrod Workman •Traditional Folk Songs of Japan, Collected by Ryutaro Hattori • Promotional Video Ministry of Coal, Government of India • Dombu Praska, Niyamgiri Hills,
• Domgria Kondh Tribespeople Niyamgiri Hills • Slim Willet • Freddie Frank • Public Service Announcement US Department of Energy
• Tower Of Power From “Urban Renewal”
• Ubrei-Joe Jeru Film courtesy Olusegun Titus
• Nneka Egbuna • Wes St. John • Thom Chacon • Quintin “Jitsvinger” Goliath — lyrics, vocals Loris Raimondi — music Pete O’Donoghue, Travys Owen — sound & animation
• Khyal in Raga Bhairav Pt. Narayanrao Vyas • Anchiskhati Choir, Tbilisi, Georgia • Robert Elibay-Hartog — Baritone Dante Lorenzo DiIanni — Piano
• Ambition Boyz
| • 42 Years • Coal Miners’ Song
• Ham Hai Coal India (We Are Coal India)
• Niyamraja’s Lament
• Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti Victory March
• I’m A Tool-Pusher From Snyder • Energy Crisis
• There is Only So Much Oil In The
• Black Tide
• Niger Delta“ • Before The Drilling Rigs Got Here
•Tum Jaago Mohan Pyaare
• Lile” (Hymn to the Sun)
• An die untergehende Sonne, D 457 (To the setting sun)
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S2 / Episode 33
Feb. 1, 2026
Theme:
Ice Breaker
• Melt The ICE
Kristen Young-Vocals, Piano• Blackbird (coal mining tragedy) Vocals, Guitar-Andrew Revkin, Fiddle, Bass-Bruce Molsky, Percussion-Ken Veltz
• Immigrants
Music-Zachary Nathaniel Lupetin, Martin Kerr, Drums- Peter Hendrickson, Bass-Keith Rempel, Keys-Accordion, Mando-Brennan Cameron, Guitars-Brett Hansen, Backing Vocals- Mallory Chipman,
• Heavy Foot
Mon Rovia-Lead Vocals, Guitar, Composer(s)- Cooper Holzman, Andrew Lowe, Eric Cromartie, Grant Averill / Jennie Arnau -Vocals&Guitar, Alan Lerner-Drums, Keyboard-Pete Levin, Electric Guitar-Binky Griptite, Bass-Brett Bass, Pedal Steel-Greg McMullen, Background Vocals-Kendall Sherman, Mandolin-Jacob Joliff, Banjo, Tenor Guitar-Mike Savino
• ICE in Chicago
Vocals, Guitar-Ron Gallo
• Kids in Cages
Words and Music-Neighborhood Kids
• Every Day Reminds Me of Ann Franks Diary
Words and Music-Neighborhood Kids
• No Kings Anthem (Power to the People)
Words and Music -Reverie Rapper
• No Kings
Words and Music-Earth To Eve and Eve Weisberger, Vocals-Eve Weisberger
• Good vs. ICE
Vocals, Guitar-Jesse Welles
• When The Wolf Is At The Door
Words and Music-Carrie Newcomer, Vocals, Guitar-Carrie Newcomer, Bass Guitar-Paul Kowert, Jordan A. Tice-Guitar, Mandolin, Violin-Allie
Summers, Piano, Pump Organ-Gary Walter
S2 / Episode 28
Nov.15, 2025
Global Notes: Thinking About Farms
• Land Is Not Free
Grant Livingston
• Harvest For The World
The Isley Brothers
• Tofu, Tempeh, or Seitan?
Composed by Brian of
London Vegans
• Soybeans, The Farmer’s Dream
Travis Peck
• Song to Encourage The Rice
Sowers
• Music for the Rice Harvest
from “The Music of the Dan”
UNESCO LP BM 30L 2301
• N’Guatu
Oumou Sangare from “Worotan” World Circuit WCD
045
• The Garbage Song
Composed by Bill Steele
George Ward and Campers
Camp Killooleet
• Milk Bucket Boogie
Composed by Reece Shipley
& W. C. Murray, Performed by
Red Foley
• Eritrean Milking Song
Afta Village, Zula District
Recorded by Jean Jenkins
• The Roast Beef of Old England
Composed by Richard
Leveridge, performed by
Charles MacDougall and the
London Early Opera
• Massa Music — Returning The
Herd
Recorded in Chad, April 16,
1966 Anthologie De La
Musique Du Tchad,
Le Mayo-Kebbi Occidental
Ocora LP OCR 37
• Toupouri Music of the
Milk-Drinkers Society
Recorded in Chad, April 18,
1966 Anthologie De La
Musique Du Tchad,
Le Mayo-Kebbi Occidental
Ocora LP OCR 37
• Bruto Memo
(ft. Marco Brasil Filho)
Bruno & Barretto
(Léo Targino / Jota Lennon /
Rodolfo Alessi / Kleber Paraíba)
• Todor Todorka Dumaše
BaAka Pygmy Music
Recorded in Central African
Rainforest Film and music
courtesy Michelle Kisliuk
• Daddy Won’t Sell The Farm
performed by Montgomery
Gentry from “Tattoos and Scars”
• The BioFuel Song
LivebroadKast from
“Repayment”