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A tool lending library builds confidence and community.
- Added: Feb 11, 2016
- Length: 15:28
Milt Lee talks with Bill Schweider, fisherman for life, conservationist, and former teacher.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jan 19, 2016
- Length: 08:02
- Purchases: 1
Animals are easy to love - most of them. But it takes a special breed of human to fall for one particular type animal.
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 08:18
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 07:28
- Purchases: 1
Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 09:38
- Purchases: 3
While West Virginia may be known for resources like coal, the country once turned to this mountain state for a culinary staple: salt. In this episo...
Bought by WMMT, WMMT, KVLU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE and more
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 23:22
- Purchases: 6
Getting back to the kind of robust, regional food system that used to be the norm in America definitely requires some creative thinking.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 23, 2015
- Length: 16:18
- Purchases: 1
Wyoming naturalist joins game herd, 'becomes' a mule deer
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 21:04
Access to water has been declared an international human right, but it may be increasingly difficult to enforce. This episode explores how countrie...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 20:03
The Mig Maw had a name for this place that means cradle on the waves. Which is exactly what Prince Edward Island—PEI as the people here call it—loo...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 26:31
Native Tongvan woman Cindi Alvitre lives on her ancestors' land in the Los Angeles basin, but in a completely different world. So she follows a viv...
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 05:12
Ocracoke Island North Carolina is the Key West of the mid-Atlantic. It's far removed from the mainland and the Outer Banks, surrounded by water, on...
- Added: Jun 20, 2015
- Length: 28:02
Oyster Virginia is an old fishing village on the seaside of the Easter Shore. On the road in there are old dead rises, some half submerged in the s...
- Added: Jun 10, 2015
- Length: 26:36
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 25:24
This is the fastest moving real estate on the entire East Coast, and behind the sandy shores of these Virginia Barrier Islands is the purest ocean...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 27:16
A warm, personal story about the lives and challenges of energy workers "behind the light switch."
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 16:49
Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:52
In 1857, economic hardship left farmers and other citizens bust. Looking for a way to earn money Minnesotans took to the forests to harvest ginseng...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 04:39
Every summer tourists flock to the beautiful beaches of Eilat, Israel. But in the past thirty years, a new kind of tourist has made its way down so...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 12:49
- Purchases: 2
The Minnesota Hooved Animal Rescue Foundation may have one of the most unique benefactors around. KFAI producer Susan Budig introduces us to Roswel...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:00
During the last 150 years, most of Minnesota’s native prairies have been destroyed—converted into farmland for crops like corn and soybeans. But a ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
According to Native American creation stories, the Ojibwe were guided to Minnesota by visions to migrate west until they came to a place where food...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 04:58
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
Bringing wolves back to the West has tested the legal system’s tolerance for restoring wild places Especially when humans live nearby. This year...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 16:25
- Purchases: 2
