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The Bird Connection

From: Michigan Radio

A documentary about the decline in bird populations in the Great Lakes region and how the causes also are a warning for humans.

Episode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"

From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow

We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...

Season 1, Episode 38 - 'Power of Connectivity' feat Larry Swatuk

From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1

Where economic growth meets environmentalism.

Bought by WOJB

Is San Francisco a Sanctuary When You Don’t Have Housing?

From: KSFP
Series: Civic

Increases in the number of migrants arriving in San Francisco have stress-tested the city’s shelter system, revealing the dire need for more housin...

Unheard: The Plight of Mayans Struggling with Addiction in SF

From: KSFP
Series: Civic

The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic led to a rise in fatal overdoses among the tens of thousands of Indigenous Mayans living in the Bay area. That...

Season 1, Episode 30 - 'Sustainable Transportation' feat Giulia Marzetti

From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1

What can we do to make transporting humans more sustainable?

Bought by WOJB and KTRT RADIO INC

Forgetting the Lessons and Losses of Covid

From: KSFP

The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...

Group Helps Asian American Communities Feel Safe

From: KSFP
Series: Civic

Three years ago, when violence against Asian Americans spiked, local organizations took action to improve public safety. One group, the Coalition f...

Minnesota vs. Big Tobacco

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth

Caption: Anti-smoking ad campaign, Credit: Minnesota Department of Health

Minnesota was the first state to take Big Tobacco to trial in the 1990s. Minnesota was also the first state to take the vaping company Juul to tria...

All the Noise Surrounding Electric Cars

From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour

Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.

Saving Minnesotan Old Time Music

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth

Caption: "Clawhammer" Mike Sawyer, Credit: Britta Greene and James Napoli

Mike Sawyer is on a mission to uncover the roots of Upper Midwest folk music and keep it alive for future generations.

Building Back Black Wall Street

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021

Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW

The Rise of the New Labor Movement

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Brunswick cafe, Little Dog, where workers organized a union., Credit: Alex Spear, Bowdoin Orient

On the forefront of the next labor revolution, we visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union and we tal...

Bought by WUWM, KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer

But Next Time Part 3: The Fight for Fair Housing in the Face of Climate Change (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: 12 Moms Initiative member Jamie describes water and mold damage to her home at the Coppertree Village Apartments to members of the National Low Income Housing Coalition during a bus tour hosted by Houston's housing justice organizers., Credit: Leah Mahan

Today in Houston, Texas we meet a group of moms who stand up for local housing policies that keep families of color trapped in unsafe homes for yea...

Bought by KMUN and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

But Next Time Part 2: Language Justice and the Road to Recovery After Disaster (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: But Next Time hosts Rose and Chrishelle pose for a photo with members of indigenous language radio show, Radio Autóctona Indigenista on KBBF., Credit: Leah Mahan

This week we continue delving into community-rooted disaster relief in California. From building mutual aid networks, to translating emergency mess...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer

J Reuben Appelman discusses "While Idaho Slept"

From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “University of Idaho Murders,” offering a memorable, tho...

The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida

Whistle Stops: The 1948 Presidential Campaigns

From: Lester Graham

Caption: President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the inaccurate headline: Dewey Defeats Truman., Credit: public domain

2024 is an interesting election year, but still not as raucous as 1948.. All the columnists and commentators who were polled agreed Thomas Dewey w...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW, and WAMU

Why Black San Franciscans Are Fighting for Reparations

From: KSFP
Series: Civic

San Francisco is considering reparations for Black San Franciscans. To understand why advocates are pushing for reparations in the city, we dive de...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KALW