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NYCHA Tenants Threaten Rent Strikes
From: William Walkey
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This is a story about potential rent strikes across NYCHA facilities in New York City. I talked with residents considering strikes (or in the midst...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 03:48
The Young Environmental Activist
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California
Caption: The Allen Co. drilling site in South Los Angeles., Credit: Photo by Claire Heddles
Generation Z has been called a lot of things: The internet generation. The Instagram generation. And as some say: the activist generation. Claire H...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 08:29
Lost World -- Groks Science Show 2019-05-01
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Craig Childs discussed the Atlas of a Lost World.

  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 16:07
Crosstown Traffic: The Preven Report
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joshua and Eric Preven
They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to two brothers who are trying to make a little noise for the i...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
All Creatures Great and Small: The Vanishing Vaquita
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brooke Bessesen
How splendid would it be if humans could somehow find a way to truly co-exist with the rest of the planet’s creatures? This week on Sea Change Radi...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Sammy Roth on Desert Water Tussles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
As more and more of the western United States suffers from warmer temperatures and in some places desertification, water has become perhaps the mos...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Rafael Mandelman: Inner City Blues
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rafael Mandelman
Futurists, environmentalists and planners alike generally believe that humans living in more densely populated areas has benefits for the earth – c...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Indivisible: Sam Ball and Joan Blades on the American Creed
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Sam Ball
Can’t we all just get along? That’s the hope of Sam Ball, the director of the new documentary film, American Creed, which tells a story of the Amer...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Dog Cognition -- Groks Science Show 2017-09-06
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Gregory Berns discussed what it is like to be a dog.

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 20:29
  • Purchases: 1
DR. MICHAEL CRANE TALKS TO ALLAN WOLPER
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Dr. Michael Crane directs the World Trade Center Health program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai that treats the devastating medical ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
Water Pressure 4: Water's Taking it Back
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
Caption: Melting Alaskan glacier, Credit: Rupa Shenoy
Water is claiming more coastal land, everywhere. So, do we prepare for that, or protect against it?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 1
Climate Change: It's Not Just The Sun
From: Robert Frederick
Series: The Conjectural
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Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer on how scientists know that climate change is not just due to the Sun.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 04:02
Part Two: Desperately Seeking Doctors
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: Judith Haggard is one of two nurse practitioners at the Otto Bean Medical Center in Kennett, Mo. The clinic has no full-time doctor so Haggard works with a collaborating physician outside of the SEMO Health Network, which runs Otto Bean., Credit: Bram Sable-Smith
The Missouri Bootheel is a region emblematic of the social and medical problems facing rural Missouri, and really, all of rural America. Life expec...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 2
How California’s CAP program curbs emissions
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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I’m here at Pick-n-Pull to sell my beat-up 1998 Subaru Outback Legacy to the State of California under the Consumer Assistance Program, or CAP.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2014
  • Length: 12:51
http://kalw.org/post/evolution-affordable-housing
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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To make sense of this new era in low-income housing in San Francisco, we’re going to travel back in time and follow the story as it unfolds into th...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2014
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
Alameda County grapples with implementing Laura’s Law
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: If implemented, Laura’s Law would allow courts to compel those suffering from severe mental illness to outpatient treatment. , Credit: Flickr user andersdenkend
The shooting at Seattle Pacific University marks the latest gun-related tragedy in the U.S. It follows the attacks in Isla Vista at UC Santa Barbar...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 09:14
  • Purchases: 1
New Orleans Bike Infrastructure Expands
From: Nina Feldman
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New Orleans is a perfect city for biking: flat ground, warm weather, not a ton of traffic. But it's had one of the least robust network of biking f...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Sep 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
In Debate Over Short Term Rentals, Everyone Agrees Law Must Change
From: Nina Feldman
Caption: Facade of a short term rental unit in servants quarters behind an owner occupied home
Unlicensed, short-term rentals are illegal in New Orleans, but there aren’t a lot of people getting busted for renting out their house on websites ...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
INAUGURATION OF THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: Inside Essex County Politics
Caption: Ras Baraka taking the Oath of Office of Newark Mayor
The Administration of and Inaugural Address by new Newark Mayor Ras Baraka

  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 24:48
The New Gold Rush: How tourist rentals are affecting San Francisco’s housing market
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Can this property be legally rented to tourists?, Credit: Ben Trefny
The sharing economy in San Francisco is humming. Companies like Airbnb have figured out how to make a lot of money by using existing housing stock ...

  • Added: May 18, 2014
  • Length: 08:40
In San Francisco, rent control gets personal
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Apartments in San Francisco, Credit: (wallyg/flickr)
Rent control has been a way for cities to regulate their housing prices and evictions since World War One, in the wake of a big housing shortage in...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:13
Monkey's Voyage -- Groks Science Show 2014-01-29
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Alan De Queiroz discusses ocean crossings and speciation.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, KTXK, and KPVL


  • Added: Jan 30, 2014
  • Length: 20:42
  • Purchases: 4
Rational Animal -- Groks Science 2013-09-25
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Douglas T. Kenrick discussed the evolutionary basis of human thinking.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KPVL


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
Fracking -- Groks Science Show 2013-08-28
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Richard Heinberg discusses the false promises of hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as fracking.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, KPVL, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Aug 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 5
Critical Thinking -- Groks Science Show 2013-07-31
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Linda Elder discussed how to think critically.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KFOK-LPFM, KPVL, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jul 31, 2013
  • Length: 28:38
  • Purchases: 4