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StoryCorps: Burnell Cotlon and Lillie Cotlon
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Lillie Cotlon and Burnell Cotlon in front of Burnell’s store, ‘Burnell’s Lower Ninth Ward Market’ in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 19, 2015., Credit: By Ian Spencer Cook for StoryCorps.
Eight years after their original StoryCorps interview, Burnell Cotlon reflects with his mother, Lillie Cotlon, about opening up a store in New Orle...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:09
StoryCorps: Johnny Itliong and Aleks Itliong
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Larry Itliong speaks to the United Farm Workers, undated photograph, Credit: courtesy of Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University
Johnny Itliong came to StoryCorps with his son Aleks to remember Larry Itliong, labor leader for the Delano Grape Strike of 1965.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Mudluk Pottery and the healing power of clay
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Mudluk co-founder Sayge Carroll works in the studio, Credit: Sheila Regan
Mudluk Pottery Studio is more than just a place for making pots. The new storefront space on Bloomington Avenue, off of Lake Street, is a place for...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 06:08
Milling the Urban Tree
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: City of Minnetonka forester Hannibal Hayes mills a log at the city's new saw mill., Credit: Timothy Foss
Amidst the Emerald Ash Borer crisis, the city of Minnetonka currently has a surplus of ash logs from 60,000 trees. Some Minnetonka foresters are wo...

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 05:50
The Tiny City That Almost Wasn't
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: The water tower of Hilltop, MN, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
There’s a tiny town just north of Minneapolis that is entirely surrounded by Columbia Heights. It's called Hilltop. In a way, Hilltop was forced in...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 07:56
Top of Mind - Labor Day 2021
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Worked Over; Topic 2: Digital Nomads; Topic 3: Immigrants and Labor

Bought by WVTF, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WGCU, WABE, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 51:33
  • Purchases: 21
GN_6.56_ Bio Gas
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Toronto is turning food waste into fuel to power garbage trucks.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
GN_6.58_ Biological Building
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Change your focus, change your world.
Living concrete: This biological material has multiple layers that allow for the growth of plants on the outside of a building, without sacrificin...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
GN_5.26_Fill'ErUp
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Oregon’s refillable beer bottle program started out small with just seven craft breweries participating. But the idea is catching on and these recy...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
A Man Named Checkers and His Drums
From: University of Montana Journalism
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Checkers Barker has obsessed over drums and drumming for more than 50 years. In one year – 1979 – he founded a music shop, joined a successful cove...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 03:17
Farmers Market: Reflections at the End of the Season
From: Lizzie Goldsmith
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Four farmers in the Syracuse, New York, area reflect on their journeys as farmers, including the challenges they've faced and the changes they've s...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 1
GN_4.43_Cooperen
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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Local communities work together to produce electricity.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
GN_4.42_FiberShed
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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Clothing from Earth to body, back to earth.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
Garland
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Painting, landscaping, demo work, dish washer... I'm available.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
Makers Series 8: Theo Chocolate
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
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Theo Chocolate was founded in 2006 by Joe Whinney and Debra Music and is based in Seattle, USA. The company is known as being the first organic, fa...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 33:16
  • Purchases: 1
Makers Series 7: Cailo Chocolate
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
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Cailo Chocolate was founded in 2016 by the Castillo and Carniello families and is based in Perth, Australia. The bean-to-bar producer sources its c...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 26:56
  • Purchases: 1
Playing Pickleball, Raising Money for the Library
From: Barb Seaman
Caption: Michelle Annet - avid pickleball player and librarian at Cascade Middle School
Michelle Annett loves being a librarian, but she also loves pickleball. She decided to combine the two into a fundraiser- she opens up the gym thr...

  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 05:29
StoryCorps: Julie Taylor and Fred Taylor
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Fred Taylor talks to his wife Julie about his 15 years writing letters to frustrated airplane passengers as Southwest Airlines’ apologizer-in-chief.

Bought by WVBI-LP, WGUC/ WVXU, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 3
Beyond the Golden Leaf: Tobacco, Food Culture and a Changing Farming Landscape (Gravy Ep. 50)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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For generations, farmers in western North Carolina have relied on tobacco as a core crop, their lifeblood. It was more than just income, though: to...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 26:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Secret to a Happy Life: Be Stoked Every Day
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Mark Thomsen, the epitome of happy
Producer Cole Grant worked at Worden's Market, a downtown convenience store with a killer wine selection in Missoula, Montana. It was monotonous an...

Bought by PRX Remix and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 22, 2016
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 2
Yellow Umbrella, Bemidji, MN
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Call of the Wild
Caption: Tippy, Credit: Karen Oothoudt
Karl Warnke talks with Jen and Jennifer of the Yellow Umbrella consignment and handmade shop in Bemidji, MN.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 1
Michael Lyons - Ojibwe artist
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Call of the Wild
Caption: Tippy, Credit: Karen Oothoudt
Milt Lee talks with Michael Lyons, Ojibwe artist.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 1
Foiled Rotten Burritos, Bemidji, MN
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Call of the Wild
Caption: Tippy, Credit: Karen Oothoudt
This week Milt Lee talks with Julia Oxenreider from Foiled Rotten Burritos – a food truck in Bemidji with a motto of “We’ll Mess Your Face Up.”

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 1
Terry Anderson and Tricia Andrews of Chickadees Ceremonies, Bemidji, MN
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Call of the Wild
Caption: Tippy, Credit: Karen Oothoudt
Milt Lee interviews Terry Anderson and Tricia Andrews of Chickadees Ceremonies.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 1
Lucy Puts Friede to Rest
From: Caitlin Pierce
Series: Borders
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Lucy has a business planning and leading pet funeral ceremonies. When her dog Friede dies, she leads her ceremony.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 11:29