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Voices Of Gentrification Paint A Picture Of A Changing Seattle
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
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RadioActive's Paul Kiefer and Lola Garcia collect the voices of people affected by gentrification in Seattle to paint a picture of our changing city.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 13:23
  • Purchases: 1
Hospice and Near Term Human Extinction
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious continues its series on near term human extinction in a conversation about applying hospice treatment towards the dying planet and hu...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
Cruel Hoax: Stephanie Mills #106
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Stephanie Mills made headlines in the Spring of 1969 when she vowed, in her commencement address (titled The Future is a Cruel Hoax), to conceive n...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Ecological Amnesia – Winona LaDuke #104
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“I don’t think there’s a lot of excuses, frankly, for not doing the right thing.” Anishinaabe orator, author, economist and activist Winona LaDuke ...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 8
Can Oakland successfully curb illegal dumping?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A mountain of mattresses in West Oakland, Credit: Todd Whitney
For over a decade, Oakland has attempted to abate the illegal dumping of mattresses, electronics, furniture, and other large items onto city street...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:20
Parks-vs-Emerald Ash Borer
From: renee wilde
Series: Community Voices
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Two naturalists with the Green County Parks Dept. talking about the effect of the Emerald Ash Borer on the parks system.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:57
Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg On Our Woods - "Property Rights Are A Small Portion of This Story."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
The Importance of Wild Rice
From: WDSE
Series: Ojibwe Stories: Gaganoonididaa
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Larry Amik Smallwood, a language instructor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, in both Ojibwe and English, talks about the harvesting of wild r...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2013
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 7
Duluth News-Tribune writer Sam Cook looks back at the year in the outdoors
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson visited Dec. 28 with Sam Cook, longtime outdoors writer for the Duluth News-Tribune, about significant events and developments i...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 30:21
  • Purchases: 1
How effective are sit/lie laws?
From: KALW
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From Santa Monica to Seattle, several cities on the West Coast have enacted sit/lie laws. San Francisco began enforcing its Sit/Lie Ordinance in Ma...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Compromise of the California State Parks
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The history and current status of the California State Park System is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious in a conversation with Frank Graha...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Aug 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
Byran Crigler of Herbal Turtle Farms Talks About Sustainable Foods
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Owners of Herbal Turtle Farms: Kate Foerster with partner Bryan Crigler and son Ayden
Local farmer and President of The Winona Farmers Market, Bryan Crigler stops by to inform us on Community Supported Agriculture, the importance of ...

Bought by KSRQ and KSRQ


  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 2
A Home and Place Perspective from One Who Lives in Two Worlds
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, KQAL's Teri Tenseth interviews Therapeutic and Recreational Tourism Assistant Professor at Winona State Universi...

Bought by KSRQ and WDSE


  • Added: Dec 09, 2011
  • Length: 58:24
  • Purchases: 2
Frac-Sand Mining and Winona County, Minnesota
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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On this edition of "Don't Cha Know" Jim Gurley stops by KQAL to talk about Frac-Sand Mining and what it has to do with Winona County, and Winona Mi...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 31:52
  • Purchases: 1
High unemployment, toxic environment – one solution
From: KALW
Caption: Tony Lanz (left) and Noel Yakubu (right) suit up for work at EPA lead remediation site, Credit: Callie Shanafelt
The city of Oakland has received more than $140 million in stimulus money over the past three years for workforce development and energy efficiency...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 08:43
Climate Change Gridlock: Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 2)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Global warming is no longer a fear for the future. It’s threatening human civilization, now. Part 2 of a special 2 part series produced by Brian E...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Climate Change Gridlock: Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 1)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Global warming is no longer a fear for the future. It’s threatening human civilization, now. Part 1 of a special 2 part series produced by Brian Ed...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Five Farms, Episode Five: Succession
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: David Pecusa, Third Mesa, Hopi Nation, Credit: Andrew Lewis
For each of the families of Five Farms, the question looms large: Who will take over the farm? Succession features the next generation --- the youn...

Bought by WCNY, WEKU, KFOK-LPFM, WRPI, KBGA 89.9 FM and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Five Farms, Episode Four: Harvest
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Jeff and Annie Main, Capay, Cal., Credit: Alix Lowrey Blair
Autumn is harvest time. That means Iowa corn and soybeans; fruit dried in the California sun; greens, beans, and potatoes; slaughtered hogs and bee...

Bought by WFAE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KICI Iowa City, KUNM, KUNC & The Colorado Sound and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 28
Five Farms, Episode Three: Stewardship
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Sherry Hager, Colrain, Mass., Credit: Steve Schapiro
Stewardship focuses on the daily choices farming families make to preserve their land, water, and air --- the fundamentals of farming. During mid-s...

Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, WEKU, KBGA 89.9 FM, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Five Farms, Episode One: Planting
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Craig Griffieon of Ankeny, Iowa, Credit: Elena Rue
Spring planting on the family farm is the time of the annual gamble --- on the alchemies of nature, on the health of livestock, on future fall harv...

Bought by WCNY, WFAE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KGNU Community Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Turtles of the Upper Mississippi Refuge and it's Watershed
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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On this episode of Don't Cha Know we feature Ed Lagace and Michael J Pappas as they talk to us about turtles of the Upper Mississippi Refuge and it...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 43:32
Humankind: Passengers (Hour Two)
From: Humankind
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With federal support for public transit hanging in the balance, this sound-rich series (two one-hour documentaries) examines how our personal trans...

Bought by WCPN, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio, KUT, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Humankind: Passengers (Hour One)
From: Humankind
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With transportation jobs on the line, this sound-rich series (two one-hour documentaries) examines how our personal transportation choices - privat...

Bought by KVSC, WCPN, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
"A Second Wind: Elders Act for Justice" Margaret Gordon
From: Making Contact
Caption: Stories, Credit: Ricky Norris
Many retirees enjoy the rest and relaxation that eluded them during their working years. But for some, retirement means opportunities to affect pos...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2011
  • Length: 07:30