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Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A laundry mart owner cleans clothes for the homeless for free.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:17
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
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A young boy designs video games about peace. He grew up as a Ugandan refugee and became a brilliant video game designer and business owner.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Vending machines for the homeless.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Toronto Chef, Jagger Gordon, came up with the Feed It Forward concept after seeing so much food go to waste in his industry.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Badass biker chicks motorcycle through city traffic to get mother's milk to babies.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
An upright walking mobility device that is a wheelchair alternative for many,

  • Added: Feb 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Niger is one of the largest and poorest countries in West Africa. While most of the country is in the Saharan Desert, a reclamation has begun, with...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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The ‘California Air Resources’ board in the summer of 2018, conclusively showed that California had met its 2020 emissions goal four years earlier ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Ngoc Nguyen came to StoryCorps with her GED instructor Chris Myers to talk about her childhood and the impact his teaching has had on her.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Famed music venue First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minn., Credit: Ryan Dawes
When the future of an iconic music venue is on the line, artists and music lovers haven’t just stood around. Producer Colleen Cowie reports from Mi...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Happy New Year from the Possibly team, Credit: Fatima Husain
Twenty-twenty was quite a year, and we're guessing that most people are hoping 2021 will be better. So, our Possibly team got together to think ab...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2021
  • Length: 03:53
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Winona State University professor of geoscience and astronomer Jennifer Anderson talks with us about the latest Mars rover recently launched.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 27:08

  • Added: Nov 14, 2020
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 4
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Debra Fisher, an occupational therapist in the New York City Public School System, speaks with her friend Emma Pelosi, a special education teacher,...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:24
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Two Artists in their conversations with Laura, wheelchair dancer Alice Sheppard and TourettesHero Jess Thom, expand our ideas about beauty, mobili...

Bought by KMUN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Jessa Roquet
Gambler's Daughter is the moniker of Jessa Roquet, a Twin Cities songwriter with ties to Cook County who grew up singing in a family band and now h...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 16:38
Caption: Adam B. Shapiro, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Adam B. Shapiro is an award-winning actor, known for HBO's "The Normal Heart" (2014), "Master of None" (2015), and "The Cobbler" (20...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 03:33
Caption: Sony Turner, Credit: Shefik
Dreams - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard ...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 01:26
Caption: Dr. Hassan Tetteh, Credit: Shefik
Change - Dr. Hassan Tetteh is a board-certified surgeon specializing in thoracic surgery, critical care, heart and lung transplantation, research a...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 01:27
Caption: Chuck McDermott, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Over the last 40 years, Chuck McDermott has left his musical mark on audiences on both coasts of the United States. Over the last fe...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 03:28
Caption: Peppermint, Credit: Shefik
Identity - The hardest working woman in show business, drag queen and recording artist Peppermint has conquered the New York scene with her high-en...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:29
Caption: Rugenia Keefe, left, a paraprofessional who assisted Cole Phillips for most of high school after he lost his sight, spoke with the graduating senior for a remote conversation from Bentonville, Ark., Credit: Cole Phillips
Cole Phillips lost his vision just months before starting high school. As a freshman, he met paraprofessional Rugenia Keefe -- or Miss. Ru -- who a...

Bought by WERA-LP


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Kristin Knight Pace is one of thirty-one women in the world to have completed both the Iditarod and Yukon Quest dogsled races. In this interview, s...

Bought by Prairie Public, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6