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Cold Comfort | Episode 8 | Oil and Water
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Bowhead whale skull, Credit: Amy Martin
What happens when the thing you can't live without in the short term threatens your very existence in the long run? Meet two whalers in Utqiagvik, ...

Bought by KSKQ, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
Cold Comfort | Episode 7 | Hello Central
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Richard Beneville, mayor of Nome, Alaska, Credit: Nick Mott
If there's one thing everybody's heard about the Arctic, it's that sea ice is melting, and that's bad news. But what's less well-known is that some...

Bought by KSKQ, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 4
Cold Comfort | Extra 1 | Scenes From Svalbard
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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Take a trip through the Norwegian archipelago, meet workers in the tourism industry, and get a glimpse of some charismatic Arctic megafauna. Plus, ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 18:33
  • Purchases: 1
Cold Comfort | Episode 6 | The Things I Can See On the Mountains
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Ulf Isak Aleksandersen is 10 years old, and speaks three languages: Norwegian, Sámi and English. , Credit: Amy Martin
After thousands of years of tradition, a shifting climate is forcing changes in the way Sámi families herd reindeer. But some climate solutions are...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 4
Cold Comfort | Episode 5 | Just Decide
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Amanda Kernell, film director and screenwriter, Credit: Carla Orrego Veliz
Everyone's heard of Vikings -- their daring North Atlantic voyages, their mysterious runes. But there's another ancient culture in Arctic Scandinav...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
Cold Comfort | Episode 4 | Becoming Arctic, Becoming Human
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: A trombonist plays on installation day, Credit: Studio Granada Architects
An eight-ton concrete ball and a 32,000-year-old needle collection. What's all this got to do with the Arctic? Find out on this episode of Threshold.

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMPG and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 6
Cold Comfort | Episode 3 | Impermafrost
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: A group of researchers collect data on methane releases from Arctic lakes and wetlands., Credit: Amy Martin
All across the Arctic, frozen soil is thawing out. A lot of stuff is buried there -- plants and animals that lived more than 10,000 years ago. What...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, PRX Remix, Wyoming Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 6
Cold Comfort | Episode 2 | Invisible Hands
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Winter storms are eating away at the island, but moving the whole community is expensive., Credit: Amy Martin
When a major storm hit Shishmaref, Alaska in 2005, it became a poster child for climate change in the Arctic. Dramatic pictures of houses falling i...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, KPIP-LP, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
Cold Comfort | Episode 1 | The Water is Wide
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Brent and Elmer play along the shoreline at dusk, Credit: Nick Mott
In Shishmaref, Alaska, no one’s asking if climate change is real. What they want to know is how bad it has to get before the world decides to act.

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, KPIP-LP, KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 6
S3: Kate Hayes EchoingGreen- Board Health #98
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
Caption: Kate Hayes Echoing Green
Kate Hayes EchoingGreen- Board Health Welcome, welcome, welcome, to the Bonfires of Social Enterprise. Back for another conversation this time with...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2018
  • Length: 39:50
S3: Genusee #97
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
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Wow, what a really great episode on a social enterprise called Genusee. Creatively designing eyewear out of recycled single-use plastic water bottl...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 31:58
Indice de Suicidios entre Latinos. / Latino suicide rates
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Caption: PRX default Piece image
La Psicologa Millner habla sobre la incidencia de sucidios entre la comunidad Latina. / Psychologist Millner explains how common suicide is within ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: :30
The Seekers, Part 2: The Cost of Deportations
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Guatemalans fresh off the "flight of the deportees" are given a phone call to relatives by volunteer groups., Credit: Maria Martin
This week, Making Contact looks at The Cost of Deportations through the lens of one Central American nation that sends migrants north— Guatemala. W...

Bought by WXDU, WVAS, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
In Memory of a Plane Crash
From: Jule Banville
Series: Last Best Stories
Caption: Bryan Wells, finder of the wreakage, with some of what's left on Emigrant Peak, Credit: Adrian Sanchez Gonzalez/Bozeman Daily Chronicle
When the pilot of a plane saw a fireball explode on Emigrant Peak north of Yellowstone National Park, the dispatcher called out: Fido 15! Fido 15! ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 21:11
  • Purchases: 1
S3: PalmEraMia #95
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
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Thanks for tuning in for this great episode on a social enterprise out of Miami! Our guest is Andres Restrepo, one of the founders of PalmEraMia, w...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2018
  • Length: 33:48
S3: Kathleen Kelly Janus - Stanford, Book #93
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
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Back for another episode of the Bonfires of Social Enterprise. Kathleen Kelly Janus is our guest discussing her new book, Social Startup Success, H...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 38:21
Corrections in a Small City
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique we cover John Shook's talk about key issues in the criminal justice system for small cities.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 59:56
S3: Stephen of Charity Charge #87
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
Caption: Stephen Garten
Welcome back to another episode of The Bonfires of Social Enterprise. My name is Romy and I'm your host and guide here. This time, we hear from Ste...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 39:54
S3: Detroit Mushroom Factory: Deana Wojcik & Chris Carrier #86
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
Caption: Chris & Deanna
Detroit Mushroom Factory with Deana & Chris Hello out there in listener land, this is Romy, bringing you another episode of the Bonfires of Social ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 43:58
Part 3: Green movement pivots toward minorities
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: A few members of Outdoor Afro Cleveland, including Smith-Woodford (holding sign), Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Part 3 of series -- The Great Lakes region is home to millions of people of different races and ethnicities. But diverse backgrounds – and issues ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBFO, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WOSU and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 7
Part 2: Flint water crisis a turning point for Green movement
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: WT Stevens replaces a pipe under a Flint street, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Part 2 of series -- Historically, the environmental movement hasn’t always been welcoming to people of color – and issues that are important to the...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WBFO, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 8
Part 1: Environmental groups slow to seek out minorities
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite in 1903, Credit: Library of Congress
Part 1 of series -- When you think of the environmental movement, what comes to mind. Preserving the wilderness in national parks? Or guaranteeing ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WBFO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 8
Telltale Signs
From: Generation Anthropocene
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Two stories of ecological disruption: the great sea star wasting, and a graveyard of trembling aspens.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:03
S3: Hip Co-Working Spaces of Bamboo Detroit- Episode #73
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
Caption: Bamboo Detroit Amanda Lewan
Bamboo Detroit Update with Amanda Lewan Romy catches up with co-founder, Amanda Lewan to hear about the most recent expansion of one of Detroit's ...

  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: 27:36
S3: Detroit Horse Power Rides Empowerment - Episode #72
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
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Detroit Horse Power lifts, heals, and empowers! David Silver shares an update on all of their expansion in the hearts and minds of the Detroit You...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: May 17, 2017
  • Length: 37:23
  • Purchases: 1