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The WORLD features news reports from around the world, centered on humanitarian issues or stories that have an individual or mass impact on communi...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 27:30
It would be hard to read the report and not come away with the clear picture that -- although many good people are working hard every day -- the di...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 28:48
Today I share part I of my interview with Santa Fe’s new superintendent of schools, Joel Boyd.
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 28:11
Paul Ehrlich, author of the iconic book The Population Bomb, reflects on the history of environmentalism and his gloomy outlook for the future. [Ep...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 46:21
Richard Alley, a climate researcher and the host of PBS’s Earth: The Operators’ Manual, discusses rapid changes in Earth’s climate through history ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 27:55
Literary critic and pop culture enthusiast Ursula Heise dissects environmental storytelling and its relation to science… both real and fiction. [Se...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 34:06
In this interview, we learn from James Holland Jones how diseases emerge and spread as humans encroach into the wilderness, and how the patterns wi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 37:41
Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, discusses his definition of nature and challenges the assertion that nature is fragi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 29:43
Andy Hoffman, a Professor at the University of Michigan business school, shares examples of the integration of environmental issues into corporate ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 27:45
Dive into water policy with Buzz Thompson, leading expert in environmental and natural resources law. From his grandfather’s farm to the US Suprem...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 41:29
Conservation biologist Terry Root discusses the road to triage and her somewhat controversial approach to saving species in the face of climate cha...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 37:16
Former HP executive Debra Dunn discusses the power of entrepreneurship, the changing culture of business and what she learned on a recent trip to C...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 20:48
Luis Zambrano discusses preserving Aztec culture through a rare salamander in the Mexico City wetlands, and compares emerging conservation battles ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 22:05
Around the world, students have been taking to the streets. They’re opposed to rising tuition fees and cuts to education. On this edition, we’ll ...
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 05, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
In this first of a two-part series, Dred-Scott Keyes interviews winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Awards David W. Blight, author of "American Ora...
- Added: Aug 26, 2012
- Length: 56:00
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States - author Gordon S. Wood shares his thoughts on the generations that were at the ...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 45:32
A psychologist and education specialist is finishing up a major study that looks at how teenage brains respond to mental exercises. His findings su...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 11, 2012
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
BILLINGS, Mont. - Montana's primary election is Tuesday, and it's expected that turnout will be higher than it was in 2010.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 01:14
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
Graduation time is here, but graduates can't be sure of good jobs despite their education.
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 03:27
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A unique program is teaching Minnesotans compassion for the working poor, by putting them in the shoes of those who struggle on a...
- Added: May 22, 2012
- Length: 01:37
If you’ve lived in San Francisco long enough, you might have noticed that there are fewer yellow school buses crisscrossing the city. State budget ...
- Added: Apr 05, 2012
- Length: 05:25
With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. Two writing professors ha...
Bought by KUOW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
