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An ingenious shrine of ice delivers much needed water in the Himalayas.
- Added: Apr 14, 2021
- Length: 02:30
A Swiss Billionaire is partnering with environmental organizations to conserve 30% of the planet.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:33
"We build ice cream shops with women in areas recovering from conflict or natural disaster, with the belief that these sweet, small enterprises can...
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- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 1
There is a new kind of ‘leather’ that comes from coconuts instead of animals. It’s not only a sustainable alternative, it’s turning a waste product...
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- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
Protecting forests by turning them into graveyards.
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:19
Chilean sisters employ their dogs to reforest land after fires.
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:15
In 1969, fried-chicken tycoon J. David Bamberger, had a novel idea:
to buy the worst piece of land he could find in the hill country of Texas and ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:34
High school students in Denver, Colorado are recycling grocery bags into "plarn", or plastic yarn, which can then be crocheted into blankets and ma...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:22
In Great Britain, the milkman is returning to your door with glass milk bottles.
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:24
Toronto is turning food waste into fuel to power garbage trucks.
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- Added: Mar 05, 2021
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 1
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
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
Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...
- Added: Sep 23, 2013
- Length: 02:23
Mark Maire is a retired reference and technical services librarian who's lived in Duluth for most of his adult life. His poems have been published ...
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 01:41
Melissa Fletcher makes her home in the Twin Cities. Her poems and short stories have been published both locally, and nationally. The Beat is a dai...
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 02:01
Duluth writer Connie Wanek is the author of three books, most recently "On Speaking Terms" from Copper Canyon Press. She has received several award...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 02:11
Yahya Fredrickson got his undergraduate degree from Moorehead State University, his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, and his...
- Added: May 30, 2013
- Length: 04:21
Dean Brooks graduated from Bemidji State University in 2012 with a degree in Creative Writing. He looks for inspiration in dusty corners, early mor...
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 03:03
Julie Gard is a prose poet that lives in Duluth and teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She writes about art, travel, family, ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 01:59