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What is The Most Beautiful Sound?
From: City High Radio
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What is the most beautiful sound? Teenager Alex Soto investigates. A version of this story was selected as a finalist in the 2020 NPR Student Pod...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 07:53
  • Purchases: 2
Won't You Be My Neighbor? An Audio Portrait of Seattle's Neighborhoods
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Podcasts
Caption: RadioActive's Nina Tran went on a bicycle tour of her south Beacon Hill neighborhood. Listen to the podcast to hear what she found., Credit: KUOW PHOTO / NINA TRAN
Neighborhoods shape our perspectives and our personalities. They become a part of us, an identity we carry even if we leave. On the latest RadioAct...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 19:21
Episode 7: The Big Data of Nature
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 1
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Environmental issues are mounting, and the stakes are huge. So how might big data be used to tackle the issues of sustainability, climate change, h...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 34:51
Farming Without Labels
From: Shizue Roche Adachi
Caption: Tom Truelove of Truelove Farms, Credit: Lindsay Rush
LEDE: “Organic,” “Locally-grown,” “Certified Humane,” “GMO-Free." We've all seen the labels stamped on packages of chicken breast at the grocery ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2016
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 2
The Politics of Teaching Climate Change
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Into the Earth
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Discover what happens when science education collides with business and government.

Bought by KVSC and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 09:34
  • Purchases: 2
Is Spring Overrated?
From: Sharon Glassman
Series: What's to Love About...?
Caption: Writer/performer Sharon Glassman, Credit: Katie Weisberger
Its roots are natural, sure. But isn't spring a bit...overpromise-y? Sharon Glassman makes the case for a name change. Or maybe just a change of he...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat : Marsh Muirhead - "Thin Ice"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Marsh Muirhead, a writer, dentist, flight instructor, and much else besides, lives near Bemidji, MN on the banks of the Mississippi with his dog, S...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
Into the Woods
From: Sam Dunnington
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My high school used to drop groups of kids off in the woods in order to teach them survival skills. There was no adult supervision.

  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 11:06
Devastating Cycle by Ashaki Howard
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2011
Caption: Ashaki Howard
Poet Ashaki Howard, 17, is a senior at Kenwood Academy and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Epic Sound representing her high...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:48
It's Not Easy Being Green
From: City High Radio
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Seventeen-year-old A. Greene has one simple problem with the environmental "green" movement: it just doesn't seem all that green to her.

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 1
Sustaindinavia: Copenhagen's Integrated Approach to Energy
From: Denis Du Bois
Series: Energy Priorities
Caption: "Sustaindinavia!" is a miniseries about sustainability in Scandinavia, from Energy Priorities., Credit: Energy Priorities
Carbon policy is a big issue. It's a great time to examine how Copenhagen Denmark has solved multiple problems by integrating energy systems right ...

Bought by WSKG


  • Added: Nov 01, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Environmental And Worker Disaster
From: Dick Meister
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We're paying too little attention to he workers who were seriously injured or killed in the explosion that spilled tons of oil into the Gulf of Mex...

  • Added: May 14, 2010
  • Length: 03:48
Global Warming Rap
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
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Music and VoxPop blend into a hard-hitting critique of America's response to global warming

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 3
Rethinking Needs
From: Kyle Boelte
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The author goes into the wilderness and comes back with a new appreciation of his needs.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:33
California Wildfires; A Perspective
From: Michael Faulkner
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A provocative essay contemplating rebuilding after the Calif. wildfires

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jan 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Hybrid Car Mania
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Commentary on the hysteria surrounding the energy efficient hybrid car.

Bought by WKMS


  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
KERA Commentary: A Love Poem to the Season
From: KERA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An appeciation of Spring and the beauty to be found in nature year-round.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2007
  • Length: 03:30
Plug-In Hybrid Cars
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Commentary on the developing hybrid car technology

  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 04:05
More Poison, Says Bush
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on the Bush administration's successful attempt to allow U.S. growers to continue using methyl bromide, the highly toxic pesticide ban...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:54
Deadeye Dick Cheney's Real Victims
From: Dick Meister
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We're ignoring the innocent quail that our VP thought it amusing to stalk and kill.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2006
  • Length: 02:00
In Praise of the Intentional City
From: Brian Wright
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This is a commentary calling on cities of all sizes to grow intentionally

Bought by WSHU and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Jul 14, 2005
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 2
Finally: A Cure For Nervous Sheep
From: Merle Kessler
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Scientists find way to soothe anxious sheep. But how do you know when sheep are nervous?

Bought by KUSP


  • Added: Sep 23, 2004
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 1