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Thicker Than Water
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Erica Cirino
We are surrounded by plastics. Literally enveloped. It has become so ubiquitous to our lives, frequently, we don’t even think about it. It surround...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Slow Flower Movement Changing the Floral Industry
From: renee wilde
Series: COUNTY LINES
Caption: Rosalie and Katie Loading up Flowers for Their Wedding, Credit: renee wilde
In 1991, President George Herbert Walker Bush was looking for ways to stem the illegal drug trade in Colombia, by giving more incentives for legal ...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 04:55
The Revolution Where You Live
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sarah van Gelder
No matter how we voted in this last election, all of us can agree on one thing. Our country, and the world, faces significant problems: Racism to c...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Farming Creativity
From: Rendered
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Getting back to the kind of robust, regional food system that used to be the norm in America definitely requires some creative thinking.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2015
  • Length: 16:18
  • Purchases: 1
Eating Like A Pig: How Beer Byproducts Transform Into Chow For Sows
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Pigs at Rocklands Farm go hog wild over spent grain., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
The growth of the craft beer industry is proving to be a win-win: both for brewers, and for pigs.

Bought by WABE and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Defending Beef
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nicolette Hahn Niman
Livestock, especially cattle, are Public Enemy Number One. That’s been the perceived wisdom for decades. It’s thought that cattle erode soils, poll...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Carbon Shock
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mark Schapiro, Credit: Center for Investigative Reporting
Carbon is shaping our future. Those little particles we can’t even see are reshaping our natural world, and transforming our economy. And, it all e...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Whiz, Bang, Cool
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The recycling economy of southern Maine

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:07
Explosion Green
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Gottfried
When David Gottfried come up an idea for green environmental building 20-years ago, he ran into a number of hurdles. The building industry had been...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sharing is Good
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Beth Buczynski
Consumption and consumerism – they are the cornerstones of American society. Many feel that that model is about to change. We either continue on th...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Cows Save the Planet
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Judith D. Swartz
In her new book, author and journalist Judith D. Swartz reveals that our ability to transform many of our problems – climate change, desertificatio...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Beautiful Business
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Judy Wicks
Judy Wicks founded the White dog Café on the first floor of her house in West Philadelphia. After helping to save her block from demolition, Judy g...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Rehabbing Raptors From Montana's Wild Skies
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Brooke Tanner releases a healed saw-whet owl., Credit: Wild Skies Raptor Center
Brooke Tanner and Ken Wolff are different from one another. One's a young woman trying to start a huge project, the other's at the end of a long ca...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 03:08
Earth Day 2013
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frances Moore Lappe
Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
America the Possible
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: James Gustave Speth
Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 1
Latitude News Podcast #2 - Two Nations, Under Cod
From: Latitude News
Caption: You bet this story is about fish.
American cod fishermen are broke. Norwegian cod fishermen make $100,000/year. What's up with that?

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 2
Community Design
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Capital Village near Sacramento is an ideal case study for future communities.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
Montana Oil Spill
From: Emilie Ritter Saunders
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Cleanup is continuing along the Yellowstone River in south-east Montana where an estimated 42,000 gallons of crude oil spewed from a burst ExxonMob...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
Transport: A Canine Journey
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Dog overpopulation is a continual problem in much of the American South, where shelters often euthanize more animals than they can save. This is th...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WMPG, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 3
A Sea Change in the New England Funeral Business
From: Katherine Perry
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They say death, like taxes, is one of the few certain things in life. But the way that culture deals with death is not a static institution. In New...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 04:17
The Urban Lobsterman
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Sixty-eight-year-old Skip Ryan has been catching lobster on Boston Harbor for more than 50 years., Credit: Jess Bidgood
A profile of an urban lobsterman. Amid the cruise ships and cargo vessels and whale-watching boats that motor in and out of the Boston Harbor each...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2010
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 6
Boots Worth the Trek
From: Todd Bookman
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Tucked in the woods of Intervale, New Hampshire, the Limmer Boot Company has been handcrafting custom hiking boots for 91-years. Despite a steep pr...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 4
Positive Energy
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The idea of keeping shopping close to home is picking up speed, with local foods increasing in popularity and availability. Harder to understand mi...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:37
Stingray for dinner
From: Alex Halperin
Caption: A cownose ray at L.D. Amory & Co., Credit: Alex Halperin
The cownose ray is a nuisance fish. Could it become the next great bar snack?

Bought by WILL and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 20, 2009
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 2
The Good Neighbor
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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For Mark Johnston, living next door to a trash incinerator stinks.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:34