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Sound Ecology: American Dipper
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard about the American Dipper, highlighting some behavioral and physiological aspects of this ubiquitous songbird along rivers and st...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 15: Acre for Acre - The Fight For Strawberry Field
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we take a close look at all sides of a controversial land deal and that bitterly divided the Colorado Springs...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 58:58
Life of the Law #81: Rig the System
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Domestic oil drilling offers private landowners the promise of riches in their own backyard. But what if you don’t want to live next door to an oil...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 22:39
Struck By Lightning
From: Outside Magazine
Series: Outside Podcast
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Science doesn't understand lightning very well—or how a strike affects the human body. Survivors sometimes claim to have super-senses, or special p...

Bought by KREV-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KPIK-LP, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 41:33
  • Purchases: 9
Divestment movement helps keep Oil in the ground.
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Union Theological Seminary is the 1st seminary to fight climate change by divesting fossil fuels from the school's huge endowment. The woman who ma...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:07
Tuna became the 'go to' fish because it was cheap and plentiful. we look at the pitch for tuna.
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Joanna Solotaroff looks at the emotional connection with tuna, created by marketting. .

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:33
  • Purchases: 1
Ep.15: How tuna conquered American kitchens & How to buy eggs?
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Episodes
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How tuna became the queen of the buffet; a safe bet, a 'go to' fish. Should I also worry about buying eggs? And setting the seminary free from foss...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 16:14
What to avoid to keep those organic veggies, organic.
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Why Ready Roundup from Monsanto is a very bad idea.Head of GPUS research explains

  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
What is Dilbit?
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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What exactly is in pipelines? (Dilbit plus)

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:04
On deck with the Rainbow Warrior
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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The RW comes home to Vancouver. Is this ship iconic in the city where Greenpeace began?

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 1
What is a RHIB?
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Capt of more than one Greenpeace ship Capt Peter Wilcox tells us what a RHIB is. (like a life boat, but not.)

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 01:36
Renewable Energy in a Nuclear Neighbourhood & Suing Environmentalists
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Ontario's reliance on nuclear energy means renewable energy is happening on a community level. Suing environmentalists Suing environmentalists to s...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 06:42
The Great Bear Rainforest
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact, coastal temperate rainforest in the world, running up the coast of BC to Alaska. Elizabeth Arnold ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:13
Rat People of New York
From: Karen Robins
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Animals are easy to love - most of them. But it takes a special breed of human to fall for one particular type animal.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 08:18
A Salt Story: West Virginia Siblings Mine the Past to Build a Future (Gravy Ep. 22)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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While West Virginia may be known for resources like coal, the country once turned to this mountain state for a culinary staple: salt. In this episo...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 23:22
  • Purchases: 6
Labor, Climate & The Music Behind Movements
From: Context Partners
Series: Movement Making
Caption: Pete Seeger entertaining Eleanor Roosevelt, honored guest at a racially integrated Valentine's Day party marking the opening of a new chapter of United Federal Labor in then-segregated Washington, D.C., Credit: Joseph A. Horne via Library of Congress, 1944
A conversation with Andrew Revkin, who's best known as a longtime New York Times environmental journalist but is also a songwriter and was for 20 y...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 15:58
  • Purchases: 1
It's a Crazy World (but not as crazy as California!)
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: Highlights
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California wants to deprive you of fuel, and that's why you're already paying a new "global warming" tax.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 15:58
Wildlandfire
From: Whitney Henry-Lester
Caption: The view from Stehekin
Recorded on an iphone while on vacation 2 miles away from a wildfire. Recorded for KCRW's 24 Hour Radio Race.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
Access to Water: What's it like to worry about every drop?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Access to water has been declared an international human right, but it may be increasingly difficult to enforce. This episode explores how countrie...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 20:03
OUR DESIRED FUTURE
From: Sharlene Leurig
Series: Our Desired Future
Caption: Inspiring Texans to keep water flowing for future generations.
Our Desired Future is a 30 minute radio documentary designed for public radio to educate Texans on the interdependence of our groundwater, springs ...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio and KWBU


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 54:57
  • Purchases: 2
Beaver Taught Salmon How To Jump (Part Two)
From: Barbara Bernstein
Series: Rivers That Were
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Beaver Taught Salmon How to Jump recreates the once natural and free-flowing tributaries and mainstem of the Columbia River, the Great River of the...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 54:31
Working Water (Part One)
From: Barbara Bernstein
Series: Rivers That Were
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Part One of Rivers That Were, Working Water, compares two environmental crises. On the Colorado River Basin, it’s the ongoing effort to restore the...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 55:53
Episode 4: How to do science, part 2: From the beach to the lab
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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If you send scientists to the beach, they may come back with the next way to produce biofuels. But it takes a lot of collaboration along the way.

  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:36
Episode 3: Microbial Warfare
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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It's like gang warfare, but with really tiny gang members. Some microbes provide their relatives with protection, emitting antibiotics that kill of...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
The Future of Coal
From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment
Caption: A coal terminal in Eastern Kentucky., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
Can the Appalachian Mountains recover from centuries of mining? What will happen to the thousands of coal miners projected to lose their jobs in th...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1

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