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100. The Post-Religious Chxrch of the Fabulous Unknown

From: Earth Riot Radio
Series: Earth Riot Radio

American religions like sports, the arts, corporate life and house-hold pets - leave us with a goopy kind of gradualism. Since the Earth's crisis ...

City Creek At Folsom Trail

From: KRCL
Series: Ways of Water

In another episode of Ways of Water, Radioactive's Connor Estes attended a design walk in Salt Lake City to see the proposed plans for the City Cre...

Once A Braided River

From: Barbara Bernstein

Caption: Risk in the North Reach, Credit: Kandace Manning

A tale about how Portland, Oregon abused and degraded the river that runs through it, and the current campaign to reclaim this stretch of river as ...

Old Docs Take New Patient: The Climate

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Robin Cooper, Psychiatrist and Climate Activist

Older doctors talk about their journey from medicine to hardcore climate activism. Bill McKibben introduces his new group Third Act and explains w...

Bought by WFHB, KICI Iowa City, KZYX, WFHB, and RadioStPete Florida

You Don't Have to be Rich to Drive Electric

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

EV carshares in low income neighborhoods and low priced used electric vehicles are making them accessible for everyone.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and RadioFreePalmer

Railroads & Fire

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Since the first rail line was completed in Minnesota in 1862, the railroad has had a storied existence in the state. Fire is part of that story. KF...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio

Campaign Giving for Climate Action

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Meet 3 small super PACs that focus your money on electing climate leaders to public office.

Bought by WFHB, WFHB, and KICI Iowa City

So Good To Not Feel Alone

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Community residents, longshoremen, small businesspeople, tribes and environmentalists got together and stopped a massive oil by rail terminal in Va...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KRZA, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

An environmental success story.

Bought by KRZA

Episode 10: Big Fish, Big Science

From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf

Caption: Biochemist Dana Wetzel dissects a fish exposed to oil in the lab., Credit: David Levin

Scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, are leading a new experiment that will help uncover the effects of oil spills on fis...

Episode 9: Mapping Oil Spills by Satellite

From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf

Caption: Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanographer at USF, points to a map of the Ixtoc-1 spill made from archival satellite data.

The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...

Episode Four: The Case of The Vanishing Seals

From: KUCB
Series: SEAL: The Case of The Vanishing Seals (An Alaskan Island Mystery)

Caption: Northern fur seal on Alaska's St. Paul Island, Credit: KUCB/John Ryan

A marine mammal mystery told in bite-size chunks.

Bought by KRUA

Ep.14: Fracking in Newfoundland and the UK: How people respond to it.

From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Episodes

Fracking is popping up everywhere and we look at various responses. In Newfoundland (Canada), they create art. In the UK, they (pretend to) frack t...

Bought by KRZA

Beaver Taught Salmon How To Jump (Part Two)

From: Barbara Bernstein
Series: Rivers That Were

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...

Working Water (Part One)

From: Barbara Bernstein
Series: Rivers That Were

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...

The Terry Project on CiTR #53: The End of Civilization Ecovillage

From: CiTR's Terry Project

Gordon Katic is an environmentalist, but he doesn’t get out of the city very much. He’s plugged into politics, but removed from nature. So he board...

Pete Seeger-All Mixed Up

From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up

Tribute to legendary singer-songwriter, political activist and environmentalist Pete Seeger featuring interviews, music and stories from a life far...

Bought by Prairie Public, KGLT, RadioFreePalmer, and Wyoming Public Radio

A Shortcut through 2012: Tributes

From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts

Additional tribute mix of more incredible people who left us in 2012--legacies that will continue to inspire...part two of A Shortcut through 2012

Whitebark Pine, Grizzlies, and an Ecosystem on the Brink

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay

Caption: Yellowstone flyover 2, Credit: K. Gourlay

Whitebark pine trees, once a feature of the mountainous west, are under attack. Nearly two-thirds have died from beetle attacks and other causes, h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Cave Conservation

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay

Caption: Looking up and out of the mouth of Horse Cave, Kentucky, Credit: K. Gourlay

Caves may lie beneath our radar, but they play an important role in many Southeastern U.S. ecosystems. They filter water and shelter diverse wildli...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California's Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto

From: California Legacy Project

Listeners will find Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California’s Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto both entertaining and enlightening. Two one hour...

Bought by KZYX and KALW

Peace Efforts at the Rainbow Gatherings (54:00 / 59:00) [Peace Talks Radio]

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Caption: A "Welcome Home" Sign from a Rainbow Gathering

Are the annual Rainbow Gatherings, on National Forest Land each Fourth of July, just free-wheeling havens for hippies or are they serious experimen...

Bought by KUOW, KXOT Public Radio, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio