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Kiss Your Gas Goodbye

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Induction cooktop demonstration at Sonoma Clean Power's Advanced Energy Center

To reach zero carbon in 2050, we must electrify 5 million buildings each year. How are we going to do that and what does it mean for your home?

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

Stories from The Big New Jersey Plastic Ban

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Troop 19 addressing Teaneck City Council

Small town environmentalists and a dozen girl scouts won the first local bag ordinances in New Jersey, sparking the strongest state plastic ban in ...

Bought by WFHB and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

Reciprocity (episode 5)

From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy

Explore the role that trees play in human health and urban climate resilience, particularly amid a pandemic. Talk with City of Seattle urban forest...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

The Garbage Gourmets

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Climate conscious cooks turn discards into delicacies.

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

Depaving Portland

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Citizens wielding pry bars and thermometers turn parking lots into rain gardens and change city policy to favor green over grey.

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

Rising Green From the Ashes

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Wildfire victims rebuild all solar, all electric homes with help from their community energy program. Hear one family's story, learn what makes a h...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer and more

A Lungful of Diesel Exhaust is No Way to Start the School Day

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Our aging US fleet of diesel school buses exposes kids to toxic fumes, inside and out. Twin Rivers Unified School District is one of the first in t...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WRGY

No Flush, No Fuss

From: Devika Bakshi

A visit to a very special toilet.

Bought by PRX Remix

Farming Creativity

From: Rendered

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

Power from the People

From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features

A warm, personal story about the lives and challenges of energy workers "behind the light switch."

The Future of Sustainability in the St. Cloud Area Begins Now

From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota

In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack brings us multiple perspectives abou...

Bought by KSRQ

The first surfers to brave San Francisco’s Ocean Beach

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Boards rest against the seawall at Ocean Beach, Credit: Angela Johnston

In his backyard in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood, Arne Jin An Wong coats a pink and white striped, eight-foot-long surfboard. This bo...

Bought by WXDU

The School that Had No Water: Water Security in South Africa

From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features

What would you do if you were headmistress of a school with no water--none for drinking, none for cleaning, none for flushing, none? Here is the st...

Episode 47: Ocean Clark – Bobby Pickles’ Podcast

From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast

Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Ocean Clark (right), Credit: Adrien de Martini

Bobby and Martini podcast from Union, NJ, at the studio of New York City-based artist, Ocean Clark, whose original paintings and prints of pop cult...

Horse Companions

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

When horses need social time they turn to everything from farm animals to spider monkeys.

Bought by KGUA and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.

Storm Over the Mountain

From: Eileen McAdam

Caption: Storm King Mountain , Credit: Scenic Hudson Collection: Records Relating to the Storm King Case, 1963 - 1981, Marist College Archives & Special Collections, USA

Almost 50 years ago, a group of concerned citizens battled energy giant Consolidated Edison and launched the environmental movement.

Bought by KRZA and KUT

Beat Pedaler

From: vanessa lowe

Beat Pedaler is an in-depth exploration of rapper, inventor and educator Paul Freedman’s passion for bike culture.

Bought by KDNK, KUNM, KVSC, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRIR and more

Aina - A Hawaiian Youth's Love for the Land

From: Dmae Lo Roberts

Caption: Nainoa Kaiama, Credit: Richard Jensen

A teen combines new farming techniques with traditional foodways at one of Hawaii's remaining agricultural high schools to help his family's farm.

Bought by PRX Remix

Between A Rock and a Hard Place - David Dinnell

From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories

A true story told live in London. David goes scuba diving off the coast of Sicily, and gets into troubled waters - involving an airport runway, uns...

Bought by PRX Remix

Food Sleuth Radio, Maria Rodale Interview

From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio

Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Maria Rodale, CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc., and author of “The Organic Manifesto. Maria...

Prospect Park Interview #1

From: miranda loud
Series: Park Dreams

Miranda Loud interviews painter Gary Dunn on the edge of Brooklyn's Prospect Park - asking him to share his ideas about the role public parks play ...

Swimming Upstream: A special one-hour documentary

From: Michigan Radio

We think of the Great Lakes today as a great place to play on the beach, to swim, to go fishing. But those huge, beautiful lakes are changing. The ...

Bought by Louisville Public Media