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Interviews with Lisa Patel on Toronto's Real Estate Market, Legendary Canadian Philanthropist Don Johnson, Plus Entrepreneurial & Cultural Updates

From: Ray Samuels

In this edition of Toronto Business Journal, we speak with TRREB President Lisa Patel about Toronto's hot real estate market. In our Business Se...

Demand for Power

From: Claudine Ebeid McElwain
Series: Broken Ground

Caption: by the Southern Environmental Law Center

An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging proje...

Living Planet 03/30/2018

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

Living Planet: Nature in transition - On this week’s show: Colombia’s impressive birdlife has survived civil war. Can it now help save the cou...

Bought by 'The Sea', KUAF Public Radio, KRJF-lp, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNMU-FM and more

Living Planet 03/23/2018

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

Living Planet: Playing with food - This week on the show: from cultured cabbages to musical leeks, we explore the weird and wonderful ways that...

Bought by 'The Sea', KRJF-lp, 'The Sea', KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA and more

Part 3: Green movement pivots toward minorities

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues

Caption: A few members of Outdoor Afro Cleveland, including Smith-Woodford (holding sign), Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream

Part 3 of series -- The Great Lakes region is home to millions of people of different races and ethnicities. But diverse backgrounds – and issues ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBFO, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WOSU and more

Part 2: Flint water crisis a turning point for Green movement

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues

Caption: WT Stevens replaces a pipe under a Flint street, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream

Part 2 of series -- Historically, the environmental movement hasn’t always been welcoming to people of color – and issues that are important to the...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WBFO, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more

Part 1: Environmental groups slow to seek out minorities

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues

Caption: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite in 1903, Credit: Library of Congress

Part 1 of series -- When you think of the environmental movement, what comes to mind. Preserving the wilderness in national parks? Or guaranteeing ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WBFO, North Country Public Radio and more

Rising Seas in Silicon Valley

From: Generation Anthropocene

Sea level rise is a global concern, and on the whole, policy and funding for mitigation aren’t keeping pace. Today on Gen Anthro, producer Isha Sal...

Bought by KWMR and KRZA

Unstable ice leads to a deadly winter

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: New York State Police / Snowmobile , Credit: New York State Police

More than 30 snowmobilers and fishermen have died after breaking through lake ice in the northeast and Great Lakes region this winter. The toll wou...

Bought by WBFO, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio, North Country Public Radio and more

N.Y. snowmobilers add to toll in deadly winter

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: A sign on Conesus Lake directs sportsmen to an access point., Credit: Veronica Volk

In part two of a series on fatalities associated with thin ice this winter, we hear the story of two men who disappeared one night after taking a l...

Bought by WCPN, WRVO Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO

Loki_Sacred Ground

From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL

Standing Rock Water Protector Loki explains the Sacred Ground at the Front called Turtle Island

Great Lakes may hold clues to beginning of life on Earth

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Diver prepares to head into waters of Lake Huron, Credit: Ben Thorp

Scientists are trying to figure out how Earth developed an atmosphere rich in oxygen. The answer to this billion-year-old mystery may lie in an unl...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, North Country Public Radio and more

Can drownings be eliminated on the Great Lakes?

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: DANGEROUS WATERS

Caption: Lifeguards performing a drill at Silver Beach County Park, Credit: Elizabeth Miller

With lifeguards, warning signs, 911 phones and education efforts, beaches across the Great Lakes are preparing for emergencies. But how effective a...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUK, WXXI Rochester and more

Great Lakes drownings hit small Michigan county

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: DANGEROUS WATERS

Caption: Waves crash against pier near Silver Beach, Credit: Elizabeth Miller

Berrien County, Mich., is a tourist destination because of its beautiful beaches and 50 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline. But the community also ha...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUK, WXXI Rochester, WCPN and more

Deadly currents -- why they hit the Great Lakes

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: DANGEROUS WATERS

Caption: Silver Beach County Park in St. Joseph, Michigan, Credit: Elizabeth Miller

Since 2002, powerful currents in the Great Lakes have caused more than 150 drownings, researchers say. A look at the science behind the currents.

Bought by WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRVO Public Media, WMUK, Delta College Public Radio and more

Ohio mother mourns son taken by Lake Erie current

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: DANGEROUS WATERS

Caption: Melissa Zirkle with a picture of Jermaine, Credit: Elizabeth Miller

Melissa Zirkle grew up near Lake Erie, but didn't learn about the dangerous currents in the Great Lakes. She lost her son to a powerful current in...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUK, WCPN, WXXI Rochester and more

Inside a coal fired power plant

From: Reid Frazier

Caption: The Homer City Generating Station in Pennsylvania., Credit: Reid Frazier

How do you clean up 100,000 tons of air pollution? Boatloads of air filters, and some basic high school chemistry. This story takes the listener in...

Bought by WABE

The GMO Deception

From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: JUNE 2014

Are we being told the truth about GMO foods in our midst? Sheldon Krimsky is Editor/reader here and Ralph Nader wrote the foreword to this informat...

Surface Tension

From: Derek Hawkins

Caption: New Bedford Harbor, Credit: Derek Hawkins (cc)

New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...

In Amish Country, Fracking Here to Stay

From: Reid Frazier

$Caption: A Chesapeake Energy rig in Carroll County, Ohio, where fracking is taking place in Amish communities. , Credit: Reid R. Frazier$

In Ohio, some of the best pockets of oil and gas in the East run right under Amish country. Reid Frazier found the drilling boom is confronting the...