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How Many Cows Now?
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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As factory farms grow bigger, they get harder to regulate. Just try counting cows on a mega-dairy.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 05:35
QUEST Nature Deficit Disorder
From: KQED
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How can we get kids outside?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Quest_Marine Protected Areas
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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One Fish, Two Fish: The Science of Protecting Sea Life

  • Added: Oct 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:45
Water Rights: No Clear Solution
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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With untold profits to be made in controlling this vital resource, private entrepreneurs and corporations are vying to manage the world?s water. Bu...

Bought by KUSP


  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Quest_Farm Bill and School Lunches
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What will it take to get healthy meals in School cafeterias? For starters, a new national farm policy.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
Quest_Geothermal
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Solar and wind get all the press, but geothermal is poised for a comeback

Bought by WBEZ and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 2
Are E-85 Pumps Safe?
From: The Environment Report
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Ethanol Pumps have not yet been approved by UL

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Sep 24, 2007
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Quest_Port Pollution
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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The Port of Oakland keeps shelves stocked at big box stores like WalMart? and Target. But what's the real cost to people who live nearby?

  • Added: Sep 21, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
Quest_Graywater Guerillas
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A report from the frontlines of D.I.Y eco-plumbing.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
QUEST_Big Plans for Big OIl
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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As Chevron hatches expansion plans for one of California's largest oil refineries, Richmond's Green Party mayor considers the future of her city, a...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 1
Prescription: Enviro-Knowledge for Doctors
From: The Environment Report
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Doctors short on knowledge about environmental exposures and disease.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2007
  • Length: 04:19
Nanotech Nervousness
From: The Environment Report
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Nanotechnology is being used in all kinds of products with little government regulation.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 18, 2007
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
QUEST Sniffing Out Indoor Air Pollution
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Indoor air pollution can be far more harmful than what you breathe outside

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
QUEST Relaxing the Rules on Toxics Reporting
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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The nation-wide Toxics Release Inventory tracks industrial releases of chemicals into the air, water and soil. Recently, the EPA has suggested two ...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
After Oil
From: 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
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When we look at all the things that made America what it is, It's fair to say that for the last hundred years or so, America has been shaped, more ...

Bought by KZYX, WILL, Marfa Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2007
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
Trash into Cash
From: Charles Lane
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story of Riverhead, New York, a community that's trying to turn its closed landfill into marketable resources

  • Added: Dec 18, 2006
  • Length: 04:54
Preserving Classic Turkeys
From: The Environment Report
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Farmers are raising 'heritage' turkeys to preserve DNA

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 20, 2006
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 2
100 Mile Meal: A Homegrown Thanksgiving
From: The Environment Report
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A reporter's attempt to buy all of the ingredients in his Thanksgiving meal from sources within 100 miles, right down to the salt.

Bought by PRX Remix, KISU, Delta College Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KZYX and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2006
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 30
American Chestnuts Roasting Again?
From: The Environment Report
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Saving the American Chestnut

  • Added: Nov 17, 2006
  • Length: 04:51
Glut of Ethanol By-products Coming
From: The Environment Report
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More corn ethanol means more by-products such as corn mash.

Bought by KLCC and WVTF


  • Added: Jul 06, 2006
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 2
Wily Coyotes in the City
From: The Environment Report
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Coyotes are adapting to the city and preying on the animals they find there.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2006
  • Length: 04:22
Insurance Rates and Urban Sprawl
From: The Environment Report
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Higher insurance rates in urban areas are a factor in driving people to the suburbs.

Bought by WVTF


  • Added: Jun 21, 2006
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
Citizens Demand Gas Drilling Accountability
From: KRCC-FM
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In the midst of a natural gas drilling boom, Colorado citizens say state regulators aren't payng attention to enviromental concerns.

Bought by KOTO


  • Added: Mar 08, 2006
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 1
Your Light Bulbs Waste Energy
From: The Environment Report
Series: Your Choice; Your Planet series
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Your incandescent light bulbs waste 95-percent of the energy they use.

Bought by KVNF, Central Florida Public Media, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Connecticut Public (WNPR), and American Independence Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2005
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 5