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The Price of Rice
From: Outer Voices
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The price of rice is the price of life in Vietnam: the country is now the second largest exporter of rice in the world. But one out of every seven ...

Bought by KUER, KFOK-LPFM, KZYX, WRPI, KQED and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2009
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 14
Rhubarb: The Daffodil of the Vegetable Garden
From: Muriel Murch
Series: From Field to Fork
Caption: Rhubarb Emerging, Credit: Muriel Murch
Rhubarb: The daffodil of the vegetable garden. The earliest of spring fruits it is tart yet fresh. Full of colour and flavour. Follow this harvest ...

  • Added: May 03, 2009
  • Length: 12:15
Living Planet_12042008
From: Laura Spurway
Series: Living Planet
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Environment Matters Around the World

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KUPR low power FM, KWIT, KRZA, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 9
Oyster Larvae Dying Off at Alarming Rates
From: KUOW
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The oyster industry in the Pacific Northwest could be facing serious trouble.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2008
  • Length: 05:16
Merrimack River Part 1: Winning the Right to Pollute
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Merrimack River
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In the 19th century, legal battles over the Merrimack River helped define the modern corporation we see today

  • Added: Jul 26, 2008
  • Length: 06:57
Blue Highways #2: Energy Frontiers
From: Eric Mack
Series: Blue Highways
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This on-the-road magazine special looks at our sources of energy - present and future - beginning with our Virginia producer who traces her househo...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 09, 2008
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 2
Working on the Duwamish
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Life on the Duwamish: Rediscovering Seattle's Dirty South
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Life on the Duwamish, Segment 4

  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 08:49
How to Eat a Low-Carbon Diet
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Is local food necessarily low-carbon?

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KVNF, KGOU, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2008
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 4
Getting Full For Free: Dumpster Diving in the D
From: Zak Rosen
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Detroiter Jean Wilson takes us to one of her favorite organic markets. Well, actually, to a dumpster behind the market .

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, EconomyBeat Podcast, and KRUA


  • Added: Apr 11, 2008
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 4
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
Sabine Refuge Becomes Industrial Landfill
From: Pauline Bartolone
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A news feature about the environmental impact of Hurricane Rita

  • Added: Nov 04, 2007
  • Length: 04:22
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
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
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
Sprawling of America
From: The Environment Report
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Hour-long documentary on the costs and causes of urban sprawl.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WRPI, KXOT Public Radio, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2007
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 18
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
Roosters vs. Developers
From: Adam Allington
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A Rooster becomes an anti-development icon in northern Michigan

  • Added: Jun 27, 2006
  • Length: 04:05
Marine Harvest
From: KUOW
Series: Food for Thought: Farmed Salmon and the Future
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A look at a fish farm opened after a moratorium was lifted.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 06, 2006
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bioprospecting in Chiapas
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
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Traditional Mexican healers have stopped "bioprospecting projects of foreign pharmaceutical companies.

Bought by KSUT, KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, WAER Syracuse, NY, Here and Now and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 6
Roads on the Isthmus
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
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Improved roads were supposed to be a side-benefit of NAFTA, but some poor Mexicans are convinced that highways won't improve their lives.

Bought by KUNM and Here and Now


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 2
Corn in Oaxaca
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
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US corn imports in Mexico are making it hard for traditional farmers to maintain precious biodiversity.

Bought by KSUT, KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, and Here and Now


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 4
Timber in Durango
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
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Community-owned forests in Mexico are tapping into the demand for eco-friendly wood -- at least for now.

Bought by KUNM, Here and Now, and WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 3
Mangroves on the Yucatan
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
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Mexico is trying to balance its lucrative tourism industry with the need to protect fragile coastal ecosystems.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, Here and Now, and WYSO


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 4