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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
Urban Homesteaders
From: Karen Brown
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A young Massachusetts family lives off the land -- in the middle of a crime-ridden inner-city.

Bought by KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, KTNA, New Hampshire Public Radio, The Nature Podcast and more


  • Added: May 26, 2006
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 6
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
Is the Price Right?
From: KUOW
Series: Food for Thought: Farmed Salmon and the Future
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Looking at the cost of purchasing farmed salmon versus wild salmon.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 06, 2006
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
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
Emerald Wilderness; Panama's Darien Gap
From: Lorne Matalon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Panama Fears Colombian Designs on the The Pan-American Highway

  • Added: Oct 21, 2005
  • Length: 05:53
Part Six: The Future of VegOil
From: Cynthia Shelton
Series: VegOil Fuel: the Unsung Alternative
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VegOil wrap up - Why aren't we all driving VegOil?

  • Added: Sep 13, 2005
  • Length: 05:29
Part Three: Regulating VegOil
From: Cynthia Shelton
Series: VegOil Fuel: the Unsung Alternative
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Legality of driving and selling VegOil as discussed by two industry players

  • Added: Sep 13, 2005
  • Length: 05:01
Part Four: Gathering and Filtering VegOil
From: Cynthia Shelton
Series: VegOil Fuel: the Unsung Alternative
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Public reaction to VegOil , How-To gather and filter VegOil

  • Added: Sep 13, 2005
  • Length: 05:25
Part Two: Driving VegOil
From: Cynthia Shelton
Series: VegOil Fuel: the Unsung Alternative
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Exploring the diesel difference, VegOil difficulties, gathering fuel on-the-fly

  • Added: Sep 13, 2005
  • Length: 05:11
Part One: Introduction to VegOil
From: Cynthia Shelton
Series: VegOil Fuel: the Unsung Alternative
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Introduction to the six-part series exploring straight vegetable oil (VegOil) as a fuel

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Aug 30, 2005
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 1
Post Environmentalism: The Next Wave
From: Meg O'Shaughnessy
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This panel discussion takes the pulse of the environmental community, Spring 2005.

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY and WYSO


  • Added: Apr 22, 2005
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
80 Meters
From: Jennifer Dunn
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Development tensions and forced relocation in rural southwestern China

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 25, 2005
  • Length: 12:34
  • Purchases: 2
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
Moving the Village
From: Gabriel Spitzer
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Climate change is displacing a thousand-year-old community.

Bought by KVSC, KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, The Nature Podcast, CKMO and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Me and My Monkey
From: Steven Tagle
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This long audio essay explores primate research and the conflict that exists between treating monkeys humanely and treating them like humans.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2005
  • Length: 18:25
Ask the Librarian: Who's got better eyesight -- the jumping spider or the hawk?
From: Jackson Braider
Series: Ask the Librarian
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A schoolbook claims jumping spiders have better eyesight than hawks: is that true?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WUAL


  • Added: Nov 12, 2004
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 2
No-Water Urinals
From: The Environment Report
Series: Your Choice; Your Planet series
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No flush, no water urinals make sense to stadiums, airports and universities.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2004
  • Length: 04:16
Brooklyn Oil Spill
From: Shia Levitt
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Shia Levitt looks at an oil spill from the 1950s has left millions of gallons of oil underneath the residential and commerical neighborhood of Gree...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1