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"Is Rosemary an Insect repelling plant?!?" Mike McGrath has the answer on the Question of the Week! And as always, your fabulous Phone Calls!!
- Added: May 15, 2019
- Length: 54:59
Mike McGrath excitedly recites the Question of The Week Special Book Series; "The Secret Origins of Lawns, Pesticide, & the American Forest Canopy!...
- Added: Apr 30, 2019
- Length: 54:59
Garden Guru Mike McGrath highlights INTERNATIONAL COMPOST AWARENESS WEEK with 2 special guests! And also highlights your FABULOUS Phone calls!!
- Added: Apr 17, 2019
- Length: 54:59
Food webs describe who eats whom in an ecological community. In the aquatic food web, humans feed down the food chain, consuming lesser and lesser ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 05:27
Mike McGrath welcomes Sebastian Kretschmer of the United Nations as our special guest this week to talk about SUSTAINABLE Gardening systems around...
- Added: Apr 08, 2019
- Length: 54:59
Aquaculture has long been a controversial industry fraught with conflict: waste and feed pollution, use of antibiotics, escape of genetically modif...
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 05:08
China is the world's largest consumer, producer, and exporter of every fish species caught by their vast industrial fishing fleet, at a rate on tra...
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 05:27
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss two ideas--floating farms and saltwater agriculture--that are using ocean and renewable resources t...
- Added: Jan 31, 2017
- Length: 04:40
The global water crisis and the prospects for future water resources is forcing adjustments for how we measure the water that is used, how it is va...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 05:19
Because of persistent drought and water crises due to unsustainable practices, California is facing many challenges to its very existence. It is wa...
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 05:23
"Virtual water" is used to produce everything that we incorporate into our lives each day but is not listed on labels or calculated into price. Whe...
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 05:19
As the world population has grown, the demand for food has increased, technologies for more efficient harvest have evolved, and our natural systems...
- Added: Dec 29, 2014
- Length: 05:46
An article published by The Guardian in October provides a stark exposé of one of the largest Chinese suppliers of premium tuna to the Japanese mar...
- Added: Nov 24, 2014
- Length: 05:16
Fish supplies are being rapidly depleted due to overfishing, especially in the deep ocean outside of national jurisdiction. The EU has developed ac...
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 05:20
In-vessel digester technology converts food scraps and other organics into rich compost quickly and efficiently, with the possibility of revitalizi...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 02:31
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 02:08
In the first of a series of essays, Robert Saxton reflects on perspective and some of the unique characteristics of living in northern Minnesota. I...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 04:03
- Purchases: 2
Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an ind...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, and WRPI
- Added: Nov 07, 2011
- Length: 55:01
- Purchases: 4
Two lives spent breaking the mold of both traditional and feminist perspectives are recounted in candid conversation, each with a focused sense of ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WZEN.org, KREV-LP, KUOW, WHRV and more
- Added: Oct 31, 2011
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 7
"I have my own version of the Golden Rule - Do unto others as Barbara Kingsolver would do unto you."
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 1
Meet the energetic personality behind a small Connecticut dairy farm, take a tour of a corn maze, and find out what it takes to sell local milk in ...
Bought by KVSC, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, KCBX, KUT, Remix Radio and more
- Added: Nov 04, 2009
- Length: 07:48
- Purchases: 7
Proposal by PETA to replace cows' milk with mothers' milk makes Ian squirmy.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 02:07
Backyard chicken farmers give a guided tour of their coops.
Bought by WTIP, New Hampshire Public Radio, The Nature Podcast, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 06, 2008
- Length: 05:35
- Purchases: 4
Feeding our hunger for connection
- Added: Aug 20, 2007
- Length: 55:01
- Purchases: 2
A commentary on the Bush administration's successful attempt to allow U.S. growers to continue using methyl bromide, the highly toxic pesticide ban...
- Added: Nov 18, 2006
- Length: 02:54