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RN Documentary: Noah's Raft: saving Madagascar's wildlife without the Ark
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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On-location documentary style report about Madagascar, its unique wildlife and efforts to conserve it.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTNA, and Internet Partnership Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Identification Day
From: Kate Hinds
Caption: PRX default Piece image
While the layperson might not be able to tell the difference between a bovine patella and a piece of a T-Rex, the experts at the American Museum of...

Bought by PRX Administrator and 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station


  • Added: Mar 03, 2006
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 2
The Secret Life of New York's Bees
From: Kate Hinds
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New York City has outlawed the practice of beekeeping, but local honey is in high demand. What's an apiarist to do? Keep hives on the sly, of cou...

Bought by WBEZ, The Nature Podcast, WFUV, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2006
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 4
New York's Playground Sprinklers
From: Kate Hinds
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In early spring, New York City begins readying its playground sprinker system for action. It takes months, but as the children of New York will a...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2006
  • Length: 04:50
Cyber Tracker
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Report on animal Cyber Tracker program inventor Louis Leibenberg.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2006
  • Length: 09:28
Eating Close to Home
From: Atlantic Public Media
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Bill McKibben decides to eat only food grown locally. In the winter. In Vermont.

Bought by PRX Remix, KZYX, KISU, KUT, KVNF and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2006
  • Length: 07:42
  • Purchases: 10
Sugar Cane Power Plants
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Barbados planners envision power plants run on sugar cane

  • Added: Jan 31, 2006
  • Length: 06:05
Kick the Holiday Junk Habit
From: Shana S. Weber, Ph.D.
Series: BioSphere
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ideas for slimming that holiday wasteline

  • Added: Dec 08, 2005
  • Length: 02:05
Winter Composting
From: Shana S. Weber, Ph.D.
Series: BioSphere
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Composting is possible even in a deep freeze

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 27, 2005
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Plastic Bags and Oil
From: Shana S. Weber, Ph.D.
Series: BioSphere
Caption: PRX default Piece image
They're made of oil??

  • Added: Nov 25, 2005
  • Length: 02:35
Railing over Train Smoke!
From: KSUT
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Train smoke plagues Durango, Colorado residents while feeding the town's economy.

Bought by KOTO and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Nov 03, 2005
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 2
Active Voices: Neville Williams- Chasing the Sun
From: Chris Goldstein
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Active Voices: Neville Willams - Chasing the Sun: Solar Adventures Around the World, we discuss bringing rural households in India a Solar Electrif...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2005
  • Length: 05:33
EuroQuest Segment: Aqua Alta: The Anti-Flooding Technology Fair
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus: Living With Water
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The world’s first international trade fair dealing with flood protection and disaster management was recently held in the German city of Munich. Ma...

Bought by KWCW


  • Added: Sep 22, 2005
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 1
Rocco from the Bronx
From: Adam Allington
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Rocco Migliorelli talks about farming in the Bronx during the 1930's, 40's and 50's

Bought by WFUV and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Aug 17, 2005
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 2
St. Paul Island Social Life
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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Anchorage's Kathryn Petros takes a look at the teen social life on St. Paul Island in the Pribilofs.

Bought by KUCB and KSUT


  • Added: May 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 2
March of the Salamanders
From: Adam Allington
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Every year the first spring rains rouse hibernating amphibians from their winter torpor. In Amherst, MA this time is punctuated by the annual Sala...

Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUOW, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Apr 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 5
Jimmy Carter Builds a Tree House
From: Marion Owen
Series: The UpBeet Gardener Series
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President Jimmy Carter builds daughter Amy an environmentally-friendly tree house on the White House grounds.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
Grease My Ride!
From: WAER Syracuse, NY
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Do It Yourself Veggie Cars and the Clear Visions Project

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Feb 07, 2005
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 1
Electricity: Paying the Price
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Many people don't think about where their electricity comes from but some, like Floyd Simpson, know all too well!

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WYSO, and Morehead State Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2005
  • Length: 08:02
  • Purchases: 3
Ask the Librarian: Who's got better eyesight -- the jumping spider or the hawk?
From: Jackson Braider
Series: Ask the Librarian
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
Among the Navajo - A Journey into the In Between
From: Egon Koch
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The Native American tribe is caught between their traditions and modern life.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KSUT, and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 05, 2004
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 3
Housing for South Africa's poor
From: David Barasoain
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How to house South Africa's poor.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2004
  • Length: 05:21
The Camera and Conservation
From: Guy Hand
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Does nature photography instill a true empathy for nature?

Bought by KUER, KXOT Public Radio, KRCC-FM, KVNF, The Nature Podcast and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2003
  • Length: 14:19
  • Purchases: 6
The Olive Rediscovered
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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Californians rediscover their olive groves.

Bought by KVNF, KZSC, and WYSO


  • Added: Dec 02, 2003
  • Length: 15:45
  • Purchases: 3

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