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Nature Deficit Disorder
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember the days when kids hiked into the woods? Caught tadpoles in a stream, and played tag on the playground? Well, those days are fading fast.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
SeaWomen
From: Sofia Saldanha
Series: The Wapping Project Podcast
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On Jeju island in the North Pacific a community of women dive for pearls and food. They've been doing this for centuries. On this podcast Mikhail K...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 1
LAST CALL AT THE OASIS -- Jessica Yu interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Jessica Yu, San Francisco, CA 5/1/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Filmmaker Jessica Yu talks water, spin, and denial.

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 09:58
Fish Food
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Aw, c'mon. Building a lakeside getaway...hurts fish? That sounds...fishy.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Irrawaddy Dolphins
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Endangered species stories sometimes end happily. Take Southeast Asia's critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphin, also called the Mekong River dolphin.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND -- Filmmaker Briar March
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Briar March, San Francisco, CA 3/9/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Briar March talks climate change, human nature, and cultural survival.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 20:26
IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT -- Filmmaker Marshall Curry interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Marshall Curry, San Francisco, CA 12/19/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Oscar(tm)-nominee Marshall Curry talks objectivity, comparative religion, and being fair.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2012
  • Length: 15:35
Chestnuts Return to America
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Chestnuts in chestnut burrs, Credit: Guy Hand
After a blight killed most of America's chestnut trees back in the 1930s and 40s, a new industry has sprouted up using new varieties of blight-resi...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, and KISU


  • Added: Dec 17, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
Quince: A Path to the Past
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Quince, Credit: Guy Hand
Modern science acknowledges the unique power of taste and aroma to teleport us back in time. It’s simply the way our brains are wired. For Boisean ...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KLCC, KUOW and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
The luxury of living in a tiny house
From: KALW
Caption: Jay Shafer, owner of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, in front of one of his homes.
From a young age, many of us dream of the houses we’ll own. But those dreams don’t get into the reality of how much houses cost. These days, buying...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Room for Peace
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Bringing countries together to protect our natural environment looks good on paper. Real good, in fact.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
MONEYBALL -- Jonah Hill
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Jonah Hill, San Francisco, CA 9/16/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jonah Hill talks comedy, drama, and animation.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2011
  • Length: 11:53
Moss Landing State Park’s quiet end
From: KALW
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One of California’s greatest assets is its natural environment. Nearly every landscape imaginable is within a day’s trip from here. To the east you...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:14
Being Black and Green: African-Americans & the Environment
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Red, Bike & Green's inaugural ride in April 2010, Credit: Red, Bike & Green
African-Americans are helping to lead the environmental movement. We take you to a resettlement community in North Carolina, sustainable farms in W...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
Biomimicry
From: Sarah Lilley
Caption: Nautilus
Designers, engineers and corporations around the world have begun seriously to study Evolution's most successful problem-solving strategies in natu...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 3
At the Edge of the Gulf, Dulac Re-learns Resilience
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Caption: Kirby Verret recalls when Dulac had more land and more people., Credit: Barry Yeoman
The Houma Indians and Cajuns who live in in this Terrebonne Parish fishing village have watched its population drop by more than 50 percent since 1...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 11:05
  • Purchases: 1
Fun with Foraging: Finding food in the mountains of Idaho
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Foraged foods from the mountains of Idaho, Credit: Guy Hand
Foraging fell out of favor a few thousand years ago—thanks to that invention called agriculture—but not everybody abandoned the impulse to forage. ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Jun 25, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Radical Idea: Grow your own farm-fresh wardrobe
From: KALW
Caption: Rebecca Burgess has pledged to wear clothes made completely within 150 miles from her home
Few of us know exactly what goes into making our clothes – the chemicals, fibers, and dyes. But one Bay Area woman is determined to take localism t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 08, 2011
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 2
Where the Buffalo Roam
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Home, home on the range only covers 20 percent of what it used to. That’s worldwide, according to a new study from the World Wildlife Fund. Human e...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: May 30, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Gospel of Spring Greens
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Tim Sommer of Purple Sage Farms, Credit: Guy Hand
A look at the varied world of spring greens.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, and KISU


  • Added: May 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Nature Deficit Disorder
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember the days when kids hiked into the woods? Caught tadpoles in a stream, and played tag on the playground? Well, those days are fading fast.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
MA-193 Food: What's Eating Me
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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For over a century, U.S. farmers have strived for quantity of food. Quality, though, is at least as important.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:26
Chain of Missing Links
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
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First grade students from New Orleans react to the oil spill tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Cold Freezin Night (Inverse Winter)
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
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In Tucson, Arizona, summer is like winter in Canada.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
Rotifer Diversity
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Testudinella patina, Credit: T. Schröder, R.L. Wallace, E. Walsh
Every pristine spring, mucky cattle tank, and rain-filled hueco in the Chihuahuan Desert is home to an exceptionally diverse array of microscopic a...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1