PRX - Pieces for Topic: Environment

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Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Toronto is turning food waste into fuel to power garbage trucks.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Change your focus, change your world.
Living concrete: This biological material has multiple layers that allow for the growth of plants on the outside of a building, without sacrificin...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Oregon’s refillable beer bottle program started out small with just seven craft breweries participating. But the idea is catching on and these recy...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The Ooho! water packet is a completely edible pouch of water made from seaweed.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Tackling the challenges of overfishing, while also working towards stalling the effects of climate change.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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LEGO corporation goes green in many ways.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Lyn's giant metal cactus towers over his plant nursery., Credit: Mark Bramhill, Houston, 2016.
Meet Lyn Rathburn: folk artist and cactus mogul.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 28, 2017
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Organic food is becoming trendy, and you’ll be seeing more of it at your supermarket, it’ll probably be cheaper too.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Can mid-career professionals realistically switch to "green" careers? One certainly did.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Not satisfied to just talk the talk, the World Conservation Union is planning to walk the walk when it comes to its own environmental impact.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Let's talk about high fashion and Target, the big box store. The two seemingly opposites converged, recently, largely because of the environmentall...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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What's a good thing to sink your money into these days? Try bogs.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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The bacterium Thermus aqaticus, discovered in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, made some people rich...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
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Benjamin Franklin said 'nothing is certain except death and taxes.' Well, today you can at least reduce your taxes...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
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Next time you travel, forget renting that gas-guzzler. A few rental car companies are offering hybrids and cars that run on biodiesel.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
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Organic food is becoming trendy, and you?ll be seeing more of it at your supermarket, it?ll probably be cheaper to.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
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Well, today, the inventive folks at Adobe Systems are putting their clever minds to work for the environment.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
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Trading carbon credits, or "cap and trade," is a promising free-market solution.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Today, you can recharge many gadgets with solar power.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
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Wind is the world's fastest-growing energy source, with an average annual growth rate of 29 percent over the last 10 years. Wind-driven turbines co...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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"Bowling for Rhinos?" Who came up with that idea? But believe it or not, American bowlers have raised more than two million dollars to protect cri...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
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Many economists - and some environmentalists - see greed as the potential engine of an environmental revolution.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Solar power's been around for a long time, and while it's gotten some government support, it's never enjoyed the huge subsidies that fossil fuels h...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Though many companies already recycle their office paper, the truly paperless office is still a rarity. With some dedication, though, there are ple...

Bought by KMXT, KOSU, and WEPS


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3