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Caption: Heading into the Ghost Section of the Wolf River, Credit: Candice Ludlow
Audio postcard with Keith Kirkland, an avid river geek, tells about an eerie night on the Ghost River.

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 02:46
Caption: Kenneth and Gaye Honeycutt
Kenneth Honeycutt tells his wife Gaye about witnessing the New London School Explosion of 1937.

Bought by WEZU, KMUD, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
  • Purchases: 3
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Ever wanted to go organic in your garden, but didn’t know how? Well, students in East Palo Alto, California, are learning. In fact, they really dig...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: May 30, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Podcast #40: Safe schools and education can reduce the impact of disasters

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 11:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Children congregate outside a school that serves as a temporary camp for those displaced by the cyclone, near the town of Kundangon in the south-western Irrawaddy Division. The children lost their homes, and much of the school was destroyed., Credit: UNICEF/NYHQ2008-0340/Dean
Podcast #39: The role of education in protecting children when disaster strikes

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 08:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Longue Vue Botantical Gardens in New Orleans Louisiana is trying to encourage local residents to plant native species in their yards at home. Plant...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:32
Caption: A view from the tent, Credit: Cari Corrigan
There are places in Antarctica so thick with meteorites that you can find them like a child would shells on the beach. Others plunge into the ice ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 2
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What are you doing this summer?

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and KLCC


  • Added: May 05, 2010
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Gary and Barb Kirkpatrick at the Mote Marine Lab in Sarasota, Florida., Credit: Lance Robson
Sometimes the ocean can be a threat to human health. Barb and Gary Kirkpatrick, a wife and husband scientist team, describe what they’re doing to n...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2009
  • Length: 09:10
Caption: John Delaney directs the Regional Scale Nodes ocean observatory program at the University of Washington, where he also serves as Professor of Oceanography., Credit: UWTV and the NEPTUNE Program
Welcome to the first episode of Ocean Gazing. We'll look at, listen to and touch the ocean to unpack its secrets. On this program, we’ll hear fro...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2009
  • Length: 07:20
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Kermit the Frog always said, “It’s not easy being green.” But like him, another group of actors has discovered it can be popular. Especially with c...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: May 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Sailing maneuver during the moment of Silence

  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:46
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Ever wanted to go organic in your garden, but didn’t know how? Well, students in East Palo Alto, California, are learning.

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Mar 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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A look at Free Geek, an organization that is giving ewaste a new life.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2009
  • Length: 13:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Gone are the swings, monkey bars and spiral slides. A new type of playground takes a more low-tech approach.

  • Added: Nov 25, 2008
  • Length: 04:53
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Re-use printer paper.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
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It's about the size of a small cat, but looks like a bizarre cross between a miniature antelope and an anteater. Give up?

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Plastic or Paper at a pot luck.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 04:00

  • Added: Aug 06, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
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One {....} of a captain. Kathy Broughton grew up in Birmingham Alabama but soon learned fishing from

Bought by WBHM


  • Added: Aug 01, 2008
  • Length: 11:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Unusual ways to give away old books.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
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Saving the puffins is a tough job. But folks in Maine miss the colorful little birds resembling miniature penguins that can fly.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Use water wisely, and we all benefit. Produce a film inspiring others to, and you could win thousands of dollars.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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On Survivor Island, everyone is out for themselves. On Conservation Island, everyone is out for the planet.

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Joshua Tree National Park struggles against global warming, pollution, and a flat budget.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2007
  • Length: 07:34