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From protesting turkey at Thanksgiving, to making a career helping animals, the President and CEO of the Humane Society talks to Michael about how ...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2016
  • Length: 49:50
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An exploration of the work being done in Washington State's Skagit Valley to better understand and prepare for the effects of a changing climate.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 54:17
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Hide Erdrich is an author of poetry and recently, a cookbook entitled Original Local: Indigenous Foods Stories and Recipes from the Upper Midwest. ...

  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 50:26
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on how a small town fought against pollution and the polluters. -Marc Edwards who helped uncover the water...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
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The best selling author and speaker makes the big subjects like global warming and unfettered capitalism understandable and simple and even offers ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:49
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Trying to save humanity by mining asteroids.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 22:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Jose Gonzalez released his 3rd full length, Vestiges and Claws, earlier this year, showcasing a more stripped down sound for the Swedish songwriter...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, KHNS, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Geof Syphers, Sonoma Clean Power; Dawn Weisz, Marin Clean Energy; host Greg Dallton
A growing number of Californians are opting for clean electricity to run their TVs and toasters. But how much do we know about where our power rea...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dan Fernandez with a fog-catcher in Santa Cruz. Writer Andrew Leonard sees in fog-catchers a real-world analog to the fictional dew-catchers of Dune., Credit: Jeremy Dalmas
The sci-fi epic of "Dune" takes place on a desert planet. There, the water in even a single tear is precious. Can Dune offer lessons for the drough...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 20:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Music Street in New Orleans
A look back at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, 15 years later, to hear how some of New Orleans' best-loved musicians endured - and why. Gwen T...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 51:58
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This Earth Day, we’re taking the planet’s pulse—and our own. What are the "dragons of inaction" that keep us from changing our behaviors, even if w...

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WSKG, KMUD, CHSR-FM 97.9, KWIT and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 11
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This Earth Day, we’re taking the planet’s pulse—and our own. What are our "dragons of inaction" that keep us from changing our behaviors, even if w...

Bought by WXDU, KVSC, WKCC, KRDP, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Dr. Alan Eaton checks deer registration stations for the Black Legged Tick, Credit: Dr. Alan Eaton
Have you ever found a tick on you after a day in the field or deep woods? Most of us have and many hunters have been bitten by ticks. Ticks carry s...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2015
  • Length: 01:35:39
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Two stories about elephants, one from Carol Buckley, co-founder of the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, and one from author Susan Chernak McElroy (...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The Mount Polley taililngs pond breach happened a couple of weeks after Liz returned from the Action Camp. She speaks to author Arno Kopecky about ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 18:40
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Three activists explain their involvement at the annual Action Camp at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 24:43
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Dave Ages led construction of an insulated bunkhouse to allow volunteers to live year-round at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade. He talked to Liz ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 15:28
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Geoff Johnson explains the construction of a permaculture garden for a food source at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 10:28
Caption: Jason deCaires Taylor
A one-of-a-kind blend of art, nature, and conservaton, Jason deCaires Taylor provides a dazzling photographic tour through his under ocean sculptur...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 12:07
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For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Episode sixty-nine has arrived in a totally cybernetic way! Join us as we speak with Vicki Brown, a Ph.D. in Research Methodology and a rockin’ vio...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
Caption: Arbor Lodge, Credit: Thomas Wilmer
Arbor Day was born in Nebraska back in the 1870's. Come along and discover the world of trees as we visit with key players at Arbor Day Foundation ...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 12:41
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A discussion on the oil company BP and how their risk taking and corporate culture contributed to the disaster on April 20, 2010.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
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Noise pollution is a growing problem. Effecting everything from the lives of people living under airplane flight paths, to marine life. On this edi...

Bought by WFHB and WXDU


  • Added: Mar 30, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In December 2012, a two-ton instrument built to detect cosmic rays ascended into the Antarctic sky, carried by a balloon the size of a football fie...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 14:00