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The Beat : Mike Forbes - "Fall Lake"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:04
The Beat : Mary Finch - "Let Me Enter Into Your Dwelling"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 01:41
The Beat : LouAnn Shepard Muhm - "Shoveling Out"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:38
The Beat : Cheryl Wilke - "SeaCrow"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Cheryl Wilke was born and raised on the prairie in small town central Minnesota. She's been published in The Talking Stick, Lake Region Review, and...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
The Beat : John Dallas - "As I Was Trying to Say"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
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Jon Dallas is a poet living in Chisholm, Minnesota. Jon's poetry has appeared in the New Orleans Review, Green Mountain Review, Antigonish Review, ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:13
The Beat : Aaron Wenger - "Winter Song"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Aaron Wenger is a retired educator. He is an engineer that became an educator. He is KAXE's staff physicist, and a poet. A daily reminder that, in ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:16
The Beat : Yaya Fredrickson - "Spawn"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Yahya Fredrickson got his undergraduate degree from Moorehead State University, his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, and his...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:44
The Beat: Ann Niedringhaus - "Vigils"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Ann Niedringhaus is a Duluth poet who has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She belongs to a Duluth writers group that is currentl...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
The Beat: Doris Stengel - "Recycling"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
The Beat: Athena Kildegaard - "On Juggler Lake"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Poet Athena Kildeagard, a University of Minnesota - Morris lecturer, looks deeply and metaphorically at a Blue Herring's stop in the poem "On Juggl...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaiming the Holidays
From: Humankind
Caption: Annie Leonard - "The Story of Stuff'"
This special profiles people from different backgrounds who seek to get past the consumer frenzy of the December holidays, and to focus more on aut...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Nevada Public Radio, Prairie Public, WRIR, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 29
Natural Magic: The Earth Hospitality Enterprise
From: Bioneers
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"Natural Magic" is a new one-hour special from Bioneers Radio that explores the time-tested processes, relationships and recipes that have allowed ...

Bought by WZEN.org, KQED, WNIJ, and KWMR


  • Added: Sep 08, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Humankind: Passengers (Hour Two)
From: Humankind
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With federal support for public transit hanging in the balance, this sound-rich series (two one-hour documentaries) examines how our personal trans...

Bought by WCPN, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio, KUT, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Humankind: Passengers (Hour One)
From: Humankind
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With transportation jobs on the line, this sound-rich series (two one-hour documentaries) examines how our personal transportation choices - privat...

Bought by KVSC, WCPN, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
Aldo Leopold and the Emerging Land Ethic (59:00 / 54:00 - Free Program)
From: Jack Loeffler
Caption: Aldo Leopold, Credit: Aldo Leopold Foundation
A celebration of the life Aldo Leopold, the man who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” in 1949, and introduced Ethics as the fundamental concept that sh...

Bought by KZYX, WRGY, KUPR low power FM, WMUU-LP, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
Wireless Research
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Scientist constructs remote wireless network for environmenal researchers.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2007
  • Length: 09:59
European Clean Coal
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Swedish company designs clean coal powereed plant

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Oct 12, 2007
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
small world/small wonders
From: Laurel Collins
Caption: PRX default Piece image
community responses to tamarisk beetle infestation

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: Oct 11, 2007
  • Length: 20:12
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Taming the Salt Monster
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The great swathes of the Western Australian wheatbelt were created a century ago when 1000 acres of bush were burned a day and the land became the ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, WRPI, KXOT Public Radio, WYSO and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 6
PART 3: LIVESTOCK FARMS GET BIG
From: The Environment Report
Series: Pollution in the Heartland
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The environmental and social costs of large livestock farms

  • Added: Aug 09, 2006
  • Length: 04:19
Journey
From: Western Folklife Center Media
Series: What's in a Song
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Geraldine Barney sings about how she drew strength from the teachings of her Navajo elders when she left the reservation to attend music school in ...

Bought by KSUT


  • Added: Mar 01, 2006
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 1
Rip, Rift, and Panic: Earthquake Stories of Life and Death Along the Faultlines
From: Susan Stone
Caption: San Francisco, Marina district, October 17, 1989
Earthquake stories from around the Pacific Rim

Bought by KPIK-LP, WUAL, KMXT, KWMR, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 29:22
  • Purchases: 11
The last wild place
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Wildlife cinemaphotographer Steve Kroschel tells us how his career began, his move to Alaska and about the wild creatures that share his home and l...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 19:34