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210827: Should We Have Children in a Climate Emergency?, 8/27/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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This summer, the climate crisis seems to be unfolding faster than ever before — with catastrophic floods, huge wildfires, and killer heat. It’s bec...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
210423: Living with Climate Disruption, 4/23/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The impacts of climate change may come fast or slow. A wildfire amplified by drought may rip through a town in a matter of hours, or rising seas ma...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
The Hawaii Wildlife Fund and Maui’s Kai Kanani Luxury Catamaran Unite for the Health of our Oceans
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Hawaii Wildlife Fund and Maui’s Kai Kanani Luxury Catamaran Unite for the Health of our Oceans. Hannah Bernard and David Taylor talk Harmony, H...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 27:57
  • Purchases: 1
Contiguous (episode 8)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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In the season one finale of Growing Old, travel forward to the year 2070, and explore the contiguous forest of Seattle’s future. Visit Eagle Villag...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 2
Take Care (Monthly) #14
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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The theme of this episode is, "Growing up."

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 52:00
Take Care (Monthly) #13
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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The theme of this episode is, "Climate change and health".

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 52:00
Why Rural, Why Now?
From: Alan Wartes
Series: The Flyovers
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This special episode of The Flyovers was recorded live at The Wright: Something Independent — an annual conference in Golden, Colorado designed to ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:10
  • Purchases: 1
YBYG46: You Bet Your Garden # 46 Is it too late for pepper plants?, 8/15/2019
From: You Bet Your Garden
Series: You Bet Your Garden
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On this episode of YBYG, our host Mike McGrath reveals why peppers are perhaps the only “plants of summer” that will accept such tender mercies thi...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
YBYG37: You Bet Your Garden # 37, 6/13/2019
From: You Bet Your Garden
Series: You Bet Your Garden
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This week Mike McGrath interviews Lorraine Ballato, Author of "Success With Hydrangeas: A Gardener's Guide"!! And as always, guides your fabulous ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
Water is Life: Tradition and transition in the Navajo Nation
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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About 30% of residents of the Navajo Nation don't have access to running water, and even for those who do, much of the water is contaminated with u...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WDBM


  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 21:55
  • Purchases: 2
The Cost of Enjoying National Parks
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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Americans love their national parks. But the agency that oversees them, the National Park Service, is facing budget cuts. And, worse, they're $12 b...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 22:00
Saving the Last Ocean
From: Generation Anthropocene
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We hear a lot in the news about the Antarctic ice sheet melting – but what else threatens a place so cold, so remote, and so seemingly barren? In t...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 21:32
Pulitzer100: Stories in Science (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: :30
Pulitzer100: Stories in Science (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 11
Pulitzer100: Stories in Science (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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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, WLPR , KRZA, KMUN, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 10
Love of Place, A Documentary
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, we bring you our coverage of Frozen River Film Festival, 2017. Bill Wolverton is the main subject of the film, "Love o...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 27:42
My Life As A Wild Turkey (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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- Becoming a wild turkey mother - Ninja moves of the airborne turkey - Rare turkey types become farmers' favourite

Bought by WGCU, WHFR, WJCT, KTOO, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 17
A Recipe is a Story: Heid E. Erdrich
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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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
Mystery At The Lake
From: Trace Elements
Series: Trace Elements
Caption: Lake Oneida, Credit: National Environmental Education Foundation/Flickr
In the 1970s, a geochemist and a biologist banded together to solve a mystery at Lake Oneida in upstate New York. What they found is changing the w...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 14:03
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer 100: Stories in Science (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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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
The Embedded Artist Tries Fly Tying
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Alauna Yust is the producer of Area Voices and our very own Embedded Artist. Alauna hangs out with fine and folk art groups around Bemidji and trie...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 07:44
Mayor John Hamilton Discusses Contaminates in the Water Supply
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Water supply in Bloomington and its contaminates are discussed.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2016
  • Length: 08:32
"To Save California, Read Dune." With Andrew Leonard
From: David Schulman
Series: NAUTILUS podcast from PRX
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
700 Fathoms under the Sea
From: David Schulman
Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel
Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
Sharing and Growing - The Collaborative Consumption Movement
From: Nancy Lin
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The explosive growth of online communities for sharing, swapping, trading and lending is reinventing the way that we consume and build relationship...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 42:10