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An Interview with Marjane Ambler
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Marjane Ambler talks about and reads from 'Yellowstone Has Teeth: A memoir of living year-round in the world's first national park.'

Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Christine Byl - 283
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Christine Byl talks about her memoir, Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods, which describes her experiences working on trail c...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, WCWP and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Conquest: Sexual Violence and Native American Genocide
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Native American women experience the highest rates of violence of any other group in the United States. One in three native women have been victims...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 24, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Green For All: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
Political opponents of the green movement have been depressingly successful not only in attacking the facts that underpin the struggle, but in knoc...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2013
  • Length: 29:30
The Art of Joni Finnegan
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with Joni Finnegan, a southeast Minnesota artist with a deep appreciation and love of nature. Joni creates "e...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 21:16
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Maxine Kumin
From: New Letters on the Air
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Our SAVE AMERICA'S TREASURES selection this month features a 2001 public reading by Maxine Kumin, who shares poetry on a a variety of topics from b...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Penelope Jagessar Chaffer Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Women’s bodies serve as our children’s “first environments,” which is why food quality and safety are so important for pregnant and lactating women...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Beautiful Business
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Judy Wicks
Judy Wicks founded the White dog Café on the first floor of her house in West Philadelphia. After helping to save her block from demolition, Judy g...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
You Too May Be a Naturalist
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Deborah Edelman, Adina Merenlender, co-authors, with Greg de Nevers of "The California Naturalist Handbook."

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
20,000 Crows in Tokyo
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with filmmaker Kristine Samuelson, co-creator of the documentary, “Tokyo Waka: A City Poem” about the 20,000 crows that inhabi...

  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Women Rising #22: International Anti-Nuclear Activists (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Anti-nuclear demonstration in front of Japanese Diet , Credit: Matthias Lambrecht
For International Women’s Day and the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster listen again as three prominent female activists tell their stor...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women Rising #22: International Anti-Nuclear Activists
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Anti-nuclear demonstration in front of Japanese Diet, Credit: Matthias Lambrecht
With nuclear power back on the agenda, three prominent female activists tell their stories: Kaori Izumi was part of the grassroots campaign to shu...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, WXDU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Food Sleuth Radio, Maryn McKenna Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Join Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her conversation with superbug sleuth, Maryn McKenna. An investigative journalist and author, ...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Good Jobs, Clean Environment: Both or Neither
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 12
Caption: Roxanne Brown, Credit: Jennifer Esperanza (c)
The emerging green economy promises to provide large-scale job creation while healing the Earth and building the middle class.

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio, KKRN, KFCF FM, and WDSE


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 4
Population Control or Population Justice?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Bangledeshi woman and child, Credit: Flickr user: nomanson
Shrinking the world’s population is one way to curb global warming, according to some environmentalists. To make that happen, women need more contr...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
A Fallen Tree Ruptures Cliff and Damages a Creek: Watershed Restoration Repairs It
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Watershed restoration is the topic of this week’s Radio Curious. Host and Producer Barry Vogel speaks with volunteers at Gibson Creek in Ukiah, Cal...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
They Don’t Call Her Mother Earth for Nothing: Women Re-imagining the World-Hour Long Version
From: Bioneers
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Transformational women leaders are restoring societal balance by showing us how to reconnect relationships - not only among people - but between pe...

Bought by WJCT, WRVO Public Media, KUER, WUFT, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 26
The Toxic Truth About Nail Salons (encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Uyen Nguyen, owner of Isabella Nail Bar, Credit: Pauline Bartolone
We take a look at the health impacts of chemical exposure in nail salons, the shoddy regulation of cosmetics, and the movement towards greener nail...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
History of the Mendocino Environmental Center
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Betty Ball, co-founder of the Mendocino Environmental Center in Ukiah, Ca. They discuss the movements to protect Northern...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
Women Who Wouldn't Listen: Wangari Maathai and Frances Moore Lappe
From: A World of Possibilities
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Two lives spent breaking the mold of both traditional and feminist perspectives are recounted in candid conversation, each with a focused sense of ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WZEN.org, KREV-LP, KUOW, WHRV and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 7
Natalia Allen: Social Responsibility With Style
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Natalia Allen
What are you wearing right now? Tube socks from China? A Patagonia fleece? A pair of pants made from hemp? Most people probably don’t think that mu...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with NEA Heritage Fellow, Mary Jackson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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NEA National Heritage fellow Mary Jackson talks about the art and tradition of sweetgrass basketmaking.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 22:53
  • Purchases: 1
All Love Begins with Seeing: Poetry and Justice for All
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 11
Caption: Shailja Patel
Shailja Patel’s unique artistry is a provocative global mash-up of genres.

Bought by WCPN and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
A NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: DR. HELEN CALDICOTT
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Dr. Helen Caldicott describes how the nuclear disasters that began in Japan on March 11, 2011, with the massive 9.0 point earthquake and resulting ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
The Next Wave of Women and Power: Cultivating Women's Leadership
From: Bioneers
Caption: Rha Goddess
Young women across the U.S. are stepping boldly into their power. From the heart of Native American and urban communities, this generation of engag...

Bought by KPVL, KCMJ Community Radio, WLPR , and KSKQ


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 4