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Hard Cider Makes a Comeback
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Hard apple cider, Credit: Guy Hand
Hard apple cider, once nearly forgotten, is enjoying a national comeback. In the Northwest, Washington and Oregon are becoming big producers. Ida...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Jan 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Coyotes
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Writer J. Frank Dobie wished he could be sung to sleep and woken by a coyote chorus every day. But not everyone regards coyotes so amiably. Who are...

Bought by WTIP and KENW


  • Added: Jan 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
If Weather Were All That Mattered
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Idaho greenhouses in winter, Credit: Guy Hand
How greenhouse could revolutionize the availability of local food in winter.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 08, 2011
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Cedar Waxwings
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Winter brings hordes of handsome cedar waxwings to our region, where they’ll throng our junipers and devour every berry they can find. What makes t...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pine Dining
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Pine trees are much more than symbols of Christmas and sources of timber. They serve up a smorgasbord for many wild animals and insects. Who dines ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Creosote Medicine
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: A creosote flower., Credit: Megan Wilde
Creosote’s therapeutic applications would make any biotech CEO green with envy. What are this desert shrub’s medicinal properties? And why is it su...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Coping with Aridity
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Horned lizards get water from the ants they eat., Credit: Cathryn Hoyt
Animals have adapted to surviving with little or no water during the Chihuahuan Desert's dry winter and spring. How do they do it?

Bought by KENW and KENW


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Think Globally, Act Non-Locally: Prayer, Healing and Fertility
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 5
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Can consciousness change the actual outside physical world at a distance?

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 1
All My Relations: Indigenous Vision
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 5
Caption: Chief Oren Lyons, Credit: Tim Porter
In these ecologically dangerous times, many call for a fundamental change of heart if we are to restore vital ecosystems.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 28:32
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
Close Encounters of the Biological Kind: Learning from the Locals
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 5
Caption: Janine Benyus, Credit: Tim Porter
Nature bats last, but more importantly, it's her playing field. Wouldn't it be wise to learn the ground rules and how to play by them?

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
The End of Sustainability: The Environment As a Human Right
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 4
Caption: Paul Hawken
A healthy environment is not just a biological issue, but also a fundamental human right.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2010
  • Length: 28:31
Indigeneity: Becoming Native, Staying Native
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 4
Caption: Jeannette Armstrong
What would life be like if we could hear the land ask us to be a certain way, a way that leads us and the Earth back to wholeness and health?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and WGDR


  • Added: Dec 15, 2010
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Returning to the Roundhouse: Revolution from the Heart of Woman
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 4
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The environment in developing countries of the South has often suffered most, and how these nations relate to the environment from here on is a mak...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2010
  • Length: 56:58
Restoring Life's Fabric: he Biological Bottom Line
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 4
Caption: David Suzuki, Credit: 4environmentnorth_creative_commons2
Is the economy the most important thing? Canadian geneticist, author, and television producer David Suzuki says the economy is just a subset of eco...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
The Art of Relationships: From Ecology to Healing
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 4
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Ecology is the superb art of interdependent relationships.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 28:29
Organic and Beyond: Toward the De-Industrialization of Agriculture
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 4
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The biology of farming is complex and requires attentiveness to nature's own ways of doing things and the interdependence of relationships.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
Ecological Design: The Architecture of Nature and Democracy
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 4
Caption: David Orr, Credit: Tim Porter
John Todd, an ecological designer in the field of biomimicry, imitates nature's evolutionary genius to serve human ends harmlessly, using nature's ...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 28:31
We Are the Land: The Compact of Kinship
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 6
Caption: Jeannette Armstrong
Most Americans agree that the environment must be protected. But what do we mean when we say "environment?" Native peoples say that our sense of co...

Bought by KQUA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Panhandle Community Radio, WRIR, WGDR and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Transforming Tragedy: Linking Personal with Planetary Healing
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 6
Caption: Michael Lerner, Credit: tikkun.org
As every person now carries a "body burden" of toxic chemicals, it's inescapably evident that what we do to our surroundings ends up back in our ce...

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 2
Mother Ocean: Every Breath We Take
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 6
Caption: Wallace J. Nichols
Mother Ocean, the very source of life, the basis of the planet's complex ecological balance and climate, today stands in dire peril.

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Clash of Civilizations: Liberation Ecology and the New Superpower
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 6
Caption: Paul Hawken
There is indeed a clash of civilizations today, between a sustainable civilization and a disposable one.

Bought by KQUA, Panhandle Community Radio, and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 3
Aligning Business with Biology: Breakthrough Eco-nomics
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 6
Caption: Amory Lovins, Credit: doenerg.blogspot.com
Bioneers are successfully employing the economics of nature to demonstrate how we can solve two of our most intractable environmental challenges: e...

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Surviving Climate Change: Plants, People and Place
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 6
Caption: John Mohawk, Credit: Doug Mason
How secure are a far-flung global economy - and our food supply - in a time of climate change?

Bought by KQUA, Panhandle Community Radio, WSKG, and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 4
Nature Heals All Wounds: Spirals, Seashells, and Molecular Architecture
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 6
Caption: Paul Anastas, Credit: heinzawards.net
In the burgeoning field of biomimicry, bioneers are designing a technological civilization that harmonizes with nature's operating instructions.

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 2

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