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A New Year for Trees at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum
From: KALW
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Tu B’shevat is the New Year for Trees. It takes place on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, which is January or February, depending on the...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 1
Fukushima
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A tsunami, a country, a power plant.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 03:35
Culturology: Mary Strother's toned and hand painted photography
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Mary Strother discusses how she has evolved her artistic process and how she gathers her photography's subject matter. Her exhibit appear during Fe...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 2
154: The Challenge
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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As we enter into the new year, our thoughts turn to the strengths and weaknesses of the existing proposals and plans for future actions on behalf o...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 04:35
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
147: Citizens of the Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill talks about the W2O, the Subscription Service, and asks how we might connect and unite the c...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:51
Frac-Sand Mining and Winona County, Minnesota
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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On this edition of "Don't Cha Know" Jim Gurley stops by KQAL to talk about Frac-Sand Mining and what it has to do with Winona County, and Winona Mi...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 31:52
  • Purchases: 1
Empire of Corn: From Cornucopia to Corporate Commodity
From: A World of Possibilities
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Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an ind...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 4
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
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
U.S. Cultural Genocide: Winnemem Wintu Declare War
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Independence Day begs the question of what freedom and independence means. For Independence Day, Radio Curious brings you an interview with the Hea...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Tough Winter for Montana Antelope
From: Emilie Ritter Saunders
Caption: Antelope trying to move through deep snow , Credit: David Grubbs, Billings Gazette
Biologists estimate thousands of pronghorn antelope died in Montana over the long, harsh winter...thousands more are stranded at the Fort Peck Rese...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 04:11
Turtles of the Upper Mississippi Refuge and it's Watershed
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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On this episode of Don't Cha Know we feature Ed Lagace and Michael J Pappas as they talk to us about turtles of the Upper Mississippi Refuge and it...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 43:32
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
Watersheds as Commons
From: Jack Loeffler
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A radio series of 14 thirty-minute programs set in the American Southwest. This series includes voices of cowboys and Indians, scientists and Salt...

Bought by KSFR, KMUD, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 06, 2011
  • Length: 06:43:59
  • Purchases: 3
Sea Rise
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Rising sea levels, Credit: marineinsight.com
The oceans are slowly rising due to ice melt and the warming of the waters. And at least one east coast city has hired a Dutch firm to evaluate op...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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
How The Connected Community Paves The Way To Sustainability; An Earthway Perspective
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: James Reidy
Today on Culture Clique we visit with James Reidy, Associate Profesor in Recreation, Tourism and Therapeutic Recreation at Winona State University...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 42:33
  • Purchases: 1
Two Zambian girls talk about climate change
From: michal rahfaldt
Series: COP16 Youth Voices from Africa
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An interview of 17-year old Kapambwe Chanda who speaks with passion and intelligence about the importance of getting youth involved and interested ...

Bought by KZYX and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 2
Selling Carbon Credits
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you don't pollute, you can sell your clean-air credit to those who do.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 02:08
The Case for Wind and Solar Power
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Some of us have built our own units. You can too!

  • Added: Jul 08, 2010
  • Length: 01:42
The Little Guy
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Read Mark Twain's English translation of The Jumping Frog

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
Sex Changing Chemicals: Endocrine Distruption
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
We read that pollutants are causing a sex change in fish.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 18, 2010
  • Length: 01:13
  • Purchases: 1
Insects Galore
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Insects and the world we humans share with them is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is anthropologist Hugh Raffles, the author...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:23
How Do We Feel About Surrogate Mothers?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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For millennia when couples were not able to conceive and bear their own children their options were somewhat limited, and not at all available if t...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 28:52