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The Write Question - Dan O'Brien - 449
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Legendary wildlife biologist and buffalo rancher Dan O'Brien discusses his classic work of nonfiction, "The Rites of Autumn: A Falconer's Journey A...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Prairie Public, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
562-Monster Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An object the size of this huge space rock enters the Earth's atmosphere every 180,000 years with an energy of 5,800 megatons of TNT. The only pla...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
560-Wet Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Siding Spring Observatory, Credit: www.destinationsjourney.com
One of the most frustrating situations for an asteroid hunter is a night when the stars are shining bright above the mountain but the humidity is s...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
558-Exploring The Lunar South Pole
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The race to explore the Moon by robots and eventually human lunar colonists is on. Near the lunar south pole human space colonists could use solar ...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
191004: Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather, 10/4/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
19-10-04 Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WMUU-LP, KBBI Alaska, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
How Can Municipal Government Promote Economic Democracy?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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New York, NY...its a city with close to 100 billion dollar budget every year and 1 deputy mayor with some pretty creative plans for how to spend it...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 5: Our Future With Fire
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
Caption: Brennan Byrd holding a piece of Cob building material
On the fifth and final episode of California Burning, we look for solutions that address the many different factors associated with the wildfires p...

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KVCR, WMRA, KSKA, KALW and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Rare Paiute cutthroat trout reintroduced to native habitat, a 30 year saga for Bill Somer
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Bill Somer is a senior environmental scientist for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. In 1988 he joined the effort to reestablish the ...

Bought by KRZA and KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2019
  • Length: 13:36
  • Purchases: 2
2019-09-27 Heavy Weather: Balancing Joy and Despair
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Nearly half of all Americans are dealing with a new mental stressor: climate anxiety. Whether we get it from the news, the trauma of a natural disa...

Bought by WJCT, KJZZ, KCPW Salt Lake City, WMUU-LP, WMRA and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
The Big Pond #47: How to Walk in the City
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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After moving from Cologne, Germany, to New York City, our producer Thomas Reintjes had trouble adjusting to walking in the bustling metropolis. Tra...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 24:08
  • Purchases: 2
F-Word: Climate Strike/Auto Strike: Same Struggle, Same Fight
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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The rich, greedy and a value system that only cares about profit. Let's not let 45 and/or the media pit UAW striking workers against climate strik...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 03:30
190927: Heavy Weather: Balancing Joy and Despair, 9/27/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Nearly half of all Americans are dealing with a new mental stressor: climate anxiety. Whether we get it from the news, the trauma of a natural disa...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
The World’s Largest Methanol Refinery (and the fight to stop it)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Claudia Riedener has lived in Tacoma since 1998, and is co-founder of the grassroots environmental group Redefine Tacoma., Credit: (photographer unknown)
Special for Climate Week: Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked g...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ellen Harvey on Public Art and Climate Action
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Today, we take you to Miami Beach, Florida, for a conversation with British-born artist Ellen Harvey. Selected for a high profile public art commis...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2019
  • Length: 12:33
  • Purchases: 1
Demand for Power
From: Claudine Ebeid McElwain
Series: Broken Ground
Caption: by the Southern Environmental Law Center
An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging proje...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:53
The Write Question - Joe Wilkins - 420
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet and memoirist, Joe Wilkins, discusses his debut novel, "Fall Back Down When I Die."

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


  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
544-Missing
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90 to 95% of the Earth approaching asteroids larger than about 3,000 feet in diamete...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
543-Asteroid Zoo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018 Asteroid Hunters discovered 1839 previously unknown space rocks as they passed through our celestial neighborhood. The largest and most dan...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
541-Most Dangerous in 2018
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fortunately, on its current path, the most dangerous asteroid discovered in 2018 cannot come closer than 12.5 times the Moon's distance to humanity...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, KENW, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: May 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
540-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Being a near Earth asteroid is already a lonely existence since the paths of these small space rocks seldom bring them near any other material obje...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP, WLPR and more


  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode 59: Vicious And Viral
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Travis Kauffman went for a trail run near his home in Colorado. But an unexpected run-in almost turned him into trail mix. Then the internet got in...

Bought by KRZA and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 16:55
  • Purchases: 2
2019-05-10 Sea Changes: Why Oceans Play a Bigger Role in Climate Than You May Think
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Global temperatures would be soaring even higher were it not for a powerful heat-trapping ally: oceans. From regulating the temperature of the plan...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMRA, WDSE, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
Earth Day's Murderer and the Apostle of the Cacti
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet?

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1

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