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Caption: City of Minnetonka forester Hannibal Hayes mills a log at the city's new saw mill., Credit: Timothy Foss
Amidst the Emerald Ash Borer crisis, the city of Minnetonka currently has a surplus of ash logs from 60,000 trees. Some Minnetonka foresters are wo...

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 05:50
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This week on World Ocean Radio: five suggested strategies as laid out by Karl Burkart (Managing Director of One Earth and formerly the Director of ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 05:12
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We're headed outdoors on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. headed to the park! But not just any park a new inclusive park located in Perrysb...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A Swiss Billionaire is partnering with environmental organizations to conserve 30% of the planet.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
"We build ice cream shops with women in areas recovering from conflict or natural disaster, with the belief that these sweet, small enterprises can...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
There is a new kind of ‘leather’ that comes from coconuts instead of animals. It’s not only a sustainable alternative, it’s turning a waste product...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Toronto is turning food waste into fuel to power garbage trucks.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Change your focus, change your world.
Living concrete: This biological material has multiple layers that allow for the growth of plants on the outside of a building, without sacrificin...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Oregon’s refillable beer bottle program started out small with just seven craft breweries participating. But the idea is catching on and these recy...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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The ‘California Air Resources’ board in the summer of 2018, conclusively showed that California had met its 2020 emissions goal four years earlier ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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One of Nevada's most remote regions has long been an economic development sore spot, but there are some encouraging sings for remote McDermitt.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 21:46
Caption: Robert Hanss and his Daughter Catherine
Robert Hanss and his Daughter Catherine are a father-daughter duo in the Northeast working together to create and care for gardens and horticulture...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we head over to South Toledo to hang out with the HIstoric South Initiative, an organization that is working t...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2018
  • Length: 06:12
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Local communities work together to produce electricity.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
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Clothing from Earth to body, back to earth.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
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Theo Chocolate was founded in 2006 by Joe Whinney and Debra Music and is based in Seattle, USA. The company is known as being the first organic, fa...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 33:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Most of us have lived our lives knowing that if we want a glass of water, we simply turn on the tap and out comes that delicious liquid. But in tod...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 06:58
Caption: Beth Buczynski
Consumption and consumerism – they are the cornerstones of American society. Many feel that that model is about to change. We either continue on th...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Brooke Tanner releases a healed saw-whet owl., Credit: Wild Skies Raptor Center
Brooke Tanner and Ken Wolff are different from one another. One's a young woman trying to start a huge project, the other's at the end of a long ca...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 03:08
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with Linden Wolbert, who quit her full-time job a few years back to be a professional mermaid. With skills in f...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 18:18
Caption: Tom Vilsack, Credit: NPC
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack describes his hopes for his upcoming meeting in Europe with the other G20 agriculture ministers

  • Added: Jun 17, 2011
  • Length: 54:01
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Dog overpopulation is a continual problem in much of the American South, where shelters often euthanize more animals than they can save. This is th...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WMPG, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 3
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:03
Caption: Marty Walsh hangs his sign at Geekhouse Bicycles., Credit: Jonathan Simmons
Marty Walsh of Boston's Geekhouse Bicycles received $70,000 in state-monitored federal money in November. Geekhouse is thriving, giving listeners ...

Bought by The Neighborhood


  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 1