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"For the price of a latte, save a town." Iowa town needs $3.00 from 1.5 million.
From: Deborah Van Fleet
Caption: Hamburg, Iowa residents dancing at the "flash mob".
While much of Iowa is now dealing with drought, last summer Hamburg, IA residents held up to 17 feet of floodwater at bay. Eight feet of dirt was ...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:54
A Spring Walk in the Shawnee Forest
From: Kevin Boucher
Caption: A peaceful creek in the deep forest, Credit: Kevin Boucher. May 2010
A walk in the woods on a nice day in early May in the Shawnee Forest; showcases several of the birds that visit the area each summer.

  • Added: May 12, 2012
  • Length: 03:12
A Conversation with Claudia Rankine
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Claudia Rankine discusses her play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue. [26:03]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 26:04
  • Purchases: 1
Susan Carol Hauser: "My Kind of River Journey: Seeking Passage On the Mississippi"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: Susan Carol Hauser: "My Kind of River Journey"
Bemidji area resident Susan Carol Hauser's most recent book is a nonfiction chronicle of an 18 day journey down the Mississippi. Susan joins Maggie...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 10, 2012
  • Length: 18:25
  • Purchases: 1
Back to the Garden: Cacao’s Role in Reviving Biodiversity
From: A World of Possibilities
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Species of both plants and animals are dying out at unprecedented rates. Overpopulation, industrialization, and mono-cropping are stressing the w...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KZYX, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WDSE


  • Added: Jan 20, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 4
EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create The World We Want
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nation Books, Credit: Alyssa Stepien
Reports of the health of our planet appear dim. Our conditions are becoming worse as hunger increases, and the variety of species disappear. Autho...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Consults Ants
From: Erin Cisewski
Caption: Adam and Ant, Credit: Jennifer R. Fogel
Danger, heartache, a plea for the survival of humanity, and hunting with croissants. A portrait of a myrmecologist named Adam Lazarus.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2011
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1
Fractivists: Slowing the Gas Rush
From: A World of Possibilities
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In the past few years, natural gas fracking has become a near-household word as landowners in the path of drilling have mounted efforts to slow its...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WSKG, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 3
Better Together?  Chinese Innovators On Green Tech Partnerships
From: A World of Possibilities
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 Like “Made in Japan” a generation ago, the “Made in China” label has long been viewed by Americans as a low-cost, low quality knock-off of a costl...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 2
China’s Great Green Wager
From: A World of Possibilities
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China today is the most polluted nation on earth. But it’s also on its way to becoming the most environmentally advanced. And it’s no coincidence. ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 2
Nuestro Río
From: Jack Loeffler
Caption: San Juan River, Credit: Celestia Loeffler
Nuestro Río is a thirty-minute radio program that focuses on Hispano/Latino heritage in the American Southwest, especially the Colorado River and R...

Bought by KUPR low power FM and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 26, 2011
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
Growing Marijuana in Northern California with Sheriff Tom Allman, Part Two.
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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This program is second of a two part series with Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, recorded on August 8, 2011. We continue our discussion about ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Cooling Our Jets:  Reversing the Climate Meltdown
From: A World of Possibilities
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The science of man-made global climate change is irrefutable. We speak with two eminent scientists, a conservation biologist and an environmental e...

Bought by KPVL and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 02, 2011
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 2
Tears in the Eyes: Rainbow in the Heart
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 11
Caption: Dr. Jane Goodall of the Jane Goodall Institute, Credit: (c) Jennifer Esperanza
The visionary primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall revolutionized primatology and helped us realize how close our kinship is with the...

Bought by KQUA and KKRN


  • Added: Aug 01, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Ken Burns
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Ken Burns talks about his most recent documentary series on the National Park system, as well as his approach to filmmaking and his attraction to i...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 22:24
Two Ears
From: Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland
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A wonderful tale of good farming, good radio and a voice from the past. Radio producer Tim Lehane found an old tape in his attic. It was the favour...

Bought by KMUN, KRZA, KPIK-LP, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 10:28
  • Purchases: 5
From the National Press Club: Tom Vilsack
From: National Press Club
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
Earth's Deadly Enemy: Biological Warfare
From: Hameed Mourani
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Earth Day Project by 8th Grade Science students Hameed Mourani and Joseph Ricciardella.

  • Added: May 30, 2011
  • Length: 16:44
NOVA Minute: Studying Mt. St. Helens
From: NOVA
Series: NOVA Minute
Caption: Life returns to Mt. St. Helens, Credit: pbs.org/nova
Ecologist Charlie Crisafulli explains how being at Mt. St. Helens when it erupted completely changed the course of his career.

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:12
  • Purchases: 4
Transport: A Canine Journey
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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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
Chain of Missing Links
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
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First grade students from New Orleans react to the oil spill tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
On Walden
From: Katie Hargrave
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When will I get over my obsession with Walden Pond? As a 20something interested in connecting to nature, is Thoreau the best example?

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2011
  • Length: 10:18
  • Purchases: 1
Oil on the Bayou - After the Spill
From: Julia Botero
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After the explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon Rig killed 11 workers in April 2010, oil began spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from the damaged well,...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Don't Shoot! I'm the Guitar Man
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Buzzy Martin taught guitar in San Quentin Prison for three and a half years, where he gained a unique "insiders" perspective about prison life, pri...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2010
  • Length: 29:30

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