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Flying Blind (for Pledge Drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Flying Blind book cover
When a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department approaches Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell about tracking endangered India...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 01, 2014
  • Length: 22:19
  • Purchases: 1
Saving Paradise (pledge drive edition)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Saving Paradise , Credit: Book cover
IdeaSphere … Saving Paradise: Author and environmental activist Mike Bond uses fiction to tell the real story of Hawaii’s fight against corporation...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 20:41
  • Purchases: 2
Out On a Limb
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ben Kilham
Benjamin Kilham has been researching and living with black bears for nearly twenty years. He has become an expert in black bear behavior, as well a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Sharing is Good
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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
One World Everybody Eats
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Denise Cerreta
As founder of One World Everybody Eats, Denise Cerreta is determined to change the way restaurants do business and to bring delicious, healthful fo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 20:58
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaiming Our Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sam Daley-Harris
With his new book, Sam Daley-Harris shares how he and the citizens advocacy organizations he has founded (RESULTS and the Microcredit Summit Campai...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Raising Dough
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Elizabeth Ü
Increasingly, food-based businesses are seen as key solutions to solve our social and environmental problems, and yet entrepreneurs report a surpri...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Cold, Hungry and in the Dark
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bill Powers
Not long ago, we were told that North America had entered a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. Or, have we? If you’ve listened to ex...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
High Tide
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: High Tide book cover, Credit: jacket design by Kata Jancso
One week before super storm Sandy hit, oceanographer John Englander released his book about the short, medium and long term scenarios we can expect...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Beautiful Business
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Judy Wicks
Judy Wicks founded the White dog Café on the first floor of her house in West Philadelphia. After helping to save her block from demolition, Judy g...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Earth Day 2013
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frances Moore Lappe
Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Food Shed
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eric Toensmeier
This first part of this half-hour is spent with author and professor Philip Ackerman-Leist. In his new book, he shows that people are turning to lo...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Sacred Acts (Pledge Drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mallory McDuff
Churches are taking diverse actions to address climate change through stewardship, advocacy, spirituality and justice. Contributions from leading C...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 19:57
  • Purchases: 1
Technology's Promise
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor William E. Halal
There are no crystal balls. No one really knows the direction technology is going to take us. But, there are always those best guesses.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 08, 2013
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2
Nuclear Roulette
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nuclear Roulette, Credit: cover design by Matthew Simmons
In his new book, Gar Smith dismantles the core arguments behind the nuclear industrial complex’s “Nuclear renaissance.” While some critiques are fa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Neptune Speaks
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
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Robert Wintner is Executive Director of the Snorkel Bob Foundation and owner of Snorkel Bob's Hawaii. He has written several novels, two of which w...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2012
  • Length: 28:28
Cheese & Culture
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Cheese & Culture
Behind every traditional type of cheese there is a fascinating story. By examining the role of the cheese-maker throughout world history and by und...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 17:10
  • Purchases: 1
Sacred Acts
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Mallory McDuff
Churches are taking diverse actions to address climate change through stewardship, advocacy, spirituality and justice. Contributions from leading C...

  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 25:27
The Global Warming Reader
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bill McKibben
Into the national conversation about climate change and our planet's natural resources comes The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2012
  • Length: 28:40
Community Design
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Capital Village near Sacramento is an ideal case study for future communities.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
Aquaponic Gardening
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: New Society Press jacket cover
Sylvia Bernstein, president and founder of The Aquaponic Source, provides a step-by-step guide to raising vegetables and fish together.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: 17:15
Women Rising 19: Masters of the Spoken Word
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Storyteller Diane Ferlatte, Credit: caverunstoryfest.org
Eve Ensler, playwright of the hit “Vagina Monologues” shares the work of her organization, V-Day, and storyteller, Diane Ferlatte, talks about usin...

Bought by KZYX, WMPG, KUT, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Women Rising 18: Rescuers of Wildlife
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Cotton Top Tamarin Monkey, Credit: Wildlife Conservation Network
We hear from 4 leading animal rights activists, working in Columbia, Uzbekistan, the Animals Asia Foundation, and the International Union for the C...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Dec 18, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science Barge
From: Tom Niemisto
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Working to educate and demonstrate sustainable and renewable resources

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Dec 07, 2008
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Elephants - 6 Minutes of Fact and Story
From: Paul Messing
Series: For Kindred Spirits (and separate elements)
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Basic facts and about elephants from Carol Buckley, founder of The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, plus a personal elephant story from NY Times be...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 07:06