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Peace Greats (Part 2)

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Memorable moments from Peace Talks Radio programs spotlighting Nobel Prize winners Mairead Maguire, Ralph Bunche, Muhammad Yunus, Jody Williams, Ma...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and KUOW

Added: Nov 23, 2016
Length: 59:58
Purchases: 2

Oil Boom Earthquakes

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

Caption: Huntington Beach, 1926, Credit: Photo Courtesy of the Orange County Archives Barbara K. Milkovich Collection CC BY 2.0, via flickr

Did early 20th century oil wells in southern California trigger major earthquakes?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KSFR, KENW and more

Added: Nov 05, 2016
Length: 01:00
Purchases: 7

Look Toward The Dawn

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In

Today, we take a step back to imagine a world without a web of GPS satellites telling your smartphone where you are every second of the day. While ...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Oct 20, 2016
Length: 24:33
Purchases: 1

Season 1 Ep. 5: Stake Your Claim

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In

There used to be a time when you could strike out into the vast unexplored wilderness and stake your claim – but not anymore. Today, the story of ...

Added: Oct 17, 2016
Length: 56:27

John Fleck: Colorado River Riddles

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

As the temperature and population continue to rise in the southwestern United States, water becomes scarcer than ever. How did we get here? Will th...

Bought by KVNF, KFCF FM, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio

Added: Sep 07, 2016
Length: 29:20
Purchases: 3

WTF is TFC?

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In

The myths and legend surrounding AMC's oldest trail crew, the TFC, aka Trail F*cking Crew.

Added: Aug 18, 2016
Length: 25:00

Don't Lose Your Cool: Katie Herzog on A/C

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Who doesn't enjoy that refreshing feeling when you walk in from 90 degree heat to the cool blast of an air-conditioned room? Last month extreme hea...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio

Added: Aug 16, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

The Second Greatest Show on Earth

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In

A group of 19th century pioneers lay claim to one of the world’s most inhospitable mountains and turn it into a premiere tourist destination.

Added: Aug 11, 2016
Length: 19:41

Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Imagine a large population of Americans living in prison-like-conditions. That’s what it’s like in the so-called Black Belt of South Side Chicago.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Aug 09, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Food Sleuth Radio, Garrett Broad Interview

From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio

Did you know that J. Edgar Hoover expressed concerns over the Black Panthers’ empowering community food programs? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Added: Jun 09, 2016
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 1

Mary Gibbs: First woman park commissioner in the nation

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices

We talk with Connie Cox from Itasca State Park about Mary Gibbs, the first woman park commissioner in the nation.

Bought by KSRQ, KSRQ, and KVSC

Added: May 24, 2016
Length: 15:22
Purchases: 3

Kassie Hilgert turns a rust belt graveyard into an arts center.

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: SteelStacks, Credit: Jonathan Davies

Reclaiming the abandoned Bethlehem Steel Plant for the arts gives a region new life

Bought by WMUU-LP

Added: May 20, 2016
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 1

The Allegheny Front Earth Day Special

From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment

A 29-minute special including interviews, sound-rich features and historical clips about the history of Earth Day.

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting

Added: Mar 22, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Lauret Savoy - Trace, Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape

From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice

WV talks with environmental earth scientist and writer Lauret Savoy about her stunning new book, TRACE. In it, Savoy examines how the country’s sti...

Added: Mar 03, 2016
Length: 59:00

Vance Gellert's Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices

When Vance Gellert decided to photograph the Iron Range, people asked him why. In his traveling show Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota, V...

Added: Feb 05, 2016
Length: 13:30

Behaving Against Our Interests: Paul Ehrlich #110

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

Today it could be argued that human beings daily act against our own self-interests. How? Biologist Paul Ehrlich and fellow scientists tell us we a...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KRZA, KPIP-LP and more

Added: Oct 27, 2015
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 6

A Salt Story: West Virginia Siblings Mine the Past to Build a Future (Gravy Ep. 22)

From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast

While West Virginia may be known for resources like coal, the country once turned to this mountain state for a culinary staple: salt. In this episo...

Bought by WMMT, WMMT, KVLU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE and more

Added: Sep 24, 2015
Length: 23:22
Purchases: 6

A Progressive Environmentalist

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Jack London is known for his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North. But, that’s overlooking the real story. London was a reporter who made n...

Bought by KVSC, KPVL, and KCBX

Added: Sep 10, 2015
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 3

Evicted from the Mountains (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

When Shenandoah National Park was built, hundreds of families were forced off their land. Margaret Marangione says new information has emerged sugg...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, WKCC, KRDP, KKRN and more

Added: Jul 30, 2015
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 7

Evicted from the Mountains (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

When Shenandoah National Park was built, hundreds of families were forced off their land. New information has emerged suggesting that some of them ...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WCNY, WTJU, and WXDU

Added: Jul 30, 2015
Length: 53:56
Purchases: 4

PEI Cradle on the Waves Part 1

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Fields of sunflowers on PEI up near Souris., Credit: Charles McGuigan

The Mig Maw had a name for this place that means cradle on the waves. Which is exactly what Prince Edward Island—PEI as the people here call it—loo...

Added: Jul 02, 2015
Length: 26:31

Island Stories The Scotch Bonnet Republic Part 4

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: J.B. Gaskill of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina., Credit: Charles McGuigan

Ocracoke Island North Carolina is the Key West of the mid-Atlantic. It's far removed from the mainland and the Outer Banks, surrounded by water, on...

Added: Jun 20, 2015
Length: 28:02

Island Stories Virginia’s Restless Archipelago Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Moorings on Cobb Island., Credit: Charles McGuigan

Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...

Added: Jun 02, 2015
Length: 25:24

Naomi Oreskes on “Merchants of Doubt”

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

A recent Pew survey found that 48% of Americans are still unconvinced that global warming is happening and that human activity is causing it. How c...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio