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Farmers are discovering that going organic pays well, reduces costs, and sustains the health of not only the people, but the earth itself.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:26
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 2
The coastal city of Boston is looking ahead to combat possible flooding issues due to rising sea levels. In a pre-emptive move, the city is working...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:31
A Chilean based designer has created algae-based plastics that dissipate in the ocean and only take 4 months maximum to completely biodegrade.
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:31
Studies at Stanford University have shown that meal worms are able to eat Styrofoam and the enzymes in their guts break it down into something comp...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:24
What if roads could repair themselves before becoming a hazard for vehicles? And what if they were economical and environmentally friendly as well?
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:28
A determined New Yorker makes city composting a real thing.
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:22
In 1969, fried-chicken tycoon J. David Bamberger, had a novel idea:
to buy the worst piece of land he could find in the hill country of Texas and ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:34
The city of Atlanta, Georgia is transforming 7 acres of unused land into the nation's largest food forest.
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:36
Clay tiles with micro algae are cleaning up industrial waste water in India.
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:34
- Added: Mar 05, 2021
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 1
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
In 2017, a couple of ninth graders developed a way to make electricity from the rain.
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In an effort to raise awareness to a shrinking sea and call the sea back, Uzbekistan held its first electronic music festival on this ancient ocean...
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
The fishermen of Kerala took it upon themselves to clean up plastic waste in their precious ocean, and turn it into roads and local business.
- Added: Feb 27, 2021
- Length: 02:30
- Added: Feb 03, 2021
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 1
An ode to the coyote. Dan Flores and his book Coyote America, dueling press releases, and The Wind Inaugural Coyote Calling Contest.
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 47:41
Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do. Featuring Gary Farmer, Rion Amilcar Scott, Jeff Grace and Kathryn Kali...
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 50:00
Leaves are made into compostable, disposable dishware.
- Added: Jan 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 03:14
It looks like we sort of infuriated Good Ol' Mother Gaia to the point that Gaia is feeling the need to perhaps wipe us off the face of the Earth, t...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Oct 04, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Extreme heat can be dangerous and is often called the "silent killer". We talk with Kirsten Goldstein, a grad student at Utah State University in ...
Bought by KDXI - Radio St George, KVSC, and KRZA
- Added: Aug 05, 2020
- Length: 23:58
- Purchases: 3
Well here we are, still alive, July in the American Desert. Good enough, we guess. When the Mojave is cooking that's when we start figuring out a w...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
We talk to the Minnesota DNR to find out the do's and don'ts of social distancing at Minnesota State Parks during Covid 19. Original air date: 04/3...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 16:07
Earth Day is here, but a lot of us are inside. On this episode of Borrowed, we gather sounds of the natural world from the stoops and parks of Broo...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 21, 2020
- Length: 32:47
- Purchases: 1
