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A bee-saving plan in America's upper midwest.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
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Learn all about lemurs with Faye Goodwin from the Duke Lemur Center. Mixed with great music!

Bought by KQRU FM LP, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, KSTK and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
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A new vegan leather that is made from the strong fibers of cactus.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
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The nation of Chile is protecting 10 million acres of its most unspoiled and pristine land, by forging a unique partnership.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:43
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While most teenagers balk at cleaning their rooms, Fionn Ferreira is cleaning the world's oceans from microplastics. Fionn incorporated the use of ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
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Mexico City uses the concept of vertical gardening to transform their highway pillars into air-cleansing and people-pleasing monoliths.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:31
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Bee habitats atop bus stops in Holland are reviving bee, butterfly and other insect populations.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
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A mexican company takes local waste and transforms it into something sustainable and profitable: cutlery made from avocado pits.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:28
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To encourage plastic recycling, Rome, Italy has implemented "metro credit" for each recycled plastic bottle.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:17
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Commercial kelp farming in Alaska is moving from harvesting natural kelp beds, to using farm-raised beds in order to create more sustainable harves...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:16
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At the Chapultepec Botanical Gardens in Mexico City a new kind of foliage is taking over. The Future Forest, created by Danish artist Thomas Dambo,...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:17
Caption: Change your focus, change your world.
A colony of bees miraculously survives the 2019 Notre Dame fire.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:18
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San Francisco Airport bans water bottles to save the planet.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 15, 2021
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Troop 19 addressing Teaneck City Council
Small town environmentalists and a dozen girl scouts won the first local bag ordinances in New Jersey, sparking the strongest state plastic ban in ...

Bought by WFHB and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Paper recycling plant , Credit: Bas Emmen
Today we have a question about paper recycling. What happens after you throw your paper into the blue bin? How much of that paper actually gets reu...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:50
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In this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami students Diana Borras and Kurt Gessler discover sacred land hiding i...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:46
Caption: Growing Old
Explore the role that trees play in human health and urban climate resilience, particularly amid a pandemic. Talk with City of Seattle urban forest...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 32:31
  • Purchases: 2
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Jutta Treviranus pushes back against cultures, policies, and technologies designed only for those deemed "normal." As founder and director of the I...

Bought by KMUN, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Daisy presents a 2-part feature on Decluttering for more happiness. This first episode explores physical clutter's detriment to our overall well-be...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Picture 3: Photo taken during the parade at my tribe's annual celebration, Crow Fair, in 2019. (PC: Tony Manolis Photography).
My Apsáalooke name is Iichiinmaaáatchilash - Fortunate with Horses and my English name is JoRee LaFrance. I come from the Apsáalooke (Crow) nation ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2020
  • Length: 04:39
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Citizens wielding pry bars and thermometers turn parking lots into rain gardens and change city policy to favor green over grey.

Bought by WFHB, WFHB, KRZA, KICI Iowa City, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jan 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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I think it’s fascinating that there are several species of winterfat found in Eurasia and Europe. That’s where the genus was first described by a G...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 05:43
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How can what we choose to wear have an impact on the environment? Tune in to hear how one youth is working toward sustainability one garment at a t...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 14:15
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Cliffrose is the star of this show. It also goes by the common name quinine bush or the scientific name of Purshia mexicana. If you look at a map o...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 10:12
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You know you haven’t been hiking or botanizing out in the desert or grassland enough when you look to the roadsides for interesting plants, but I’l...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 05:13