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Caption: Strait of Malacca, one of the most important shipping lanes in the world., Credit: AllVoices.com | lethibichlan
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss China's relationship with the sea, and will explain the exchange of goods, tran...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2012
  • Length: 05:31
Caption: Harold Blackledge, a 79-year-old agricultural pilot, stands in front of his 1975 Piper Pawnee Brave in one of his hangars at the Watonga Regional Airport. The drought — the worst he’s seen — has dried up aerial spraying work in Oklahoma, he says., Credit: Joe Wertz
The drought that settled into Oklahoma last year is getting worse. And it’s hurting business owners such as Harold Blackledge, an agricultural pilo...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 03:30
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OLYMPIA, Wash. - Scores of Peninsula business owners are joining local farmers, clergy and elected officials in applauding a measure introduced Thu...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - It started in Texas a year ago: grassroots pressure on the nation's leading retailer to recycle hazardous electronic waste (e-...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 02:10
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LIVINGSTON, Mont. - Adjacent public lands, and how they're managed, provide insight into the economic health and well-being of rural counties in Mo...

  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
Caption: Laying fiber optic cable, Credit: Cable & Wireless Worldwide
Communications move at astonishing speed along a global network (much of it underwater) owned wholly or in partnership by Tata Communications, one ...

  • Added: May 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:04
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DENVER - A clean-energy economy is essential - but so are Colorado's natural attributes, according to a new survey of Colorado small-business owners.

  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:49
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So often, when a natural resource is being developed, we hear of a two-sided debate: it’s jobs versus the environment, and you can’t have both. In ...

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 09:58
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San Francisco is considered a national leader in pro-environmental policy, advocacy, and education. And while the City is a pioneer in recycling it...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Elk horn coral in the no take zone of Glover's Reef Marine Reserve. Renata , Credit: Ferrari Legorreta | Marine Photobank
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the key issues to be addressed by the Global Partnership for Oceans and will po...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 06:05
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Stephenie Caughlin, farmer and owner of Seabreeze Organic Farm in San Diego, CA. What makes...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
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Capital Village near Sacramento is an ideal case study for future communities.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
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Anne Mosness -- an ocean and fisheries advocate, and family fisherwoman describes our fragile oceans and exposes the risks of both factory fish f...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Oakland has the 5th busiest port in the country. According to the Port of Oakland they support between 50,000 and 73,000 jobs in Northern Californi...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 12:33
Caption: Annie Leonard
At the same time the Great Recession has inflicted enormous pain and suffering, it has also caused people to take a deeper look at what’s really im...

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM


  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Oil is cost-efficient as a primary energy source -- in the short term. Long-term, however, oil poses economic risks and damages the environment. Sh...

Bought by WRFA-LP, WMNF, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
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A professor at Yale University, a landscape architect, and an urban ecologist, Alex Felson creates designs that take local and built environments i...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2011
  • Length: 26:42
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Jonathan Rose discusses his focus on green building and transportation as key drivers in combating climate change.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2011
  • Length: 27:17
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They say death, like taxes, is one of the few certain things in life. But the way that culture deals with death is not a static institution. In New...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 04:17
Caption: Amory Lovins, Credit: doenerg.blogspot.com
Bioneers are successfully employing the economics of nature to demonstrate how we can solve two of our most intractable environmental challenges: e...

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Julia Kennedy interviews Christoph Lueneburger on sustainable practices.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 24:31
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As an executive at RecycleBank, Ian Yolles is familiar with incentives and sustainability. The company's business mission is to entice consumers to...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 30:22
  • Purchases: 1
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William Powers discusses his life's journey, including time in Liberia and Bolivia, and a stay in a 12 x 12-foot cabin with no electricity or runni...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 25:14
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Thanksgiving episode featuring interviews with organic farmer Sharon Astyk, vegetarian author Jonathan Safron Foer, gratitude theorist Lewis Hyde, ...

Bought by WGCU


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We hear about hip-hop and change in Cuban society, and what people on the ground are saying about new phases in the Cuban revolution.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 30:00