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Waste dumps a burden for minority neighborhoods
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: Environmental Injustice
Caption: Children playing next to Garden Valley [Bill Nehez/CSU Cleveland Memory Project]
Would you want an industrial waste dump near your house? Probably not. But across the country, environmental hazards like waste dumps tend to be lo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 10
Winona and It's History on the Mississippi River
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we talk to Captain Aaron Repinski of the Winona Tour boat. Aaron tells us about the history of the Mississippi R...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 21:40
Part 1: Environmental groups slow to seek out minorities
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite in 1903, Credit: Library of Congress
Part 1 of series -- When you think of the environmental movement, what comes to mind. Preserving the wilderness in national parks? Or guaranteeing ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WBFO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 8
Divers chronicle Great Lakes shipwreck that left 32 dead
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The Admiral shipwreck, Credit: Marc Duncan
There’s more than just fish and sand in the Great Lakes – there are thousands of ships, airplanes, and other vehicles under the water. A story on ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 8
The Flattened Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Age old discoveries and scientific advances have long dispelled the belief that the earth is flat. Recent technological advances have moved recorde...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 05:24
173: Parks and Recreation (R) / Barbecue (R), 5/27/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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For some people, wilderness is the ultimate experience. America’s national parks make that possible. This week, the complicated history and politic...

  • Added: May 28, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
AMOS 17.133: Our Earliest Ancestor, 7/5/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Our Earliest Ancestor

  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Officials at Old Fort Niagara fear damage to historic buildings
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Old Fort Niagara / French Castle, Credit: Old Fort Niagara
This week’s winds and rains brought flooding and water damage to communities along Lake Ontario. At Old Fort Niagara in Youngstown officials fear t...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, WCPN, and WBFO


  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:33
  • Purchases: 5
Episode One: "Taxes & Taxonomy"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 24:59
New book on "Death and Life" of Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Dan Egan, Credit: W.W. Norton & Company
A new book by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Dan Egan examines Great Lakes history and current issues facing the region.

Bought by WCMU Michigan, WBFO, North Country Public Radio, and WKSU


  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 4
RDD: The Lake and the Doctor (part 2)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In a Rough Draft Diaries first, we're entering the world of science by learning about the past (and present) struggles of Lake Erie with the former...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 06:06
Working Class Histories (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Tracking the history under your feet - how enterprising outsiders shaped working class neighborhoods - the truths about homelessness - and more.

Bought by WCNY, RadioFreePalmer, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 13
Working Class Histories (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Tracking the history under your feet - how enterprising outsiders shaped working class neighborhoods - the truths about homelessness.

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, KWMR, KKRN, KRDP and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Mapping Lambert's Point (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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When urban universities expand, working-class neighborhoods are often the first casualty. We take a look Lambert's Point, the Norfolk, VA community...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Mar 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 1
Oh, Give Me a Home | Episode 2 | The Red Man Was Pressed
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: The Apache Reaper, Credit: Edward Curtis
How did we go from more than 50 million wild bison to just 23 free-roaming animals? And how does the decimation of the herds relate to the oppressi...

Bought by KPIP-LP, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Jordan Fisher Smith - 275
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jordan Fisher Smith talks about and reads from 'Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, A Trial, and the Fight Over Controlling Nature

Bought by KWMR, KSFR, KGLT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
AMOS 17.078: When Continents Collide, 4/19/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
When Continents Collide

  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Muscle: Flex Your Mouse
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2017
  • Length: 09:32
Coccyx: Please Don't Sit on the Cuckoo
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes. Representing a vestigial tail and most commonly c...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
Mario Soares: A Tribute for an Ocean Exemplar
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Mario Soares, former PM and President of Portugal, statesman, exile, political prisoner, "father of democracy", passed away last week at the age of...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 05:09
Biology professors Carl & Jane Bock and “Coronado’s Trail,” a debut mystery
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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After decades of field work in southern Arizona, these two retired Univ of Colorado professors have authored the first in their Arizona Borderlands...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2016
  • Length: 09:56
The man who turned off Niagara Falls
From: Great Lakes Today
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In 1969, the Army Corps of Engineers shut off the American side of Niagara Falls to study erosion. We interview the man who led that team.

Bought by KUSU, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WBFO


  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 5
American side of Niagara Falls to go silent
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: BY ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Pedestrian Bridge to be replaced at Niagara Falls State Park., Credit: BY ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Pedestrian Bridge to be replaced at Niagara Falls State Park.
New York State plans to shut off the American Falls, a major attraction for tourists who flock to Niagara Falls. It's part of a project to replace...

Bought by WCPN, WXXI Rochester, North Country Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 7
New book tells story of one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Great Lakes historian and author Michael Schumacher spoke with WTIP's Dave TerSteeg recently about his latest book, "Torn in Two, " which recounts ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 25:22
  • Purchases: 1
Spirit of Standing Rock
From: Jennifer Robin
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Documentary of the water protectors standing with the Standing Rock Sioux in protest of the North Dakota Access Pipeline in Cannon Ball, ND mid-Sep...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 1

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