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The Write Question - Christine Byl - 283
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Christine Byl talks about her memoir, Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods, which describes her experiences working on trail c...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, WCWP and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
You Too May Be a Naturalist
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Deborah Edelman, Adina Merenlender, co-authors, with Greg de Nevers of "The California Naturalist Handbook."

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
20,000 Crows in Tokyo
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with filmmaker Kristine Samuelson, co-creator of the documentary, “Tokyo Waka: A City Poem” about the 20,000 crows that inhabi...

  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Women Rising #22: International Anti-Nuclear Activists (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Anti-nuclear demonstration in front of Japanese Diet , Credit: Matthias Lambrecht
For International Women’s Day and the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster listen again as three prominent female activists tell their stor...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "The Long Shining Waters" by Danielle Sosin
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 2
How Green Entrepreneurs are Transforming Rural Communities
From: Green Connections Radio
Series: Green Connections Radio
Caption: Aneri Patel of UN Foundation Sustainable Energy for All
Wow are these stories great! Listen to Aneri Patel of the UN Sustainable Energy for All Initiative tell host Joan Michelson about the innovative s...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 18:48
Food Sleuth Radio, Maryn McKenna Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Join Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her conversation with superbug sleuth, Maryn McKenna. An investigative journalist and author, ...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Good Jobs, Clean Environment: Both or Neither
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 12
Caption: Roxanne Brown, Credit: Jennifer Esperanza (c)
The emerging green economy promises to provide large-scale job creation while healing the Earth and building the middle class.

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio, KKRN, KFCF FM, and WDSE


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 4
Mountain gorillas save researchers from militia gunfire
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Silverback Kabirizi, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Fewer than 800 Mountain Gorillas remain making them one the world's most endangered species. For more than 20 years people around the world have be...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 11:06
Population Control or Population Justice?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Bangledeshi woman and child, Credit: Flickr user: nomanson
Shrinking the world’s population is one way to curb global warming, according to some environmentalists. To make that happen, women need more contr...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
A Fallen Tree Ruptures Cliff and Damages a Creek: Watershed Restoration Repairs It
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Watershed restoration is the topic of this week’s Radio Curious. Host and Producer Barry Vogel speaks with volunteers at Gibson Creek in Ukiah, Cal...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Culturology: Mary Strother's toned and hand painted photography
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Mary Strother discusses how she has evolved her artistic process and how she gathers her photography's subject matter. Her exhibit appear during Fe...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 2
The Toxic Truth About Nail Salons (encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Uyen Nguyen, owner of Isabella Nail Bar, Credit: Pauline Bartolone
We take a look at the health impacts of chemical exposure in nail salons, the shoddy regulation of cosmetics, and the movement towards greener nail...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Women Who Wouldn't Listen: Wangari Maathai and Frances Moore Lappe
From: A World of Possibilities
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Two lives spent breaking the mold of both traditional and feminist perspectives are recounted in candid conversation, each with a focused sense of ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WZEN.org, KREV-LP, KUOW, WHRV and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 7
A NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: DR. HELEN CALDICOTT
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Dr. Helen Caldicott describes how the nuclear disasters that began in Japan on March 11, 2011, with the massive 9.0 point earthquake and resulting ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Women Rising 21: Women's Rights to Water, Land & Farming
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As part of our “Women Rising” series, we profile a dynamic partnership between the Women’s Earth Alliance and the Global Women’s Water Initiative: ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
The Next Wave of Women and Power: Cultivating Women's Leadership
From: Bioneers
Caption: Rha Goddess
Young women across the U.S. are stepping boldly into their power. From the heart of Native American and urban communities, this generation of engag...

Bought by KPVL, KCMJ Community Radio, WLPR , and KSKQ


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 4
Mary Zeiss Stange, author of Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Out in southeast Montana, near the small town of Ekalaka, is where Mary Zeiss Stange and her husband, Doug, own and run the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 1
How Do We Feel About Surrogate Mothers?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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For millennia when couples were not able to conceive and bear their own children their options were somewhat limited, and not at all available if t...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 28:52
A Few Good Women
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Gardeners on the ground, Credit: Beatrice Murch
From the philanthropic women of Washing to DC to a group of international environmentalists in Buenos Aires, A few good women can make a difference...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1
Healthy Jobs for Low-income Women
From: Making Contact
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A business model that creates worker-owned green businesses and healthy jobs for low-income women.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 1
Top Models
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Huijie Xue smiles when her virtual ocean model matches what the real ocean is doing., Credit: Jim Campbell
Huijie Xue forecasts the underwater weather of the Gulf of Maine: its temperature, its salinity, and its currents. And a lot of people are tuning in.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 09:22
Sonar in the Sea
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Kelly Benoit-Bird adjusting the sonar before beginning her experiment., Credit: Nick Kelsh
Kelly Benoit-Bird works on all kinds of ocean animals ranging from zooplankton to whales. And ocean observatories could make her science even more ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2009
  • Length: 07:15
Women Rising 19: Masters of the Spoken Word
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Storyteller Diane Ferlatte, Credit: caverunstoryfest.org
Eve Ensler, playwright of the hit “Vagina Monologues” shares the work of her organization, V-Day, and storyteller, Diane Ferlatte, talks about usin...

Bought by KZYX, WMPG, KUT, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Women Rising 18: Rescuers of Wildlife
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Cotton Top Tamarin Monkey, Credit: Wildlife Conservation Network
We hear from 4 leading animal rights activists, working in Columbia, Uzbekistan, the Animals Asia Foundation, and the International Union for the C...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Dec 18, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1