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Author Laura Purdie Salas talks about the Minnesota Book Award Nominee "Finding Family: The Duckling Raised By Loons"
- Added: Mar 21, 2024
- Length: 07:10
A study from 2022 found that people who identified as non-religious or atheist were more likely to identify as pro-environment, as compared with re...
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Youth movements are rising to restore people and planet. De’Anthony Jones, a former President of the Environmental Students Organization at Sacrame...
- Added: May 22, 2023
- Length: 28:31
It took 9 years, but Harvard students finally got the wealthiest university in the world to divest from fossil fuel.
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WFHB
- Added: Jun 10, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Did you know that young people worldwide are working to mitigate climate change, clean up their environment and create a more sustainable, livable ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Sep 16, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
A youth work program in Northwest Indianapolis helps to build personal and community resilience through garden and conservation work.
- Added: Jul 22, 2021
- Length: 54:01
To counter the environmental impact of plastic food wrappers, an Indian school created a way for food manufacturers to find a solution.
- Added: Jun 29, 2021
- Length: 02:36
In 1979, a sixteen year old boy starts planting trees to save his island, and it works.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
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
High school students in Denver, Colorado are recycling grocery bags into "plarn", or plastic yarn, which can then be crocheted into blankets and ma...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:22
Juan Martinez grew up in South Central L.A. in the early nineties. He was struggling to find his way until he traded detention for a pack of jalape...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KRZA
- Added: Jul 07, 2020
- Length: 10:09
- Purchases: 2
What is the most beautiful sound? Teenager Alex Soto investigates.
A version of this story was selected as a finalist in the 2020 NPR Student Pod...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 07:53
- Purchases: 2
On a busy street corner in North Minneapolis, there once stood a fenced-off, vacant lot. It was the site of a building Juxtaposition Arts had to te...
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 04:28
Seventeen-year-old Paloma Martinez lives in Tucson, Arizona. She's heard that a global water crisis might be coming, and her mom thinks Tucson is g...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 14, 2019
- Length: 13:49
- Purchases: 3
Four years ago, 21 student plaintiffs sued the U.S. government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property by failing ...
- Added: May 30, 2019
- Length: 58:59
Dynamic young people are surmounting considerable social and economic obstacles by following their dreams to create a better world. Jessica Riming...
- Added: Apr 08, 2019
- Length: 28:30
In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness host Alan Wartes spoke with third generation rancher Hannah Cranor.
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
On December 26, 2004, Tilly Smith was on vacation in Thailand with her family. Thanks to her school lessons, Tilly helped save many lives by recogn...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
In the early morning hours of February 27, 2010, Martina Marturana felt a slight tremor that lasted a long time. The 12-year-old lived on Robinson...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
Youth activist, Aji Piper shares the story of his involvement with a class-action suit against the Obama and Trump administrations over climate cha...
- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 08:52
In a tumultuous election season, the passing of Measure 99 stands out as a beacon of hope. Voters overwhelmingly approved funding for Outdoor Schoo...
- Added: Nov 20, 2016
- Length: 04:41
At the 21st annual "Conference of the Parties" or COP summit, representatives from U.N countries gathered to reach accord on what to do about globa...
- Added: Aug 04, 2016
- Length: 10:09
Many people are unfamiliar with the social justice work of Girl Scouts, but for more than a century, girls and young women have tackled social and ...
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 14:54
Scott Sampson (host of Dinosaur Train) reads a personal "story" from his book, How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling In Love Wi...
- Added: Apr 02, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Shona revisits a conversation she had at the age of 17 with Andy Lipkiss, founder of TreePeople, and discovers that his story has even more relevan...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 14:26
