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What we wear defines us in so many ways. But in recent decades we’ve moved away from long-lasting, quality pieces in favor of disposable fast fashi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KSQD Santa Cruz, KOWS and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Jason F. McLennan, Credit: Alex Akamine Photography
What would it feel like to live in a world where our built environment was as elegant as nature's designs? What if our living and working spaces nu...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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After a 20-year career as a tech reporter for CNET, the New York Times, and the public radio program Marketplace, Molly Wood has come to see the cl...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Maine Public Radio, WLPR , WMUU-LP, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 13
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After a 20-year career as a tech reporter for CNET, the New York Times, and the public radio program Marketplace, Molly Wood has come to see the cl...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
There is a floor tile that uses the power of footsteps to generate electricty!

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Vegan Leather? Seems like an oxy-moron, but now there is a leather-like material made of pineapples.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Sex Trafficking is a worldwide epidemic that endangers countless people. In Tel Aviv, one company is teaching victims job skills and helping clean ...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
With garden space on earth getting more limited, growing up instead of out is the new normal for the farm industry.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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An Australian community conservation group is making and sharing reusable grocery bags to shoppers for free.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Exercise is not all about improving your physique, but also your mind. Matt Morley has created a nature-immersed workout experience to improve both.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Cigarettes are horrible for you, but their butts are quite useful for recycling. A garbage startup in New Jersey is turning trash into outdoor furn...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Change your focus, change your world.
Living concrete: This biological material has multiple layers that allow for the growth of plants on the outside of a building, without sacrificin...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
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Leaves are made into compostable, disposable dishware.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Tackling the challenges of overfishing, while also working towards stalling the effects of climate change.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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This special episode of The Flyovers was recorded live at The Wright: Something Independent — an annual conference in Golden, Colorado designed to ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:10
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness host Alan Wartes spoke with 20 year manager of All Sports Replay, Pete Jantz.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness host Alan Wartes spoke with herbalist, author, and educator Briana Wiles.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Tim Rider and crew aboard the Finlander I, Credit: Tim Rider
Why regulations designed to protect the ocean are making it harder to fish sustainably.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2018
  • Length: 12:46
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Offshore wind projects on the Great Lakes have been discussed for years, and the first one will likely happen soon, on Lake Erie. Andy Balaskovitz,...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 17:08
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A team at the University of Minnesota has invented a new technology to produce renewable car tires from trees and grasses. Lead researcher Prof. P...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 10:38
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The basic idea of the circular economy is that in production, nothing should be wasted, and everything at the end of its life should be made into s...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 14:00
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Greg Nichols is part of the Sawtooth Mountain Maple Syrup Company in Lutsen--currently the largest sugarbush in Minnesota. He sat down with WTIP's ...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 20:53
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Today The Rough Draft Diaries meets Josh Murnen. He is the Vice President & General Counsel of the Lucas County Land Bank. Never heard of a land ba...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 06:06
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Minnesota's largest solar power project went online in December atop two parking ramps at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. Dennis Probst, who spea...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 17:31
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Colorado is one of many states that has tried to create a cash for recycling program, or bottle bill. However, opposition from some surprising sour...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 06:31