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Return of the Native with Bill Shanabruch, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Bill Shanabruch leads Conservation Landscaping Workshop.
Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 26:08
Return of the Native with Bill Shanabruch Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Bill Shanabruch, Credit: Charles McGuigan
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 24:26
Nico Cathcart: A Contemporary Renaissance. Part 2 (Conclusion)
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Nico Cathcart working on a mural on Lakeside Avenue, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 27:38
Nico Cathcart: A Contemporary Renaissance. Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Nico at the unveiling of her three-story mural, A New Dawn in Hopewell, Virginia., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 25:47
BUILDING NEW TRAIL: How volunteers worked with the Forest Service to provide public access
From: Barb Seaman
Caption: The Columbia River, as seen from the Cape Horn Trail
The Forest Service would allow hiking access only if a volunteer group formed to caretake the trail. So the Cape Horn Conservancy was born. Now t...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:27
"Moana" Making Waves Around the Globe
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Moana and Maui sail toward land in this concept drawing for the movie, Credit: Walt Disney Studios
Disney’s latest animated movie, “Moana,” is riding a wave of popularity around the globe. Nominated for two Academy Awards this year, Native Hawaii...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 1
Owning The Clouds
From: Steven Jackson
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Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 3
Farming Creativity
From: Rendered
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Getting back to the kind of robust, regional food system that used to be the norm in America definitely requires some creative thinking.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2015
  • Length: 16:18
  • Purchases: 1
Author Redmond O’Hanlon travels a mile deep in “Trawler"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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British naturalist and jungle survivor of Borneo, Amazonia and the Congo, O’Hanlon sets off this time on a commercial fishing ship in the harsh wat...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 2
Author Sister Madonna Buder a.k.a. the Iron Nun
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A Roman Catholic Sister in her 80s who wrote “The Grace to Race, “ she’s the oldest person ever (man or woman) to finish an Ironman Triathlon. This...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 09:40
  • Purchases: 2
A Sea Change in the New England Funeral Business
From: Katherine Perry
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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
21. France Was Years Ahead
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry
Caption: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry, Credit: Brittany Jencks
In 1962 France was years ahead of the U.S. in ecological awareness and energy conservation, before the word "ecology" was even used in either count...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 05:34
The Urban Lobsterman
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Sixty-eight-year-old Skip Ryan has been catching lobster on Boston Harbor for more than 50 years., Credit: Jess Bidgood
A profile of an urban lobsterman. Amid the cruise ships and cargo vessels and whale-watching boats that motor in and out of the Boston Harbor each...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2010
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 6
Coho Survival
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Can we save Coho salmon from "the vortex of extinction?"

  • Added: Mar 23, 2010
  • Length: 05:10
From Thoreau's rural journal to the future of farming - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Lovejoy Brook Farm, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
From Thoreau's rural journal to the science of the mind to 36 arguments for the existence of God to classical music to the future of farming (whew!...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 1
Positive Energy
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The idea of keeping shopping close to home is picking up speed, with local foods increasing in popularity and availability. Harder to understand mi...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:37
The Future of Farming in Vermont -- with slideshow!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Lovejoy Brook Farm, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
Lydia Ratcliff is a survivor. She's farmed her 90 acre plot of land in Andover Vermont for 43 years, and though she's now come down with chronic ob...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2009
  • Length: 09:09
  • Purchases: 2
A Greener Christmas
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This annual celebration is one that asks a lot of the environment.

Bought by WSLR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and KRUA


  • Added: Nov 19, 2008
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 3
Sea Lion Rescue
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A mysterious bacterial infection is sickening the West Coast's sea lions.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 05:03
Duffy's Ark
From: Stephen Grant
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In the wake of the recent historic floods hitting the Midwest many families have been left homeless. For one Iowa family, the nightmare that landed...

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 1
Bike to Work!
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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How hard is it to trade in four wheels for two?

Bought by WRVO Public Media and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 2
A Central Park Birder Experiences the Nebraska Crane Migration
From: Deborah Van Fleet
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A woman who usually does her "birding" in New York City's Central Park shares some of her reactions after experiencing the Sandhill Crane migration...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2007
  • Length: 02:51
Growers Cover Up Local Produce
From: The Environment Report
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The growing use of hydroponics in agriculture is letting people get local produce even in places where the climate is chilly.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2007
  • Length: 04:02
Locally Grown Food Sprouts in Restaurants
From: The Environment Report
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Chef is encouraging farmers to grow local food for new trend in restaurants.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2007
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
Appreciating Wildfire Fighters, Meto Vega
From: Miles Eddy
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Rural Colorado overwhelms wildfire workers with an outpouring of gratitude rarely seen.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2006
  • Length: 04:05