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The Searsville Dam is causing big trouble on the peninsula. The 122-year-old, 65-foot-tall dam is closed to the public, hidden away on 1,200 acres ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:41
There's a mountain of statistics that suggest black Americans don’t go out in nature as much as people of other ethnicities, but one Bay Area organ...
Bought by KSKA and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 06:22
- Purchases: 2
For over a decade, Oakland has attempted to abate the illegal dumping of mattresses, electronics, furniture, and other large items onto city street...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 07:20
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
"The Great Invisible" is a new documentary about the 2010 BP Oil Spill. The movie's director Margaret Brown grew up on the Alabama coast, and saw t...
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 15:38
Larger-than-life Serbian sculptor Zoran Mojisilov creates work from the most primal of elements: rocks, wood scraps and steel he hauls to his North...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:22
South Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish has low unemployment — there are lots of jobs in offshore services. So many that there could be a shortage of l...
- Added: Aug 04, 2014
- Length: 04:46
Kelly Reichardt talks community, isolation, and wanting to blow up a dam.
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 11:30
The legendary Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hokulea, is sailing around the world using the ancient art of wayfinding, navigating without instruments. Th...
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 04:19
There are many ways to handle neighborhood flooding, beyond pumping stations and sewers. Some cities have realized that skate parks, of all places,...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:39
The California Clapper Rail is a bird that likes to be heard, but not seen. But today, on this windy morning at Arrowhead Marsh in Oakland, they ar...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 07:13
The success of Bay Area Bike Share depends on one place: downtown San Francisco. Back in August, the program. made a well-calculated gamble and stu...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 07:24
Among these new and creative ways to finance solar panels is crowdfunding. Instead of one person or organization paying tens of thousands of dollar...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:39
- Purchases: 1
You might have heard about CleanPowerSF. It’s a program that would allow San Franciscans to choose where their electricity comes from. This model o...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 10:39
This ThoughtCast hour is devoted to innovation, the intellect, and the environment: from the creation of artificial skin; to new theories about bla...
Bought by KPIP-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 30, 2013
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 2
You’re about to hear a story about the bear whisperer of Lyme New Hampshire, Ben Kilham, and the abandoned black bear cubs he has rescued, rehabili...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 25, 2013
- Length: 27:53
- Purchases: 1
Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking,” could be a revenue bonanza for California. The nation’s largest reserve of deep-rock oil is in ...
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 08:33
The Slow Food movement has changed how we eat in the last quarter century. The Italian organization encourages us to dine on flavorful and health...
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 04:04
In this month’s show, we examine three issues that build on the relationship between environmental stresses and conflict. First, we examine the imp...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 40:01
- Purchases: 1
Making a living is a struggle this year for Maine lobster fishermen - due in part to strong conservation regulations.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
In Ohio, some of the best pockets of oil and gas in the East run right under Amish country. Reid Frazier found the drilling boom is confronting the...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 06:37
Buildings consume over 40% of our energy - nearly half of all our energy use. Darlene Pope, expert in "intelligent buildings" and Founder and CEO o...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 29:26
A piece about power and where it comes from. Increasingly, with all of the scientific and popular interest in Global Warming, newspaper articles ar...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 04:14
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. A...
- Added: Sep 15, 2012
- Length: 27:16
One Hour radio special features Jack Johnson & guests live at the 2004-2010 Kokua Festivals that raised money for environmental education programs ...
Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Prairie Public, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more
- Added: Apr 13, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
California is known for its "green" reputation. Just look at all the new solar and wind farms popping up around the state. So it might be a surpris...
Bought by Louisville Public Media, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WRFA-LP, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WDSE and more
- Added: Sep 27, 2011
- Length: 05:09
- Purchases: 8
