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A look at Data-Driven Global Warming and Sea-Level Rising Research with The Volo Foundation Co-Founder Thais Lopez Vogel. Thais Lopez Vogel joins M...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Sep 04, 2018
  • Length: 27:44
  • Purchases: 2
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Clean energy expert Richard Munson’s newest biography is "Tesla. Inventor of the Modern.” Serbian-American Nikola Tesla, born more than 150 years ...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 09:55
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Yale University ornithology professor Richard Prum’s newest book is "Evolution of Beauty. How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the ...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:53
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Nature writer Craig Childs is the author of Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America. It’s a travelogue of places and people, just like us...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:56
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We talk with Steven Stoll about his brilliant history of Appalachia: Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia. Then, coastal property values are threa...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: "...my way or the highway...", Credit: Susan Cook
A tribute (which could be sung to a tune from the Great American Wrongbook and a song "California, Here I Come" from the musical "Bombo") to the...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:39
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
From the Great American Wrongbook, in the Department of Poetic Justice, a musical tribute to the Maine Legislature's recent corporate welfare givin...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:56
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Southwest Virginia has seen a decline in coal and tobacco—two industries that once boomed in the region. Could hemp be a way to boost the local eco...

Bought by WCNY, KZYX, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
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In "Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang,” Pulitzer Prize–winning NYT reporter David Philipps chronicles the story of A...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2018
  • Length: 09:47
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The Global Fight for Climate Justice and against Environmental Injustice with Jacqui Patterson Director of Environmental & Climate Justice at the N...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The UnCommonCore Podcast explores the ideas, experiences and perspectives that make us all different. Content includes everything from live to tape...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2018
  • Length: 38:02
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The World Health Organization, a United Nations affiliated committee almost succeeded in passing a resolution affirming breastfeeding as the best,...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 05:58
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Nate Blakeslee is an investigative reporter who usually writes about politics in Texas. In “American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession i...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 09:52
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From The Great American Wrongbook and In Today's Department of Poetic Justice, a poetic tribute to the question: what's wrong with violating the ci...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2018
  • Length: 04:43
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In 2015 Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson made the first free ascent of the nearly vertical 3,000-foot piece of granite mountain known as the Dawn ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 09:57
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In “Himalayan Bound: One Family’s Quest to Save Their Animals–And an Ancient Way of Life” New Mexico-based Michael Benanav travels to northern Indi...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: ...how it has been..., Credit: Susan Cook
Horses at the Santa Ana Race track were set free in an effort to save them from the Southern California wildfires. Their freedom, like that of the ...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 05:35
Caption: Greg Dalton, Executive Producer and Host
On the front lines of climate change, the Inuit of the high Arctic - together with scientists, educators and policymakers – are fighting a battle f...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, KUHF, NPR Now, and KWIT


  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Red Pines on the cemetary edge in a Ted Cruz-kind-of-Christian town, Credit: Susan Cook/ Google Earth
I’ve been asking for about 9 years now why Red Pines that have thrived for hundreds of years would die. Not that I knew 9 years ago they would die....

  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 03:45

  • Added: Aug 23, 2017
  • Length: 27:03
  • Purchases: 2
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Lennard, who has been riding and fixing bikes for 50 years, is the author of 8 books, including “Zinn and the Art of…” titles about bicycle mainte...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2017
  • Length: 09:46
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The highest production of greenhouse gases in the US comes from the West Jefferson, Alabama Miller Electric Plant. The parent company- The Southern...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:55
Caption: Kryshon Bratton
Hear how Houston pool-builder Kryshon Bratton has used the entrepreneurial "pivot" to stoke growth and create the work-life balance she wants.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 11:57
Caption: ...even the polar bears can teach him..., Credit: Susan Cook
Recently, millions protested government inaction on climate change and global warming. Let us find words to help the current administration grasp...

  • Added: May 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:52