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How do you clean up 100,000 tons of air pollution? Boatloads of air filters, and some basic high school chemistry. This story takes the listener in...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
Managing Editor Robert Rimm hosts a dialogue with Ashoka Fellow James Thornton, Founder and CEO of ClientEarth, an organization of legal experts pu...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 55:11
Well, in my state the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting published a lengthy article about a veteran lawmaker who is strongly supporting a ...
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: 03:23
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.
Bought by WMMT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 3
The Hetch Hetchy Regional Water system, operated by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC), carries water to 2.6 million customers in ...
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 04:57
Kayla Sargent reports on EarthCorps International, a program that brings young international students to the Seattle area for preservation efforts
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 03:04
Kendrick Bradley is a mountain biker. He’s from Bellingham. One of his favorite spots to ride is Galbraith Mountain – it’s practically his backyard...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 08:44
Weekday intern Claire Thompson spoke with James Rasmussen, a leader of both the Duwamish tribe and the river's cleanup effort, about why the restor...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 03:44
As Weekday High?s Noah Katz reports, the health of Quartermaster Harbor is in serious decline.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 02:38
Hannah Smith talked to people in the growing neighborhood of Three Tree Point.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 02:22
Kirk Lombard calls himself a sea forager, and every other week offers this walking and fishing tour: a two-hour lesson on how to catch your own sea...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 09:50
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 the outside, Richardson Bay in tony Sausalito looks like a manicured sea of floating million dollar homes, bobbing up and down in orderly rows...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 09:00
Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. And yet for people of color who enjoy the outdoors, exploring Minnesota's wilderness spaces can be ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 05:16
Jesse Moss talks recapturing cinematic freedom, finding common ground, and surrendering to the moment.
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 16:58
- Purchases: 1
So what? I’m a little obsessed with pigeons. I’m not sure when it started exactly, but at some point I realized I couldn’t keep my eyes off of them...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 3
Legislative ethics exist to put the brakes on political gamesmanship- whether it’s trading votes to pass a bill, get a fat salaried new Federal job...
- Added: Aug 20, 2014
- Length: 10:07
Well, we’ve all heard that April showers bring May flowers. In this month’s episode of Sidewalk Radio, we’ll also find that water brings folklore,...
- Added: May 06, 2014
- Length: 24:26
Winning is the short view of Political gamesmanship.Fake news creation is part and parcel of it. Environmental contamination is the long view when ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 07:50
Almost 30 million Americans live a mile or more away from a supermarket. That may not sound very far, but for the five million plus who don’t have ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
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
Sonnets are a way to find optimism in difficult times. This is a sonnet that acknowledges that the first fish is the best fish and can provide f...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KMXT
- Added: Oct 13, 2013
- Length: :51
- Purchases: 2
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
These days, more and more researchers link our health to our daily surroundings. Take for example, neighborhoods that sit next to freeways exposed ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:02