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Cultivating Place: Designing With Palms, A Conversation With Jason Dewees
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
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This week on Cultivating Place, Designing with Palms – in the heart of Spring Break season where those of us in colder climes might be longing for ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
245: Imagining Climate Change / 246: Love + Evolution (Live) , 2/10/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Imagining Climate Change" - We have lots of facts about climate change. What we need is more stories. Can imagination save the planet? ...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
2018-02-04 EPA Then and Now
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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It was in 1970, under President Nixon, that the Environmental Protection Agency was founded. While the Agency enjoyed tremendous bipartisan support...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KUNM, KWIT, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Past American Voice of Poet Kenneth Irby
From: New Letters on the Air
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The late poet Kenneth Irby (1936-2015) traveled the States before settling in Lawrence, where he spent his teaching and writing career at the Unive...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNJR, and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
429-2017's Catch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2017 my team the Catalina Sky Survey led the world in the discovery of Earth approaching objects by identifying 987 of them as they whizzed by us.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , Bandon Community Radio, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
241: In the Company of Wolves / 242: Shock Value, 1/27/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "In the Company of Wolves" - Wolves are among the most controversial animals on the planet. We'll track Yellowstone's wolves with the peo...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:59
425-Greg's Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Greg's comet comes into our neighborhood once per human lifetime and spends most of it's time in the lonely space high above or far below the rest ...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WEJP-LP 107.1, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
424-Long Winter Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Long Winter nights with good seeing, from start to finish, are those on which the asteroid hunter makes new discoveries while being treated to view...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WEJP-LP 107.1, KKRN, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Author Gail Francis on walking from Mexico to Canada
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Gail Francis is an author and outdoor enthusiast based in Duluth. Her book, "Bliss(ters): How I Walked From Mexico to Canada One Summer," chronicl...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 20:40
The Autumnal Borderlands
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I was incorrect about the species of Acalypha in this show. The correct name is A. phleoides (the former A. lindheimeri), not neomexicana as I stat...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 05:16
White As Snow: Coral Bleaching in the Pacific
From: Betsy Brown
Caption: Bleached Anemone at Gab Gab II, Guam, Credit: Corri Gobin
Something happened to one of my favorite places this year. On Wavelengths Ocean Podcast I take you to the island of Guam where coral bleaching impa...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2017
  • Length: 12:30
What's At Stake With Steak
From: Renata Anuhea Sebstad
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"What's At Steak With Steak" gets us to look at our dinner plate differently and leave us with deeper questions about how we relate to meat.

  • Added: Dec 23, 2017
  • Length: 31:02
227: The Sound of Silence / 228: Forgiving The Unforgivable, 12/9/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Sound of Silence" - Want to get to know yourself better? Try being quiet. This hour, how silence can improve our lives. HOUR TWO: ...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:57
Survival of the Kindest: Tom Shadyac #201 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Tom Shadyac is a successful Hollywood comedy director who found the traditional trappings of success were not the key to happiness. He traded a man...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Nov 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
A Not So Big Life: Sarah Susanka #117 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Architect Sarah Susanka observed that houses in the U.S. were getting larger – but some rooms were seldom occupied, and often not even furnished. S...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, KRZA, and KTRL


  • Added: Nov 14, 2017
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 4
A Lot of Damn Work
From: Shizue Roche Adachi
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Small-scale Wisconsin dairy farmer, Paul Buhr, shares his struggle to survive in a landscape of ever growing big farms.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:30
406-2 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In less than 24 hours, while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona , I discovered two 25 foot diameter ...

Bought by KENW, KKRN, WTIP, KSFR, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Dave & Amy Freeman talk about their new book, "A Year in the Wilderness: Bearing Witness in the Boundary Waters"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: "A Year in the Wilderness," named one of 20 Big Indie Books of Fall 2017 by Publishers Weekly
Explorers Amy and Dave Freeman spent a year in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to bring attention to threats to this area. Now they're ou...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 02, 2017
  • Length: 24:24
  • Purchases: 1
Language Is Life, Land is Sacred
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Making Contact's Community Storytelling Fellows Vincent Medina and Isabella Zizi share deep and personal stories on Native American Organizing and ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KQED, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Longtime wilderness guide Douglas Wood on his new memoir, "Deep Woods, Wild Waters"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Douglas Wood, longtime wilderness guide, is also a prolific author, perhaps best known for his first book, "Old Turtle." Now he's out with a memoir...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 16:12
ZILLAH EISENSTEIN discusses her long journey battling cancer
From: Out of Bounds
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Feminist writer, Zillah Eisenstein, author of "Feminism, Racism and the West" and "Manmade Breast Cancer" talks candidly about her personal struggl...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Cruel Hoax: Stephanie Mills #106 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Stephanie Mills made headlines in the Spring of 1969 when she vowed, in her commencement address (titled The Future is a Cruel Hoax), to conceive n...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, KTRL, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Prose and a Poem about the Eclipse
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Looking into the Sun, Credit: Katie Carter
Many of our listeners were moved by Monday's solar eclipse. We heard from Tom Salwasser who wrote about his experience in Remer Eclipse Story and ...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2017
  • Length: 10:41
Rick Anderson donates family's archaeological collection to Grand Portage National Monument
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Over many years, Grand Portage resident Rick Anderson and his family collected thousands of historic artifacts near the Boundary Waters. Now, he ha...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2017
  • Length: 21:17
193: Imagining Climate Change / 194: Awkward, 8/12/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Imagining Climate Change" - We have lots of facts about climate change. What we need is more stories. Can imagination save the planet? ...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:57

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