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Where Humans and Animals Meet (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-A new solution is being tested against birds getting stuck in airplane engines or picking a farm field clean. -A nature-inspired design for invent...

Bought by WJCT, WJCU, WNMU-FM, WLIW, and WUGA (part of GPB)


  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
Pedal Power (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-In his book City Cycling, Ralph Buehler emphasizes that bicycling shouldn’t be limited to those who are trained, fit, and daring enough to battle ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WJCT, KMUN, WHCP-LP Cambridge, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 12
There's an art to building wooden boats-just ask Mike Vlahovich
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Mike Vlahovich, Credit: Tom Pich
Master Shipwright & 2016 National Heritage Fellow Mike Vlahovich builds and restores wooden fishing boats to keep alive the culture of the working ...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Spirituality in Millennials (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Are the "Millennials" approaches to spirituality more about choosing and consuming different “religious products” – meditation, prayer, yoga, a be...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WJCU, WUGA (part of GPB), WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 7
Harold Kyle: Making art with found objects
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Exhibit of Harold Kyle's sculpture
Auto Mechanic Harold Kyle plays with movement, balance, and shadows in his sculpture.

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Are Our Pets Making Us Sick (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-The number of human cases of Lyme disease is on the rise. -Are our pets making us sick? -The uses of Big Data in solving real world problems. And ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRDP, KEDT and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 9
Are Our Pets Making Us Sick?
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-The number of Lyme disease cases in humans is on the rise. -Work on a vaccine against Lyme disease. -Can our pets make us sick?

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WJCT, WJCU, WUGA (part of GPB), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
#1603 - Rethinking the Church in the 21st Century: Diana Butler Bass
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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In this far-ranging conversation, David Dault talks to Diana Butler Bass about her new book, Grounded: Finding God in the World - A Spiritual Revol...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
The Music of the Glaciers (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-An electronic musician uses the sounds of melting glaciers in his composition to raise awareness of climate change. -Documenting 1,000 years of mo...

Bought by WCNY, Raven Radio, WMUU-LP, KRDP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 7
Bicycle Fever at the Turn of the Century (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-In the late nineteenth century, American cities were home to more cyclists than anywhere else in the world. -An animator talks about working on S...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, KEDT, KRDP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
Kassie Hilgert turns a rust belt graveyard into an arts center.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: SteelStacks, Credit: Jonathan Davies
Reclaiming the abandoned Bethlehem Steel Plant for the arts gives a region new life

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
Ideas Books - Sean B Carroll: The Serengeti Rules
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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Biologist Sean B Carroll talks to Craig Barfoot about his latest book, The Serengeti Rules. We find out how wolves can change the physical shape of...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Allergy Season (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With spring come flowers, green grass, and new leaves on the trees. But those welcome sights also bring some not-so-welcome allergies. What causes ...

Bought by KENW, KRZA, and WABE


  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 3
Printed Organs - Coming to a Body Near You (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Organ transplants may one day be replaced by a serum grown from the patient's own cells that repair the damaged organ. -Why do people have allergi...

Bought by WCNY, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 10
Pulitzer 100: Stories in Science (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 1
Ideas Books: Ernest Naylor, Moonstruck, How Lunar Cycles Affect Life
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Ernest Naylor, Moonstruck
Interview with biologist Ernest Naylor about his book, Moonstruck. Throughout history, the influence of the full Moon on humans and animals has fea...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 27:16
  • Purchases: 1
Snot Otter (news feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Earth Day Specials
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The largest salamander in the United States has some great nicknames, from “Hellbender,” to “Mud Puppy.” But this ancient, aquatic giant is disappe...

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting


  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 1
Imitations: On GMOs and Concrete
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brooke Borel
Now that Stephen Colbert has put his alter ego to bed, some of you may be missing broadcasters pretending to be someone else. Well, apparently, Col...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Labor, Climate & The Music Behind Movements
From: Context Partners
Series: Movement Making
Caption: Pete Seeger entertaining Eleanor Roosevelt, honored guest at a racially integrated Valentine's Day party marking the opening of a new chapter of United Federal Labor in then-segregated Washington, D.C., Credit: Joseph A. Horne via Library of Congress, 1944
A conversation with Andrew Revkin, who's best known as a longtime New York Times environmental journalist but is also a songwriter and was for 20 y...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 15:58
  • Purchases: 1
Two Decades of Solar Pioneers in Sacramento
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 27: he publicly-owned Sacramento Municipal Utility District, or SMUD, had already installed the first utility-scale PV array in the nation ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 26:02
Solar For All: An Article of Faith
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 26: Minnesota’s community solar garden program may be the envy of the nation — once the utility’s stall tactics have been stopped — but it ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 27:11
A Deep Dive on Value of Solar and the Future of Solar Energy
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 22: “Utility regulation and rates is a contact sport,” says Karl Rabago, and that makes the implementation of a new “value of solar” policy...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 34:27
Kansas City: A Royal Effort to Solarize City Rooftops
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 25: In April, ILSR’s John Farrell interviewed Charles Harris, project manager with the Kansas City. Harris suggested that the project got i...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 15:21
Raleigh: Duking it Out Over Municipal Solar
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 24: In April 2015, John Farrell talked to Robert Hinson, renewable energy coordinator with the City of Raleigh, NC. In lieu of third-party ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 19:55
Lancaster: The Leading Solar City?
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Local Energy Rules
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Episode 23: Jason Caudle, city manager with the City of Lancaster, talked with John Farrell in April 2015 about his city’s solar boom. With more th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 19:21
  • Purchases: 1