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Gina Lemon: Leech Lake Tribal College Alumnus profile
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Ojibwemowin
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A Graduate of Leech Lake Tribal College, Gina Lemon discusses the importance of education, the reasons she was attracted to the subject of natural ...

Bought by KSRQ and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Jul 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 2
Ep. 1: "The Welsh Family"
From: Robert Wolf
Series: American Mosaic with Robert Wolf
Caption: Robert Wolf
The Welsh family were among the first organic farmers in northeast Iowa. This episode features Bill and Esther and their son Greg, all of whom writ...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:35
  • Purchases: 1
How 200 Ailing Pelicans Changed One Man’s Life
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
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The BP oil spill triggered an outpouring of volunteer energy. Concerned Americans lay boom, picked up tar balls, and performed mundane tasks like a...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 1
Grand Bayou, Self-Sufficient and Shrinking, Prepares for a Fisheries Collapse
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Caption: Rosina Philippe wonders whether Grand Bayou can survive as a subsistence community., Credit: Barry Yeoman
Members of the Atakapa-Ishak tribe have found a creative use for a high-tech fencing material that has protected soldiers in Iraq and strengthened ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:55
An Oystering Community Contemplates Life Without Oysters
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Caption: For Byron Encalade, oysters and culture are inseparable., Credit: Barry Yeoman
In Pointe-a-la-Hache, Louisiana, the oyster harvest feeds widows, sustains relationships, and keeps the rural economy humming. But the BP oil spill...

Bought by KUT and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 2
St. Cloud Historic Home Tour
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack takes us on the historic home tour which recently wound its way through the SCSU ne...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 31:11
MA-193 Food: What's Eating Me
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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For over a century, U.S. farmers have strived for quantity of food. Quality, though, is at least as important.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:26
Beautiful Winter
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: Kalia Xiong, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
Minneapolis Edison student Kalia Xiong tells that there is a lot to like in Winter.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Wild Comfort
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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In an effort to make sense of the deaths of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of excursion...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Sew Spot Sew
From: Littleglobe
Caption: By stevendepolo @ flickr
"Sew Spot Sew" is an audio piece by Sergio Gonzales, who strongly advocates DYI -- Do It Yourself, a movement that began in the late '50s. Since th...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
Making Peace With Nature After Environmental Disasters [Peace Talks Radio] 29:00
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Reflecting on the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill, three people, who have placed their relationship with nature at the center of their lives, offer their thoug...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 25, 2010
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 1
Laura Bell
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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The Write Question producer, Chérie Newman, talks with Laura Bell about her new memoir, CLAIMING GROUND.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
A Tax on plastic bags
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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ATMI Reporter Aviva Hirsch asks her group mates from Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) what it will take to get a tax through the assembly.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 04:00
Into The Woods
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Georgette Kanach loves to hunt, fish, hike, and do almost any activity that involves being out in the woods. It’s the place where she grew up, and ...

Bought by PRX Remix, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 3
Pilgrim's Journey
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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Solo journey on Vermont's Long Trail

  • Added: Jul 21, 2009
  • Length: 05:40
This I Believe - Gina Parosa
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Farmer Gina Parosa believes in setting good boundaries, and being flexible enough to change them.

Bought by WEZU and WEZU


  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 2
This I Believe - Majora Carter
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Environmental activist Majora Carter believes in making the old neighborhood a better place to live.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KSJD


  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 3
This I Believe - damali ayo
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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damali ayo believes in recycling stuff people discard--old papers, broken furniture, even lame dogs.

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WEZU, WEZU, KUOW, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 5
Rethinking Needs
From: Kyle Boelte
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The author goes into the wilderness and comes back with a new appreciation of his needs.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:33
This I Believe - David Gessner
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Nature writer David Gessner believes you don't have to go to Everest or the Amazon to find wildness.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KJZZ, and KZSC


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 4
Waterman
From: Long Haul Productions
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Profile of a man facing the challenges of managing an irrigation district in drought-stricken Montana.

Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, KVNF, The Nature Podcast, and KVMR


  • Added: Jun 04, 2007
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 5
Kids on the Farm
From: WFUV
Series: Notes from the Farm
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Farmer Cindy Jones talks about how growing up on a farm has affected her kids.

  • Added: Dec 04, 2006
  • Length: 03:34
This I Believe - Ruth Kamps
From: This I Believe
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Listener Ruth Kamps now finds her beliefs to be as firmly rooted as the pine tree that gives her inspiration.

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: The Walker
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A documentary about walking; its benefits and cultural history.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, KRZA, KFAI Minneapolis, WFUV and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
Escalante Adios
From: Western Folklife Center Media
Series: What's in a Song
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Curly Musgrave talks about "Escalante Adios" his ballad that gives a cowboy's perspective of the establishment of a national monument in Southern U...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2005
  • Length: 03:39