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The World in a Wine Glass
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Meat + Three
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Wind your way through the world’s markets, both physical and financial, to find out how they’re changing. This week on Meat + Three, we explore glo...

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 19:35
  • Purchases: 1
Oil Spills and Moldy Paper
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Preserving history is about more than battling mold and disintegration. We took a trip to Greenpoint, Brooklyn to learn about how an environmental ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 24:49
The Halcyon Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we are talking about ocean calm and the ways that we are affected in mind, body and spirit by a peaceful ocean. In this episode we tell t...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:51
The Security Edge: Part Five of a Seven Part Series on the Ocean Edge
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Strait of Gibraltar from space, Credit: Wikipedia Commons
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss the natural security provided by the ocean edge: the barrier effect of mangroves, beaches, cliffs, ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:40
Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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It's complicated.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 32:16
John McClow — Water wrangling in the American West (Part one)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes talks with water law expert John McClow.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tom Fleischner — The natural history of wellness and oneness
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes speaks with ecologist and author Dr. Tom Fleischner.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1: We The Purple
From: PurpleState
Series: PurpleState
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eTown’s PurpleState Episode 1, We the Purple, explores the structural, historical, and cultural forces that have contributed to political division ...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and KVNF


  • Added: Oct 07, 2018
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2
Free the Beaches
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Free the Beaches tells the story of activist Ned Coll and his campaign to open New England’s shoreline to African Americans, as northern white fami...

Bought by WCNY, WFHB, WYAP, Harford Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 11
Free the Beaches
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Free the Beaches tells the story of activist Ned Coll and his campaign to open New England’s shoreline to African Americans, as northern white fami...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KMUN, KMXT, WVAS and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
Close One
From: Jane Hirsh
Series: American Dream Players' History Bits
Caption: baby antelope, Credit: snappygoat free images
"Close One' is a tale of early California, a time when Mexico, indigenous tribes, and Americans were struggling to achieve dominance in the West.

  • Added: Jan 01, 2018
  • Length: 21:45
Part 1: Environmental groups slow to seek out minorities
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite in 1903, Credit: Library of Congress
Part 1 of series -- When you think of the environmental movement, what comes to mind. Preserving the wilderness in national parks? Or guaranteeing ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WBFO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 8
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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How bicycles captivated America - A conversation with an animator behind The Simpsons and Spongebob Squarepants - The story of the disappearing lak...

Bought by WCNY, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, WCWP and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
The Flattened Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Age old discoveries and scientific advances have long dispelled the belief that the earth is flat. Recent technological advances have moved recorde...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 05:24
AMOS 17.133: Our Earliest Ancestor, 7/5/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Our Earliest Ancestor

  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
The Write Question - Jordan Fisher Smith - 275
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jordan Fisher Smith talks about and reads from 'Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, A Trial, and the Fight Over Controlling Nature

Bought by KWMR, KSFR, KGLT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
AMOS 17.078: When Continents Collide, 4/19/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
When Continents Collide

  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Muscle: Flex Your Mouse
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2017
  • Length: 09:32
Mario Soares: A Tribute for an Ocean Exemplar
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Mario Soares, former PM and President of Portugal, statesman, exile, political prisoner, "father of democracy", passed away last week at the age of...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 05:09
Peace Greats (Part 2)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Memorable moments from Peace Talks Radio programs spotlighting Nobel Prize winners Mairead Maguire, Ralph Bunche, Muhammad Yunus, Jody Williams, Ma...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 2
Pedal Power (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly 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 WCNY, 'The Sea', WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRDP, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 8
Happy 100th to the National Park Service!
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Aug. 25 marked the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. WTIP's Dick Swanson spoke with Professor Michael Tarrant, who believes the parks...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 21:42
An Apple Quest (Gravy Ep. 43)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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You’ve heard of explorers discovering new lands, but new… fruits? In this episode of Gravy, a couple of young fruit explorers scour the South on a ...

Bought by KVLU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KSFR


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 26:09
  • Purchases: 3
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