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19-10-04 Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WMUU-LP, KBBI Alaska, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
'Kansas Poets Laureate: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with part two of a former Kansas Poets Laureate reading, sponsored by the Kansas Area Watershed C...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Photo by Star Black released into the Public Domain
We continue our series on State Poets Laureate with the most recent California State Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia. In this archive interview, the Cali...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Gavin VanHorn: wildness where you live
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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Gavin VanHorn is the author of The Way of the Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
The Write Question - Gretel Ehrlich and Christopher Merrill - 427
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Gretel Ehrlich and Christopher Merrill discuss the anthology, "Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place." They participated ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Cai Emmons - 344
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Cai Emmons discusses her novel, "Weather Woman." She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates novelist Jennifer Haigh
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Jennifer Haigh's novel Heat and Light takes a hard look at fracking in an Appalchian town

  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:18
The Write Question - Jack Clinton - 324
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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This episode features a thoughtful conversation with Jack Clinton about his environmental novel, Clovis. He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Prairie Public, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
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
Animals, Our Equals? Sy Montogmery: TAMED AND UNTAMED & Elizabeth Tova Bailey, THE SOUND OF A WILD SNAIL EATING
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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Celebrated author Sy Montgomery talks with us about the essays she and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas have written and collected in a wonderful new book...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 01:34:38
Best-selling author Karen Joy Fowler discusses her novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves"
From: Out of Bounds
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Karen Joy Fowler talks about her compelling and heart breaking novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves."

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
Interview: Camille Dungy
From: Generation Anthropocene
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How do cultural constructs, like race, influence our relationship to the natural world? Poet and professor Camille Dungy explores this question by ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 25:50
Nature Writer Gary Ferguson
From: New Letters on the Air
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Gary Ferguson speaks about wilderness, loss, grief, and the symbolism of loons as reads from his memoir, THE CARRY HOME: LESSONS FROM THE AMERICAN ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Seth Kantner - 269
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Seth Kantner talks about growing up in rural Alaska -- 100 miles above the Arctic Circle -- and the essays in his collection 'Swallowed by the Grea...

Bought by KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Tim McDonnell's latest book is a 'why-do' manual for paddling
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Tim McDonnell grew up on the edge of the Boundary Waters and has been writing about wilderness for years. He joined WTIP's Dick Swanson to talk abo...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 19:35
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
Ideas Books Interview Mini - Sean B Carroll
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Author Interviews (non-fiction)
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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...

  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 07:21
Ideas Books: Mike Gonzales - The Last Drop, The Politics of Water
From: Craig Barfoot
Caption: Ideas Books: Mike Gonzales
Interview with author Mike Gonzales about his book, The Last Drop. The one indispensable resource, water is increasingly controlled and even owned...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:04
The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning nature writer Gary Ferguson talks about and reads from his memoir 'The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness.'

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Charles Eisenstein on Foundations of Earth Activism
From: Ayana Young
Series: Unlearn & Rewild
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Author and philosopher Charles Eisenstein discusses the narrative of separation from nature and the ecological crises it has wrought, as well as th...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
#1302- Religious Environmentalism, Part 2
From: Sandburg Media
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Fletcher Harper on GreenFaith; Katy Scrogin on The Man Within My Head.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 33:35
  • Purchases: 1
Mushi, Ticks, and Walking Sticks (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In Japan, insects (or "mushi") are pets, medicine, and even vehicles for spirits. Plus: A robot that kills ticks. And more...

Bought by WCNY, WABE, WTJU, and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 11, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 4
Mushi, Ticks, and Walking Sticks
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In Japan, insects (or "mushi") are pets, medicine, and even vehicles for spirits. Plus: A robot that kills ticks. And: A poem about the insect know...

Bought by WJCT, WDBM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WLIW, WMNF and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - 284 - Bryce Andrews
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Bryce Andrews talks with Chérie Newman about his decision to move to a cattle ranch in Montana and about the memoir he wrote about his experiences ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WCWP, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Josh Slotnick - 224
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Josh Slotnick talks about farming and his poetry collection, FarmHome. He also reads several poems.

Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7