PRX - Pieces for Topic: Environment

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

2954 results


Earth Notes - Zuni Furniture
From: KNAU
Piece image
At New Mexico?s Zuni Pueblo, a renewable but often unwanted resource becomes beautiful furniture.

Bought by KUNM and KSUT


  • Added: Dec 07, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Earth Notes - Big Tree Registry
From: KNAU
Piece image
For some nature enthusiasts, there?s nothing more satisfying than finding big trees ? the biggest, in fact.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
Escalante Adios
From: Western Folklife Center Media
Series: What's in a Song
Piece image
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
Plastic Bags and Oil
From: Shana S. Weber, Ph.D.
Series: BioSphere
Caption: PRX default Piece image
They're made of oil??

  • Added: Nov 25, 2005
  • Length: 02:35
Worlds of Difference: A Home in the World
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
Piece image
An exploration of the changing relationship between culture and place, with stories from Ireland, Chile and the Middle East.

Bought by KTNA, Yellowstone Public Radio, WKSU, KUHB, WPSU and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2005
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
Volunteer Trail Crew
From: Steve Sergeant
Piece image
A day on a wilderness trail maintenance crew.

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Sep 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 1
Commentary: Pedal Power
From: KRCC-FM
Piece image
The joys of bicycle commuting

  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 04:17
Bovine Growth Hormone
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
Piece image
Dr. Doug Gurian-Sherman, Senior Scientist for the Center for Food Safety discusses the dangers of Boving Growth Hormone and Genetically Modified Fo...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2005
  • Length: 29:12
Salmonlands
From: Barbara Bernstein
Piece image
Salmonlands is a journey into the land of salmon, why they are so significant to the culture and community of the Pacific Northwest, and what it wi...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio, KALW, KRCB 104.9, and KSUT


  • Added: Jul 20, 2005
  • Length: 52:41
  • Purchases: 5
Commentary: Renewable Energy and Farmers
From: KRCC-FM
Piece image
Why farmers should pay attention to renewable energy

  • Added: Jul 16, 2005
  • Length: 05:00
Galapagos: Preserving the Trust
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Four MIT freshmen studying environmental problem-solving visit the Galapagos Islands; they return with the voices of the people (and animals) who ...

Bought by WXLV-FM, WYSO, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 19:58
  • Purchases: 3
Bioprospecting in Chiapas
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
Piece image
Traditional Mexican healers have stopped "bioprospecting projects of foreign pharmaceutical companies.

Bought by KSUT, KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, WAER Syracuse, NY, Here and Now and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 6
Roads on the Isthmus
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
Piece image
Improved roads were supposed to be a side-benefit of NAFTA, but some poor Mexicans are convinced that highways won't improve their lives.

Bought by KUNM and Here and Now


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 2
Corn in Oaxaca
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
Piece image
US corn imports in Mexico are making it hard for traditional farmers to maintain precious biodiversity.

Bought by KSUT, KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, and Here and Now


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 4
Timber in Durango
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
Piece image
Community-owned forests in Mexico are tapping into the demand for eco-friendly wood -- at least for now.

Bought by KUNM, Here and Now, and WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 3
Mangroves on the Yucatan
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
Piece image
Mexico is trying to balance its lucrative tourism industry with the need to protect fragile coastal ecosystems.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, Here and Now, and WYSO


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 4
THINK GLOBAL: Bill McKibben commentary
From: Public Radio Collaboration 2005
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Commentator Bill McKibben argues that thinking local makes sense both for people and the planet.

Bought by WSLR, KLCC, WUAL, WBST, WNKU and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2005
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 12
East Coast Culture Shock
From: Youth Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
After experiencing her first semester away at college, Youth Radio’s Nora Harrington realized that the hometown she was so happy to leave behind wa...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2005
  • Length: 01:51
Lapsarian Hummingbirds
From: Dale Short
Piece image
A poetic tribute to the arrival of the hummingbird

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WYSO


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 2
Ask the Librarian: Who's got better eyesight -- the jumping spider or the hawk?
From: Jackson Braider
Series: Ask the Librarian
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A schoolbook claims jumping spiders have better eyesight than hawks: is that true?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WUAL


  • Added: Nov 12, 2004
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 2
The Wind Will Carry Us: Moving Beyond the Oil Economy
From: A World of Possibilities
Piece image
Oil is heading out and wind is blowing in. So jump in the truck for a ride to the plains where wind is the new power.

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Oct 28, 2004
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Biodiversity
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
Piece image
Documentary about biodiversity, what it is and why it’s important in connection with UN ‘International Day of Biological Diversity’.

  • Added: Sep 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:16
Dead of Summer and other poems.
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
Caption: NYC, Credit: M. Van Halteren
2" audio poem about summer, part of group of four. available separately.

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZYX, and WMBR


  • Added: Aug 29, 2004
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 4
Surrounded By Sage: A Native Son Falls for the Land He Left Behind
From: Guy Hand
Piece image
A third generation Idahoan takes a closer look at sagebrush country, a landscape overlooked and abused—even by those born onto it.

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: Aug 25, 2004
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 1
The last wild place
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Wildlife cinemaphotographer Steve Kroschel tells us how his career began, his move to Alaska and about the wild creatures that share his home and l...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 19:34

Narrow the results by Topics

Narrow the results by Formats

Narrow the results by Tones