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GN_6.09_Seaweed to the Rescue
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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Commercial kelp farming in Alaska is moving from harvesting natural kelp beds, to using farm-raised beds in order to create more sustainable harves...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:16
GN_6.06_Future Forest
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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At the Chapultepec Botanical Gardens in Mexico City a new kind of foliage is taking over. The Future Forest, created by Danish artist Thomas Dambo,...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:17
GN_6.04_Fertile Ground For Artists
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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The New York Botanical Gardens has launched an innovative program to help visitors, new and seasoned, to see nature in a different way—through the ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 1
GN_6.03_Ethiopia's Green Legacy
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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Ethiopia is reforesting its arid landscape with an initiative called "Green Legacy."

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:28
GN_6.02_Thousand Tiny Miracles
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Change your focus, change your world.
A colony of bees miraculously survives the 2019 Notre Dame fire.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:18
GN_6.01_Airport Water Bottles
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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San Francisco Airport bans water bottles to save the planet.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 15, 2021
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
GN_7.11 Houses of Hemp
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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They don’t call it “weed” for nothing; building houses from Hemp.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:31
GN_7.05 Flip Flop Art
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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Ocean conservation turns waste into beauty and provides local jobs.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:38
GN_7.03_Sun Sea Food
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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Farming with the abundant resources of sun and seawater.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:42
GN_4.22_FishFreeFishFood
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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Tackling the challenges of overfishing, while also working towards stalling the effects of climate change.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Stories from The Big New Jersey Plastic Ban
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Troop 19 addressing Teaneck City Council
Small town environmentalists and a dozen girl scouts won the first local bag ordinances in New Jersey, sparking the strongest state plastic ban in ...

Bought by WFHB and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
What happens when paper gets recycled?
From: Possibly
Caption: Paper recycling plant , Credit: Bas Emmen
Today we have a question about paper recycling. What happens after you throw your paper into the blue bin? How much of that paper actually gets reu...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:50
Tapping Into The Love Of Wild, Inside Appalachia, 9/24/2020
From: West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Series: Inside Appalachia
Caption: BARB SARGENT, Credit: COURTESY WV DNR
In this day and age, kids spend so much time looking at screens. This week on Inside Appalachia, we’ll meet a storyteller and songwriter who inspir...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
Sacred Land Beneath Skyscrapers
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fall 2020 Student Edition
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In this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami students Diana Borras and Kurt Gessler discover sacred land hiding i...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:46
WoodSongs 754: Pete Seeger Celebration
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
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For this special encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon will be celebrating the life and music of Pete Seeger with a few close...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KENW, Yellowstone Public Radio, KBBI Alaska, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 22
Puzzling The Children's Hour
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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The world's most syndicated daily puzzle author, David L. Hoyt puzzles our Kids Crew, and we learn about the Doomsday Seed Vault

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, RadioFreePalmer, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WCNY and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Reciprocity (episode 5)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
Caption: Growing Old
Explore the role that trees play in human health and urban climate resilience, particularly amid a pandemic. Talk with City of Seattle urban forest...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 32:31
  • Purchases: 2
The Garbage Gourmets
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Climate conscious cooks turn discards into delicacies.

Bought by WFHB, WFHB, KICI Iowa City, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Designing a Future Where Everyone Counts
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Jutta Treviranus pushes back against cultures, policies, and technologies designed only for those deemed "normal." As founder and director of the I...

Bought by KMUN, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
What is The Most Beautiful Sound?
From: City High Radio
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What is the most beautiful sound? Teenager Alex Soto investigates. A version of this story was selected as a finalist in the 2020 NPR Student Pod...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 07:53
  • Purchases: 2
Declutter for Greater Happiness - Episode 11
From: Daisy Oz
Series: Happy News
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Daisy presents a 2-part feature on Decluttering for more happiness. This first episode explores physical clutter's detriment to our overall well-be...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
JoRee LaFrance
From: KXCI
Series: Thesis Thursday
Caption: Picture 3: Photo taken during the parade at my tribe's annual celebration, Crow Fair, in 2019. (PC: Tony Manolis Photography).
My Apsáalooke name is Iichiinmaaáatchilash - Fortunate with Horses and my English name is JoRee LaFrance. I come from the Apsáalooke (Crow) nation ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2020
  • Length: 04:39
Depaving Portland
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Citizens wielding pry bars and thermometers turn parking lots into rain gardens and change city policy to favor green over grey.

Bought by WFHB, WFHB, KRZA, KICI Iowa City, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jan 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Winterfat
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I think it’s fascinating that there are several species of winterfat found in Eurasia and Europe. That’s where the genus was first described by a G...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 05:43
Monique Morris, SING A RHYTHM, DANCE A BLUES & Ben Ehrenreich on the California Wildfires
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We talk with social justice scholar Monique Morris about her new book, Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brow...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 59:01

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