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Our misbegotten industrial food system is one of our greatest vulnerabilities. It’s dangerously fossil-fueled, toxic, monocultural and centralized....
- Added: Dec 05, 2011
- Length: 28:30
Two lives spent breaking the mold of both traditional and feminist perspectives are recounted in candid conversation, each with a focused sense of ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WZEN.org, KREV-LP, KUOW, WHRV and more
- Added: Oct 31, 2011
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 7
Though still small in the big picture, organic food has come all the way -- from hippie to hip to mainstream since the Sixties. But can organic foo...
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Aug 22, 2011
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 1
How secure are a far-flung global economy - and our food supply - in a time of climate change?
Bought by KQUA, Panhandle Community Radio, WSKG, and KPVL
- Added: Dec 03, 2010
- Length: 28:28
- Purchases: 4
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Matt Fidler and Dr. Despommier of Columbia University in New York talk about his new concept of Vertical Farming. That is, growing our food in a s...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Nov 26, 2008
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 19, 2008
- Length: 01:46
- Added: Sep 06, 2008
- Length: 07:22
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 11, 2008
- Length: 03:10
From corporate offices to dairy barn and farmstead cheese making
- Added: Nov 26, 2007
- Length: 13:36
Feeding our hunger for connection
- Added: Aug 20, 2007
- Length: 55:01
- Purchases: 2
On average, each of us scarfs up about 140 pounds of this delectable tuber a year. It's a $2 billion industry, but just a fraction of the potatoes ...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Organic food is becoming trendy, and you?ll be seeing more of it at your supermarket, it?ll probably be cheaper to.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
The Ashtabula River in Ohio flows into Lake Erie, one of the four Great Lakes.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
A study in the journal Nature found that up to 90 percent of the larger specimens of these species have disappeared from the world's oceans.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Fish farming - also known as aquaculture - helps to keep fish stocks up and prevent over-fishing. But fish farms are usually located in shallow wat...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Many of the world's fisheries and marine ecosystems are in trouble from overfishing and high "bycatch" - the accidental killing of millions of mari...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Open-field coffee cultivation emerged some 30 years ago. While the method may be productive in the short run, it often degrades the environment, an...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
Aquaculture is becoming big business in a hungry world. The challenge is to develop methods and technologies that produce sustainable yields while ...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
Joyce Vargas explores the idea of "city famrs" and how it might just bring change to one of the roughest neighborhoods in New York City.
- Added: Sep 11, 2006
- Length: 04:34
