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Food Justice in Urban Agriculture
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Food --- from where it grows, to where it goes, all of it matters to our bodies and our communities. We begin October with a conversation about how...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
2018-09-16 Farm to Table 2.0: Chefs Cutting Carbon
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Can a menu at a fancy restaurant be a map for solving the climate challenge? A handful of high-end chefs are using their restaurants to show how in...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Food Sleuth Radio, John Reganold Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that organic agriculture could make a significant contribution in helping to “feed the world?” Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registe...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Everybody Needs to Get Involved
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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For those of you that haven't noticed, water conflict is a topic that keeps on showing up in our lives. Each time water demand bumps up against wat...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:24
Retaining Rondon: Creole Food in a Changing World
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rondon, a traditional Creole dish, Credit: Maria Doerr
On the Eastern Coast of Nicaragua, palm plantations are taking over land traditionally used for growing coconuts. How are Creole people resisting ...

Bought by KRVS and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Allegheny Front Show June 12-June 18, 2014
From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment
Caption: Backbone Food Farm in Pleasant Valley outside Oakland, Maryland, on the edge of the Allegheny Mountains. , Credit: Jesse Wright (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
How Pittsburgh and Denmark are building the grid of the future what the EPA knows about fracking and water contamination, and how one farmer is rep...

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  • Length: 29:00
California Dreamed
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Because of persistent drought and water crises due to unsustainable practices, California is facing many challenges to its very existence. It is wa...

  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 05:23
Virtual Water
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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"Virtual water" is used to produce everything that we incorporate into our lives each day but is not listed on labels or calculated into price. Whe...

  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:19
07-08: Beyond the Bar Code: The Local Food Revolution , 2/18/2015
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Michael Pollan
Because industrial agriculture is the single most destructive human activity against the environment, what we put on our collective plate and how w...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
Foraging for fish in our own backyard
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Kirk Lombard explaining how to catch crab from the Bay , Credit: Angela Johnston
Kirk Lombard calls himself a sea forager, and every other week offers this walking and fishing tour: a two-hour lesson on how to catch your own sea...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 09:50
Marti Crouch: Brave New GMOs
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight’s guest is long-time critic of genetically modified organisms and foods, Marti Crouch, a noted academic research scientist in plant molecul...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 56:10
One World Everybody Eats
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Denise Cerreta
As founder of One World Everybody Eats, Denise Cerreta is determined to change the way restaurants do business and to bring delicious, healthful fo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 20:58
  • Purchases: 1
"Local, Sustainable Farming"
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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Bloomington farmer and author Peter Bane talks about his new book, "The Permaculture Handbook," dealing with the sustainable philosophy and practic...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:15
Byran Crigler of Herbal Turtle Farms Talks About Sustainable Foods
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Owners of Herbal Turtle Farms: Kate Foerster with partner Bryan Crigler and son Ayden
Local farmer and President of The Winona Farmers Market, Bryan Crigler stops by to inform us on Community Supported Agriculture, the importance of ...

Bought by KSRQ and KSRQ


  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 2
The Organic Revolution: From Hippie to Hip to Scale
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 11
Caption: Gary Hirshberg, Credit: Frank Rogozienski
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
Five Farms, Episode Five: Succession
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: David Pecusa, Third Mesa, Hopi Nation, Credit: Andrew Lewis
For each of the families of Five Farms, the question looms large: Who will take over the farm? Succession features the next generation --- the youn...

Bought by WCNY, WEKU, KFOK-LPFM, WRPI, KBGA 89.9 FM and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Five Farms, Episode Four: Harvest
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Jeff and Annie Main, Capay, Cal., Credit: Alix Lowrey Blair
Autumn is harvest time. That means Iowa corn and soybeans; fruit dried in the California sun; greens, beans, and potatoes; slaughtered hogs and bee...

Bought by WFAE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KICI Iowa City, KUNM, KUNC & The Colorado Sound and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 28
Five Farms, Episode Three: Stewardship
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Sherry Hager, Colrain, Mass., Credit: Steve Schapiro
Stewardship focuses on the daily choices farming families make to preserve their land, water, and air --- the fundamentals of farming. During mid-s...

Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, WEKU, KBGA 89.9 FM, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Five Farms, Episode One: Planting
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Craig Griffieon of Ankeny, Iowa, Credit: Elena Rue
Spring planting on the family farm is the time of the annual gamble --- on the alchemies of nature, on the health of livestock, on future fall harv...

Bought by WCNY, WFAE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KGNU Community Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Food and Forests: Reviving Diversity
From: A World of Possibilities
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Combining the newest techniques of sustainable agriculture with ancient practices of subsistence forest farming.

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KZYX, WRIR, KPVL and more


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 7
Oil on the Bayou - After the Spill
From: Julia Botero
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After the explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon Rig killed 11 workers in April 2010, oil began spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from the damaged well,...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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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
Searching For Farming's Future in its Past
From: Rachel Leventhal
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Searching For Farming's Future in its Past is part of a series produced by Rachel Leventhal for the NRDC about the impact individuals can make on t...

Bought by KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 07, 2008
  • Length: 09:41
  • Purchases: 3
Defining Organic Milk
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What do you envision when you think of an organic dairy farm? Cows out grazing in a pasture? Or standing on the concrete floor of a feedlot?

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Organic Products Go to Market
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Organic food is becoming trendy, and you'll be seeing more of it at your supermarket; it'll probably be cheaper too.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:32