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North American plant

  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 10:20
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The art of Brooklyn-based artist Bahar Behbahani responds to the history and character of the complex landscapes that surround her—reflecting on he...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 16:19
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The vast landscapes of the southwest are to die for and every once in a while I capture one with my camera. More and more I remind myself to just t...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:56
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I concentrated on a few fall bloomers in the Aster family that have yellow flowers and I bet you thought of other species that should have been inc...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:31
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There is no getting around it, every summer monsoon when the borderlands come to life it is so exciting!

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:23
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Food insecurity plagues much of the developing world. Tasmanian agriculture scientist Bruce French is intending to change this tragedy by catalogin...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
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As the coal industry in West Virginia declides, a nonprofit is offering displaced workers an environmentally friendly industry instead—beekeeping.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:38
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Beautifying the world and saving the bees at the same time by making "seed bombs" that grow beautiful flowers perfect for pollination.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Planting and harvesting fresh food in a Los Angeles back yard grows a successful local food exchange.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
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In the search for more sustainable construction materials, a California artist is making bricks out of fungus, and they are stronger than concrete.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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A bee-saving plan in America's upper midwest.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
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Mexico City uses the concept of vertical gardening to transform their highway pillars into air-cleansing and people-pleasing monoliths.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:31
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Bee habitats atop bus stops in Holland are reviving bee, butterfly and other insect populations.

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The city of Atlanta, Georgia is transforming 7 acres of unused land into the nation's largest food forest.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
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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
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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
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Ethiopia is reforesting its arid landscape with an initiative called "Green Legacy."

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:28
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
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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
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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
Caption: The photo is mine and that’s Ms. Mesquitey along the San Pedro River. The bird song along that riparian corridor is unbelievable and we spent some time trying to identify certain calls and songs.
I guess I don’t have a whole lot more to add about this show. Well, I have been known to sing a little better than this.

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:37
Caption: The photos of Penstemon fendleri are mine and taken at our little homestead.
Well, I was a little worried, but I was pretty close on the number of Penstemon species in Arizona. There are close to forty. Arizona Flora lists t...

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:47
Caption: The photo is mine of a white flower atop a branch of Fendlera. Around you and me in the borderlands, you find this tall stemmed woody shrub from 4,000’ to 7,000’ on rocky slopes. It usually done blooming come June, so there is still time to catch it in bl
I sure talk about a lot different flora and fauna. From three species of quail, to canyon wrens, to Yarrows spiny lizards, to bristlehead (Carphoch...

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 05:30
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There are 13 species of oaks found in Arizona and they range from 3,000 to 8,000 feet in elevation across the state. The only one I haven’t seen i...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 05:07
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Mike McGrath welcomes Sebastian Kretschmer of the United Nations as our special guest this week to talk about SUSTAINABLE Gardening systems around...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2019
  • Length: 54:59