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EE 24-10: The future of food according to Alicia Kennedy, 3/8/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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In her new book No Meat Required, food writer Alicia Kennedy looks at vegetarian movements of the past and shares her low-tech vision for the futur...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Rodolfo Gomez – "A Walk in the Costa Rican Rain Forest"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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On the eastern slope of the Continental Divide, about an hour’s drive east of San Jose, Costa Rica, is the Rain Forest Aerial Tram, a tramway that ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
EE 23-04: Max Haiven explains palm oil, 1/20/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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What can one commodity reveal about our food systems, about health, about labor and capitalism and about the environmental costs of so-called cheap...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
EE 22-19: Palm oil is everywhere–what can it tell us?, 5/6/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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What can one commodity reveal about our food systems, about health, about labor and capitalism and about the environmental costs of so-called cheap...

  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
EE 21-50: Now is the time for chestnuts, 12/10/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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What would it look like for midwestern farmers to convert row crops into tree crops?

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
2021-09-10 Water and Civilization: Resilience and Collapse
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Water is essential for life, and throughout history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new book, Wa...

Bought by KUHF, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Maine Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
210910: Water and Civilization: Resilience and Collapse, 9/10/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Water is essential for life, and throughout history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new book, Wa...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Dennis del Castillo & Mercedes Lu – Peruvian Environmental Issues
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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In this edition of Radio Curious, we visit Dennis del Castillo and Mercedes Lu, two environmental activists from Peru. I met with them in Lima, Per...

  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Bill Zacha – Developing an Artist Colony in the Village of Mendocino, California
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Bill Zacha, the leading force behind the creation of the Mendocino Art justify was a person with vision and moxie and one who made a dream come tru...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
2019-11-08 California’s Story: How Did It Get Here?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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California has long led the country in environmental action. It established strong automobile emission standards; it preserved fragile lands from d...

Bought by WJCT, WMUU-LP, WFHB, KBBI Alaska, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Eight Days a Week
From: Israel Story
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Arianna Skibell takes us to Battir, a pastoral village about three kilometers southwest of Jerusalem. Over the centuries, the serene landscape has ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 19:16
  • Purchases: 1
John McClow — Water wrangling in the American West (Part one)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes talks with water law expert John McClow.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Jordan Fisher Smith - 275
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jordan Fisher Smith talks about and reads from 'Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, A Trial, and the Fight Over Controlling Nature

Bought by KWMR, KSFR, KGLT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Trash Talk: The Persistence of Waste
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Buckhorn Mesa landfill., Credit: courtesy of Flickr user Alan Levine.
During our short time on Earth we humans have created a lot of stuff. Some of it's life-altering, like the device you’re using right now and some o...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WTJU


  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 39:39
  • Purchases: 2
An Interview with Marjane Ambler
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Marjane Ambler talks about and reads from 'Yellowstone Has Teeth: A memoir of living year-round in the world's first national park.'

Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
An Early American Conservationist
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Chautauqua scholar Lee Stetson, who portrays environmental conservationist John Muir. Muir founded the ...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 29:01