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This summer we are revisiting some of our favorite World Ocean episodes that highlight optimism in ocean news, science and advocacy. In this episod...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2022
  • Length: 05:03
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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

  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 2
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The Amah Mutsun Ohlone are fighting to save their most sacred Indigenous site — a place called Juristac. Contributors Robert Raymond and Della Dunc...

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


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Julian Brave NoiseCat, LaNada War Jack and Clayton Thomas Müller
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. From the historic Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to the fossil fuel fights througho...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
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In this episode, we explore the mass acceleration of nearly every process on earth that began in Britain in the 1700s during the Industrial Revolut...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 48:25
  • Purchases: 1
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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
Caption: Seeds from a Mexican sunflower plant held by seed saver and educator Beth Bridgeman, who grows the plants on her rural property in Greene County, Ohio., Credit: Lauren Shows
When we think about a seed, what do we imagine? A possibility, maybe — a discovery. Waiting beneath the soil to unfold into something new, our seed...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 25:16
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
Caption: Heritage Oberkulmer Spelt and Einkorn Wheat from Tom and Mary Klein & Son’s Organic Farm in Carey, Ohio. , Credit: Renee Wilde
Today’s grocery store wheat comes from a variety of grains that were crossbred in the 1960’s to produce a higher yielding and lower cost crop. Th...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 19:48
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Topic 1: The Model Turned Spy Turned Countess; Topic 2: Sending Scientists into the Sky

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 51:48
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Aullwood naturalist Sam Romeo with cicada, Credit: Renee Wilde
Industrialized monoculture tends to treat insects as pests to be exterminated. What can we do to make them partners? For starters, listen. In this ...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 20:51
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Topic 1: Founding Fathers, Topic 2: Smokejumpers, Topic 3: Generalists

Bought by KSTK, KOWS, WYAP, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 51:41
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Swamp Canoe: Early season canoeing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota, Credit: Matthew Baxley
In wilderness settings, there are connections people can make to the land, regardless of their age, race or gender, by walking in the footsteps of ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
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This week on the show: Europe demands answers after US-Danish spying claims. Frustration with the German government's handling of the vaccine prog...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The word "Tree Hugger" can often be used in a derogatory manner. Although many people don't know its historical significance is much more than long...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Earth Day is the largest secular observance in the world, but it wouldn't have been possible if people didn't speak up for what is right. 40 years ...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
50 million new-planted trees and a Guinness World Record later, India is on its way to reducing extreme pollution.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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A harrowing look at the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion.

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 19
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What made the Owens Valley the way it is, in our time? An accident of history, of water grabs, of one group of humans using easy money to buy out a...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This month, when the maple sap is flowing, we have three different stories about the importance of trees and our interaction with them. We’ll meet ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 19:53
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There's a lot of farmland about to change hands. We can make sure it's distributed fairly to good stewards.

Bought by WFHB, KRZA, WYAP, and WFHB


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Did you know that food manufacturing brought into question a food’s purity? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgar...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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