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Tuna became the 'go to' fish because it was cheap and plentiful. we look at the pitch for tuna.
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Joanna Solotaroff looks at the emotional connection with tuna, created by marketting. .

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Allegheny Front Earth Day Special
From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment
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A 29-minute special including interviews, sound-rich features and historical clips about the history of Earth Day.

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Origin of the name Greenpeace.
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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We hear who really came up with the name Greenpeace and why.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:09
Anishinaabe Way: The Inherent Right of Sovereignty, Part 5
From: WTIP
Series: Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People
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April McCormick works in the Land Trust office on the Grand Portage reservation. She defines the various types of land ownership at Grand Portage, ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 1
Anishinaabe Way: The Inherent Right of Sovereignty, Part 4
From: WTIP
Series: Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People
Caption: Bryan Bainbridge, Credit: Red Cliff Reservation
The Inherent Right of Sovereignty Part IV examines the sometimes complicated relationship that area tribes have with regard to environmental regula...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WGZS


  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 08:38
  • Purchases: 2
Ep.05: Trekking to the North Pole & The World's Fridge
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Episodes
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Trekking to the North Pole, the World's Fridge

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 16:50
Curtis Gagnon discusses American Indian Treaty Rights, traditions and spiritual values
From: WTIP
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Back in 1984, Grand Portage Band Member Curtis Gagnon shot a moose at the right time and in the wrong place. The story of what happened after that ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
Lauret Savoy - Trace, Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Caption: Lauret Savoy
WV talks with environmental earth scientist and writer Lauret Savoy about her stunning new book, TRACE. In it, Savoy examines how the country’s sti...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
"Northwoods Naturalist" weighs in on possibility of an early spring
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist who has lived and worked on the North Shore since 1974. She's the Northwoods Naturalist on WTIP and...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 17:20
Earthquake! Part 1
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Vance Gellert's Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Vance Gellert's Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota
When Vance Gellert decided to photograph the Iron Range, people asked him why. In his traveling show Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota, V...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 13:30
How & where did dogs evolve? Scientist & veterinarian explains
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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A recently published study suggests that all dogs alive today can trace at least some of their ancestry back to dogs that were domesticated 33,000 ...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 20:06
Climatologist/meteorologist Mark Seeley recaps 2015 weather
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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2015 was a pretty unusual year for weather. Dr. Mark Seeley, extension climatologist, meteorologist, and professor, and regular guest on Minnesota ...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2016
  • Length: 19:48
The 21st Century Maritime Museum
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Maritime Museum on the Hong Kong waterfront.
In October of 2015 Peter Neill, Director of World Ocean Observatory and host of World Ocean Radio, attended the bi-annual conference of the Interna...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 05:32
A Long Train
From: Andrew Poirier
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Reporter Andrew Poirier takes a ride on the A train from beginning to end and discovers that there is more to this train than meets the eye.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 04:22
Eat Walk Shoot Draw: A New Film on John James Audubon
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Al Reinert will premiere Audubon, a new documentary about the renowned bird artist, eloquent writer, and...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:10
Benham Farm
From: renee wilde
Series: Farmland Preservation
Caption: Jerry Benham and Stanley McMurray, Credit: renee wilde
Jerry and Jane Benham own a Century Farm that they have preserved for the next generation of farming.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:23
Acts of God, Acts of Men:
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Weather Made to Order? , Credit: May 28, 1954 Collier's magazine cover.
When we turn nature into a weapon.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 36:16
My Life as a Wild Turkey (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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World-renowned naturalist Joe Hutto, subject of the Emmy winning BBC documentary "My Life As a Turkey", discusses how he became a wild turkey mothe...

Bought by WCNY, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Talking Information Center, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 19
Split Rock Lighthouse lit Nov. 10 in memory of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Nov. 10 is the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It's also the only time each year that the Split Rock Lighthouse beacon i...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 12:50
Anishinaabe Way: The Inherent Right of Sovereignty, Part 2
From: WTIP
Series: Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People
Caption: Sonny Meyers
Article 11 of the Treaty of 1854 provides for the retained rights to hunting, fishing and gathering of resources in lands ceded by Anishinaabe trib...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 1
Behaving Against Our Interests: Paul Ehrlich #110
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Today it could be argued that human beings daily act against our own self-interests. How? Biologist Paul Ehrlich and fellow scientists tell us we a...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KRZA, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Fifty years on Mic Mac Lake
From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project
Caption: The Lake Superior Project, Credit: Logo by Lauryl Loberg
Mic Mac Lake is a remote lake within Tettegouche State Park. Along its shore are a group of log buildings that used to be known as the “Tettegouche...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 1
Unspun Looks at the Sixth Great Extinction with Paul Ehrlich, Biologist, Environmentalist and Author
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Paul Ehrlich
Unspun peers into the future at the Sixth Great Extinction with Paul Ehrlich. Paul R. Ehrlich is the Bing Professor of Population Studies and the ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Sep 27, 2015
  • Length: 57:49
  • Purchases: 1
A Salt Story: West Virginia Siblings Mine the Past to Build a Future (Gravy Ep. 22)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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While West Virginia may be known for resources like coal, the country once turned to this mountain state for a culinary staple: salt. In this episo...

Bought by WMMT, WMMT, KVLU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 23:22
  • Purchases: 6

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