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Columbia University historian Timothy Mitchell, whose latest book traces the relationship between carbon-based energy production and the developme...
- Added: Apr 26, 2013
- Length: 58:01
We revisit one of our first interviews with environmental historian Richard White. He addresses the (mis)perceptions of the natural world, the ambi...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 23:59
Historian, author, and urban park ranger Jenny Price makes her case for throwing out the well-tread “save the planet” mantra in favor of a new envi...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 39:49
First, two authors set out on a life-changing journey together to examine the ugly realities of racism, the enduring cultural scars left by the Ame...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 2
Curator for the Museum of PostNatural History in Pittsburgh, Richard Pell describes a new way for us to view how humans control the evolutionary pa...
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 19:03
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
A 16-minute spoken history / audio documentary on Appalachian regional history and the prominent issue of mountaintop removal coal mining. Compiled...
Bought by WDBM and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 15:55
- Purchases: 2
In this episode we see old bones made new again. First the ongoing restoration of Philadelphia's 19th Street Baptist Church. Then a discussion abou...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 17:11
Environmental historian Jon Christensen discusses the mythos of the American frontier and some of his unique approaches to history. Christensen als...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 40:29
The story of a unique landmark off the eastern coast of England - a packing shed built in the 1890s for the cleaning, sorting, and packing of oysters.
- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 29:00
The construction of the Ashokan Reservoir and the Catskill Aqueduct to provide NYC with water has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal....
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 06:37
This week's stories are all about being outsiders. Stories by Judith Gardner, Frank Fusco, and Alan Reese. True stories told by the Southerners who...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 29:00
This piece explores the unintended consequences that occurred to a once rural New York community after the building of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 08:13
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will take us on a tour of the canals of the world.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 06:11
Richard signs up with his roommate to work amidst the lakes and falls and trees in Upstate New York. Richard and Jim preach on Sundays and spend th...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:05
Almost 50 years ago, a group of concerned citizens battled energy giant Consolidated Edison and launched the environmental movement.
- Added: Feb 07, 2013
- Length: 16:41
- Purchases: 2
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 04:23
There It Is—Take It! is a self-guided car audio tour through Owens Valley, California along U.S. Route 395 examining the controversial social, poli...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:33:49
The untold story of the how the Coastal Commission took on the Southern Pacific Railroad in Monterey to prevent the sale of their abandoned railroa...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 11:14
Saving Crystal Cove - The story of Laura Davick, an accidental activist, who used the California Coastal Act to save the historic 1930's cottages i...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 21:58
Richard White, a MacArthur “genius” and the author of "Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?,' explains how our notions of wilde...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 49:47
In our second compilation, we bring together voices from the Leopold Leadership Program to investigate the changing nature and changing goals of co...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 23:16
Dr. Seth Moore leads the Biology and Environment departments at Grand Portage Trust Lands and is a regular contributer to WTIP North Shore Communit...
Bought by KSRQ, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
- Added: Nov 06, 2012
- Length: 05:16
- Purchases: 3
Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 4
Radio Curious visits with Mark Kitchell, producer of the new film, A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle For a Living Planet, which documents 50 years of...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 29:01
