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53rd Earth Day
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to "Sounds Jewish" for Jewish music from around the globe urging us to approach the natural world with gemilut chassadim – or loving kindne...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Chomolungma Day
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Mount Everest, Credit: Stephen Alter
Every May 29th is Mt. Everest Day.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
In Fifty Years
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Earth Day is here, but a lot of us are inside. On this episode of Borrowed, we gather sounds of the natural world from the stoops and parks of Broo...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 32:47
  • Purchases: 1
Naomi Klein on the Case for a Green New Deal
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Author and activist Naomi Klein discusses her new book, On Fire, in which she argues that addressing the climate crisis requires more than simply r...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Whitewater State Park 100th Birthday
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique it’s time to celebrate as Whitewater State Park turns 100 years old this year! We talked to the parks Lead Interp...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 1
IE: Inside Europe, 11/16/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: - Is Poland set to withdraw from the EU in a Polexit? British financier Bill Browder wants sanctions in Europe against hu...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
IE: Inside Europe, 6/29/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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On this week's show: Turkey's president tightens his grip on power after presidential elections. NATO's new "European Readiness Initiative." Is ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
LBJ visit to Lake Erie led to cleaner waters
From: Great Lakes Today
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This month marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s visit to Buffalo New York -- a day that helped clean up waterways across the...

Bought by WABE, WCPN, North Country Public Radio, WBFO, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 5
Our National Parks: New Models
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: The Cape Cod National Seashore represents a new type of partnership between the National Park Service and communities to preserve areas of land across the country., Credit: NPS
These parks are all large areas of public land managed by the National Park Service. But there are few such opportunities anymore; all the land is ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
Our National Parks: Indigenous Voices
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: Parks such as Washita Battlefield National Historic Site and Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site have been established and interpreted to tell the difficult stories of atrocities against indigenous people. , Credit: NPS Archives
Though the national parks have famously been called “America’s best idea”, this sentiment is not universally accepted. Native Americans were dispos...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Our National Parks: Turning Admiration Into Action
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: National park boundaries that don’t comport with ecological realities make it challenging to protect animals that range outside the parks. It's just one of the challenges facing the National Park Service., Credit: Tim Rains / NPS
The National Park Service finds itself in a seemingly paradoxical circumstance: widely admired, but increasingly uneasy about its ability to carry ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
Our National Parks: For The Benefit Of All
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: The Deep Ravine Trail at Little Big Horn National Monument in Montana., Credit: Brandon Blackburn / NPS
National parks have famously been called “America’s best idea." This expression is commonly interpreted as meaning preservation of America’s iconic...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - David Quammen - 247
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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David Quammen talks about the history, animals, and land use conflicts related to Yellowstone National Park and reads a passage from the May issue ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Our National Parks: Ways To Experience The Parks
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: Rocky Ocean Drive on the Park Loop Road in Acadia National Park, Maine. The Park Loop Road allows visitors to experience Acadia by car. , Credit: Kristi Rugg / National Park Service
I’m often asked, “What’s your favorite national park?” It’s a question that gets me excited, thinking about all the parks I’ve been fortunate to vi...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Our National Parks: The Idea
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: Six million-acre Gates of the Arctic National Park was established in 1980. , Credit: Ben Minteer
There were national parks even before there was a National Park Service. Yellowstone National Park was the first in 1872. More big western parks fo...

Bought by Radio Newark and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 2
Our National Parks: The Best View
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: Denali Star Trails as seen from Bryce Canyon National Park, Bryce, Utah. Increasingly, the sky above national parks is considered as much a resource to protect as the land below., Credit: Jacob W. Frank | The National Park Service
It’s an understatement to say that the views in the national parks are striking. Take Bryce Canyon National Park, for instance, with its legions of...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Radio Newark, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 6
Minnesota State Parks Celebrate 125 Years
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Minnesota’s state park system turns 125 this year. Nationwide, park attendance has declined for the last twenty years or so. But in Minnesota, a ri...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 12:37
Katrina at 15: The Strength of the Music
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Music Street in New Orleans
A look back at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, 15 years later, to hear how some of New Orleans' best-loved musicians endured - and why. Gwen T...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 51:58
Antonia Juhasz on BP and the Gulf, 5 years After Deepwater Horizon
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Making Contact's Andrew Stelzer speaks with author, analyst, and oil industry expert Antonia Juhasz. She's been following BP since even before the ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 16:04
  • Purchases: 1
Can We Still Call It Wilderness?
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: The mountain pass, Sierra Nevada, Credit: Library of Congress
Writer Emma Marris and historian Paul Sutter join the Guys as they discuss the Wilderness Act of 1964, and how American ideas of wilderness and how...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 10:43
  • Purchases: 1
Evicted From the Wild
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: The mountain pass, Sierra Nevada, Credit: Library of Congress
Producer Jesse Dukes has the story of some five hundred families who were made to leave their homes in an area supposedly “pristine and free of hum...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 2
Maroon Bells Snowmass Wilderness
From: Untrammeled!
Series: Untrammeled!
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A hand-drawn map on a dining room table in a Colorado home was the main reason the spectacular Maroon-Bells Snowmass Wilderness was one of the firs...

Bought by Aspen Public Radio and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 10, 2014
  • Length: 26:45
  • Purchases: 2
Winona Mayor Mark Peterson
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Mark Peterson stops by to talk about John Latsch week and Winona issues. Following that, we fill you in on local events.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 01:09:51
Fukushima, 3 Years Later
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
Caption: Fukushima Survivor, Kenichi Hasegawa, Credit: Greenpeace
March 11 marks three years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It might be more accurate to say it marks three years since the start of this ongo...

Bought by Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1
The first surfers to brave San Francisco’s Ocean Beach
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Boards rest against the seawall at Ocean Beach, Credit: Angela Johnston
In his backyard in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood, Arne Jin An Wong coats a pink and white striped, eight-foot-long surfboard. This bo...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 1