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Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
"We build ice cream shops with women in areas recovering from conflict or natural disaster, with the belief that these sweet, small enterprises can...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
There is a new kind of ‘leather’ that comes from coconuts instead of animals. It’s not only a sustainable alternative, it’s turning a waste product...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Mexico City uses the concept of vertical gardening to transform their highway pillars into air-cleansing and people-pleasing monoliths.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:31
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Bee habitats atop bus stops in Holland are reviving bee, butterfly and other insect populations.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Change your focus, change your world.
What if roads could repair themselves before becoming a hazard for vehicles? And what if they were economical and environmentally friendly as well?

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:28
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Clay tiles with micro algae are cleaning up industrial waste water in India.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A young Indian activist quits his Google job to clean up lakes in his country.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
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To encourage plastic recycling, Rome, Italy has implemented "metro credit" for each recycled plastic bottle.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:17
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The New York Botanical Gardens has launched an innovative program to help visitors, new and seasoned, to see nature in a different way—through the ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Oregon’s refillable beer bottle program started out small with just seven craft breweries participating. But the idea is catching on and these recy...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In an effort to raise awareness to a shrinking sea and call the sea back, Uzbekistan held its first electronic music festival on this ancient ocean...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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The movement itself is called biocouture - this poop to pants movement is raising eyebrows on both sides of the issue.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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A theme park in Western France has come up with an unprecedented solution to deal with trash on their grounds. They’ve enlisted the help of a crew ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Ethiopia is reforesting its arid landscape with an initiative called "Green Legacy."

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:28
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Innovative, environmentally friendly architecture boosts a local community in multiple ways.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:43
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Ocean conservation turns waste into beauty and provides local jobs.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:38
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Farming with the abundant resources of sun and seawater.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:42
Caption: Giant Anteater, Credit:  (Projeto Tamanduá/www.tamandua.org)
How giant anteaters get enough food into their tiny mouths to survive.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, WLPR , and KENW


  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Plastic garbage triggers disease in coral reefs.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: A still from Simon Faithfull's video created at the ARTSail Residency., Credit: Simon Faithfull
On this live streaming radio program, we consider how artists, curators, architects and writers are responding to climate change in South Florida. ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2018
  • Length: 52:45
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Water is a pretty basic resource that is essential in our lives. So when it begins to disappear or diminish in quality, our daily routine can chang...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 07:05
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Life in war torn regions of Afghanistan are bad enough for the communities but it can become even more hopeless when the water runs out.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 06:01
Caption: Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Mayor Paul Dyster, Credit: WBFO file photo
Mayors from the Great Lakes region are gathering this week in Montreal. And from that meeting comes a major announcement about climate change.

Bought by WBFO, WRVO Public Media, WMUK, WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Lake Ontario Shoreline, Credit: Joe deSousa, Flickr
Officials in the United States and Canada have approved a plan to allow the level of Lake Ontario to fluctuate more -- a change that has been oppos...

Bought by WSKG, WRVO Public Media, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, and WBFO


  • Added: Dec 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 5
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Storks in Europe are forgoing migration to Africa because of the ready availability of human food from landfills.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 20, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3