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GN_6.35_ Coconut Leather
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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
GN_6.19_Via Verde
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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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
GN_6.18_Bus Stop Bees
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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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
GN_6.15_Avocado Fork
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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A mexican company takes local waste and transforms it into something sustainable and profitable: cutlery made from avocado pits.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:28
GN_6.43_ RubberRoad
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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
GN_6.52_ Algae Tiles
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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
GN_6.55_ For the Love of Lakes
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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
GN_6.12_A Plastic Ride
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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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
GN_6.04_Fertile Ground For Artists
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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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
GN_5.03_CountingOnCrows
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
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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
GN_6.03_Ethiopia's Green Legacy
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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Ethiopia is reforesting its arid landscape with an initiative called "Green Legacy."

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:28
GN_7.06 Super Adobe
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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Innovative, environmentally friendly architecture boosts a local community in multiple ways.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:43
GN_7.03_Sun Sea Food
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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Farming with the abundant resources of sun and seawater.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:42
Joe Brewer: Farms of the Future
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joe Brewer
For environmentalists “agriculture” can be something of a dirty word, associated with other words such as, pesticides, water consumption, pollutant...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 10/30/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Lifestyle choices - We learn about how much our food should really cost, what decluttering a family home can entail, and ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 10/16/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Elephants and dingos and bears (oh my!) - From Zimbabwe to Australia to Italy, we meet the communities living alongside ...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 09/25/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Creatures great and small - From caring for baby monkeys in Kenya, once mighty lions in Sudan to genetically modified mos...

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


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 09/04/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Fossil fuel damages - As a major oil spill threatens coral reef ecosystems off Mauritius, locals are asking who'll pay f...

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


  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Living Planet 08/21/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Whose outdoors is it anyway? - The outdoor community hasn't always had a good record when it comes to diversity. This w...

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


  • Added: Aug 23, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Living Planet 08/14/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The dam problem - We take a deep dive into rivers and look at how mega-dams affect ecosystems. We'll also find out why t...

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


  • Added: Aug 16, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 07/10/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Biodiversity vs. extinction - Although the diversity of plants and animals on Earth is crucial for our survival, humans...

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


  • Added: Jul 12, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 06/19/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Must civilization end? - To save the Earth, people like radical environmentalist Derrick Jensen advocate ending civilizati...

Bought by WFIU, KRZA, and WRGY


  • Added: Jun 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 06/05/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Off the beaten path - We find out how coronavirus restrictions are driving change in cities — from the way urban dwelle...

Bought by WFIU, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WRGY


  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Living Planet 05/29/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Sounds of the sea - Although oceans cover more than two-thirds of the Earth, we don't often hear what goes on beneath th...

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Jun 04, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
591-Teddy's First Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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One of the perks of being an asteroid hunter is to discover a comet and have it carry your name. Teddy's first comet discovery is a member of a gr...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, WLPR , Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9