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07-09: Fair Food: Ending Slavery in the Fields, 5/20/2015
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Lucas Benitez
Would you believe, here at the beginning of the 21st century, that every order of fast-food served with a slice of tomato is part of a system of sl...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
05-09: The Green Collar Economy: Jobs, Justice and Prosperity, 5/6/2015
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Majora Carter
Just how dumb do they think we are? Who would believe that destroying the ecosystems on which all life depends, while dis-employing more and more p...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
Yours, mines and ours
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Sanjay Rawal Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Despite growing newfound interest in food, diets and nutrition, how many question where their food comes from and the conditions under which it was...

Bought by WRGY


  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gillian Locascio, Campaign Coordinator for the Washington Fair Trade Coalition
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: WA Fair Trade Coalition
Interview: Gillian explains the current trade agreements and that the debate over “Fast Track” legislation for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
Designing Above 50 Million Gallons of Water
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Sketch of the design for the park, Credit: West Seattle Blog
A tour around a newly undergrounded reservoir with Mark Brands, the landscape architect who designed the park to be built above it.

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
08-08: Green-Collar Jobs: Laboring into the Next Economy , 2/25/2015
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Maria Elena Durazo
Labor leader César Chavez helped ban DDT. Truckers are helping address appalling asthma rates at the filthy port of Los Angeles. And inner-city cle...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
Joseph B. Uehlein, President of the Labor Network for Sustainability/Voices for a Sustainable Future, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Joe Udhlein, Labor Network for Sustainability
Interview: Joe talks more about the programs of the Labor Network for Sustainability. He also states for the cost of the Afghanistan and Iraqi War...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Joseph B. Uehlein, President of the Labor Network for Sustainability/Voices for a Sustainable Future, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Joe Udhlein, Labor Network for Sustainability
Joe describes the mission and activities of the Labor Network for Sustainability and includes letting us know how corporations successfully pit wor...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Author Redmond O’Hanlon travels a mile deep in “Trawler"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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British naturalist and jungle survivor of Borneo, Amazonia and the Congo, O’Hanlon sets off this time on a commercial fishing ship in the harsh wat...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 2
Blowing the Whistle, Paying the Price
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A deformed baby duck found at Kesterson NWR, Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
The internet has put whistleblowers in the public eye, and the government’s crosshairs. The world’s biggest institutions are running scared and cra...

Bought by WNJR and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sustainibility
From: Sidewalk Radio
Series: Sidewalk Radio with Gene Kansas
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Even though the whole “green” theme fad is becoming obnoxious, we’re happy to say that it certainly seems like the “sustainability” trend is here t...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 07, 2014
  • Length: 22:51
  • Purchases: 1
Stone Mountain
From: Sidewalk Radio
Series: Sidewalk Radio with Gene Kansas
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This month we sit down with three unique guests to talk about the gravity and gravitas of the world’s largest piece of exposed granite, Stone Mount...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 21:50
Joseph B. Uehlein, President of the Labor Network for Sustainability/Voices for a Sustainable Future, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Joseph Uehlein
Interview: Joe talks more about the programs of the Labor Network for Sustainability. He also states for the cost of the Afghanistan and Iraqi War...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 27:49
Joseph B. Uehlein, President of the Labor Network for Sustainability and Voices for a Sustainable Future, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Joseph Uehlein
Joe describes the mission and activities of the Labor Network for Sustainability and includes letting us know how corporations successfully pit wor...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
We Do The Work-Just Transition Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Bobbi, Tom, Kristen of PSARA
Kristen, Bobby, and Tom explain what happens when there is high unemployment and low wages and then tell us what we need to do to create an economy...

Bought by NPR Illinois


  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 28:21
  • Purchases: 1
We Do the Work-Just Transition Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Bobbi, Tom, Kristen of PSARA
Kristen Biefus, Tom Lux, and Bobby Righi of Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action (PSARA), Just Transition, Part 1

Bought by WSLR


  • Added: Jan 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 1
Hollowed Mountains, Now Hollowed Towns: Coal in Eastern Kentucky
From: Louisville Public Media
Caption: A truck in Harlan, Ky., proclaims its support for coal and coal miners., Credit: Erica Peterson/WFPL
Coal is embedded into the culture and image of Eastern Kentucky, but the industry is declining in the region. And it's declining permanently. The c...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2013
  • Length: 18:17
Green pathways to youth employment
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Pazhae Horace and Victor Washington on a Green House Call, Credit: Jen Chien
Pazhae Horace has a summer job with California Youth Energy Services, or CYES. It’s a program that hires youth aged 15-22 to do free “green house c...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 08:52
99% Invisible #73- The Zanzibar and Other Building Poems (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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A poet makes a city.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 16
Ballast Water Discharge Permit Updates
From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg, Credit: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources via Flickr
Invasive species are arguably one of the biggest—and most expensive—issues facing Lake Superior and the Great Lakes today. In recent years, signifi...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WRNC-LP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 3
Farmer Confession Booth I
From: Cassie Wagler
Caption: My Sign and I
Farmers in upstate New York enter a confession booth (ahem, van) and give anonymous answers to probing questions. Produced for WIOX "The Farm Hou...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
A Question of Grapes: Boonville and the Anderson Valley
From: Lisa Morehouse
Series: After the Gold Rush: The Future of Small Town California
Caption: Grape harvest, Navarro Vineyards., Credit: Lisa Morehouse
Residents worry Boonville's ideal climate for wine grapes will turn their town into wine-tourism Disneyland.

Bought by KWMR, Rhythm & News Service, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 3
Peacock Groove Custom Cycles
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Erik Noren
Erik Noren has been building custom bicycles for nearly 10 years. His shop, Peacock Groove Custom Cycles, has been recognized for its eccentric des...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Blair Mountain
From: Miranda Brown
Caption: March on Blair Mountain, June 2011, Credit: Talking Across the Lines
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