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The Searsville Dam is causing big trouble on the peninsula. The 122-year-old, 65-foot-tall dam is closed to the public, hidden away on 1,200 acres ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:41
With so much focus on the BP oil spill and the havoc it has wrought on the Gulf Coast, it's easy to overlook the broader, more long-term environmen...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
In 2002, Juan Carlos Cancino, was riding his bike around town and found an entire city block of dilapidated greenhouses, near a hill in the Portola...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 08:44
Minnehaha Falls has been a popular tourist spot for politicians since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his epic poem, “The Song of Hiawatha” in 185...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:21
Hurricane Sandy was nearly one year ago. Days after the storm, one woman described seeing the storm surge cause a flood of the extremely toxic wate...
- Added: Oct 03, 2013
- Length: 03:22
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh talks with sociologist Karen O’Neill about the federal government’s move into flood control in 1917 – as landowners along the Mis...
Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, KHNS, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 4
Today, more than 200,000 people visit the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness each year. This unique natural area is widely appreciated, but for ...
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 26:55
- Purchases: 3
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
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
Radio Curious Assistant Producer, Christina Aanestad speaks with Darryl Cherney, the Earth First! activist who along with Judi Bari, was car bombed...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:02
When the District recovered the old Capitol columns, it forgot about the other fragments that had also once held up the country's icon of democracy.
Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WTJU and more
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 16
The true story of the first state to sponsor a rock concert ... nicknamed "the Governor's Pot Party"... and what became of that governor.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Dec 22, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
Can the suburbs be fixed? What does sustainability look like in a land of three car garages, shopping malls, single use zoning and houses on steroi...
Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KVLU, KWIT, WRIR, and WRNC-LP
- Added: Nov 09, 2009
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Shawn Allee meets a man who took the Dow and dioxin issue to Congress years ago and is shocked it hasn't been dealt with.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:40
Examining how energy and the environment are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' att...
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 07:56
- Added: Aug 25, 2008
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 1
The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In the sixth progr...
- Added: Nov 14, 2007
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Interviews of three community members concerning water issues in the San Luis Valley.
Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KRFC
- Added: Jan 15, 2007
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Colorado College Professor Walt Hecox offers perspective on the resignation of Interior Secretary Gale Norton
Bought by KOTO
- Added: Mar 15, 2006
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
