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The annual ABX convention is a great place to get caught up on all the newest and greatest products and techniques of particular interest to Inclus...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 38:47
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Janet makes her way through Chicago’s annual Neocon convention and talks to the vendors that presented products of particular interest to Inclusive...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 50:18
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In this episode, we discuss who we are and why we are creating a podcast series on Inclusive Design.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 15:02
Caption: Maybe sometime in the night when the wind blows..., Credit: Susan Cook
Greta Thunberg, in her UN Climate Change speech called on threatened loss of the loved, in her view, the environment to bring action on climate c...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2019
  • Length: 05:17
Caption: A screenshot from a July 23 Facebook post shows mold on a mattress at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. Other photos posted by airmen showed moldy shoes, walls, and uniforms., Credit: "Air Force amn/nco/snco" Facebook group
Mold has long been a problem at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas. But when airmen started posting photos on Facebook, the Air Force stepped...

Bought by Texas Public Radio, WOUB, KPBS, North Country Public Radio, WUSF and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2019
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: El Paso County, Col. resident Liz Rosenbaum spends about $70 per month on bottled drinking water rather than drink from her tap., Credit: Dan Boyce / American Homefront
The military is spending millions of dollars to clean up water contamination around bases throughout the country. But people living with the contam...

Bought by KPBS, WUSF, and Texas Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 09, 2019
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: by the Southern Environmental Law Center
An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging proje...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:53
Caption: The Allen Co. drilling site in South Los Angeles., Credit: Photo by Claire Heddles
Generation Z has been called a lot of things: The internet generation. The Instagram generation. And as some say: the activist generation. Claire H...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 08:29
Caption: Veterans and their families demolish a wooden foot bridge in Biscayne National Park., Credit: Niall Macaulay / American Homefront
Congress is considering legislation to encourage "outdoor therapy" for veterans with injuries or post-traumatic stress. Volunteer groups are alread...

Bought by KPBS, Colorado Public Radio, WUSF, Texas Public Radio, and KPCC


  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Sharon Day completes this year's Nibiwalk along the Wisconsin River., Credit: Chas Jewett
This week on Minnesota Native News we get a round up of tribal election news, we hear about the latest Nibi walk along the Wisconsin River and lear...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KVSC, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Saving our Planet with Ban the Straw and Debris Free Oceans. Ban the Straws' Marilu Cristina Flores with Chelsea Reed and Debris Free Oceans' Caiti...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 26:34
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Downtown Manhattan Heliport in New York City
The helicopter crash in the East River that killed all five of its passengers renewed a call to ban helicopter tourism in NYC. But one group has be...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 03:44
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From The Great American Wrongbook and In Today's Department of Poetic Justice, a poetic tribute to the question: what's wrong with violating the ci...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2018
  • Length: 04:43
Caption: Red Pines on the cemetary edge in a Ted Cruz-kind-of-Christian town, Credit: Susan Cook/ Google Earth
I’ve been asking for about 9 years now why Red Pines that have thrived for hundreds of years would die. Not that I knew 9 years ago they would die....

  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
Caption: The Columbia River, as seen from the Cape Horn Trail
The Forest Service would allow hiking access only if a volunteer group formed to caretake the trail. So the Cape Horn Conservancy was born. Now t...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:27
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The highest production of greenhouse gases in the US comes from the West Jefferson, Alabama Miller Electric Plant. The parent company- The Southern...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:55
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Sea level rise is a global concern, and on the whole, policy and funding for mitigation aren’t keeping pace. Today on Gen Anthro, producer Isha Sal...

Bought by KWMR and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 10:52
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: I'd have Sonny Boy Williamson testify and sing 'Bye Bye Bird', Credit: youtube.com/watch?v=YSdwhnsV4Go
Maine's Legislature will vote on Open-Pit Mining soon but whose testimony about environmental contamination will be believed and who will speak th...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: 06:34
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:17
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Rising sea levels are just one way climate change is reshaping the world's oceans, says Duke University oceanographer Susan Lozier.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:40
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With our piecemeal coastal policies, "We're haphazardly geo-engineering a whole coast," says Duke University economist Martin Smith.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
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9-11- 14 WMMT Mountain News & World Report Feature Coal mining jobs have dropped around Cleveland, VA, but when residents looked around they reali...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:25
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In this episode Dr. Glennon talks about how water markets work in the United States. We take a look back at the American legal history that makes w...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 38:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Fathoming Water, Credit: Melissa Mauzy
In this episode Dr. Sharon Megdal talks about why it is important as a citizen to be informed about how your municipal water supply is delivered, a...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 49:31
  • Purchases: 1