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Toxic Tracks (encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: The text "Toxic Tracks" on a background of railroad tracks., Credit: Background image by Hands off my tags! Michael Gaida from Pixabay
On today's show, we'll hear an encore of a show from our archives that first aired in April. We'll be looking at the environmental impact of the ra...

Bought by WXDU and WFHB


  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poisonous Legacies
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:38
End Of Days
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Under The Orange Empire Sun
A Global Warming, climate change special with current Air Pollution dangers mixed into music and public reaction

  • Added: Jun 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:00
Saltwater Soundwalk: Indigenous Audio Tour of Seattle
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: People listening to Saltwater Soundwalk in Seattle., Credit: Jenny Asarnow
On today's show, we'll travel to Seattle to hear indigenous voices and Coast Salish languages, and to reflect on the importance of the Salish Sea a...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 07, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We talk to Raj Patel and Rupa Marya about their book "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice."

Bought by KMUN and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
(2023-01-04 Holiday Re-Air) How do we take a breath? Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ UNDROWNED
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Are you drowning? The start of the school year can be stressful for parents, teachers and students. And this year hasn’t been smooth sailing for ma...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Burn Wild Episode 2
From: Dylan Haskins
Series: Burn Wild
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Episode 2 of 2 of Burn Wild. Journalist and writer Leah Sottile presents the story of two of America’s most wanted fugitive environmentalists. F...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WKSU, and Oregon Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 52:31
  • Purchases: 3
Burn Wild Episode 1
From: Dylan Haskins
Series: Burn Wild
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Episode 1 of 2 of Burn Wild. Journalist and writer Leah Sottile presents the story of two of America’s most wanted fugitive environmentalists. F...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WKSU, and Oregon Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 52:31
  • Purchases: 3
How to Hold Back the Ocean
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Maurice Bailey at Shell to Shore collection in Athens GA, Credit: Claire Reynolds
More and more coastal communities want to build sea walls to prevent catastrophic flooding because of rising sea levels. But do they work? We talk ...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
But Next Time, Episode 3: Rising Waters
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jaime is speaking to members of the National Low Income Housing Coalition about the 12 Moms initiative., Credit: But Next Time
In cities around the globe community organizers and direct service agencies are often the first line of response when a climate fueled natural disa...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Future of Energy is Indigenous: Water Protectors v.s. Enbridge's Line3 Pipeline
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As Canadian oil giant Enbridge defies orders to shut down their dangerous Line 5 pipeline in Michigan, indigenous environmental activists gain mome...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KWMR, and KVNF


  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The World's Biggest Methanol Refinery (Updated Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked gas projects that would tur...

Bought by WXDU and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
A Million Scorched Joshua Trees
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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It's almost the Great Conjunction and we've been on the run, on the road, rambling around. It was time to visit the devastation on Cima Dome, where...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Justice: A new way of Thinking about the Most Basic Stuff of Life
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Food justice is the notion that everyone should have access to healthful food as well as the opportunity to grow, market and serve it. It’s also th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Environment Injustice As Usual During Pandemic
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode, Laura speaks with grassroots environmental organizers Cindy Donis and Laura Cortez from East Yard Communities for Environmental Ju...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Emergency Response
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Corona Virus Kit
A full hour of viral containment, mixed with your safety in mind, available for private home enjoyment. Featuring the latest response to our curre...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 58:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Response: Reimagining Paradise in an Age of Disruption
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week on Making Contact, we bring you a story about resilience and rebuilding after a megafire decimated parts of Northern California. This is ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
The World's Largest Methanol Refinery & A View from the Blast Zone
From: Barbara Bernstein
Series: Holding the Thin Green Line
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The World’s Largest Methanol Refinery, the first half-hour of this episode of Holding the Thin Green Line, follows the efforts of activists in Taco...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 56:54
Women of Color Lead the Way
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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At the 2019 Progressive Strategy Summit members of Congress and progressive change makers came together to build a movement that won’t only win bac...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Special Report: Making Buffalo Our City
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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How do you revitalize a city without gentrifying it? In this episode of the Laura Flanders Show, Laura goes to Buffalo, New York, where years of po...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The World’s Largest Methanol Refinery (and the fight to stop it)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Claudia Riedener has lived in Tacoma since 1998, and is co-founder of the grassroots environmental group Redefine Tacoma., Credit: (photographer unknown)
Special for Climate Week: Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked g...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Talkin' Hurricanes (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. In the years since, as residents have come and gone and rebuilt their lives, a lot has changed about the...

Bought by WCNY, WLPR , KICI Iowa City, KUAF Public Radio, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 14
Talkin' Hurricanes (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. In the years since, as residents have come and gone and rebuilt their lives, a lot has changed about the...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WLIW and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Reviving the Giant Oysters (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Fossils give away the secrets of the past, but they can also tell the future. Rowan Lockwood is taking a closer look at the fossils of giant oyster...

Bought by KXCV and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Water is Life: Tradition and transition in the Navajo Nation
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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About 30% of residents of the Navajo Nation don't have access to running water, and even for those who do, much of the water is contaminated with u...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WDBM


  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 21:55
  • Purchases: 2