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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The town of Brunswick, Maine is set to remove 2/3 of the trees on Maine Street because it is too expensive to work around them as they install new ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Where's the beautiful part, anyway? Well, start by walking about a mile past the last parking lot or dirt road or residential car-parts dump or inf...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Tapping Earth’s largest source of clean energy -- its oceans. Ocean waves, tides and heat. A massive resource. Then, there’s salt gradient energy. ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 53:57
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PEER's Kyla Bennet talks about her whistleblowing experience at EPA and how it changed her life.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:23
Caption: Forget-me-knots in bloom..., Credit: Susan Cook
From the Spring 2023 Maine Arts Journal. A poem on the intricacies of grieving.

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: :59
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How a stuck valve almost destroyed the State of Pennsylvania

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. Jay Lemery of the University of Colorado talks about how a new generation of physicians needs to be trained to address the unique public health...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:17
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The sordid story of the corrupt Monsanto corporation, which created a highly toxic, cancer-causing pesticide and then developed GMO crops that were...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:32
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Investigative reporter Deena Winter talks about 3M dumping PFAS chemicals and the impact on the health of kids in the area.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:02
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Are artificial turf fields causing cancer in young athletes?

  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:14
Caption: Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug is a fly-in First Nation in northern Ontario, Canada, Credit: Jody Porter
After saying no to a mining company, six Indigenous leaders from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug in northern Ontario, Canada, were sent to jail. They'...

  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:05
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Ride along with a sanitation worker who collects everything in San Francisco’s blue bins, and learn some dos and don’ts of recycling at a Recology ...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
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Is this episode about Mojave Spaceport? Well, it's a place on the journey, to put in in "hobbit speak." Tonight we get on the road, wander some sma...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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Topic 1: What We Learned From the Crack Crisis in America. Topic 2: The Future is Peat

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KQRU FM LP, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2020
  • Length: 51:38
  • Purchases: 4
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
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Two men address their fear of climate change by getting their cities to declare a climate emergency and commit to rapidly lowering emissions.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, KICI Iowa City, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Sebastopol's free electric bus
Rural bus systems turn challenges into strengths by going fare free.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KRZA, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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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: The Crevasse, viewed from the levee., Credit:  The Historic New Orleans Collection
For the next few episodes TriPod dives into the city’s messy relationship with water through a new series called NOLA vs. Nature. First up: a look ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet the Executive Director of Maumee Valley's Habitat for Humanity, Michael McIntyre.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
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: "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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If you want to experience the outdoors without actually having to leave your room, then his episode of The Rough Draft Diaries is the one for you! ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 1
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week takes us to Texas, where we hear from Candice Bernd, speaking at the 2nd Fight Toxic Prisons Conference, which took place earlier this mo...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: I'll Scratch Your Back Later..., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about right and wrong in sixty seconds about pressing matters of the day. Because the Maine legislatu...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:15