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Tropic of Chaos and a Volunteer Story
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Christian Parenti and Alison Thompson, this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 1
Christian Parenti: Unstable Climate, Unstable People
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Indian farmer and his wheat, Credit: Petr Kosina / CIMMYT
Journalist Christian Parenti speaks about his new book, "Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence." He connects the effect...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Brownfield no more: A look at some innovation in abandoned factories
From: Changing Gears
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt
Caption: This is a view of a brownfield across the street from Exelon City Solar. The plant cleaned up about half the brownfield space in Chicago's 34th Ward.
Long-abandoned factories have scarred the Midwest landscape for generations. Tens of thousands sit vacant across the region, the tally growing by ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2011
  • Length: 06:27
Crosswinds: A Community Wind Farm Divides an Island
From: A World of Possibilities
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Residents of the island of Vinalhaven, Maine discuss the noise created by the arrival of three new wind turbines.

Bought by KPVL, KXOT Public Radio, WDSE, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 4
Deepwater Drilling and Fossil Fuels
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Green Ethics
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Offshore oil spills have devastating consequences, yet storm-drain runoff from leaky cars and gas stations can be just as bad. Do the risks of deep...

Bought by WRFA-LP and WEKU


  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Planning Problem
From: Nathanael Johnson
Caption: Artist rendering of the California High Speed Rail, Credit: CAHSRA
The Big Dig, the Bay Bridge, the Chunnel... Why do transportation projects go so spectacularly over budget? There's a simple explanation - this doc...

Bought by The Neighborhood and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 26:38
  • Purchases: 2
THINK GLOBALLY, ACT GLOBALLY
From: Voices of Our World
Caption: Tsunami aftermath in Indonesia, Credit: UNEP
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OUR ENVIRONMENT, DISASTERS, AND CONFLICT.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 27:57
Keeper of the Mountains - an evening with Larry Gibson
From: Christopher Weller
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Chris Weller, host of Fret Knot Radio Hour, spends an evening with Larry Gibson in his cabin on Kayford Mountain in the heart of coal country. Gibs...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 32:46
New Trail Blazes Through Private Lands
From: Todd Bookman
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A new multi-use trail has opened in Peterborough, New Hampshire, linking downtown to the top of Pack Monadnock Mountain. Establishing a path to the...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Foreign Nuclear Waste in Utah!!
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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An Indecent Proposal!! EnergySolutions wants to import into the US 20,000 TONS of Italy’s nuclear waste, first melting it down and incinerating it ...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:41
Issue Nine
From: Smart City Radio
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This week on Smart City, the group Cincinnatians for progress fight for their right to transit and we'll hear a conversation with Alex Steffan abou...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WFSU, WLRN, Spokane Public Radio, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 27, 2009
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 5
Century of the City
From: Smart City Radio
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This week on Smart City: Darren Walker of the Rockefeller foundation joins us to talk about the worldwide phenomenon of accelerating urbanization....

Bought by WFSU, Spokane Public Radio, WLRN, and WBEZ


  • Added: Mar 25, 2009
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 4
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Mindful Path to Sustainability
From: Bill Baue
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Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:03
Rep. Maxine Waters - A Woman of Good Works
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) - In our conversation with Rep. Maxine Waters we discover the wide range of good works this congresswoman has accomplishe...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2008
  • Length: 28:35
Light Rail in Cheviot Hills (Los Angeles, California)
From: David Kates
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David Kates surveys West Los Angeles residents about whether a light rail line should be routed through a wealthy neighborhood.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
Gore Nomination for Nobel Prize Poetic Justice
From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media
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Nobel Committee did much better than the Supreme Court re: Al Gore

  • Added: Feb 02, 2007
  • Length: 02:41
Active Voice Radio 1-25-07: Joseph Romm- Hell and High Water: Global Warming the Solutions and the Politics
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Romm is a former Asst. Secretary at the Department of Energy and director of the Center for Energy and Climate

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jan 25, 2007
  • Length: 29:21
  • Purchases: 1
Deadeye Dick Cheney's Real Victims
From: Dick Meister
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We're ignoring the innocent quail that our VP thought it amusing to stalk and kill.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2006
  • Length: 02:00
High Country News Interview: Richard Pombo
From: KRCC-FM
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Interview on the controversial congressman

  • Added: Feb 24, 2006
  • Length: 11:37
Save Trestles Beach
From: Philippe Boucher
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How a plan for a toll-highway would destroy the Yosemite of surfing

  • Added: Jan 28, 2006
  • Length: 04:07
Earthjustice calls to save the Endangered Species Act
From: Philippe Boucher
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Interview with Montana's Earthjustice advocate Tim Preso

  • Added: Jan 23, 2006
  • Length: 07:50
Christine Todd Whitman Speaks
From: KRCC-FM
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Lifelong Republican criticizes her party

  • Added: Aug 10, 2005
  • Length: 06:34
Federal Energy Bill
From: KRCC-FM
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Westerners on the pending energy bill

  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 03:52
A New Compact For Sustainable Development
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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John F. Turner says the environment needs protection, but that care must also be taken to protect the rights of land owners.

Bought by Maine Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1