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GN_7.30_3D Printed Home
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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An Austin-based construction technologies company on a mission to make safe, affordable housing using 3D printer technology.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Science Unscripted (Spectrum) 06/01/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: f your genes make you a "night owl," the odds are higher you'll develop depression. Can we do anything to change that? Al...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
GN_3.13_Power Walking Power
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
There is a floor tile that uses the power of footsteps to generate electricty!

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.25_Air Water Art
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Air, water, and art. The three things a Dutch artist is using to lead an environmental change.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:13
GN_3.59_E Art
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Inspiring social change with photographic art to to showcase the severity of E-waste.

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.03_Bio Fuel Break Thru
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The aviation industry is one of the largest users of fossil fuels. The solution could be in the middle east where A branchy-like plant is looking v...

  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
GN_4.59_Zero Waste World
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Cigarettes are horrible for you, but their butts are quite useful for recycling. A garbage startup in New Jersey is turning trash into outdoor furn...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_4.11_E Dumper
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Move over Tesla, a collaborator of Swiss Companies has created a prototype dump truck that might even be able to sell electricity back to the grid!

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_4.13_Water Sports
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Dutch engineers find a way to bring drinkable water to South Africans by combining it with their favorite sporting pastime.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_4.15_Edible Spoon
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Why throw away your spoon if you can eat it? A new solution to disposable plastic utensils.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_4.02_Eco Cooler
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A clever re-using of plastic brings cool comfort to millions.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_7.24_Salt Water Sanitation
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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Researchers from Saudi Arabia’s set out to solve the dilemma of conserving the Earth's scarce resource—freshwater—by developing a salt water toilet.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
GN_6.26_ Playing For Power
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
“Play for Power” charging swing sets generate power for commuters.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:19
GN_6.32_ Air To H2O
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Harvesting water from thin air... yes, really.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 2
GN_5.06_ManureCouture
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
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The movement itself is called biocouture - this poop to pants movement is raising eyebrows on both sides of the issue.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_5.05_CaliforniaWinWin
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
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The ‘California Air Resources’ board in the summer of 2018, conclusively showed that California had met its 2020 emissions goal four years earlier ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
629-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Canes Venatici with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, ...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
623-Arecibo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The National Science Foundation has announced that it will close and decommission the giant RADAR telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Ri...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Living Planet 09/11/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Megafauna - From whether the coronavirus crisis is helping or hurting the iconic wildlife of Kenya, to reintroducing k...

Bought by WXDU, WFIU, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 05/08/20
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Reinventing energy The tiny nation of Guyana is pinning development hopes on oil despite the price crash, Germany's renew...

Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KRZA


  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
578-First PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Assuming the first potentially hazardous asteroid of 2020 has a chemical composition similar to the stony meteorites we find on Earth, it could co...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 02/14/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Battery powered - We take a look at lithium-ion batteries — how they are both necessary to ending our dependence on foss...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Spectrum 02/05/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Do I scare you? - "Careful, he's Chinese." It was a throwaway comment whispered in a German pedestrian zone. But it jo...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 11/12/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: You be careful out there - Indoor plants aren’t as good for you as you might think, why 12 million seahorses died (and ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 11/01/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Adaptation & Change - How do we inspire the fundamental changes that are needed to safeguard our planet? On this program...

Bought by WRGY, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3