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Join Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her conversation with superbug sleuth, Maryn McKenna. An investigative journalist and author, ...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
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Francine Sterle is the author of 2006 book "Nude In Winter," which was a finalist for the LA Times Book of the Year. She has also published two oth...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
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Radio Curious visits with Lila Johnston, Stanford student who is documenting the sacred sites of the Winnemem Wintu in Northern California.

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: Roxanne Brown, Credit: Jennifer Esperanza (c)
The emerging green economy promises to provide large-scale job creation while healing the Earth and building the middle class.

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio, KKRN, KFCF FM, and WDSE


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Silverback Kabirizi, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Fewer than 800 Mountain Gorillas remain making them one the world's most endangered species. For more than 20 years people around the world have be...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 11:06
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I'm sitting in a landrover with 46 year old Soila Sayialel - the car is surrounded by over 50 docile elephants grazing in Amboseli National Park. I...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2012
  • Length: 14:44
Caption: Bangledeshi woman and child, Credit: Flickr user: nomanson
Shrinking the world’s population is one way to curb global warming, according to some environmentalists. To make that happen, women need more contr...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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On Jeju island in the North Pacific a community of women dive for pearls and food. They've been doing this for centuries. On this podcast Mikhail K...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Watershed restoration is the topic of this week’s Radio Curious. Host and Producer Barry Vogel speaks with volunteers at Gibson Creek in Ukiah, Cal...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Sheet Forming, Credit: Cave Paper
Amanda Degener and Bridget O'Malley are founders of Cave Paper in Minneapolis, and they are the winners of the 2012 Minnesota Books Artist Award. T...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
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Mary Strother discusses how she has evolved her artistic process and how she gathers her photography's subject matter. Her exhibit appear during Fe...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 2
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Transformational women leaders are restoring societal balance by showing us how to reconnect relationships - not only among people - but between pe...

Bought by WJCT, WRVO Public Media, KUER, WUFT, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 26
Caption: Uyen Nguyen, owner of Isabella Nail Bar, Credit: Pauline Bartolone
We take a look at the health impacts of chemical exposure in nail salons, the shoddy regulation of cosmetics, and the movement towards greener nail...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Radio Curious visits with Betty Ball, co-founder of the Mendocino Environmental Center in Ukiah, Ca. They discuss the movements to protect Northern...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
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Two lives spent breaking the mold of both traditional and feminist perspectives are recounted in candid conversation, each with a focused sense of ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WZEN.org, KREV-LP, KUOW, WHRV and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Natalia Allen
What are you wearing right now? Tube socks from China? A Patagonia fleece? A pair of pants made from hemp? Most people probably don’t think that mu...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sister Teresa Jackson, St. Gertrude's Monastery, Cottonwood, ID, Credit: Clay Scott
Teresa Jackson was a 40-year-old attorney with a good job and a good life...but she wanted something more. "I figured if I was going to have a mid...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
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NEA National Heritage fellow Mary Jackson talks about the art and tradition of sweetgrass basketmaking.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 22:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Shailja Patel
Shailja Patel’s unique artistry is a provocative global mash-up of genres.

Bought by WCPN and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Dr. Helen Caldicott describes how the nuclear disasters that began in Japan on March 11, 2011, with the massive 9.0 point earthquake and resulting ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Rosina Philippe wonders whether Grand Bayou can survive as a subsistence community., Credit: Barry Yeoman
Members of the Atakapa-Ishak tribe have found a creative use for a high-tech fencing material that has protected soldiers in Iraq and strengthened ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:55
Caption: Darla Rooks looks out over the oiled marshland of Bay Jimmy. , Credit: Barry Yeoman
It has been over a year since the Deepwater Horizon blowout, but it’s still too early to measure the complete cost of the ensuing disaster. Despite...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 11:47
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As part of our “Women Rising” series, we profile a dynamic partnership between the Women’s Earth Alliance and the Global Women’s Water Initiative: ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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This week on Mountain West Voices: a visit with two women who grew up on remote, central Montana farms in the 1920's.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
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An interview with MacArthur Genius grant winner Majora Carter on the role minorities will likely play in the creation of sustainable environmental ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 13:03
  • Purchases: 1