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The Keepers: Archiving the Now with Host Frances McDormand
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Keepers
Caption: Host, Frances McDormand, Credit: Alison Rosa
The Keepers: Archiving the Now — a new hour-long special from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand. Storie...

Bought by Prairie Public, WJCT, WABE, WNMU-FM, WCQS and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:25
  • Purchases: 70
What happens when paper gets recycled?
From: Possibly
Caption: Paper recycling plant , Credit: Bas Emmen
Today we have a question about paper recycling. What happens after you throw your paper into the blue bin? How much of that paper actually gets reu...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:50
Episode 80: Starstruck
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Juan Martinez grew up in South Central L.A. in the early nineties. He was struggling to find his way until he traded detention for a pack of jalape...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 10:09
  • Purchases: 2
Every Child in the Woods
From: Elia Powers
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Nature-based preschools are becoming increasingly popular. A school director in Seattle explains why children benefit from time in the woods.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 1
Our Generation, Our Climate
From: City High Radio
Caption: Cougar holds a sign at a climate protest, Credit: City High School
Julia, age 15, and Cougar, age 17, interview their classmates about climate change.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 06:59
Not Quite Through the Storm
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Coastal Youth Media
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When Hurricane Florence hit coastal North Carolina, Shecoria Smith, age 16, was worried about her father returning from a work trip.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 02:49
What is The Most Beautiful Sound?
From: City High Radio
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What is the most beautiful sound? Teenager Alex Soto investigates. A version of this story was selected as a finalist in the 2020 NPR Student Pod...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 07:53
  • Purchases: 2
Youth Climate Activism and the New Non-Violent Resistance
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the wake of the 25th UN Climate Change Summit known as the Conference of Partners or COP, scientists and activists are warning that governments ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 19, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Love Really Counts: Greta Thunberg's Plea for Climate Change Action
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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
Upcycling for Sustainable Fashion
From: Generation Justice Admin
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How can what we choose to wear have an impact on the environment? Tune in to hear how one youth is working toward sustainability one garment at a t...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 14:15
From Standing Rock to Mauna Kea
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Two Indigenous land and water protectors share their experiences of peaceful resistance and consequences it holds both environmentally and legally.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 55:25
Anne-Laure Blanche
From: KXCI
Series: Thesis Thursday
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Anne-Laure is a rising senior at the University of Arizona double majoring in Natural Resources (emphasis in Wildlife Conservation and Management) ...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:26
From Vacant Lot To Skate-able Park
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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On a busy street corner in North Minneapolis, there once stood a fenced-off, vacant lot. It was the site of a building Juxtaposition Arts had to te...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 04:28
A Crisis in the Desert
From: City High Radio
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Seventeen-year-old Paloma Martinez lives in Tucson, Arizona. She's heard that a global water crisis might be coming, and her mom thinks Tucson is g...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 13:49
  • Purchases: 3
190531: If You Won't, We Will: Youth Action on Climate, 5/31/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Four years ago, 21 student plaintiffs sued the U.S. government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property by failing ...

  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
2019-05-31 If You Won't, We Will: Youth Action on Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Four years ago, 21 student plaintiffs sued the U.S. government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property by failing ...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WLPR , WDSE, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 05/10/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Why the reluctance on climate action? - Why is it taking us so long to do something about climate change? Is it all in the...

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


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:57
  • Purchases: 2
04-07: Making Tomorrow Today: The Power of Youth, 4/17/2019
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Jessica Rimington, Credit: Photo By Sunshine Velasco - Survival Media Agency
Dynamic young people are surmounting considerable social and economic obstacles by following their dreams to create a better world. Jessica Riming...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
Living Planet 03/15/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: School's out... for the climate - Student strikes demanding climate action are gaining momentum around the world, fossil...

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


  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Green New Deal, Yellow Vests
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Activists at all levels of the climate justice movement discuss how inter-generational, cross-coalition, and global organizing is taking control of...

Bought by KDNK and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Hannah Cranor — Back to the future of ranching
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness host Alan Wartes spoke with third generation rancher Hannah Cranor.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 01/25/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: When talking about climate change, we can sometimes feel overwhelmed with problems that don’t seem to have solutions. In th...

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


  • Added: Jan 24, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
World in Progress 10/11/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Training to fight youth uneployment in Kenya. Solving global Problems: Interview with Prof.Dirk Messner. And, bringing the W...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Girl Genius: This 12-year-old invented a device to detect lead in water—and as far as science goes—she's just getting started.
From: H2O Radio
Series: Emerging Contaminants
Caption: H2O Radio
The discovery of lead in drinking water systems in Flint, Michigan, and other cities around the country has motivated researchers to find new—and f...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 2
Indigenous Learning Models
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Hear professor Dr. Shawn Secatero of the Navajo Nation, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, explain his Indigenous learning mod...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 13:23
  • Purchases: 1

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