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Community Design
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Capital Village near Sacramento is an ideal case study for future communities.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
Earthquakes don't kill people — bad buildings do
From: Housing Revolution
Caption: Dr. Elizabeth Hausler, Credit: Dowser.org
Engineer and brickmason Dr. Elizabeth Hausler saves lives by making houses more earthquake resistant for little or no extra money. It just requires...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 18:40
  • Purchases: 1
Aquaponic Gardening
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: New Society Press jacket cover
Sylvia Bernstein, president and founder of The Aquaponic Source, provides a step-by-step guide to raising vegetables and fish together.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: 17:15
Wells to Wheels: Can shale gas power cars?
From: Reid Frazier
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age
Caption: Making way for the Marcellus, Credit: Reid R. Frazier/Allegheny Front
We use natural gas to heat our homes and generate our power. Can we use it to fuel our cars? Big Gas thinks shale gas is the key to cleaning up our...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:57
EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create The World We Want
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nation Books, Credit: Alyssa Stepien
Reports of the health of our planet appear dim. Our conditions are becoming worse as hunger increases, and the variety of species disappear. Autho...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Tough Winter for Montana Antelope
From: Emilie Ritter Saunders
Caption: Antelope trying to move through deep snow , Credit: David Grubbs, Billings Gazette
Biologists estimate thousands of pronghorn antelope died in Montana over the long, harsh winter...thousands more are stranded at the Fort Peck Rese...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 04:11
Vanishing Ice - Getting to the Core of Climate Change
From: SQRadio
Caption: Melting Away, Credit: Sheri Quinn
Glaciers around the world are melting at an unprecedented rate and glacier shrinkage is evidence of climate change. Paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thomp...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2011
  • Length: 30:02
Growing with Oysters
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Using shellfish to build confidence in middle schoolers.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WMPG, KUT, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 7
Distillations Episode 122: Our Chemical Landscape - The City
From: Distillations
Caption: Philadelphia skyline., Credit: Image courtesy of Flickr user Kevin Burkett.
In honor of the International Year of Chemistry, today we begin the four-part series Our Chemical Landscape. These shows look at how science has sh...

  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 14:35
Single Male with Strong Roots Searching For Fertile Ground to Plant Seed and Grow Together
From: SQRadio
Caption: Pando, Credit: Sheri Quinn
The Pando Aspen is a clonal colony of a single male Quaking Aspen (populus tremuloides) also known as the trembling giant because of its elliptical...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2011
  • Length: 27:33
Engineers of the New Millennium: Sustainable Design for the Future
From: Spectrum Radio
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Sustainable Design for the Future, from IEEE Spectrum Magazine and the National Science Foundation. Sustainable planning – of buildings and communi...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KZYX, KISU, WNYC, KZYX and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
A Sea Change in the New England Funeral Business
From: Katherine Perry
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They say death, like taxes, is one of the few certain things in life. But the way that culture deals with death is not a static institution. In New...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 04:17
After the Flood
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: Mae Savage Home, Credit: Dead River Area Historical Society
Many Mainers come to Flagstaff Lake to kayak, hunt or snowmobile. But the story of the lake is largely untold. Sixty years ago this spring, three s...

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 08:02
  • Purchases: 2
Engineers of the New Millennium: The Water Energy Crunch A Powerful Puzzle
From: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
The Water-Energy Crunch is a clash of essential needs. Humans are thirsty creatures who need water to drink and bathe, but also to produce most for...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
COOL IT -- Environmental Activist Bjorn Lomborg
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Bjorn Lomborg, San Francisco, CA 10/18/10, Credit: Andrea Chase
The author of The Skeptical Environmentalist on a more efficient way to solve the environmental crisis.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2010
  • Length: 18:20
Antarctica: Life On The Ice 30 Second Promo
From: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
30 Second Promo for Antarctica: Life On The Ice Special

Bought by WFIU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WCPN, 90.5 WSNC, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2010
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Antarctica: Life On The Ice 15 Second Promo
From: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
:15 Second Promo for Antarctica: Life On The Ice Special

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Jun 29, 2010
  • Length: :15
  • Purchases: 1
Antarctica: Life On The Ice (Filler Version)
From: Spectrum Radio
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“Antarctica: Life on the Ice.” Our guide is Glenn Zorpette. He takes us behind the scenes to see what its like to live in Antarctica year round. W...

Bought by KMXT, WLRN, KVSC, Marfa Public Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Antarctica: Life On The Ice
From: Spectrum Radio
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Antarctica: Life On The Ice is a co-production of IEEE Spectrum Radio and The National Science Foundation.

Bought by WTIP, KEOS, KXOT Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
An Environmental And Worker Disaster
From: Dick Meister
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We're paying too little attention to he workers who were seriously injured or killed in the explosion that spilled tons of oil into the Gulf of Mex...

  • Added: May 14, 2010
  • Length: 03:48
A Few Good Women
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Gardeners on the ground, Credit: Beatrice Murch
From the philanthropic women of Washing to DC to a group of international environmentalists in Buenos Aires, A few good women can make a difference...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1
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
Positive Energy
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The idea of keeping shopping close to home is picking up speed, with local foods increasing in popularity and availability. Harder to understand mi...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:37
Summer falls
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Apples at the ready, Credit: Muriel Murch
After the equinox there is the apple harvest. This is when summer bows out to autumn.Forsome

  • Added: Oct 14, 2009
  • Length: 08:04
Engineers of the New Millennium: The Global Water Challenge
From: Spectrum Radio
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One Hour Radio Special presented by The National Science Foundation and IEEE Spectrum Radio exploring emerging global water issues.

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WEKU, KGOU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 58:52
  • Purchases: 13

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