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"A Second Wind: Elders Act for Justice" Margaret Gordon
From: Making Contact
Caption: Stories, Credit: Ricky Norris
Many retirees enjoy the rest and relaxation that eluded them during their working years. But for some, retirement means opportunities to affect pos...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2011
  • Length: 07:30
A Second Wind: Elders Act for Justice
From: Making Contact
Caption: Stories, Credit: Ricky Norris
Many retirees enjoy the rest and relaxation that eluded them during their working years. But for some, retirement means opportunities to affect pos...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2011
  • Length: 08:54
The Heating Oceans
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Scientists have discovered that deep ocean waters near Antarctica have been heating up. Learn about the consequences now and for the future.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 01:59
Freedom to Roam
From: James Mills
Series: The Joy Trip Project
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An interview with Rick Ridgeway, executive director of Freedom to Roam, a program that works to protect the corridors through which animals travel ...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 15:51
Environmental Justice
From: James Mills
Series: The Joy Trip Project
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An interview with Peggy Shepard executive director of West Harlem Environmental Action Inc.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 16:21
  • Purchases: 1
The Coral Canary
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Coral reefs are the "canary in the coal mine" for the oceans, and they are not doing well.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Épisode N°8 :: Destination Malmö
From: Stéphane Vigneault
Series: GATINORAMA
Caption: The Turning Torso, Credit: City of Malmö
Invité: Klas Tham La zone industrielle qui va de l'usine Scott à l'usine E.B. Eddy est non seulement le coeur historique de Gatineau, c'est aussi ...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 39:28
The Clash of Civilizations: Liberation Ecology and the New Superpower
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 6
Caption: Paul Hawken
There is indeed a clash of civilizations today, between a sustainable civilization and a disposable one.

Bought by KQUA, Panhandle Community Radio, and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 3
Eco Schools: Educating for Sustainable Communities
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 9
Caption: David Orr, Credit: Tim Porter
Most American schools are flunking out when it comes to how well they integrate ecological literacy across the curriculum. And many are doing no b...

Bought by KQUA, Panhandle Community Radio, KKRN, KMXT, and KSKQ


  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Faculty Insight - a partnership with Harvard Extension School - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: North Atlantic Right Whale, Credit: US Marine Mammal Commission
This ThoughtCast hour introduces Faculty Insight, a partnership with Harvard Extension School, in addition to a series of interviews on endangered ...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 17, 2010
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
Greenwashing and Consumerism: Why Walmart Doesn't Care
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Can environmentalism, cultural theory and marketing work together? Is Walmart green beyond the bills in the cash registers? Producer Isaac Woodbury...

Bought by PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WMPG


  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 3
Geoengineering
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Green Ethics
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Global warming makes it impossible to limit environmentalism to one country. Should geoengineering be regulated multilaterally before rogue countri...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Extinction
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Green Ethics
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What should be the balance between preservation and consumption? Should there be a global ethic for protecting endangered species? If so, how shoul...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
The World Bank's Fossil Fuel Addiction
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Although the World Bank wants to be thought of as green, figures reveal that the Bank is flooding the third world with fossil fuel energy projects.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
Fractured Bedrock, Fractured Communities
From: A World of Possibilities
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In this program recorded on site in northeastern Pennsylvania, we follow the Marcellus Shale trail and find the fracturing of the bedrock under thi...

Bought by WSKG and WRPI


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 55:30
  • Purchases: 2
Action Speaks! - What's Eating Us?:1987 The Roaming Mobro Trash Barge
From: Action Speaks Radio
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In 1987, a barge filled with New York City garbage was dragged up and down the East Coast and into Mexican and Caribbean waters. Our panelists use ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, WRPI and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
Winona LaDuke
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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Winona LaDuke has spent decades working on issues of renewable energy, health, and environmental justice on northern Minnesota's White Earth Reserv...

Bought by WILL, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City, KVNF, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 22
The Lungs of the Earth in Peril
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
As the rainforest is being depleted, two new areas of concern arise.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
John Francis
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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John Francis spent two decades walking across North and South America, spreading a silent message of respect for the earth. He takes host Majora Ca...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, KWMR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Vermont Public and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Privately owned dams
From: The Infrastructure Show
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The 20th segment of The Infrastructure Show podcast series; 10-10

  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 28:26
Brenda Palms Barber
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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Brenda Palms Barber is driven by a certainty that "people deserve second chances and you can choose to turn your life around." Brenda started a tra...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Vermont Public, WRVO Public Media, The Public's Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Polar Ice Sheets are Melting
From: Judy Lubow
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Stand-alone segment of Planet Warning Series. With the earth heating up with global warming, the polar ice sheets are melting. But nobody knows ho...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
The Sustainability of Cities
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Green Ethics
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Half the world now lives in cities, and they are growing. Are megacities an opportunity or a threat?

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Sep 28, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Enjoying, Managing, or Restoring Trout
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Should national parks introduce non-native species for recreational purposes, or focus on preserving the parks' natural state?

  • Added: Sep 28, 2010
  • Length: 02:00

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