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The story of a unique landmark off the eastern coast of England - a packing shed built in the 1890s for the cleaning, sorting, and packing of oysters.
- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 29:00
The construction of the Ashokan Reservoir and the Catskill Aqueduct to provide NYC with water has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal....
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 06:37
This week's stories are all about being outsiders. Stories by Judith Gardner, Frank Fusco, and Alan Reese. True stories told by the Southerners who...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 29:00
This piece explores the unintended consequences that occurred to a once rural New York community after the building of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 08:13
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will take us on a tour of the canals of the world.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 06:11
Richard signs up with his roommate to work amidst the lakes and falls and trees in Upstate New York. Richard and Jim preach on Sundays and spend th...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:05
Almost 50 years ago, a group of concerned citizens battled energy giant Consolidated Edison and launched the environmental movement.
- Added: Feb 07, 2013
- Length: 16:41
- Purchases: 2
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 04:23
There It Is—Take It! is a self-guided car audio tour through Owens Valley, California along U.S. Route 395 examining the controversial social, poli...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:33:49
The untold story of the how the Coastal Commission took on the Southern Pacific Railroad in Monterey to prevent the sale of their abandoned railroa...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 11:14
Saving Crystal Cove - The story of Laura Davick, an accidental activist, who used the California Coastal Act to save the historic 1930's cottages i...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 21:58
Richard White, a MacArthur “genius” and the author of "Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?,' explains how our notions of wilde...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 49:47
In our second compilation, we bring together voices from the Leopold Leadership Program to investigate the changing nature and changing goals of co...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 23:16
Dr. Seth Moore leads the Biology and Environment departments at Grand Portage Trust Lands and is a regular contributer to WTIP North Shore Communit...
Bought by KSRQ, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
- Added: Nov 06, 2012
- Length: 05:16
- Purchases: 3
Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 4
Radio Curious visits with Mark Kitchell, producer of the new film, A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle For a Living Planet, which documents 50 years of...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Joaquin Miller and other writers have a camp on the slopes of Mt. Shasta. To that camp comes a tenderfoot newspaper editor. He catches some trout f...
- Added: Oct 29, 2012
- Length: 08:08
The Supreme Court case that helped put a ‘for sale’ sign on our genes.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WRPI, WRIR, and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 53:30
- Purchases: 4
On today's show we track the evolution of smog from symbol of industrial progress to public-health catastrophe.
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 14:19
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. A...
- Added: Sep 15, 2012
- Length: 27:16
We bring you some of our favorite segments from past Distillations episodes this week: animal communication in the Sonoran Desert and the toll of a...
- Added: Aug 04, 2012
- Length: 13:33
Art Fenstad is a descendant of a North Shore fishing family. A lot has changed since Art's ancestors immigrated here in the late 1800s. One thing t...
- Added: Jul 27, 2012
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 2
Nickson Parmisa tells of hairy, smelly, human-like beasts, which used to roam the Savannah, eating people but not their cattle. Is this just a fabl...
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 02:57
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Doug Hawes-Davis about his documentary entitled Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison.
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Jul 20, 2012
- Length: 19:30
- Purchases: 1
Just off the North Shore of Lake Superior, sits an island. Isle Royale. It's 45 miles long and 9 miles wide. It's remote. It's quiet. It has abunda...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 01:00:11
- Purchases: 1
