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Green pathways to youth employment
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Pazhae Horace and Victor Washington on a Green House Call, Credit: Jen Chien
Pazhae Horace has a summer job with California Youth Energy Services, or CYES. It’s a program that hires youth aged 15-22 to do free “green house c...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 08:52
East to West
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A proposed east-west highway across the state of Maine has been on the minds of legislators since it was included in the original proposal for the ...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 07:41
Sailing The High Seas 2.0
From: Jason Albert
Caption: Wing sails on San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jason Albert
90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. And the oceans they sail on are streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cu...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 5
Is the Bay Area home to the "last rustic town of metropolitan America"?
From: KALW
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One of the attractions of living in the Bay Area is that you have the buzz and activity of towns located near impressive natural surroundings – eve...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:52
Moorings and Traps
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Making a living is a struggle this year for Maine lobster fishermen - due in part to strong conservation regulations.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 1
2 Minute Teach-In on the Keystone XL Pipeline
From: Liz Myers
Series: 2 Minute Teach-In
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2 Minute Teach-In on the Keystone XL Pipeline gives facts you need to know about the proposed pipeline.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
Planting a permanent culture
From: KALW
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Permaculture is a design method focused on using space efficiently, working with nature, and sustaining resources rather than depleting them. It ai...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 07:45
Confusion at the gas pump: which grade is best?
From: KALW
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Gas prices in California are always a big problem. And this year, the average price per gallon is set to hit four dollars – the highest average eve...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:10
How Green Entrepreneurs are Transforming Rural Communities
From: Green Connections Radio
Series: Green Connections Radio
Caption: Aneri Patel of UN Foundation Sustainable Energy for All
Wow are these stories great! Listen to Aneri Patel of the UN Sustainable Energy for All Initiative tell host Joan Michelson about the innovative s...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 18:48
Plugging In: Where the light comes from
From: Margaret Yellen
Caption: Yale Central Power Plant, Credit: Yale Office of Sustainability
A piece about power and where it comes from. Increasingly, with all of the scientific and popular interest in Global Warming, newspaper articles ar...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:14
San Francisco’s volunteer seaweed fighters
From: KALW
Caption: Undaria laid out across the dock at the San Francisco Marina., Credit: Marianne Kavanagh
Picture a slimy seaweed thicket – each plant a dark gold-brown, with a strong spine – wrapping around ropes, chains, and other sea life. This is Un...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 2
Good Seed Bad Seed
From: sarah parker
Series: Good Seed Bad Seed
Caption: Romero has worked with many international artists and organizations to bring awareness and knowledge about climate change, Credit: Project Protect, Native Children's Survival and Eagle Thunder Entertainment
Students from Roots and Wings Community School in Lama, NM interviewed World Recording Artist Robby Romero regarding his work and art in the strugg...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The true cost of plastic bags
From: KALW
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In February, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the expansion of an existing ban on plastic, single-use bags to apply to restaurants, ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 07:57
Drought Keeps Oklahoma Pilot Grounded
From: StateImpact Oklahoma
Caption: Harold Blackledge, a 79-year-old agricultural pilot, stands in front of his 1975 Piper Pawnee Brave in one of his hangars at the Watonga Regional Airport. The drought — the worst he’s seen — has dried up aerial spraying work in Oklahoma, he says., Credit: Joe Wertz
The drought that settled into Oklahoma last year is getting worse. And it’s hurting business owners such as Harold Blackledge, an agricultural pilo...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 03:30
Infrastructure...generationally speaking
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Older,middle and younger generation perspectives on Infrastucture priorities

  • Added: Jun 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
In a Gas Boom, Looking for Answers on Health Questions
From: Reid Frazier
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age
Caption: Amy Pare, a plastic surgeon in heavily-drilled Washington County, Pa. She's found arsenic, benzene, and other drilling-related contaminants in the urine of her patients., Credit: Photo: Reid R. Frazier
Thousands of wells have been drilled in the Marcellus shale, using new types of drilling methods. But there are questions about the safety of these...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 09:50
  • Purchases: 1
Deep in the heart of fracking
From: Civic Commons
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
Texas has been fracking for years...so what does Ohio's gas exploration future look like?

  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
Warming World Spells Trouble for Elderly
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
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When you think of climate change, you might think of melting ice shelves. Heat waves. Shrinking habitat for animals and plants. You might not think...

Bought by Aspen Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2012
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 3
THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND -- Filmmaker Briar March
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Briar March, San Francisco, CA 3/9/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Briar March talks climate change, human nature, and cultural survival.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 20:26
Genetically-Modified Corn Nearly Unavoidable in Bourbon Distilling
From: Louisville Public Media
Caption: In the grain room at the Four Roses Distillery, corn kernels wait for evaluation., Credit: Erica Peterson/WFPL News.
Nearly 90 percent of the corn grown in America is now genetically-modified. That corn ends up in many foods...and increasingly in spirits, like bou...

Bought by NPR Illinois, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 3
Santa Barbara County is writing its own rules on fracking
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
After a series of earthquakes near Youngstown, Ohio last week, some observers are pointing to an unusual culprit. Yesterday seismologist John Armbr...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 08:28
A Year of Idaho Food Wrap Up
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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Producer Guy Hand looks back on the highlights of the 12 month long project called "2011: The Year of Idaho Food."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KISU


  • Added: Dec 31, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
The Raw Milk Deal: Idaho legitimizes small-scale raw-milk producers
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Amy Wincentsen of Little Bear Dairy, a raw milk dairy, with Butterscotch., Credit: Guy Hand
Every few months, it seems, TV news or amateur videographers capture another raid on a raw-milk supplier somewhere in America. In the past several ...

Bought by KLCC, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Complicated World of Idaho Garlic
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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The Northwest has several crop quarantine zones to control the spread of diseases. In southern Idaho, a quarantine zone helps protect the states l...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WABE, Spokane Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Nov 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4

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