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Some "local" food is actually harvested from Costco or as far away as Mexico. Some think it's time for a certification process to make sure local ...
Bought by KISU
- Added: Feb 04, 2011
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Fresh milk — thanks to it’s perishable nature — was once the most local of local foods. Today, though, milk is often a highly processed commodity ...
Bought by KISU, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 23, 2011
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
How greenhouse could revolutionize the availability of local food in winter.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 08, 2011
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 1
Marcellus Shale drilling is ripping up roads. The sediment from the roads winds up in streams and ruins the ecosystem. The Center for Dirt and Gr...
- Added: Nov 04, 2010
- Length: 10:12
As the local food movement grows so does criticism.
Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KVNF, and KISU
- Added: Oct 05, 2010
- Length: 07:32
- Purchases: 3
The Youth News Initiative creates a platform for young women of color to give their unique perspective on issues they face in their communities.
- Added: Sep 23, 2010
- Length: 04:50
In Detroit, the price of water is so high that for some, it’s out of reach. In response, citizens have come together to form the Detroit People’s ...
- Added: Sep 16, 2010
- Length: 09:03
The local food movement is beginning to threaten global agricultural brands like the iconic Idaho potato.
- Added: Sep 08, 2010
- Length: 06:12
A UC Berkeley researcher is attacking toxic hydrocarbons left over from oil spills with microbes, earthworms, and a few acres of land. Catherine Gi...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 11, 2010
- Length: 04:45
- Purchases: 1
Around the world, bees continue to disappear and scientists still don’t quite know why. This week regulatory agents, bee keepers, agricultural chem...
- Added: Jul 29, 2010
- Length: 05:02
On this edition, we’ll hear part two of a documentary called Heavy Weather, produced by freelancer Barbara Bernstein. She’ll look at how climate c...
- Added: Apr 23, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Stand on a street corner at dawn in Newmarket, England and you'll see a spectacle unique in the world: 3,000 racehorses parade through town every d...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:38
Dan Driscoll spent 20 years restoring abused and forgotten corridors along Boston’s Charles River, creating habitat for wildlife and access for peo...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Apr 15, 2010
- Length: 14:32
- Purchases: 1
On this edition, we’ll hear part one of a documentary called Heavy Weather, produced by freelancer Barbara Bernstein. She’ll explore the connection...
Bought by WUAL and The Neighborhood
- Added: Apr 13, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
For the past week, the world’s leaders have hashed out policy details at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change. Now some of the spotlight wil...
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 04:17
Charlotte officials are touting the region's potential as a green energy hub. But so are hundreds of other cities. Is there any substance to the ...
- Added: Dec 09, 2009
- Length: 04:03
Shawn Allee looks at a dioxin and soil study and how the science might influence other clean-ups around the country.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:37
Shawn Allee finds old dioxin pollution from a Dow chemical plant poses a health risk today.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:29
Shawn Allee talks with residents about living with Dow and dioxin.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:38
Residents are asking why it's taken so long to clean up the dioxin. Shawn Allee looks for an answer.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:17
Shawn Allee meets a man who took the Dow and dioxin issue to Congress years ago and is shocked it hasn't been dealt with.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:40
A Preview of the series "Dioxin Delays" by the Environment Report
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:37
We go to Huron, California--a tiny farming community dubbed the' lettuce capital' of the U.S. This rural region in the fertile, sun-baked Central ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2009
- Length: 15:56
- Purchases: 2
A business model that creates worker-owned green businesses and healthy jobs for low-income women.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: 07:32
- Purchases: 1
