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QIEST_Reconsidering Nuclear Power
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A group of Fresno businessmen is challenging California's 31 year-old ban on new nuclear power plants.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 30, 2007
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 2
Cleaning Up Washington DC's "other" river.
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Cleaning up Washington D.C's "other" river.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:47
Polar Bears: Branding Global Warming
From: Nathanael Johnson
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Bear as symbol vs. bear in person

Bought by PRX to iTunes, New Hampshire Public Radio, WFUV, Aspen Public Radio, and WYSO


  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 5
World Tour Radio presents Mining, Miners, and Music
From: Andrew Reissiger
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A look at the mining communities that support our unquenchable thirst for energy.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KSFR, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 18, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Toiletbowl Conservation
From: Shana S. Weber, Ph.D.
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A sustainability professional explores water-saving dual-flush toilets.

Bought by BSR Radio


  • Added: Sep 22, 2006
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
PART 4: TOO MUCH MANURE?
From: The Environment Report
Series: Pollution in the Heartland
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A look at the environmental costs of a large-scale dairy operation.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2006
  • Length: 04:32
A Map of The Sea
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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An award-winning documentary on the collapse of the Newfoundland cod fishery and its resounding effects on the local community.

Bought by HowSound, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland and more


  • Added: May 04, 2006
  • Length: 14:57
  • Purchases: 8
RN Documentary: Noah's Raft: saving Madagascar's wildlife without the Ark
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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On-location documentary style report about Madagascar, its unique wildlife and efforts to conserve it.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTNA, and Internet Partnership Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Marine Harvest
From: KUOW
Series: Food for Thought: Farmed Salmon and the Future
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A look at a fish farm opened after a moratorium was lifted.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 06, 2006
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
New York's Playground Sprinklers
From: Kate Hinds
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In early spring, New York City begins readying its playground sprinker system for action. It takes months, but as the children of New York will a...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2006
  • Length: 04:50
RN Documentary: Zeeland '53
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus: Living With Water
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Recreation of the disastrous 1953 flood in the southern Dutch province of Zeeland during which more than 1800 lives were lost.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio and WRPI


  • Added: Sep 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 2
Using Wildfire As A Classroom
From: KSUT
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Students from 5 states visit Southwest Colorado to learn about the origins of wildfires

Bought by KRFC


  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
March of the Salamanders
From: Adam Allington
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Every year the first spring rains rouse hibernating amphibians from their winter torpor. In Amherst, MA this time is punctuated by the annual Sala...

Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUOW, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Apr 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 5
80 Meters
From: Jennifer Dunn
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Development tensions and forced relocation in rural southwestern China

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 25, 2005
  • Length: 12:34
  • Purchases: 2
Moving the Village
From: Gabriel Spitzer
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Climate change is displacing a thousand-year-old community.

Bought by KVSC, KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, The Nature Podcast, CKMO and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Grease My Ride!
From: WAER Syracuse, NY
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Do It Yourself Veggie Cars and the Clear Visions Project

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Feb 07, 2005
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Releasing the River - Restoring the Rhythms of the Zambian wetlands
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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ABG visits a Worldwide Fund for Nature project to restore the Zambian wetlands which - since the construction of two huge hydroelectric dams on the...

Bought by CKMO and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 09, 2004
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 2
Toxic Trail: Rails to Trails Meets Superfund
From: Guy Hand
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The EPA builds a beautiful bike trail in North Idaho to contain heavy metals and promote tourism.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KVNF, The Nature Podcast, and BSR Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 16:22
  • Purchases: 4
Kentucky Dairy Farming and Kenny's Country Cheese
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works
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A day in the life of one of Kentucky's few remaining dairy farmers and his cheese shop

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Jun 10, 2004
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 1
Housing for South Africa's poor
From: David Barasoain
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How to house South Africa's poor.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2004
  • Length: 05:21