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A Natural History of Minnesota's Superior Coast
From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project
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“North Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota’s Superior Coast” is a major new book written by naturalists Chel Anderson and Heidi Fischer, publishe...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2015
  • Length: 09:20
Working Water (Part One)
From: Barbara Bernstein
Series: Rivers That Were
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Part One of Rivers That Were, Working Water, compares two environmental crises. On the Colorado River Basin, it’s the ongoing effort to restore the...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 55:53
Island Stories Virginia’s Restless Archipelago Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Moorings on Cobb Island., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 25:24
New book is comprehensive environmental history of Lake Superior's North Shore
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist who has lived and worked on the North Shoreof Lake Superior since 1974; you might know her as the N...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 1
A Homestead Along the Gunflint Trail
From: WTIP
Series: Moments In Time
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The Patten family has lived 27 miles north of Grand Marais, Minnesota, since establishing a homestead in 1974. In this edition of Moments in Time, ...

  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:33
Antonia Juhasz on BP and the Gulf, 5 years After Deepwater Horizon
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Making Contact's Andrew Stelzer speaks with author, analyst, and oil industry expert Antonia Juhasz. She's been following BP since even before the ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 16:04
  • Purchases: 1
Mind your own beeswax
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
Amity Creek Chalet
From: WDSE
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THis week we hear about plans to revive the Lester Amity Chalet in Duluth and heara bit of a poem called "October's Bright Blue Weather" by Helen H...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:31
Civil defense sirens activated for severe weather
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:52
Naomi Oreskes on “Merchants of Doubt”
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Naomi Oreskes
A recent Pew survey found that 48% of Americans are still unconvinced that global warming is happening and that human activity is causing it. How c...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mike Powell, Part 3
From: WTIP
Series: Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People
Caption: Milt Powell
Milt Powell grew up on the Canadian side of Saganaga Lake on what was once known as "Powell's Bay." In this segment he tells a family moose tale ab...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 3
GUEST: Bernie Krause (Great Animal Orchestra) + 3D AUDIO Insight Treks (chapter 2)
From: Don Hill
Series: Cafe Acousmatic
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D binaural audio.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 59:07
Minnesota 13's nefarious reputation
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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“Minnesota 13” is the name of a corn seed developed at the University of Minnesota to suit the shorter growing season in the upper Midwest. But dur...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:48
Saving paradise: protecting Minnesota prairies
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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During the last 150 years, most of Minnesota’s native prairies have been destroyed—converted into farmland for crops like corn and soybeans. But a ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1: Landscapes are inhabited even when they're empty
From: Don Hill
Series: Insight Treks > 3D SOUND
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3D audio trips to 'special places' on the land; supernatural spots with unusual acoustics and extraordinary sounds.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2015
  • Length: 11:02
Stanford considering the fate of century-old dam threatening endangered trout
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Searsville Dam, Credit: Wikimedia commons user Gazebo
The Searsville Dam is causing big trouble on the peninsula. The 122-year-old, 65-foot-tall dam is closed to the public, hidden away on 1,200 acres ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:41
Bob Marshall: Louisiana Encroachment, Pt. I
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Marshall
With so much focus on the BP oil spill and the havoc it has wrought on the Gulf Coast, it's easy to overlook the broader, more long-term environmen...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Trash Talk: The Persistence of Waste
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Buckhorn Mesa landfill., Credit: courtesy of Flickr user Alan Levine.
During our short time on Earth we humans have created a lot of stuff. Some of it's life-altering, like the device you’re using right now and some o...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WTJU


  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 39:39
  • Purchases: 2
The Greenhouse Project: Bringing San Francisco’s forgotten flower farm back to life
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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In 2002, Juan Carlos Cancino, was riding his bike around town and found an entire city block of dilapidated greenhouses, near a hill in the Portola...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 08:44
On Top of the World
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Bradley Boyd and reporter Ashley Creek head to the top of an old hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, which made provisions for a future that never came. ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 3
The New End of Old New York
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Historian Max Page talks about why New York City is so often the target of destruction on the page and the silver screen. This segment comes from t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:10
  • Purchases: 1
History Speaks: Ernest Oberholtzer - Advocate for the Quetico-Superior
From: WTIP
Series: History Speaks
Caption: Billy Magee with Ernest Oberholtzer, Credit: National Park Service
Ernest Oberholtzer was a quiet man who lived most of his life on an island in Rainy Lake. He is also responsible for the protection of much of the ...

Bought by KVSC and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 01, 2015
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 2
A Shortcut Through 2014
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Voices of 2014
A retrospective of 2014, mixing the sounds and emotions of an incredibly explosive and confrontational year into a hour long montage. A historical...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KHEN-LP, KZYX and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 57:52
  • Purchases: 9
Let There Be Night (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Nights are getting brighter and most of us no longer experience true darkness.

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, KWMR, KCPW Salt Lake City, KENW and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Let There Be Night (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Nights are getting brighter and most of us no longer experience true darkness.

Bought by WCNY, WXDU, KKRN, WTJU, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6

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