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Episode 5: Growing Health: Plants as Food & Medicine
From: Grounded Hope
Caption: Trail Marker at United Plant Savers Sanctuary In Rutland, Ohio, Credit: Renee Wilde
Herbalism is seeing a huge rise in popularity, as more and more people turn to natural remedies to keep their bodies healthy. In this episode of Gr...

  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 17:38
Railroads & Fire
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Since the first rail line was completed in Minnesota in 1862, the railroad has had a storied existence in the state. Fire is part of that story. KF...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Sonic Legacy of Leif Brush and His Terrain Instruments
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Leif Brush
Leif Brush was a pioneering sound artist based in Duluth since the mid 1970s. His Terrain Instruments were just some of the audible sculptures tha...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 1
Funding Cool Communities
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Stories about communities raising money to lower emissions

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 4: Beyond Livestock: Animals in Regenerative Agriculture
From: Grounded Hope
Caption: Chicken Tractor at the Raven Rocks Quaker farm in Beallsville, Credit: Renee Wilde
Regenerative agriculture is more than a human-centered enterprise: it means working with nature and alongside other creatures, to accomplish larger...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2021
  • Length: 23:34
World in Progress 04/08/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The Mekong River flows 5,000 kilometers from China to Vietnam. China's construction of a number of large hydropower dams al...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
Land for New Farmers
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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There's a lot of farmland about to change hands. We can make sure it's distributed fairly to good stewards.

Bought by WFHB, KRZA, WYAP, and WFHB


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Part 1: The City
From: Robyn Shipton
Series: Water Is For Fighting
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On the last leg of a long journey, Water faces a final foe: Aging infrastructure.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 51:52
Frontier Music
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do. Featuring Gary Farmer, Rion Amilcar Scott, Jeff Grace and Kathryn Kali...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 50:00
Stories from The Big New Jersey Plastic Ban
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Troop 19 addressing Teaneck City Council
Small town environmentalists and a dozen girl scouts won the first local bag ordinances in New Jersey, sparking the strongest state plastic ban in ...

Bought by WFHB and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 31: Something Large and Wild
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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Our favorite story, for anyone who might be feeling a little lost.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 23:19
Episode 30: Cheers
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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In June of 2020, a 72-year-old man in the UK named Gerald Stratford posted a photograph of himself in his garden on Twitter. He wrote, “Just giving...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 25:11
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 27: He Left in a Storm, He'll Return in a Storm
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 27:04
Episode 152: The Clearwater Monster
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:29
The Deep: Rising Sea Levels and Corporate Control of Water (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this episode of Making Contact, we look at the privatization of our earth’s most precious resource – water. People around the world have been or...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
Re-Localizing Food
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Local Food Hub's Free Farmacy Program
Food hubs in Charlottesville VA and Warrenton VA support local farmers and provide fresh produce for their communities. When COVID broke long sup...

Bought by WFHB, KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KVNF and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
AMOS 20.250: Bombardier Beetles: Saying "No" to a Hungry Predator, 12/15/2020
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Bombardier Beetles: Saying "No" to a Hungry Predator

  • Added: Dec 01, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
The Keepers: Archiving the Now with Host Frances McDormand
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Keepers
Caption: Host, Frances McDormand, Credit: Alison Rosa
The Keepers: Archiving the Now — a new hour-long special from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand. Storie...

Bought by Prairie Public, WJCT, WABE, WNMU-FM, WCQS and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:25
  • Purchases: 70
Episode Six: When a horse goes 'home'
From: Alan Wartes
Series: Wildish:Wild horses in a not-so-wild west
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In Montana, two ranchers adopted ‘Delilah.’ They’re among the growing number of people actually getting paid to adopt wild horses and burros.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 15:40
Episode Five: The unsexy burro
From: Alan Wartes
Series: Wildish:Wild horses in a not-so-wild west
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In Arizona, two incarcerated men rehabilitate wild donkeys for adoption.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 18:19
Healthy Soil for a Healthy Planet
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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How do we turn agriculture from climate pollution to climate solution?

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and KRZA


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Combat Fishing (Warden Force: True Game Warden Adventures)
From: Brian Schwartz
Caption: Combat Fishing by Terry Hodges
Award-winning author Terry Hodges, inducted into the California Outdoor Hall of Fame, was a game warden for over 30 years. Combat Fishing is a true...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 18:34
Episode Two: Why wild horses pull on our heartstrings
From: Alan Wartes
Series: Wildish:Wild horses in a not-so-wild west
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Horses and humans evolved together. Much as we do with dogs, we have a special relationship with the species. In this episode, host Anna Coburn spe...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 21:25
  • Purchases: 1
Episode One: Is federal mustang management reaching a breaking point?
From: Alan Wartes
Series: Wildish:Wild horses in a not-so-wild west
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If wildlife managers, landowners, wild horse advocates and the BLM cannot work together to come to a solution, the Wild Horse and Burro Program wil...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 18:53
  • Purchases: 1
Campaign Giving for Climate Action
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Meet 3 small super PACs that focus your money on electing climate leaders to public office.

Bought by WFHB, WFHB, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 12, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3

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