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Lost in the Friendly Skies
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: The Mansions at night, Credit: Walter Murch
We fly to Las Vegas for the weekend while a racing pigeon finds her way to the farm.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 09:39
Summer Insects
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Soothing sounds from the short lived singers of summer - cicadas, crickets, and grasshoppers.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Jul 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Hark! - the acoustic world of Elizabethan England
From: Battery Radio
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Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now? How different were the sounds they heard? And can we tune into their aud...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, HowSound, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 52:24
  • Purchases: 8
Chesapeake Mornings
From: Tom Niemisto
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America's rivers have always had a sacred sense of place, and we must protect them for future generations

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:45
A Greener Christmas
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This annual celebration is one that asks a lot of the environment.

Bought by WSLR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and KRUA


  • Added: Nov 19, 2008
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 3
McCain on the Free Market and the Environment
From: PRX PromCom
Series: Promise Commentaries
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McCain says that market forces will solve our energy issues

Bought by WYSO and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 09, 2008
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 2
Columbus Park
From: David Maxon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Reflection Manhattan's Columbus Park and the fluid nature of place.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:13
This Beautiful Carcass
From: Joan Schuman
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On a desolate beach in Northern California's Humboldt County, a marine biologist and a citizen scientist troll for bird carcasses, inadvertently fi...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 15, 2008
  • Length: 11:49
  • Purchases: 2
Park Stories: Bandelier's Caretakers of Cultural History
From: Jim Williams
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The National Park Service continues its battle to fight graffiti at Bandelier National Monument's centuries-old cliff dwellings

  • Added: Dec 12, 2007
  • Length: 08:40
Lieutenant Pigeon
From: Katie Burningham
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Feature about the pigeon feeders of Trafalgar Square

  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 05:00
So Many Straws! A Day on the Charles River Clean Up Boat
From: Paige Doughty
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Environmental issues are so complicated these days wouldn't it be nice if we could all stop talking about it and DO SOMETHING! Well, the folks who...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2007
  • Length: 07:02
Salmonlands half-hour version
From: Barbara Bernstein
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Salmonlands is a journey into the land of salmon, why they are so significant to the culture and community of the Pacific Northwest, and what it wi...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: May 25, 2007
  • Length: 27:20
  • Purchases: 2
A Loyal Helper
From: WFUV
Series: Notes from the Farm
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Farmer Cindy Jones tells us about her weekly helper.

  • Added: Dec 04, 2006
  • Length: 03:23
Thai Dawn
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
Caption: PRX default Piece image
dawn birds in the hills of northern Thailand

Bought by PRX to iTunes and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2006
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
More Than Vegetables
From: WFUV
Series: Notes from the Farm
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Organic farmer Cindy Jones explains why her customers take away more than fresh vegetables.

Bought by WTIP, WMUK, and WUAL


  • Added: Aug 28, 2006
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 3
PART 3: LIVESTOCK FARMS GET BIG
From: The Environment Report
Series: Pollution in the Heartland
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The environmental and social costs of large livestock farms

  • Added: Aug 09, 2006
  • Length: 04:19
Recognizing the Value Ourselves
From: Jefferey Sweeton
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A Southern, middle-aged farmer and a teenaged girl in Ohio paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of "the details" that "make us different, but the emotion...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2006
  • Length: 15:03
Winter Caretaker (Summer Mix)
From: Jesse Dukes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Peter Mattox alone in the woods, contemplates wilderness in America.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2006
  • Length: 04:36
Lapse in Perception
From: Darren Copeland
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Examining perceptual complexity in everyday life

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 23, 2005
  • Length: 07:48
  • Purchases: 1
The Eyes of God
From: Laura Spero
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A personal essay on finding rythm and rhyme in the chaos of New York City.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2005
  • Length: 18:56
Entrepreneur
From: Jesse Dukes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Adam Johns never wanted to be a worm digger, but he does what's necessary to make ends meet.

Bought by KLCC, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2005
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 12
In Defense of Bad Weather
From: Guy Hand
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A good natured defense of bad weather.

Bought by KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, and WGCU


  • Added: Feb 25, 2005
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 4
Rip, Rift, and Panic: Earthquake Stories of Life and Death Along the Faultlines
From: Susan Stone
Caption: San Francisco, Marina district, October 17, 1989
Earthquake stories from around the Pacific Rim

Bought by KPIK-LP, WUAL, KMXT, KWMR, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 29:22
  • Purchases: 11
Grey Ghost
From: Allan Coukell
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Sound-rich doc of man's search for mystery bird

Bought by The Nature Podcast, KFAI Minneapolis, BSR Radio, and WZBC


  • Added: Nov 08, 2004
  • Length: 30:14
  • Purchases: 4
Nature Bites: The predatory nature of nature films
From: Guy Hand
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The predatory nature of nature films.

Bought by KVNF, KRCC-FM, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 12:45
  • Purchases: 3