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Sociologist Diana Mincyte has been studying dairy farming in Lithuania and other post-socialist Eastern European states. She says that what happens...

  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Resilience, Credit: Juss Kaur
We don’t live on the land or by the Lakes - we live with them. How do we grow in relationship to all the beings with whom we share space?

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: River Pilot, Credit: Sault Ste. Marie ON Museum
Finding, eating, and sustaining healthy populations of fish. What are the community, family, and individual practices which support the cause?

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  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
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This week we’re looking at the environmental impact of EV’s vs traditional combustion cars in our latest installment of “What’s better?”

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio Kansas, RadioFreePalmer, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 4
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This week on Cultivating Place we’re in conversation with Kristen Bradley, Co-founder and Creative Director of the world renowned Australian-based ...

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: U.S. Students Protesting Israel’s Gaza War Emerge as Nation’s Moral Consci...

Bought by WETS, RadioFreePalmer, and WFHB


  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Employees of the DNR releasing a river otter into the wild, Credit: Carrol Henderson
Next year, Carrol Henderson has a memoir coming out from Afton Press about his 41 years as the Minnesota DNR's first Nongame Wildlife Program Super...

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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After young birds have left the nest and can fly short distances, they still follow their parents and beg for food. They squawk and assume a beggin...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Evolution on islands can produce unusually large species. Haast’s Eagle lived on the islands now known as New Zealand. With a wingspan of 9 feet an...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Raising baby birds is a lot of work. You might think that after seeing off their fledged young ones, bird parents would call it a day. But a surpri...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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In grasslands of the central U.S., birds called Dickcissels sing a quirky song that “spells out” the syllables of their name. Dickcissels are appro...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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There’s no wrong place to search for birds — looking out the window and listening for calls and songs is a great place to start. But you might be c...

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  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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At midday, it might seem like the birds that were so active in the morning have gone silent, maybe even vanished. But cormorants rally in the after...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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It's dawn in a western marsh in mid-summer, and man! Those birds are singin'! The males of more than a dozen species are staking out their territor...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Brown Pelicans are a regular sight today along the Gulf of Mexico and our southern coastlines. But these birds have not always been so plentiful. T...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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In summer, the forests of the eastern United States are home to a bounty of birds, including this gorgeous Scarlet Tanager, which spends most of th...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Just because a young bird appears to be alone – whether on the ground or squawking loudly from a bush or tree – doesn't necessarily mean it is sick...

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  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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If you had to pick the bird most like a superhero, the Bobolink might not be an obvious choice. But these quirky blackbirds have abilities that wou...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Eleven-year-old Zjencès Bell took an early interest in birds after he learned his first bird call. And as a piano student, Zjencès soon blended his...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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The crocodilians — crocodiles and their relatives, like the American Alligator — are the closest living relatives of birds. About 250 million years...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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A male American Golden-Plover proclaims its nesting territory with an aerial display known as the "butterfly flight." After flying up 50 feet, the ...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Author Nick Belardes was walking at a park near his home in San Luis Obispo, California, when he saw a man who seemed in tune with birds. Belardes ...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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The Northern Hawk Owl is one of the least studied and least known of all birds in North America. Northern Hawk Owls are owls, but they share severa...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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The Baltimore Oriole is a standout bird. With adult males’ electric orange and jet black feathers, and females and immature birds in various shades...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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After a Northern Flicker carves out a nest cavity, chances are the birds will use the cavity for just one nesting season. But the cavity may have a...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:45