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This week on the show: Cruises are among the most carbon-intensive ways to travel, and the sector is growing fast. Cruise ships are also a testing...
- Added: Apr 08, 2021
- Length: 30:00
Farmers use bees to deter elephants from crop raiding.
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 02:33
“Play for Power” charging swing sets generate power for commuters.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:19
Farmers are discovering that going organic pays well, reduces costs, and sustains the health of not only the people, but the earth itself.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:26
Harvesting water from thin air... yes, really.
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- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 2
The coastal city of Boston is looking ahead to combat possible flooding issues due to rising sea levels. In a pre-emptive move, the city is working...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:31
A Chilean based designer has created algae-based plastics that dissipate in the ocean and only take 4 months maximum to completely biodegrade.
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:31
Studies at Stanford University have shown that meal worms are able to eat Styrofoam and the enzymes in their guts break it down into something comp...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:24
What if roads could repair themselves before becoming a hazard for vehicles? And what if they were economical and environmentally friendly as well?
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:28
A determined New Yorker makes city composting a real thing.
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:22
In 1969, fried-chicken tycoon J. David Bamberger, had a novel idea:
to buy the worst piece of land he could find in the hill country of Texas and ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:34
The city of Atlanta, Georgia is transforming 7 acres of unused land into the nation's largest food forest.
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:36
Clay tiles with micro algae are cleaning up industrial waste water in India.
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:34
Toronto is turning food waste into fuel to power garbage trucks.
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- Added: Mar 05, 2021
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 1
Oregon’s refillable beer bottle program started out small with just seven craft breweries participating. But the idea is catching on and these recy...
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In 2017, a couple of ninth graders developed a way to make electricity from the rain.
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In an effort to raise awareness to a shrinking sea and call the sea back, Uzbekistan held its first electronic music festival on this ancient ocean...
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
The fishermen of Kerala took it upon themselves to clean up plastic waste in their precious ocean, and turn it into roads and local business.
- Added: Feb 27, 2021
- Length: 02:30
This piece explores what life might feel like from a tree’s perspective.
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- Added: Feb 03, 2021
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 1
An ode to the coyote. Dan Flores and his book Coyote America, dueling press releases, and The Wind Inaugural Coyote Calling Contest.
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 47:41
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
Leaves are made into compostable, disposable dishware.
- Added: Jan 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 03:14
It looks like we sort of infuriated Good Ol' Mother Gaia to the point that Gaia is feeling the need to perhaps wipe us off the face of the Earth, t...
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- Added: Oct 04, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Extreme heat can be dangerous and is often called the "silent killer". We talk with Kirsten Goldstein, a grad student at Utah State University in ...
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- Added: Aug 05, 2020
- Length: 23:58
- Purchases: 3