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Roads on the Isthmus

From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA

Improved roads were supposed to be a side-benefit of NAFTA, but some poor Mexicans are convinced that highways won't improve their lives.

Bought by KUNM and Here and Now

Corn in Oaxaca

From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA

US corn imports in Mexico are making it hard for traditional farmers to maintain precious biodiversity.

Bought by KSUT, KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, and Here and Now

Timber in Durango

From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA

Community-owned forests in Mexico are tapping into the demand for eco-friendly wood -- at least for now.

Bought by KUNM, Here and Now, and WAER Syracuse, NY

Mangroves on the Yucatan

From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA

Mexico is trying to balance its lucrative tourism industry with the need to protect fragile coastal ecosystems.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, Here and Now, and WYSO

THINK GLOBAL: Bill McKibben commentary

From: Public Radio Collaboration 2005

Commentator Bill McKibben argues that thinking local makes sense both for people and the planet.

Bought by WSLR, KLCC, WUAL, WBST, WNKU and more

East Coast Culture Shock

From: Youth Radio

After experiencing her first semester away at college, Youth Radio’s Nora Harrington realized that the hometown she was so happy to leave behind wa...

Lapsarian Hummingbirds

From: Dale Short

A poetic tribute to the arrival of the hummingbird

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WYSO

Ask the Librarian: Who's got better eyesight -- the jumping spider or the hawk?

From: Jackson Braider
Series: Ask the Librarian

A schoolbook claims jumping spiders have better eyesight than hawks: is that true?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WUAL

The Wind Will Carry Us: Moving Beyond the Oil Economy

From: A World of Possibilities

Oil is heading out and wind is blowing in. So jump in the truck for a ride to the plains where wind is the new power.

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY

RN Documentary: Biodiversity

From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries

Documentary about biodiversity, what it is and why it’s important in connection with UN ‘International Day of Biological Diversity’.

Dead of Summer and other poems.

From: Marjorie Van Halteren

2" audio poem about summer, part of group of four. available separately.

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZYX, and WMBR

Surrounded By Sage: A Native Son Falls for the Land He Left Behind

From: Guy Hand

A third generation Idahoan takes a closer look at sagebrush country, a landscape overlooked and abused—even by those born onto it.

Bought by KRCC-FM

The last wild place

From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits

Wildlife cinemaphotographer Steve Kroschel tells us how his career began, his move to Alaska and about the wild creatures that share his home and l...