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The nation of Chile is protecting 10 million acres of its most unspoiled and pristine land, by forging a unique partnership.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:43
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Moving gently used furnishings and equipment from companies that are downsizing or moving, and repurposing them to those in need.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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While most teenagers balk at cleaning their rooms, Fionn Ferreira is cleaning the world's oceans from microplastics. Fionn incorporated the use of ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
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Mexico City uses the concept of vertical gardening to transform their highway pillars into air-cleansing and people-pleasing monoliths.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:31
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Bee habitats atop bus stops in Holland are reviving bee, butterfly and other insect populations.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
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A mexican company takes local waste and transforms it into something sustainable and profitable: cutlery made from avocado pits.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:28
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
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
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To encourage plastic recycling, Rome, Italy has implemented "metro credit" for each recycled plastic bottle.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:17
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Commercial kelp farming in Alaska is moving from harvesting natural kelp beds, to using farm-raised beds in order to create more sustainable harves...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:16
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At the Chapultepec Botanical Gardens in Mexico City a new kind of foliage is taking over. The Future Forest, created by Danish artist Thomas Dambo,...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:17
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The New York Botanical Gardens has launched an innovative program to help visitors, new and seasoned, to see nature in a different way—through the ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Ethiopia is reforesting its arid landscape with an initiative called "Green Legacy."

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:28
Caption: Change your focus, change your world.
A colony of bees miraculously survives the 2019 Notre Dame fire.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:18
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San Francisco Airport bans water bottles to save the planet.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 15, 2021
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
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They don’t call it “weed” for nothing; building houses from Hemp.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:31
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Ocean conservation turns waste into beauty and provides local jobs.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:38
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Farming with the abundant resources of sun and seawater.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:42
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Tackling the challenges of overfishing, while also working towards stalling the effects of climate change.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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
Caption: Paper recycling plant , Credit: Bas Emmen
Today we have a question about paper recycling. What happens after you throw your paper into the blue bin? How much of that paper actually gets reu...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:50
Caption: BARB SARGENT, Credit: COURTESY WV DNR
In this day and age, kids spend so much time looking at screens. This week on Inside Appalachia, we’ll meet a storyteller and songwriter who inspir...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
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In this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami students Diana Borras and Kurt Gessler discover sacred land hiding i...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:46
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For this special encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon will be celebrating the life and music of Pete Seeger with a few close...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KENW, Yellowstone Public Radio, KBBI Alaska, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 22
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The world's most syndicated daily puzzle author, David L. Hoyt puzzles our Kids Crew, and we learn about the Doomsday Seed Vault

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, RadioFreePalmer, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WCNY and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Growing Old
Explore the role that trees play in human health and urban climate resilience, particularly amid a pandemic. Talk with City of Seattle urban forest...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 32:31
  • Purchases: 2