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Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
There is a new kind of ‘leather’ that comes from coconuts instead of animals. It’s not only a sustainable alternative, it’s turning a waste product...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Wyn Wiley thought they had to pass for straight, even in their beloved outdoors. But then a special pair of boots came into their life.

Bought by KRZA and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 13:33
  • Purchases: 2
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Protecting forests by turning them into graveyards.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:19
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Chilean sisters employ their dogs to reforest land after fires.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:15
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
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
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
High school students in Denver, Colorado are recycling grocery bags into "plarn", or plastic yarn, which can then be crocheted into blankets and ma...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:22
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In Great Britain, the milkman is returning to your door with glass milk bottles.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Toronto is turning food waste into fuel to power garbage trucks.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Change your focus, change your world.
Living concrete: This biological material has multiple layers that allow for the growth of plants on the outside of a building, without sacrificin...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
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
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The ‘California Air Resources’ board in the summer of 2018, conclusively showed that California had met its 2020 emissions goal four years earlier ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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On this episode of YBYG Mike sets you up for Spring with a 'Question of the Week' on proper setup of Compost in your raised beds PLUS secrets on su...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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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
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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
Caption: Happy New Year from the Possibly team, Credit: Fatima Husain
Twenty-twenty was quite a year, and we're guessing that most people are hoping 2021 will be better. So, our Possibly team got together to think ab...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2021
  • Length: 03:53
Caption: Rooted Earth by Deborah Foutch, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Deborah Foutch
Minneapolis artist Deborah Foutch creates rich and complex work with fiber and mixed media that expresses her love of the natural world. Her Soil H...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2020
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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An introduction to The Wind.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:14
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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A volunteer picks up trash along the I-5 in Northern California

  • Added: Oct 05, 2020
  • Length: 04:10
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Personal narrative describing a way to cope with uncertainty during the pandemic, and a reassessment of safety and risk following the largest earth...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2020
  • Length: 05:33
Caption: Martha Serpas
In today's classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR, we revisit Gulf Coast poet, Martha Serpas, whose 2020 book, DOUBLE EFFECT, won the L.E. Phillabaum Poetr...

Bought by KMXT, WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Today, we're talking to Adam Cassi, who has his degree in Restoration Ecology from Defiance College, and is currently the Executive Director for K...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2020
  • Length: 06:22
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit, we'll be returning to the world of science to get an update about the present struggles of Lake...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 06:08
Caption: This pencil and watercolor by Lt. Francis Meynell shows Africans liberated by the British Navy. The Albanez (erroneously identified as Albaroz in the National Maritime Museum catalog) was a Brazilian vessel, captured by the Royal Navy ship, Albatross, off, Credit: Image is in the public domain. Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International.
What were thought to be the remains of America's last slave ship--the Clotilda--were unearthed on a muddy river bank in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta in ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:51
Caption: André Wallace, Credit: Shefik
Birds - André Wallace is a City Council Member at Mount Vernon, New York. He is also the owner of a construction company, CDCD, LLC.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:26