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In the summer of 1901, San Francisco’s mayor, James D. Phelan, hiked up to an oak tree near the north bank of the Tuolumne River in Yosemite’s Hetc...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 14:02
Jack London is known for his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North. But, that’s overlooking the real story. London was a reporter who made n...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
A conversation with Andrew Revkin, who's best known as a longtime New York Times environmental journalist but is also a songwriter and was for 20 y...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 15:58
- Purchases: 1
Just a stone’s throw from Orlando’s Disneyworld, Florida’s Lake Apopka used to be a premier recreational lake, until agricultural chemical runoff p...
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 28:00
A warm, personal story about the lives and challenges of energy workers "behind the light switch."
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 16:49
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Low-Wage Workers Organize Largest Nationwide Protest to Push for $15 Minim...
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Would you believe, here at the beginning of the 21st century, that every order of fast-food served with a slice of tomato is part of a system of sl...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
Just how dumb do they think we are? Who would believe that destroying the ecosystems on which all life depends, while dis-employing more and more p...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
Despite growing newfound interest in food, diets and nutrition, how many question where their food comes from and the conditions under which it was...
Bought by WRGY
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Interview: Gillian explains the current trade agreements and that the debate over “Fast Track” legislation for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 28:10
- Purchases: 1
A tour around a newly undergrounded reservoir with Mark Brands, the landscape architect who designed the park to be built above it.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 05:18
- Purchases: 1
Labor leader César Chavez helped ban DDT. Truckers are helping address appalling asthma rates at the filthy port of Los Angeles. And inner-city cle...
- Added: Jan 10, 2015
- Length: 28:30
Interview: Joe talks more about the programs of the Labor Network for Sustainability. He also states for the cost of the Afghanistan and Iraqi War...
- Added: Dec 26, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Joe describes the mission and activities of the Labor Network for Sustainability and includes letting us know how corporations successfully pit wor...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 1
British naturalist and jungle survivor of Borneo, Amazonia and the Congo, O’Hanlon sets off this time on a commercial fishing ship in the harsh wat...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 2
The internet has put whistleblowers in the public eye, and the government’s crosshairs. The world’s biggest institutions are running scared and cra...
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Even though the whole “green” theme fad is becoming obnoxious, we’re happy to say that it certainly seems like the “sustainability” trend is here t...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 07, 2014
- Length: 22:51
- Purchases: 1
This month we sit down with three unique guests to talk about the gravity and gravitas of the world’s largest piece of exposed granite, Stone Mount...
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 21:50
Interview: Joe talks more about the programs of the Labor Network for Sustainability. He also states for the cost of the Afghanistan and Iraqi War...
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 27:49
Joe describes the mission and activities of the Labor Network for Sustainability and includes letting us know how corporations successfully pit wor...
- Added: Feb 28, 2014
- Length: 28:02
Kristen, Bobby, and Tom explain what happens when there is high unemployment and low wages and then tell us what we need to do to create an economy...
Bought by NPR Illinois
- Added: Jan 10, 2014
- Length: 28:21
- Purchases: 1
Kristen Biefus, Tom Lux, and Bobby Righi of Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action (PSARA), Just Transition, Part 1
Bought by WSLR
- Added: Jan 03, 2014
- Length: 28:20
- Purchases: 1
Coal is embedded into the culture and image of Eastern Kentucky, but the industry is declining in the region. And it's declining permanently. The c...
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 18:17
Pazhae Horace has a summer job with California Youth Energy Services, or CYES. It’s a program that hires youth aged 15-22 to do free “green house c...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:52
