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Sewage Happens
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Think your city has a sewage problem? You haven't seen the half ot it.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Saving The Sierra
From: Catherine Stifter
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3 stories of rural America where unlikely allies have found common ground in dealing with urban development pressures

Bought by KUT-HD, KXOT Public Radio, WCBU, WVIK, KUER and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
A California Story: Redwood Trees vs Solar Panels
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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When it comes to solar planels, is tree planting a crime?

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Do Carbon Offsets Work?
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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How can you tell if a carbon offset is just hype?

  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 05:02
The New Great Lakes Goby Fish Gang
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby.

Bought by WYOU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
It Pays to Cry Wolf
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park marked the return of a symbol of the American West. The recent shooting of one in O...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Up a Creek
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The fine folks of Omak, Washington, found themselves up a creek recently. Cleaning it up.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
A Second Life for Your Old Cell Phone
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Today, hundreds of millions of people carry pocket-sized cell phones. There are more than 213 million in use in the United States, and each year, a...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:29
Antartica - The Global WARNING
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Antarctica - The Global Warning - Is Antarctica the 'canary' of the planet? Do we need to take what is happening there seriously - because it ref...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2008
  • Length: 28:42
Disappearing Sea Ice - Dr. Mark Serreze
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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What does it mean that Sea Ice has decreased by an astonishing 23 percent this year, shattering the 2005 September record? Dr. Mark Serreze, autho...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2008
  • Length: 28:41
Electromagnetic Fields and Your Health - Dr. David Carpenter
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Are electromagnetic fields (EMF) hazardous to your health?? Dr. David Carpenter, MD, director of the Institute for Health & the Environment at the ...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 28:34
California Wildfires; A Perspective
From: Michael Faulkner
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A provocative essay contemplating rebuilding after the Calif. wildfires

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jan 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Banned from the Beach
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Before you pack up the family and head out for some sand, surf and sun, there's something you might want to consider. Your favorite beach may be cl...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:11
  • Purchases: 1
WWOZ Street Talk- Badass Emma and the Levee Hearing
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
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A conversation with badass Emma and a look at the work of the NRC's report on the Army corps levees.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 1
Paper or Plastic?
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What's better for the environment?

Bought by KZYX and KLCC


  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 2
QUEST Nature Deficit Disorder
From: KQED
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How can we get kids outside?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Traffic Tax
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Would you be willing to pay a fee to drive downtown?

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Nov 30, 2007
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
Going Green at the Olympic Trials
From: KLCC
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Efforts to make the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon Environmentally friendly

  • Added: Nov 21, 2007
  • Length: 06:39
DDT and Breast Cancer
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Link between DDT and Breast Cancer - Dr. Barbara Cohn, director of Child Health and Development Studies (CHDS) is an author of the study DDT an...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 28:44
Buffalo Commons
From: Long Haul Productions
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The American Prairie Foundation is working to reintroduce thousands of bison and other native species to parts of Montana, with the hopes of luring...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, Yellowstone Public Radio, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 30:23
  • Purchases: 4
Roundup At The Little Book Cliffs Range
From: Amy Marsh
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A look at BLM round-ups of wild horses and whether they are necessary

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Nov 02, 2007
  • Length: 17:52
  • Purchases: 1
Start Talking Trash
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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During one three hour period last September, volunteers collected more than seven million pounds of shoreline trash around the world.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Watts up with CFLs?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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We recently aired a story about Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs - called CFLs - which were described as environmentally friendly alternatives to in...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Today's Carbon Report
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day's carbon report. Carbon report?

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 1
Quest_Marine Protected Areas
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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One Fish, Two Fish: The Science of Protecting Sea Life

  • Added: Oct 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:45

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