PRX - Pieces for Topic: Environment
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To counter the environmental impact of plastic food wrappers, an Indian school created a way for food manufacturers to find a solution.
- Added: Jun 29, 2021
- Length: 02:36
Reducing food waste is a good thing for the environment, but it can also help address food insecurity. Producer Ella Nigro spoke to women within th...
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- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 11:06
- Purchases: 1
Quinnisa interviewed two ocean advocates and marine researchers about their work and the impact of marine debris in our oceans.
- Added: May 10, 2021
- Length: 12:50
It’s hard to shift from the toxic mindset of fast fashion, trend-driven new-each-season purchasing, but that can have a big impact on the volume of...
- Added: May 10, 2021
- Length: 10:38
Producer Idey Abdi interviewed members of her community and youth activists about how climate change impacts their lives here in Maine and the live...
- Added: May 10, 2021
- Length: 08:37
Producer Anna Ravis interviewed an activist, a chef and seaweed researchers to understand some ways that people are trying to reduce the impacts of...
- Added: May 10, 2021
- Length: 16:51
In 1979, a sixteen year old boy starts planting trees to save his island, and it works.
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- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
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
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
In 2017, a couple of ninth graders developed a way to make electricity from the rain.
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
The Keepers: Archiving the Now — a new hour-long special from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand. Storie...
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- Added: Nov 24, 2020
- Length: 54:25
- Purchases: 70
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
Juan Martinez grew up in South Central L.A. in the early nineties. He was struggling to find his way until he traded detention for a pack of jalape...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2020
- Length: 10:09
- Purchases: 2
Nature-based preschools are becoming increasingly popular. A school director in Seattle explains why children benefit from time in the woods.
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- Added: May 21, 2020
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 1
Julia, age 15, and Cougar, age 17, interview their classmates about climate change.
- Added: Apr 23, 2020
- Length: 06:59
When Hurricane Florence hit coastal North Carolina, Shecoria Smith, age 16, was worried about her father returning from a work trip.
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 02:49
What is the most beautiful sound? Teenager Alex Soto investigates.
A version of this story was selected as a finalist in the 2020 NPR Student Pod...
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- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 07:53
- Purchases: 2
In the wake of the 25th UN Climate Change Summit known as the Conference of Partners or COP, scientists and activists are warning that governments ...
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- Added: Dec 19, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Greta Thunberg, in her UN Climate Change speech called on threatened loss of the loved, in her view, the environment to bring action on climate c...
- Added: Dec 14, 2019
- Length: 05:03
How can what we choose to wear have an impact on the environment? Tune in to hear how one youth is working toward sustainability one garment at a t...
- Added: Nov 06, 2019
- Length: 14:15
Two Indigenous land and water protectors share their experiences of peaceful resistance and consequences it holds both environmentally and legally.
- Added: Nov 06, 2019
- Length: 55:25
Anne-Laure is a rising senior at the University of Arizona double majoring in Natural Resources (emphasis in Wildlife Conservation and Management) ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:26
On a busy street corner in North Minneapolis, there once stood a fenced-off, vacant lot. It was the site of a building Juxtaposition Arts had to te...
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 04:28
Seventeen-year-old Paloma Martinez lives in Tucson, Arizona. She's heard that a global water crisis might be coming, and her mom thinks Tucson is g...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 14, 2019
- Length: 13:49
- Purchases: 3
Four years ago, 21 student plaintiffs sued the U.S. government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property by failing ...
- Added: May 30, 2019
- Length: 58:59
