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The Toxic Truth About Nail Salons (encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Uyen Nguyen, owner of Isabella Nail Bar, Credit: Pauline Bartolone
We take a look at the health impacts of chemical exposure in nail salons, the shoddy regulation of cosmetics, and the movement towards greener nail...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
History of the Mendocino Environmental Center
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Betty Ball, co-founder of the Mendocino Environmental Center in Ukiah, Ca. They discuss the movements to protect Northern...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
Women Who Wouldn't Listen: Wangari Maathai and Frances Moore Lappe
From: A World of Possibilities
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Two lives spent breaking the mold of both traditional and feminist perspectives are recounted in candid conversation, each with a focused sense of ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WZEN.org, KREV-LP, KUOW, WHRV and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 7
Natalia Allen: Social Responsibility With Style
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Natalia Allen
What are you wearing right now? Tube socks from China? A Patagonia fleece? A pair of pants made from hemp? Most people probably don’t think that mu...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
THE SISTER
From: clay scott
Series: Mountain West Voices
Caption: Sister Teresa Jackson, St. Gertrude's Monastery, Cottonwood, ID, Credit: Clay Scott
Teresa Jackson was a 40-year-old attorney with a good job and a good life...but she wanted something more. "I figured if I was going to have a mid...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with NEA Heritage Fellow, Mary Jackson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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NEA National Heritage fellow Mary Jackson talks about the art and tradition of sweetgrass basketmaking.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 22:53
  • Purchases: 1
All Love Begins with Seeing: Poetry and Justice for All
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 11
Caption: Shailja Patel
Shailja Patel’s unique artistry is a provocative global mash-up of genres.

Bought by WCPN and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
A NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: DR. HELEN CALDICOTT
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Dr. Helen Caldicott describes how the nuclear disasters that began in Japan on March 11, 2011, with the massive 9.0 point earthquake and resulting ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Grand Bayou, Self-Sufficient and Shrinking, Prepares for a Fisheries Collapse
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Caption: Rosina Philippe wonders whether Grand Bayou can survive as a subsistence community., Credit: Barry Yeoman
Members of the Atakapa-Ishak tribe have found a creative use for a high-tech fencing material that has protected soldiers in Iraq and strengthened ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:55
For One Cajun Shrimper, a Journey from Despair to Defiance
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Caption: Darla Rooks looks out over the oiled marshland of Bay Jimmy. , Credit: Barry Yeoman
It has been over a year since the Deepwater Horizon blowout, but it’s still too early to measure the complete cost of the ensuing disaster. Despite...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 11:47
Women Rising 21: Women's Rights to Water, Land & Farming
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As part of our “Women Rising” series, we profile a dynamic partnership between the Women’s Earth Alliance and the Global Women’s Water Initiative: ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
LIFE ON THE FARM
From: clay scott
Series: Mountain West Voices
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This week on Mountain West Voices: a visit with two women who grew up on remote, central Montana farms in the 1920's.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Majora Carter Urban Revitalization Strategist
From: James Mills
Series: The Joy Trip Project
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An interview with MacArthur Genius grant winner Majora Carter on the role minorities will likely play in the creation of sustainable environmental ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 13:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Next Wave of Women and Power: Cultivating Women's Leadership
From: Bioneers
Caption: Rha Goddess
Young women across the U.S. are stepping boldly into their power. From the heart of Native American and urban communities, this generation of engag...

Bought by KPVL, KCMJ Community Radio, WLPR , and KSKQ


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 4
Returning to the Roundhouse: Revolution from the Heart of Woman
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 4
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The environment in developing countries of the South has often suffered most, and how these nations relate to the environment from here on is a mak...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2010
  • Length: 56:58
They Don’t Call Her Mother Earth for Nothing: Women Re-imagining the World
From: Bioneers
Caption: Alice Walker, Credit: (c) Jennifer Esperanza
Transformational women leaders are restoring societal balance by showing us how to reconnect relationships - not only among people - but between pe...

Bought by KQED, KSKQ, WPTC, and WGDR


  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Mary Zeiss Stange, author of Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Out in southeast Montana, near the small town of Ekalaka, is where Mary Zeiss Stange and her husband, Doug, own and run the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 1
Green Monastery
From: Emilie Ritter Saunders
Caption: Three Sisters stand proudly with their new turbines in Great Falls, MT , Credit: Emilie Ritter
A Montana Monastery is interpreting the teachings of a 13th Century Saint with 21st Century technology...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 2
She’s Not Bitter
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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She’s not bitter and the simple life….this week on Prime Time Radio.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2010
  • Length: 59:54
Laura Bell
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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The Write Question producer, Chérie Newman, talks with Laura Bell about her new memoir, CLAIMING GROUND.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Talking With The Wind: The Mystery of Opal Whiteley
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Caption: Opal Whiteley, Credit: Cottage Grove Historical Society
"Talking With The Wind: The Mystery of Opal Whiteley," a half-hour documentary about Opal Whiteley who caused an international scandal in 1920 whe...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, XRAY.fm, Prairie Public, KSUT and more


  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 28:21
  • Purchases: 10
How Do We Feel About Surrogate Mothers?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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For millennia when couples were not able to conceive and bear their own children their options were somewhat limited, and not at all available if t...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 28:52
A Few Good Women
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Gardeners on the ground, Credit: Beatrice Murch
From the philanthropic women of Washing to DC to a group of international environmentalists in Buenos Aires, A few good women can make a difference...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1
Back to the Land!
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Severine Fleming
Aging farmers, a threatened food system & desire for good food are driving a new wave of local growing. Severine Fleming of Greenhorns talks young ...

Bought by 'The Sea', KVMR, and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 3
Winter: Where the Wild Rivers Run ~ Cheryl-Anne Millsap
From: Spokane Public Radio
Caption: Clark Fork River, Missoula MT, Credit: Cheryl-Anne Millsap
We crossed the Clark Fork River on our way out of Missoula, Montana. The sun was just coming up and the sky along the horizon was fading, changing ...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 07, 2010
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1

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