PRX - Pieces for Topic: Environment
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World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently witnessed a beautiful full moon rise from an island perch in Maine. The silent, stealthy way that it ro...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 05:11
Split into three clips for your own programming schedules
A Banksy mural has been the source of a considerable amount of drama since it first appe...
- Added: Jul 25, 2015
- Length: 12:15
Can the Appalachian Mountains recover from centuries of mining? What will happen to the thousands of coal miners projected to lose their jobs in th...
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 51:59
- Purchases: 1
Becca doesn't have very good luck with hiking. This is the story of her two near-death experiences with hiking, set ten years apart.
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 04:16
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.
Bought by WMMT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 3
At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen not only for its ...
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 05:11
Toxic chemicals released into watersheds and waterways remain a persistent problem despite the sounding of alarms, which for decades have railed ag...
- Added: Dec 15, 2014
- Length: 05:27
Cheryl Strayed's memoir, WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, took over twenty years to write and has since been selected by Oprah'...
Bought by WMUU-LP, KQED, WNJR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WJCU
- Added: Dec 11, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Strong winds in West Texas make it difficult for farmers to grow crops without contamination from pesticide drift. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and ...
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 28:00
We've heard a lot about the economy this general election season. Not so much about the other big E-word: the environment. Unless you count the man...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
It was three years ago that Katrina made landfall in the southeastern corner of Louisiana. Within a day, New Orleans was filling with water. But sm...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 08:26
Wylie Carr studies climate engineering - a 'Plan B' for global warming. The idea terrifies him. Someday, however, his daughter may need to decide w...
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 05:31
November 1st, 2014 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Part 2
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 20, 2014
- Length: 30:02
- Purchases: 1
In her new book: “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate”, Naomi Klein argues that while it’s too late to stop climate change, we can ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
Two stories about elephants, one from Carol Buckley, co-founder of the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, and one from author Susan Chernak McElroy (...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Oct 19, 2014
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
This reading is a passage describing two giraffes seen in crates on a ship bound for Germany.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 03:49
LJ Evans (R) and Suzanne Bishop (L) remember working at an animal rescue clinic following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WEZU
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 2
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will have us look at what might lie beyond hope, how we might apply our optimism to meet and...
- Added: Apr 14, 2014
- Length: 05:28
Moe Bowstern and Erin Yanke present a bear story from 1997 Alaska, with updates from the participants and observers, and from Alaska Fish and Game.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 01:00:18
- Purchases: 1
At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen above all others ...
- Added: Dec 27, 2013
- Length: 05:09
With the industrialization of agriculture, our diets have become out of balance with an abundance of omega-6 fatty acids and a deficiency in omega-...
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 28:00
A year after a deadly tornado came through Apison, Tennessee, residents recount the year that followed.
- Added: Nov 18, 2013
- Length: 12:28
- Purchases: 2
She saved 205 sloths in a couple of weeks and now makes headlines around the globe.
- Added: Aug 26, 2013
- Length: 12:16
Women’s bodies serve as our children’s “first environments,” which is why food quality and safety are so important for pregnant and lactating women...
- Added: Jun 21, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Every Friday, individuals who wish to connect with the land and garden communally are invited to attend PLOT 22's Garden Fridays.
In this intimate...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 19:21