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Run for the Desert Hills
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Like the beaver, we can change parts of our environment. Like the birds, we can move to other lands or at least try. And sometimes those Other Land...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
639: Shapeshifting / 640: Music Beyond Genre, 11/20/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in th...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
637: Living With Loneliness / 638: Who Owns Seeds?, 11/13/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Living With Loneliness" - In countries all over the world, rates of loneliness are skyrocketing. How did it become a condition of modern...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
BD - The World's First International Scientific Expedition: A Conversation with Nicholas Crane
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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You probably learned in school that the Earth is not a perfect sphere but rather an "oblate spheroid" meaning that it bulges a bit at the equator. ...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
CP - Garden History & Hindsight, The Garden Museum, London with Director Christopher Woodward
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
Caption: Garden Museum entrance
Last week on Cultivating Place, we looked at Gardens and history through the lens of an historic Garden Cemetery – this week we look at Garden Hist...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Ep. 10: Protecting Ohio's Water
From: Grounded Hope
Caption: The Great Miami River as seen from downtown Dayton’s RiverScape Metro Park. This area of Dayton would have been about 20 feet underwater in 1913 following the Great Dayton Flood. , Credit: Lauren Shows
Water has a power unlike almost any other element on Earth. In large enough quantities or with enough force behind it, water can effectively lay wa...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 22:05
We've Been Here Before
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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The story of Canarsie in reverse, from the racial unrest in the 1990s, to the anti-integration school boycotts in the 1960s, the community of Canar...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 26:41
Episode 9: Revisiting Hemp in the 21st Century
From: Grounded Hope
Caption: Dr. Craig Schluttenhofer measuring hemp plants at the Central State University research plots, Credit: Renee Wilde
Hemp seeds were first introduced to North America by European colonists and were grown to produce everything from rope and canvas, to paper, paints...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 21:33
2021-09-10 Water and Civilization: Resilience and Collapse
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Water is essential for life, and throughout history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new book, Wa...

Bought by KUHF, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Maine Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
210910: Water and Civilization: Resilience and Collapse, 9/10/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Water is essential for life, and throughout history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new book, Wa...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Julia Sweig, LADY BIRD JOHNSON & Michael Klare on the Pentagon, China and Climate
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Julia Sweig about her acclaimed book, Lady Bird Johnson: In Plain Sight. Then, after exiting Afghanistan, President Biden is turning ...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:29
613: Plants As People / 614: Guilt Tripping, 8/21/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Plants As People" - If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should t...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
Episode 8: Following Ancient Grains from Farm to Table
From: Grounded Hope
Caption: Heritage Oberkulmer Spelt and Einkorn Wheat from Tom and Mary Klein & Son’s Organic Farm in Carey, Ohio. , Credit: Renee Wilde
Today’s grocery store wheat comes from a variety of grains that were crossbred in the 1960’s to produce a higher yielding and lower cost crop. Th...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 19:48
Drinking the Waters: The Healing Springs Movement
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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On this episode, Devin Lander and Lauren Roberts discuss the public health industry that emerged in the 19th Century. As the understanding of medic...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - The Princess Spy, Testing Smoke
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: The Model Turned Spy Turned Countess; Topic 2: Sending Scientists into the Sky

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 51:48
  • Purchases: 2
Blue Dot - DEEP BLUE EXPLORER: a conversation with Robert Ballard
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave talks to legendary deep ocean explorer Dr. Robert Ballard about his new book, Into The Deep: a Memoir by The Man Who Found Titanic. Since the ...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
603: African Cities Of The Future / 604: Loving Bees, 7/17/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "African Cities Of The Future" - The fastest growing cities in the world are in Africa. We'll take you there with a special TTBOOK from A...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
London Fog, LA Smog (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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For generations, Englishmen grew food on public land. They sustained their families with these gardens, and with fish and animals they hunted and k...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Royalton Community Radio, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 7: A Bustle in the Hedgerow
From: Grounded Hope
Caption: Aullwood naturalist Sam Romeo with cicada, Credit: Renee Wilde
Industrialized monoculture tends to treat insects as pests to be exterminated. What can we do to make them partners? For starters, listen. In this ...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 20:51
London Fog, LA Smog (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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For generations, Englishmen grew food on public land. They sustained their families with these gardens, and with fish and animals they hunted and k...

Bought by WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNED Buffalo, KEDT and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
London Fog, LA Smog (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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For generations, Englishmen grew food on public land. They sustained their families with these gardens, and with fish and animals they hunted and k...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, WEHC 90.7FM, WJCT, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
London Fog, LA Smog (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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For generations, Englishmen grew food on public land. They sustained their families with these gardens, and with fish and animals they hunted and k...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
601: Everything is Exhausting / 602: Traditional Knowledge, 7/10/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Everything is Exhausting" - Staying productive is harder than ever these days. When everything is exhausting, how do we stop the burnout...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
Top of Mind - Founding Fathers, Smokejumpers, Generalists
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Founding Fathers, Topic 2: Smokejumpers, Topic 3: Generalists

Bought by KSTK, KOWS, WYAP, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 51:41
  • Purchases: 4
REPLAY Wearing Down The Appalachian Trail (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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From start to finish, the Appalachian Trail covers a whopping 2,181 miles.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCNY, Royalton Community Radio, WFHB, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5

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