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REPLAY Wearing Down The Appalachian Trail (hour)
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 KAZU Seaside, Calif., WTJU, KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
REPLAY Wearing Down The Appalachian Trail (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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From start to finish, the Appalachian Trail covers a whopping 2,181 miles.

Bought by KYUK, WJCT, WJCU, Harford Community Radio, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
REPLAY Wearing Down The Appalachian Trail (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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From start to finish, the Appalachian Trail covers a whopping 2,181 miles.

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


  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Toilets, Streetcars, and Light Poles—A Brief History of Artificial Reefs in Southern California
From: H2O Radio
Series: Journalism About Water
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Starting in the late 1950s, nearly everything but the kitchen sink was put in the ocean off the Southern California coast to promote sportfishing a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
A Living History of the Boundary Waters
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Swamp Canoe: Early season canoeing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota, Credit: Matthew Baxley
In wilderness settings, there are connections people can make to the land, regardless of their age, race or gender, by walking in the footsteps of ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
Booktalk: Journalist and Film Maker Sebastian Junger’s “Freedom”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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“The change was immediate. The country opened up west of Harrisburg and suddenly we could drink from streams and build fires without getting caught...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2021
  • Length: 09:17
591: Secrets of Alchemy / 592: Thinking With Animals, 6/5/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Secrets Of Alchemy" - The leading science of the 17th century was alchemy, the transformation of matter. What was it really? Could we st...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
IE: Inside Europe, 6/4/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: Europe demands answers after US-Danish spying claims. Frustration with the German government's handling of the vaccine prog...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Blue Dot: A REAL LIFE INDIANA JONES: A conversation with Professor Russell Shapiro
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave talks to Russell Shapiro, a geology professor at California State University at Chico. Dr. Shapiro has a fascinating array of interests and ad...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: May 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Paranormal Cafe with Dr. Bob Curran & The Green Man
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: The Paranormal Cafe
Caption: Walking with the Green Man, Credit: Career Press
Dr. Bob Curran joins us from Ireland to discuss the legend of the Green Man. The Green Man turns up in many cultures, from the same eras, around th...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2021
  • Length: 57:24
  • Purchases: 1
Why NYC Is Banning Cars From Some Streets
From: Catharine Smith
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The Open Streets program aimed to give New Yorkers more safe spaces to hang out during Covid. The program was so popular that it's going to be perm...

  • Added: May 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:42
GN_4.58_Tree Hugger
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The word "Tree Hugger" can often be used in a derogatory manner. Although many people don't know its historical significance is much more than long...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_4.57_Earth Day
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Earth Day is the largest secular observance in the world, but it wouldn't have been possible if people didn't speak up for what is right. 40 years ...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Railroads & Fire
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Since the first rail line was completed in Minnesota in 1862, the railroad has had a storied existence in the state. Fire is part of that story. KF...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
GN_4.17_50 Million Trees in 1 Day
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
50 million new-planted trees and a Guinness World Record later, India is on its way to reducing extreme pollution.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Spill
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A harrowing look at the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion.

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 19
Top of Mind - Electric Woman, Sensory History, Mycelium Coffins
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Electric Woman; Topic 2 - Sensory History; Topic 3 - Mycelium Coffins

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 51:46
  • Purchases: 3
Horse Powered Farming
From: renee wilde
Series: The Grounded Hope Podcast
Caption: Suffolk Draft Horses, Credit: Friends of Gressen Hall
Regenerative agriculture is more than a human-centered enterprise: it means working with nature and alongside other creatures, to accomplish larger...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 12:04
Owens Valley and the Accidental Miracle
From: Desert Oracle
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What made the Owens Valley the way it is, in our time? An accident of history, of water grabs, of one group of humans using easy money to buy out a...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Dean Barlese
From: Brian Bahouth
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During the final hours of the Trump presidency, on January 15 of this year, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved the Final Environmental Imp...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 05:47
Interview with Max Wilbert and Paul Feather
From: Brian Bahouth
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During the final hours of the Trump presidency, on January 15 of this year, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved the Final Environmental Imp...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 13:14
Episode 3 - Agroforestry
From: Grounded Hope
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This month, when the maple sap is flowing, we have three different stories about the importance of trees and our interaction with them. We’ll meet ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 19:53
Land for New Farmers
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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There's a lot of farmland about to change hands. We can make sure it's distributed fairly to good stewards.

Bought by WFHB, KRZA, WYAP, and WFHB


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The World War II Bomber at the Bottom of Lake Mead
From: H2O Radio
Series: Journalism About Water
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The extraordinary story of how a B-29 crashed into Lake Mead over 70 years ago but was only found in the early 2000s—remarkably intact.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUNC & The Colorado Sound and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2021
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 7
Part 1: The City
From: Robyn Shipton
Series: Water Is For Fighting
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On the last leg of a long journey, Water faces a final foe: Aging infrastructure.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 51:52

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