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After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...
- Added: Jul 17, 2023
- Length: 58:05
Violence against Asian Americans in the United States have been on the rise over the last few years. In response to this trend, the non-profit Taik...
- Added: Nov 08, 2022
- Length: 06:31
Without phones, people who need housing and services have less of a chance of getting help. In Missoula, Montana, two programs that aim to close th...
- Added: May 03, 2022
- Length: 02:52
Badass biker chicks motorcycle through city traffic to get mother's milk to babies.
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
A San Francisco Man uses social media to connect the homeless with their families.
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Several years ago a colleague of mine, Geetu Bharwaney, from the UK, wrote an excellent book about emotional resilience. With all the challenges we...
- Added: Dec 03, 2020
- Length: 54:58
Searching for Meaning in Kensington
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 55:22
When one or both parents are incarcerated the family is also incarcerated and are adversely affected in profound ways that exacerbate existing stru...
Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KUNM
- Added: Dec 16, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Collective housing, cultural co-ops, land trusts, community banks are community-rooted enterprises that empower those that have been excluded from ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
On this edition of Making Contact we go from Cape Town, South Africa to Los Angeles and Oakland, California— three cities grappling with evictions,...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Opioids are Pitched as the Wonder Drug: Profit vs. Health
- Added: Sep 19, 2016
- Length: 21:54
Sounds from a solidarity demonstration for the Standing Rock Sioux of North Dakota on September 13, 2016 in New Orleans.
- Added: Sep 16, 2016
- Length: 09:55
Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer on how scientists know that climate change is not just due to the Sun.
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 04:02
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, not everyone is “back to normal.” On this edition, we follow BP’s trail fro...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Togo, a tiny country in Africa, is one of the world's poorest countries.
Despite clear evidence that educating girls and young women is the surest...
- Added: Sep 29, 2014
- Length: 50:58
We need to move forward to find a cause for Autism without fear to question and innovate and just maybe get closer to understanding what we're deal...
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 12:41
The economic crisis has made it difficult for everyone to find employment, but ex-convicts have been hit harder than the rest.
- Added: Aug 11, 2009
- Length: 05:48
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Bought by KGOU and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Jun 06, 2008
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Approaching the April 16 anniversary of Virginia Tech shootings, this show explores how healing can start to take place after atrocities, near and ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2008
- Length: 29:19
Usual approaches to solving homelessness do not work for youths who are find themselves homeless.
- Added: Feb 16, 2008
- Length: 04:45
In Washington State a battle over consitutional rights surrounding Plan Ba rages on. This is currently on a one-way road for the Supreme Court.
- Added: Feb 16, 2008
- Length: 03:41
Many of Seattle's homeless choose to live in a notorious wooded area called the Jungle.
Bought by WRNC-LP
- Added: Feb 16, 2008
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 30:00
From: John (Jock) Chamberlain
News Comentary (in Spanish), humor and Human Interest Stories
- Added: Dec 19, 2006
- Length: 38:30
Three Iraqi Americans' views on Iraq war
- Added: Jun 01, 2006
- Length: 04:51