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The power company tries to reassure residents that nothing is wrong. But despite problems with the current landfill, they're still planning a secon...
- Added: Aug 04, 2011
- Length: 03:30
Big business is as much of a threat to our livelihoods as out of control government, when they can do what they want and steal from us, and get awa...
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 04:02
We’ll hear excerpts from the Oscar-nominated movie Gasland, including stories from residents who say their drinking water catches on fire—one of th...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Mar 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Patient Transfer Vehicles. They look like ambulances but they're not. Riding in one can land you in the wild wild west of unregulated care. 'Risky ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: 30:50
When there aren’t enough hours of work to go around, why not share them? That’s the premise of “shared-work” programs in seventeen states around th...
- Added: Aug 12, 2010
- Length: 07:10
Despite Obama’s words of support of small business, experts say some aren’t relying on government, but more and more on community groups and micro-...
Bought by WCSU-FM, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Aug 12, 2010
- Length: 09:00
- Purchases: 3
We look at how the unemployed are getting creative about making ends meet, from starting their own businesses to work-sharing.
Bought by WCSU-FM and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Ageism can strike anyone once they reach a certain age, and it can be as harmful to its victims and society as racism or sexism.
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 03:43
Is Mexico on the Verge of "Failed State" status ?
- Added: Sep 29, 2008
- Length: 05:27
What is the precedent set by the arrests of journalist at the conventions?
- Added: Sep 15, 2008
- Length: 58:34
Millions of Americans are being driven into the ranks of the nation's highly exploited part-time workers.
- Added: Aug 01, 2008
- Length: 03:12
Sacramento is broke. What's going to be slashed and by how much?
- Added: May 03, 2008
- Length: 04:15
If you're stuck in traffic, here's something you might be interested in knowing. A University of Southern California research group reports that ne...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Camping. Fresh air. Stunning vistas. Mountain streams flashing in the sunlight. And the great outdoors offers all kinds of natural conveniences. L...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they're...
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby.
Bought by WYOU
- Added: Feb 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park marked the return of a symbol of the American West. The recent shooting of one in O...
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The fine folks of Omak, Washington, found themselves up a creek recently. Cleaning it up.
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The loss of air traffic controllers upset over their working conditions is a major reason airlines are consistently operating behind schedule and f...
- Added: Dec 13, 2007
- Length: 03:08
During one three hour period last September, volunteers collected more than seven million pounds of shoreline trash around the world.
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Retirees move to Las Vegas and become addicted to gambling
- Added: Aug 28, 2007
- Length: 05:15
- Added: Aug 04, 2007
- Length: 13:32
Ocean dead zones. Air and water pollution worldwide. All this bad news is enough to cause "Eco-phobia."
- Added: Jul 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
The toll that war takes on human life and property is widely known. But we don't hear much about the devastating effects war has on wildlife and wi...
- Added: Jul 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Femicide...the term for killing women. What is the root cause of violence towards women?
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and WBEZ
- Added: Mar 08, 2007
- Length: 27:56
- Purchases: 2
