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Caption: City of Minnetonka forester Hannibal Hayes mills a log at the city's new saw mill., Credit: Timothy Foss
Amidst the Emerald Ash Borer crisis, the city of Minnetonka currently has a surplus of ash logs from 60,000 trees. Some Minnetonka foresters are wo...

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 05:50
Caption: The water tower of Hilltop, MN, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
There’s a tiny town just north of Minneapolis that is entirely surrounded by Columbia Heights. It's called Hilltop. In a way, Hilltop was forced in...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 07:56
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This week on World Ocean Radio: five suggested strategies as laid out by Karl Burkart (Managing Director of One Earth and formerly the Director of ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 05:12
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When homecare workers at Cooperative Homecare Associates in the Bronx ran short of masks in the early days of the Covid pandemic, the worker-owners...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A laundry mart owner cleans clothes for the homeless for free.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:17
Caption: Robert D. Siano, Esq., Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Robert D. Siano, Esq. has practiced law for over thirteen years and is an experienced attorney that handles matters involving entert...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:42
Caption: The Trail View neighborhood in Bloomington, IN.
There is not one U.S. state, county, or metropolitan area where a minimum wage earner working full-time can afford a two-bedroom apartment.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
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This week, The RDD is at a coffee shop in Downtown Bowling Green. Since 1989 Grounds for Thought has offered coffee, used books, records and comic...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2018
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: http://jobtalkradio.org, Credit: Job Talk LLC
Today's topic: matching peoples abilities to technology. Dave and Doug discuss wheelchair accessible transportation, how it's evolved and where it'...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2018
  • Length: 09:55
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Most of us have lived our lives knowing that if we want a glass of water, we simply turn on the tap and out comes that delicious liquid. But in tod...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 06:58
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George McDonald and Harriet Karr-McDonald are the heart and soul of the Doe Fund, a non-profit organization that trains and houses homeless men in ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:08
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Radio Curious visits with Ari Berman, a contributing writer for The Nation Magazine, who writes regularly on election and voting rights issues.  Hi...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Doug Storm is joined by District 5 candidates for the Democratic nomination to run for the Bloomington City Council seat in November.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 58:36
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Host Alfred Bundy presents the second of a four part series on the Moneywise Conference. In this episode a panel discussion on "Growing A Business.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 13:36
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The first meeting of Move to Amend's NYC affiliate.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 07:02
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As House Republicans refuse to act on extending the payroll tax cut, President Obama continues to remind them that "[t]he clock is ticking; time is...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2011
  • Length: 02:01
Caption: Elon Musk, Credit: NPC
The CEO of SpaceX describes the goals of his company, which is NASA's most important customer.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 54:02
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Hard economic times do get us thinking--how given the chance we might create an economy more equitable and reliable than the last one.

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2011
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tom Vilsack, Credit: NPC
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack describes his hopes for his upcoming meeting in Europe with the other G20 agriculture ministers

  • Added: Jun 17, 2011
  • Length: 54:01
Caption: Ben Bernanke, Credit: NPC
The Chairman of the Federal Reserve talks to a National Press Club audience about the challenges facing the U.S. economy.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 53:58
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The US has been hemorrhaging high-paying manufacturing jobs since the 1959s.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
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Six monster banks control 60% of the US Gross National Product

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:59
Caption: Richard Trumka
Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, speaks to the National Press Club.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
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William Greider talks about a new moral order for capitalism, drawing from his new book COME HOME, AMERICA: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promis...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2009
  • Length: 29:37
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1