All Pieces for A World of Possibilities

 
From Victims to Victors: Transcending Tragedy
From A World of Possibilities
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Why is it that while many of us are discouraged and some devastated by life’s losses, a rare few not only survive but thrive in their wake –transce...

Bought by WZEN.org, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2012
  • Length: 00:55:03
  • Purchases: 3
Green Chemistry: Better Living Through Nature
From A World of Possibilities
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The chemicals we manufacture for modern needs are complex synthetic compounds. Most are untested and some are toxic to nature and the human body. B...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 00:55:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Gas Rush
From A World of Possibilities
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Host Mark Summer continues his journey across the communities lying above the Marcellus Shale Play, a gigantic natural gas deposit stretching under...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUMD


  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:55:02
  • Purchases: 3
Life in Slow Mo
From A World of Possibilities
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In a global culture dominated by the impatience of youth, counted in nanoseconds and fueled by “just-in-time” supply chains, everything needs to be...

Bought by KUMD and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2012
  • Length: 00:55:02
  • Purchases: 2
Growing Pains: Organics Come of Age
From A World of Possibilities
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Organic agriculture has grown up.  A once-marginal movement of plucky and slightly eccentric home gardeners has bloomed into mega-farms that ship a...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KREV-LP, KUMD, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2012
  • Length: 00:55:02
  • Purchases: 4
Hearts Broken Open
From A World of Possibilities
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Most of us take life for granted. But what happens when we're forced to think hard about whether we want to live?  Suicide and the impulse to attem...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2012
  • Length: 00:55:02
  • Purchases: 2
Back to the Garden: Cacao’s Role in Reviving Biodiversity
From A World of Possibilities
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Species of both plants and animals are dying out at unprecedented rates. Overpopulation, industrialization, and mono-cropping are stressing the w...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUMD


  • Added: Jan 20, 2012
  • Length: 00:55:02
  • Purchases: 2
Transforming Misfortune
From A World of Possibilities
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It’s clear that the economic collapse of 2008 – the second “September shock” after 2001 – will have a more enduring impact than most of us once sup...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUMD, and WXXI


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 00:55:02
  • Purchases: 3
Beauty in Broken Places: Lily Yeh’s Healing Art
From A World of Possibilities
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In worlds of shattered dreams and broken hearts, Lily Yeh finds artful ways to mend, heal and renew. Born in mainland China and raised on Taiwan as...

Bought by KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUMD, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 26, 2011
  • Length: 00:55:02
  • Purchases: 4
The Promise and Perils of Nanotechnology
From A World of Possibilities
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Today, nano particles are in our food, cosmetics, and hundreds of other items. And this is just the beginning of what is projected to be a $1 trill...

Bought by WRPI, KUMD, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:56:38
  • Purchases: 3
Studs Terkel: A Heart as Big as the World
From A World of Possibilities
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Despite his best efforts, like the very establishments he excoriated, Studs Terkel became an American institution. A man of the people, he was also...

Bought by KUMD, KUOW, Interlochen Public Radio, KWIT, KSFR and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 00:55:00
  • Purchases: 7
Quite Early Morning: The Life, Times and Legacy of Pete Seeger
From A World of Possibilities
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Legendary folksinger and social activist Pete Seeger is receiving long-delayed appreciation for his immense contribution to American music and cult...

Bought by KUOW, WUAL, Spokane Public Radio, WMUK, KVNF and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 00:54:58
  • Purchases: 9
Conversations With the Earth
From A World of Possibilities
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Global climate change is here. And only now, as our nation is ravaged by hurricanes, floods and droughts, is this new reality becoming all too obvi...

Bought by KPVL and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 28, 2011
  • Length: 00:54:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Meat We Eat: Food Safety and the Industrial Animal
Series: Food Safety
From A World of Possibilities
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Hold that fork! Block that barbeque! Do you know the source of the meat that's sizzling on the grill? Can we trust meat inspectors to catch pathoge...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, WRPI, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 00:55:00
  • Purchases: 4
Fractivists: Slowing the Gas Rush
From A World of Possibilities
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In the past few years, natural gas fracking has become a near-household word as landowners in the path of drilling have mounted efforts to slow its...

Bought by WSKG and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 00:55:00
  • Purchases: 2
Empire of Corn: From Cornucopia to Corporate Commodity
From A World of Possibilities
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Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an ind...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:55:01
  • Purchases: 4
Women Who Wouldn't Listen: Wangari Maathai and Frances Moore Lappe
From A World of Possibilities
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Two lives spent breaking the mold of both traditional and feminist perspectives are recounted in candid conversation, each with a focused sense of ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WZEN.org, KREV-LP, KUOW, WHRV and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 00:55:00
  • Purchases: 7
Ruin and Resilience in Northern Uganda
From A World of Possibilities
Caption: Teddy Atim and Victor Ochen
War has shaped the lives of people in northern Uganda for the past two decades.  Impunity for widespread crimes and grave violations committed duri...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 00:55:00
  • Purchases: 2
Better Together?  Chinese Innovators On Green Tech Partnerships
From A World of Possibilities
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 Like “Made in Japan” a generation ago, the “Made in China” label has long been viewed by Americans as a low-cost, low quality knock-off of a costl...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:55:02
  • Purchases: 2
China’s Great Green Wager
From A World of Possibilities
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China today is the most polluted nation on earth. But it’s also on its way to becoming the most environmentally advanced. And it’s no coincidence. ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
  • Length: 00:55:02
  • Purchases: 2

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