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Earth Day is April 22nd.
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Host Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org, for Earth Day, presents Sounds for and from Mother Earth: The Quiet American takes an audio trek through Nepal...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Chuey Cazares and his family live in the tiny coastal town of Alviso at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Adapting to climate change will be a messy and painful business. And in the short term there will be winners and losers. Chuey Cazarez’s family is ...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXXI, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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These six 20-minute podcasts are reversioned from the RISE radio documentaries.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:01:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions threaten the nation's coastal towns, Credit: Jan Sturmann
The San Francisco Bay is a place of beauty and biological diversity. But sea level rise and extreme weather will change human life along its coastl...

Bought by KVMR, North Country Public Radio, WXXI, Prairie Public, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Steve Mello is a farmer on Tyler Island in the San Francisco Bay Delta, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Rising waters threaten the lands of a farmer and of a developer, yet they and their families dismiss all warnings of danger. Why are so many of us ...

Bought by KVMR, North Country Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXXI, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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What was the carbon footprint of your dinner last night? This special documentary project examines how the foods we eat affect the planet we inhabi...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KPVL, Iowa Public Radio, WHRV, and Vermont Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Understanding the footprint of what we eat is a revelation for many of us who contact our food not in the sunlit fields, but in the fluorescent-lit...

Bought by KPVL, WCPN, and KQED


  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: CBC Radio's Outfront, Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91545223@N00/2743081060/">Benson Kua</a>
CBC Radio's Outfront presents four stories that are all about fields and ponds, love and loss. In short- the great outdoors.

Bought by WRNC-LP, KJZZ, KBRP Community Radio, WFPL News, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2009
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: David Friedman  Deputy director, Union of Concerned Scientists, Credit: Ed Ritger, Photographer
Today we are checking out low carbon lifestyles. In this hour we’ll tackle green myths and discuss what choices are good for your wallet and the pl...

Bought by KUOW, KWIT, 90.5 WSNC, WBEZ, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
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With transportation jobs on the line, this sound-rich series (two one-hour documentaries) examines how our personal transportation choices - privat...

Bought by WCPN, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio, KUT, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Inside Technology
The Water-Energy Crunch is a clash of essential needs. Humans are thirsty creatures who need water to drink and bathe, but also to produce most for...

Bought by KUNM, 90.5 WESA, WNYC, KVNF, WNIN and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
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Reflecting on the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill, three people, who have placed their relationship with nature at the center of their lives, offer their thoug...

Bought by KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KGNU, KXOT Public Radio, and KWIT


  • Added: Sep 25, 2010
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Fresh Greens 2.0
NHPR teams up with Generation PRX and the Terrascope Youth Radio group at MIT for another one-hour youth special. "Fresh Greens 2.0" examines what ...

Bought by WNIJ, KBRP Community Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KSFR, WEKU and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2011
  • Length: 51:26
  • Purchases: 12
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Tells the stories of how American youth think about their daily impact on our planet.

Bought by KVMR, KZYX, KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN, KUNM and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 51:29
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Marla Spivak, Bee Researcher and MacArthur "Genius"
When you sit down at your holiday table, thank a bee. A third of the food on your plate is made possible by these pollinators, whose numbers are be...

Bought by WUIS, WCAI / WNAN, KLCC, KZYX, WCPN and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Cheryl Rogowski, Farmer and MacArthur "Genius"
Where does our food come from? Since we pay close attention to so many aspects of food in the holiday season, host Majora Carter visits Cheryl Rogo...

Bought by WZEN.org, KZYX, North Country Public Radio, and WUIS


  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Before Katrina, Sharon Hanshaw owned a beauty salon and lived in a house on a tree-lined street. All that all changed when the hurricane hit Biloxi...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, New Hampshire Public Radio, Vermont Public Radio, KOSU, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
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New Orleans East is home to the most-dense ethnically Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. In the Gulf region, about 80 percent of Vietnamese ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, KGNU, Vermont Public Radio, WTIP, KOSU and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Chemist Wilma Subra has spent her career defending local communities against Louisiana’s powerful oil and gas industry. Since the Deepwater Horizon...

Bought by Vermont Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN, KOSU, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
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For Nat Turner, garden rakes and shovels are tools for transformation. He's transformed an old store in New Orlean's Lower Ninth Ward into an urba...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, New Hampshire Public Radio, Vermont Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, KOSU and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Dr. Kyshun Webster is a man who gets things done. And before that, he was a kid who got things done. Now the founder and executive director of Oper...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Vermont Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WFIU, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Winona LaDuke has spent decades working on issues of renewable energy, health, and environmental justice on northern Minnesota's White Earth Reserv...

Bought by KZYX, KBRP Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN, KWIS 88.3 FM, KVMR and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
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John Francis spent two decades walking across North and South America, spreading a silent message of respect for the earth. He takes host Majora Ca...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Vermont Public Radio, WRVO, Rhode Island Public Radio, KUNM and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Brenda Palms Barber is driven by a certainty that "people deserve second chances and you can choose to turn your life around." Brenda started a tra...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Vermont Public Radio, WRVO, Rhode Island Public Radio, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
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If Frank and Audrey Peterman have their way, many more of their fellow black Americans will visit our national parks. They take host Majora Carter ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Vermont Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WRVO, Rhode Island Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Pioneering researcher and "queen of the forest canopy" Nalini Nadkarni, shows host Majora Carter the wonders of the Olympic rain forest — from the ...

Bought by WZEN.org, WCAI / WNAN, Vermont Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WRVO and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Sustainable Design for the Future, from IEEE Spectrum Magazine and the National Science Foundation. Sustainable planning – of buildings and communi...

Bought by WNYC, KZYX, Yellowstone Public Radio, KFOK-LP, WNIN and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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The Energy Revolution focuses on emerging renewable energy resource technologies and the creative personalities behind those advances' development.

Bought by WNYC, WGBH Radio Boston, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Aldo Leopold, Credit: Aldo Leopold Foundation
A celebration of the life Aldo Leopold, the man who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” in 1949, and introduced Ethics as the fundamental concept that sh...

Bought by KUNM, KWMR-FM, WTIP, KUOW, KRCB-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Wendell Berry in Henry County, Kentucky in 2003. This photograph is part of the 40/40 Forty Years, Forty Portraits exhibit at Institute 193. , Credit: Guy Mendes
A rare interview with the American man of letters, advocate of sustainability and local agriculture, economic critic, and farmer Wendell Berry. Gre...

Bought by Moab Public Radio, WTIP, WEKU, and WRIR


  • Added: Feb 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:12
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Erik Assadourian
Interview Erik Assadourian on Worldwatch State of the World 2010 Report (transforming cultures from consumerism to sustainability). Then David Satt...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2010
  • Length: 53:05
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If Frank and Audrey Peterman have their way, many more of their fellow black Americans will visit our national parks. They take host Majora Carter ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Vermont Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WRVO, Rhode Island Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Hosted by Barbara Bogaev, and produced by Richard Paul, Sustainability looks at what is being done to address our energy needs and environmental c...

Bought by WAMC, KUOW, KGNU, WFPL News, WEKU and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 59:08
  • Purchases: 25
Caption: VAN JONES, founder of Green for All, Credit: Courtesy Richard Hume, Experience Life magazine
Environmental visionary Van Jones, former White House special adviser for green jobs, is featured

Bought by KBBI, Moab Public Radio, KWIT, Marfa Public Radio, KUNM and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
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Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, talks with host Larry Josephson about the Jewish Sabbath in celebration of Ear...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WCPN, and WYSO


  • Added: Apr 07, 2005
  • Length: 57:11
  • Purchases: 3
From: WFYI
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When we look at all the things that made America what it is, It's fair to say that for the last hundred years or so, America has been shaped, more ...

Bought by KZYX, WILL, Marfa Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2007
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
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One Hour Radio Special presented by The National Science Foundation and IEEE Spectrum Radio exploring emerging global water issues.

Bought by Red River Radio Network, WEKU, KGOU, WCAI / WNAN, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 58:52
  • Purchases: 13
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3 stories of rural America where unlikely allies have found common ground in dealing with urban development pressures

Bought by KUT-HD, KXOT Public Radio, WCBU, WVIK, KUER and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
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A special edition of Liner Notes focused on the environment and suitable as an Earth Day special.

Bought by KHNS, KAWC, WHFR, AMERICAN-FM Internet Radio, WJFF and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 7
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A musical celebration of our planet: Earth Day, Latino style.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 16, 2009
  • Length: 59:10
  • Purchases: 3
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Hour-long program about the intersection of people and the natural world

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, KOSU, Moab Public Radio, WFPL News, KUT and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2007
  • Length: 54:04
  • Purchases: 19
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Hour long program about the intersection of people and the natural world

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, KUT, KOSU, Remix Radio, WCAI / WNAN and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2007
  • Length: 55:59
  • Purchases: 25
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Hour-long program about the intersection of people and the natural world.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, KUT, KOSU, KUOW, WCAI / WNAN and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2007
  • Length: 55:29
  • Purchases: 25
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Hour-long program about the intersection of people and the natural world.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, KUOW, KUT, Remix Radio, WVPE and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2007
  • Length: 55:34
  • Purchases: 22

  • Added: Aug 08, 2007
  • Length: 55:30
  • Purchases: 23
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Hour-long programs about the intersection of people and the natural world

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, WFPL News, Remix Radio, WCAI / WNAN, WVPE and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2007
  • Length: 55:30
  • Purchases: 33
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Urban Green explores the ribbons of greenery in our city environment: urban watersheds, community gardens and farmers' markets, that connect us to ...

Bought by KVMR, New Hampshire Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WKSU and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2006
  • Length: 52:12
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Calving the Southern Ward Hunt Ice Shelf into Disraeli Fjord, Ellesmere Island, August, 2008, Credit: Credit: Denis Sarrazin, ArcticNet/Centre d'Etudes Nordiques
For more than four billion years, ever since comets first crashed into the Earth, ice has been inextricably linked to life on this planet. From col...

Bought by WFPL News


  • Added: Jan 06, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Martha L. Black clears the St Lawrence, Credit: Copyright : Fisheries and Oceans Canada M. Plamondon.
For more than four billion years, ever since comets first crashed into the Earth, ice has been inextricably linked to life on this planet. From col...

Bought by WFPL News


  • Added: Jan 06, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: coqui frog, Credit: long haul productions
The Coqui, a tiny, but very vociferous tree frog, is the national symbol of Puerto Rico, beloved in folklore and in song. But while the coqui’s lus...

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 25:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Trash collects in the bed of the Santa Cruz, Credit: Aengus Anderson
Tucson, Arizona would have never existed without the Santa Cruz river. Yet Tucson’s success has transformed the Santa Cruz from an intermittent st...

Bought by KUT and KVNF


  • Added: Feb 13, 2011
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 2
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We take a look at sustainable farming practices and find solutions right in our backyards: urban farms in the heart of San Francisco, food producti...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KVSC, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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A David and Goliath battle against a mining technique that blows off mountaintops, buries streams and destroys communities in the hollows of West V...

Bought by WAMU, KGNU, WRPI, KFAI, Audible and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 7
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The surprising history of the earth and life's impact on it. Also, a new perspective on the future of the planet: earth will likely be in constant ...

Bought by KUT and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 2
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A dramatic retelling of the challenging American expedition to climb the world's highest mountain, May 1, 1963.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 21:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Storm King Mountain , Credit: Scenic Hudson Collection: Records Relating to the Storm King Case, 1963 - 1981, Marist College Archives & Special Collections, USA
Almost 50 years ago, a group of concerned citizens battled energy giant Consolidated Edison and launched the environmental movement.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 07, 2013
  • Length: 16:41
  • Purchases: 1
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A trashman talks frankly about his life and work

Bought by KUT, Vocalo.org, Public Radio Remix, KVNF, WYBC and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2004
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Former USA Vice President, Al Gore was an elected official for a quarter century before becoming the poster boy for climate change after the 2000 p...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 09:43
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A recent poll shows forty percent of Americans still think Gulf seafood isn’t safe to eat. Commercial fishermen in Bayou La Batre are fighting to w...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:34
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The Alabama beach tourism industry was hit hard by the Gulf oil spill, and it could take years before local officials know if visitor businesses ha...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:39
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One concern raised by the Exxon Valdez experience is the long term mental health impact, which didn’t hit residents near Prince William Sound until...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:46
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Bob Donald is the talk of the town in Gulf Shores near Alabama’s beaches. Before moving to the beaches, he and his wife lived in Valdez, Alaska dur...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:11
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Alabama Public Radio news director Duggins sets the stage for APR’s weeklong series, by taking listeners to Auburn University’s oil spill recovery ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:27
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Bill McKibben decides to eat only food grown locally. In the winter. In Vermont.

Bought by KISU, KUT, KVNF, KXOT Public Radio, KLCC and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2006
  • Length: 07:42
  • Purchases: 8
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Will Bonsall of Industry, Maine has spent decades working to prevent further loss of food crop diversity.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Prairie Public, KRUA, Vocalo.org, KVNF and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 6
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Junked electronics from the US are being sent overseas, where they threaten the environment and health of the people.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KRUA


  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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First half of story takes place in field. Nice & sound rich. Depopulation due to human behaviors like mowing are addressed.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC


  • Added: Mar 30, 2009
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A little brown bat showing symptoms of white-nose syndrome in Greeley Mine, Vermont (April, 2009)., Credit: (Marvin Moriarity/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Bad news for the bat population, a disease that has killed more than five million bats in the eastern United States and Canada has now reached Miss...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 1
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An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert."

Bought by KFAI, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 3
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Oil is cost-efficient as a primary energy source -- in the short term. Long-term, however, oil poses economic risks and damages the environment. Sh...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Due to the high demand of energy, competitive costs, and environmental concerns, nuclear power seemed like a reasonable option. The earthquake and ...

Bought by WEKU


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Joan Krevlin's work as an architect demonstrates what integrity can bring to a career. Deploying form and function with integrity is key to design....

  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 25:25
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A professor at Yale University, a landscape architect, and an urban ecologist, Alex Felson creates designs that take local and built environments i...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2011
  • Length: 26:42
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Jonathan Rose discusses his focus on green building and transportation as key drivers in combating climate change.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2011
  • Length: 27:17
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The global circulation of goods is a major source of both prosperity and carbon emissions. This short video on ethics asks: Can trade be regulated ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
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Julia Kennedy interviews Joan Krevlin on the architect's role in creating sustainable communities.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 25:13
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As an executive at RecycleBank, Ian Yolles is familiar with incentives and sustainability. The company's business mission is to entice consumers to...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 30:22
  • Purchases: 1
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William Powers discusses his life's journey, including time in Liberia and Bolivia, and a stay in a 12 x 12-foot cabin with no electricity or runni...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 25:14
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Global warming makes it impossible to limit environmentalism to one country. Should geoengineering be regulated multilaterally before rogue countri...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Offshore oil spills have devastating consequences, yet storm-drain runoff from leaky cars and gas stations can be just as bad. Do the risks of deep...

Bought by WEKU


  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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What should be the balance between preservation and consumption? Should there be a global ethic for protecting endangered species? If so, how shoul...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Three-quarters of the world's fish stocks are in distress and many fisheries could collapse by midcentury. Should we ban industrial fishing or regu...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Half the world now lives in cities, and they are growing. Are megacities an opportunity or a threat?

  • Added: Sep 28, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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How do we balance the short-term interests at stake in the energy debate with our long-term needs?

  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Is climate change a common public burden, or should individuals make their own choices? Globally do modernized countries have an obligation to deve...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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By 2050 some estimate that climate change will displace 150 million people, but the displaced won't qualify as refugees under international law. Wh...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Can we regulate international space like the oceans? Pollution and illegal or unregulated fishing plague international waters. How can the problem ...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Who pays to stop global warming? How to allocate emissions allowances? If people are entitled to an equal share of the world's resources, should na...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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How do we put value on the forests as an indispensable element of our survival? Can we balance market mechanisms with regulations and consumption w...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Do states have a responsibility to protect the planet? If so, who would decide when environmental protection is a legitimate reason to interfere in...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:00
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If you don't know the roots under a farmers' market or a colleague's produce, should you trust the food you get from them? How does the joy of grow...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Less than one percent of the earth's water is consumable, and many parts of the world may be heading toward water bankruptcy. Should private owners...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Julia Kennedy interviews Richard Kauffman on sustainability.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2009
  • Length: 27:30
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Environmental activist Majora Carter believes in making the old neighborhood a better place to live.

Bought by KSJD


  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Can we save Coho salmon from "the vortex of extinction?"

  • Added: Mar 23, 2010
  • Length: 05:10
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A condor refuge recovers after a wildfire, and volunteers prepare for a dramatic release.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 03, 2008
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 2
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Despite high-tech hubs like Silicon Valley, California's science literacy is in steep decline.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2008
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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The big quake is coming

  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 04:47
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What if every bullet could tell you who fired it?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Getting from San Francisco to LA in two-and-a-half hours -- and a $10 billion ticket price

  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 08:08
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Using DNA to catch wildlife poachers

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KVNF, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 3
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A mysterious bacterial infection is sickening the West Coast's sea lions.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 05:03
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Many of us drink tiny doses of drugs like ibuprofen and birth control pills with each glass of tap. Should we care?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC, and KRUA


  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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On the frontiers of green building

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2008
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Why your central AC unit sucks way more juice than it should

  • Added: Sep 17, 2008
  • Length: 05:30
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For plants, global warming means move or die.

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 17, 2008
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What's global warming doing to the ocean?

Bought by KZYX, KRUA, KUOW, WRNC-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2008
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 6
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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"The toilet bowl that never flushes"

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI, WBEZ, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 17, 2008
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 4
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Is local food necessarily low-carbon?

Bought by WRVO, KVNF, KGOU, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2008
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 4
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Is the much-maligned electric car poised for a comeback?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KGOU


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 2
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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How many more planets are out there?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KGOU


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 2
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Server farms drive the Internet -- and global warming. How do we clean them up?

Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRVO, and KGOU


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 4
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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How hard is it to trade in four wheels for two?

Bought by WRVO and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 2
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It's moving day for a shark, penguins, and millions of scientific specimens

  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 05:16
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What can dogs tell us about our own agressive tendencies?

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 1
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What's coming out of that local cement plant?

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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How do you make fuel from plants?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
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It's one thing for a city to set environmental goals -- another thing entirely to meet them.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 04:54
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How should we be of the light brown apple moth?

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:15
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Think your city has a sewage problem? You haven't seen the half ot it.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
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When it comes to solar planels, is tree planting a crime?

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
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How can you tell if a carbon offset is just hype?

  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 05:02
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Will the world's largest laser be strong enough to create nuclear fusion in a can?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Jan 18, 2008
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 2
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What if that Mars-bound asteroid had set its sights on Earth instead?

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Jan 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What's better for the environment?

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 1
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Would you be willing to pay a fee to drive downtown?

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Nov 30, 2007
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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In the DARPA Grand Challenge, the cars drive themselves.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2007
  • Length: 04:58
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One Fish, Two Fish: The Science of Protecting Sea Life

  • Added: Oct 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:45
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Is California's most controversial water proposal making a comeback?

  • Added: Oct 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:48
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What will it take to get healthy meals in School cafeterias? For starters, a new national farm policy.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Solar and wind get all the press, but geothermal is poised for a comeback

Bought by WBEZ and WAMC


  • Added: Oct 16, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 2
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The Port of Oakland keeps shelves stocked at big box stores like WalMart? and Target. But what's the real cost to people who live nearby?

  • Added: Sep 21, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Burning Man Meets Clean Tech

  • Added: Sep 21, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
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No great whites here, but the SF Bay is teeming with 5 species of sharks.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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NASA is sponsoring a technology contest to revolutionize small planes -- and it's open to the general public.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Aug 24, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 1
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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The quest to extend lifespan, and ''healthspan'' to 100 years and beyond.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2007
  • Length: 05:46
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Is desalination the solution to the California's chronic water woes?

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
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A report from the frontlines of D.I.Y eco-plumbing.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
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As Chevron hatches expansion plans for one of California's largest oil refineries, Richmond's Green Party mayor considers the future of her city, a...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Scientists use MRIs to study the neurology of shopping

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 2
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The promise -- and perils? -- of municipal wifi

  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
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A report from the frontlines of D.I.Y eco-plumbing.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:53
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Quest explores Hunters Point's dramatic military history -- and the task of preparing it for its next act.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
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Indoor air pollution can be far more harmful than what you breathe outside

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
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The nation-wide Toxics Release Inventory tracks industrial releases of chemicals into the air, water and soil. Recently, the EPA has suggested two ...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
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Quest radio takes a look at the largest wetlands restoration in the West - the South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
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Abandoned ships in the San Francisco Bay do more than take up space -- they're a potential threat to public health.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
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A group of Fresno businessmen is challenging California's 31 year-old ban on new nuclear power plants.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 30, 2007
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Native American poet tells of her belief in the Sun and our sacred connection to it.

Bought by KZYX, KFAI, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WSLR, Moab Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2007
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 6
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An exploration of Joyce Kilmer's most famous poem

Bought by KUT, Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, Here and Now and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2006
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 7
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A novel program under the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs uses nature to heal the wounds of war

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC


  • Added: Dec 31, 2007
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 3
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Shawn Allee meets a man who took the Dow and dioxin issue to Congress years ago and is shocked it hasn't been dealt with.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 03:40
Caption: E-waste circuit boards, Credit: QUEST
Every year, Americans throw away more than 300 million outdated lap tops, cell phones, printers, broken computer monitors and old television sets. ...

Bought by KSRQ, WAMC, and WTIP


  • Added: Aug 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Bioplastic packaging, Credit: QUEST
Companies like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Heinz ketchup have determined that plastic made from plants — not oil — makes sense both for the environment a...

Bought by WAMC and WTIP


  • Added: Aug 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: City recycling worker, Credit: QUEST
Until very recently Philadelphians recycled a dismal five-percent of their trash. But all that began to change a few years ago when the city steppe...

Bought by WAMC and WTIP


  • Added: Aug 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 2
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Here's one silver lining to a slow economy: High recycling rates. Americans are wasting far less, and recycling far more. Nowhere is the trend as s...

Bought by KZYX, WRVO, WTIP, and WAMC


  • Added: Aug 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 4