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Ida Lewis
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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What got Lewis all the recognition, accolades, awards, articles, honors, and even financial rewards, were the many times she climbed in a lifeboat ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
Climate and Political Science
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Dr. James Hansen, NASA Scientist, Credit: Ed Ritger
Today we are discussing the science behind the national debate on climate disruption. In this hour we will hear from four scientists about current ...

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Square Deal
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 11:28
Grit, Luck and Money: Preparing Kids for College and Getting Them Through
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Focus on Education
Caption: YES Prep students at an informational session at the University of Oklahoma. YES Prep is a charter school network that serves a low-income population in Houston, Tex. and focuses on getting all of its students accepted into 4-year colleges. , Credit: YES Prep Public Schools
Why are so many low-income students quitting college, and what leads a few to beat the odds and make it through? (8/30/2012)

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Humankind: The Diet-Climate Connection (Hour 1)
From: David Freudberg
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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
RISE: Part I Sounding the Waters
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
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
RISE: Part II Facing the Rising Tide
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
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
RISE: Part III Chuey’s Story
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
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
The Revolving Door
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The revolving door between the federal government and its favorite contractors sets up abuses.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
Collapse of Fish Stocks Worldwide
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Scientists predict fish stocks worldwide will collapse by mid-century unless drastic changes are made to humankind's impact on the oceans.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
The Arsenal of Democracy is disappearing
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The US has been hemorrhaging high-paying manufacturing jobs since the 1959s.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Monster Banks
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Six monster banks control 60% of the US Gross National Product

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:59
50 Years of Tax Cuts Benefit the Very rich
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Revised edition. A report shows that the last 50 years of tax cuts benefited the very rich but left the middle class without improvement.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
In the Office of Temporary Assistance
From: Lu Olkowski
Series: In Verse: Women of Troy
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A documentary poem about an afternoon that poet Susan B.A. Somers-Willett spent with Billie Jean Hill at the New York State Office of Temporary Ass...

Bought by KFAI, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound, New Hampshire Public Radio, EconomyBeat Podcast and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
SOTRU - Des Moines: Heart of the Heartland
From: Al Letson
Series: State of the Re:Union
Caption: Zach Mannheimer and Matt Maguyver of the Des Moines Social Club
Join State of the Re:Union as the show travels to the surprisingly metropolitan and remarkably progressive city of Des Moines, Iowa. Discover an im...

Bought by WEAA, North Country Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KWIT, KUT and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 15
The Green Planet Monitor - Edition # 12
From: David Kattenburg
Series: The Green Planet Monitor -- Smart Solutions for a Developing World
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Conserving scarce pockets of precious water and their wildlife. In the middle of one of India’s largest cities, citizens say, ‘Don’t touch our lake...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 27:12
The Green Planet Monitor - Edition # 11
From: David Kattenburg
Series: The Green Planet Monitor -- Smart Solutions for a Developing World
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In today’s edition, communities struggle to be healthy in the shadow of the Big Three: tuberculosis, malaria and HIV-AIDS.

Bought by WSKG


  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Green Planet Monitor - Edition # 10
From: David Kattenburg
Series: The Green Planet Monitor -- Smart Solutions for a Developing World
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Media and development. Two stories of how journalists contribute to the communities where they report, and an interview with one of India’s leading...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
  • Length: 28:44
The Green Planet Monitor - Edition # 9
From: David Kattenburg
Series: The Green Planet Monitor -- Smart Solutions for a Developing World
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Three of the world’s most bustling cities … what makes them tick, and what their citizens are doing to improve life on the street.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2009
  • Length: 29:55
The Green Planet Monitor - Edition # 8
From: David Kattenburg
Series: The Green Planet Monitor -- Smart Solutions for a Developing World
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The plight of the farmer – struggling to produce for global markets, avoiding the toxic tailings of chemically treated fields, or robbed of the lan...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2009
  • Length: 29:56
President Change: What's Hope? What's Reality
From: Brian Sussman
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Fast-forward to January 2009. A new President is in the Oval Office. How will he ? or she ? grease the wheels of official Washington to get an age...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 32:03
In Search of the American Dream: Small Business
From: KALW
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Considering how entrepreneurs pursue the American Dream

Bought by Nathan Woodhull


  • Added: Jun 01, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Code of the Wild: DNA and Applied Ecology
From: SoundVision Productions
Series: The DNA Files
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Biologists who study how living things interact are using genetics as a powerful new tool.

Bought by Moab Public Radio, KZYX, WUAL, KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Tales from Urban Forests 2:Code Green/Cities of the Plain
From: Soundprint
Series: Tales from Urban Forests
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Part 2 of the three part special documentary series on Urban Forests, from Soundprint. We visit the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, to see the effec...

Bought by KDNK, KUOW, WNPR, WCQS, WFUV and more


  • Added: May 12, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Tales from Urban Forests 3:The Urban Forest Healing Center/Every Tree Tells a Story
From: Soundprint
Series: Tales from Urban Forests
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Part 3 of the three part special documentary series on Urban Forests, from Soundprint. We look at the social and psychological benefits of trees i...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, KDNK, KUOW, WNPR, WCQS and more


  • Added: May 12, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8