This sound-rich documentary series examines how our personal transportation choices - private cars vs. public transit - can have a significant impact on climate change. And with rising gas prices here at home, and instability in the Middle East, what effect do our choices have on America’s dependence upon foreign oil?

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 forms of energy. No water, no energy, and nothing goes on. Literally. How we resolve the competition between water and energy needs is a defining issue of this century. "The Water-Energy Crunch," a co-production of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and the National Science Foundation.

Vision and leadership — these two elements are at the heart of the new public radio series The Promised Land. Our host, the dynamic Majora Carter, introduces us to today's visionaries—the passionate men, women, and young adults who see potential in unlikely places. These leaders are literally changing their worlds with innovative thinking and tireless effort.

Three decades after Jimmy Carter donned his famous cardigan and asked Americans to go on an energy diet, the U.S. is consuming more energy than ever.

On the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster, author Carl Safina talks about the blowout, why it happened and its impact on the people and wildlife of the Gulf. His book is A SEA IN FLAMES: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout, just out this week.

Check out everything from Radio Ecoshock. Great interviews about climate and the environment.

Hosted by Barbara Bogaev, and produced by Richard Paul, Sustainability looks at what is being done to address our energy needs and environmental challenges — on a large scale and a small scale — to actually address some of the biggest problems we have.

Tells the stories of how American youth think about their daily impact on our planet.

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 than anything, by cheap oil. But now, there are plenty of people telling us that the party is over: the cheap oil is almost gone.

Three stories of rural America where unlikely allies have found common ground in dealing with urban development pressures.

Climate change may be the most far-reaching environmental threat Americans have ever faced, but it's certainly not the first. The Father of Environmentalism, Bill Cronon, weighs in and BackStory goes hiking.

A 6-part series featuring intimate stories about the human connection to land and landscape. Host Jay Allison asked dozens of public radio's best producers to do something different. He asked, "If you could tell any story about people and the natural world, what would it be?" ...and off they went:

- Elizabeth Arnold went to the woods with grizzly bears.
- Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister stalked coqui frogs in Hawaii.
- The Kitchen Sisters went to the river's edge.
- Barrett Golding jumped on his bike.
- Scott Carrier walked with pilgrims around a mountain in Tibet.
- Jonathan Goldstein packed a tent and went camping, reluctantly.
- Sean Cole turned on his TV. Don't worry, it was a nature show.

Episode 1 - Ice and the evolution of life on Earth.

Tucson, Arizona would have never existed without the Santa Cruz river. Yet Tucson’s success has transformed the Santa Cruz from an intermittent stream meandering through a lush floodplain into a dry channel imprisoned by cement walls. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Santa Cruz was Tucson’s geographic and cultural heart, but today the river is a forgotten landscape. Drained of water and stripped of vegetation, ignored the media and physically distant from most Tucsonans, the Santa Cruz is dismissed as an unfortunate casualty of Arizona’s modernization. But the river continues to be relevant--its very silence a loud reminder that civilization in the desert comes at a price and that, underneath the Arizona dream, there is a harsh environmental reality.

Take a look at sustainable farming practices and the solutions right in our backyards. Zoom in on urban farms in the heart of San Francisco, food production in a skyscraper, and a Portland, Maine food bank.

A DC trashman talks frankly about his life and work. Also in a four-minute version.

April 2011 marks one year since the Gulf oil spill which changed lives all along the Alabama coast. Alabama Public Radio News Director Pat Duggins presents a five part series looking ahead to the long term impact of the accident on seaside businesses and homeowners.

Junked electronics from the US are being sent overseas, where they threaten the environment and health of the people. View more from The Environment Report.

An audio musing on the phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert."

Environmental activist Majora Carter believes in making the old neighborhood a better place to live.

Native American poet tells of her belief in the Sun and our sacred connection to it.

A novel program under the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs uses nature to heal the wounds of war.

Isla Earth, a production of the Catalina Island Conservancy, is a radio series exploring environmental issues of local, national, and global importance. Their mission is to increase ecological awareness, deepen understanding, and encourage environmentally sustainable choices.