Green Acre Radio

Series produced by Martha Baskin1

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Green Acre Radio is a weekly radio program focusing on important issues in the environmental and sustainability movement. Produced by Martha Baskin in partnership with Jack Straw Productions.

Green Acre Radio is a weekly radio program focusing on important issues in the environmental and sustainability movement, including wetland restoration, Puget Sound recovery, local food policy and ocean acidification. Produced by Martha Baskin in partnership with Jack Straw Productions and KBCS Community Radio. E-mail greenacre@jackstraw.org with comments or suggestions.


19 Pieces

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Lede: Imprisoned Greenpeace activists in Russia – jailed for putting a banner on an oil platform in the Arctic Ocean - were on the minds of coll...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Lede: GMO foods are again on the hot seat on the West coast. Last year California’s Prop 37 to label genetically modified organisms at the grocery ...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 05:10
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Lede: As debate broils in Congress to reduce food assistance programs, demand at food banks in communities all over the nation, is high. In Seattl...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Lede: Days after a lease was approved for the largest crude oil terminal in the Northwest, the Port of Vancouver on the Columbia River became a hot...

Bought by Prairie Public and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 2
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Lede: After years of planning, Beacon Hill, Seattle, USA is on its way to hosting the nation’s largest public food forest. And just around the cor...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Lede: Don’t Drip & Drive. Fix That Leak! Every year 7 million quarts of oil and other auto fluids wash into Puget Sound harming marine life and c...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 21, 2013
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Lede: Students on more than 300 campuses across the US are behind a growing movement to get schools to drop stocks in oil, gas, coal and tar sands ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 05:44
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Lede: Once one of the most abundant fishes in coastal waters, many populations of Pacific herring, a cornerstone of the marine food web, are in st...

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 05:15
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Lede: As low-wage service jobs become the new normal for millions of families, more and more poverty-wage workers are rising up from the edge of o...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Lede: A row of space-age domes off the Washington coast may provide a peek at the future. Not the future of space travel but the effects of increa...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 05:24
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Lede: Ever since Seattle’s only river was declared a Superfund site, the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition has advocated on behalf of the communitie...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
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Lede: When gardeners talk about bees, the buzz is usually about honeybees. After all, honeybees pollinate fruit blossoms and produce sweet amber ho...

Bought by KLCC and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 2
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Lede: Why is the state’s largest electric utility with a reputation for clean energy burning coal for 20% of its power supply? The Sierra Club and...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 05:07
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Lede: One military expense that’s not in ‘budget talk’ is construction of a $715 million dollar explosives handling wharf at the Navy’s Bangor Nuc...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Lede: Of the estimated 80,000 chemicals used in everything from sofas and mattresses to baby bottles and car seats, only 200 have been assessed fo...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 04:59
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Lede: One of the grayest corners of mainland USA, is slowly going solar, one community at a time. Solarize Washington, a program of Northwest Sust...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Lede: An unusual new program is using upriver sustainability measures to improve conditions for salmon and shellfish downstream.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 05:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Lede: In this second of a two part series Martha Baskin brings us public testimony about a proposal to build North America’s largest coal export t...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 05:11
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Lede: A proposal by the coal industry to build North America’s largest coal terminal at Cherry Point, Bellingham, drew thousands at the first form...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 05:21