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Caption: Pau Gasol, the NBA star and UNICEF Goodwill ambassador playing with Ethiopian children in the communities where UNICEF supports education, health and protection programs., Credit: ©UNICEF Etiopía/Bilbo/2010/Fernández
UNICEF podcast moderator Kathryn Herzog speaks with UNICEF Ambassador and NBA player Pau Gasol about the importance of early education.

  • Added: May 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:08:11
Caption: A girl learns to identify numbers on her first day at a UNICEF-supported preschool in the Baliqchilar settlement, Azerbaijan., Credit: UNICEF/NYHQ2011-1625/Pirozzi
UNICEF podcast moderator Kathryn Herzog speaks with Jack P. Shankoff, Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, and Chl...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:10:55
Caption: Coastal mega-city Mumbai. Mumbai lies on the Arabian Sea on the west coast of India and is the most populous city in the country and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million. Along, Credit: http://thegreatindian.tripod.com/mumbai.htm
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss these places of development, industry, and manufacturing and will argue that we...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2012
  • Length: 00:06:18
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 Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WYSO, KQED, WCAI / WNAN and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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 Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WYSO, KQED, WCAI / WNAN and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Bill Gates is spending one billion dollars in two years to eradicate polio. Although a deadly and crippling disease, it is extremely hard to end an...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:00
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"Although there is no magic bullet, social entrepreneurship unlocks everybody's ability to be a change maker and to participate in the solutions to...

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:45
  • 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: 00:25:00
  • Purchases: 2
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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: 00:02:00
Caption: Migrating wildebeest
Plans to construct a commercial highway across the Serengeti National Park will bring an end to one of the worlds greatest spectacles, the wildebee...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2010
  • Length: 00:08:35
Caption: Dr. Sam Pleasure
In this week’s session, we learn about the meninges. These are the membranes that cover and protect our central nervous system (our brains and spin...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2010
  • Length: 00:11:30
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Landowners in Johnson County, Wyoming, live with a kind of paradox. They hate to see their neighbor's ranches turned to subdivisions. But their b...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2009
  • Length: 00:05:11
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What are the ethics of global sports development? Now that America's favorite pastime has gone global, is baseball watched and played for the love ...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 00:01:30
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What criteria do you emphasize when deciding "How is my country doing?" Are you proud of how your country compares with the world?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2009
  • Length: 00:01:30
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Julia Kennedy interviews Hans Decker on the big ideas of business’ role in global society.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2009
  • Length: 00:27:30
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Julia Kennedy interviews Bob Harrison, CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative about its vision for solving the world’s greatest challenges.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2009
  • Length: 00:27:30
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Julia Kennedy interviews Alice Korngold on her work connecting corporate executives with non-profit boards.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2009
  • Length: 00:27:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Julia Kennedy interview Seth Merrin on Liquidnet, an investment firm that has taken a key role in a development project in Rwanda.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2009
  • Length: 00:27:30
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Julia Kennedy interviews George Pohle on the links between corporations’ social responsibility and marketing.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2009
  • Length: 00:27:31
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Julia Kennedy interviews Brian Trelstad about his ideas of how to use entrepreneurs in the developing world to combat poverty.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2009
  • Length: 00:27:30
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Julia Kennedy interviews Michele Wucker on migration, its role in global development, and the ethical questions it raises.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2009
  • Length: 00:27:31
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Charles Fernyhough discussed what it is like inside a baby's mind.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jun 30, 2009
  • Length: 00:26:40
  • Purchases: 1
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The most amazing structure in nature.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2009
  • Length: 00:02:40
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Bruce Hood discussed the origins of superstitious beliefs and why we believe in the unbelievable.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2009
  • Length: 00:26:48