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Markets for Farmers
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Farmers ready to Bid, Credit: Beatrice Murch
The Feria de Mataderos in Buenos Aires is the biggest cattle market in the world. Monday through Thursday 45,000 head of cattle pass though it's p...

Bought by KWMR-FM


  • Added: Aug 06, 2009
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 1
Giving Tuna a Break
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Can you imagine a world without tuna? No more, "Chicken of the Sea?" Believe it or not, most tuna species have been heavily fished, some almost to ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:31
Reducing Road Pollution
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If you’re stuck in traffic, here’s something you might be interested in knowing. A University of Southern California research group reports that ne...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Observations on the Type A Personality
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
One does not argue with a person afflicted with a Type A personality

  • Added: Jul 14, 2009
  • Length: 01:33
Global Warming
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When it comes to formulating an opinion on global warming, would you be more inclined to believe an MIT professor who has studied climate change or...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2009
  • Length: :58
E-Waste
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: July 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What happens to our consumer electronics after they've served their useful life? Discarded computer monitors often get shipped to Asia or Africa.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jun 17, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bees Disappearing Act
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: July 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In the groovy 60s we were singing “Where have all the flowers gone?” Could a day come when we’ll sing the same about the honeybees?

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jun 17, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Yangtze River Dead Zone
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: June 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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One of every 15 people in the world relies on China’s Yangtze River, the third largest river on Earth. How big is it? Well, people used to say the ...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: May 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Global Air Pollution
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: June 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When it comes to air pollution, every little particulate has a green card. It can just board the next wind current and take a ride to greener pastu...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: May 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Crucible
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach headline an all-star cast in one of the central works of American drama.

Bought by WCPN, WRVO, KUOW, KRCB-FM, KUT-HD and more


  • Added: May 26, 2009
  • Length: 01:57:50
  • Purchases: 7
Making Contact: Survivors of Solitary Confinement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hakeem Shaheed
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine...

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:55
  • Purchases: 1
Doing Right by the Right Whale
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Marine Mammal Protection Act celebrated its 35th birthday recently. Thanks to that legislation, more marine mammals have also celebrated birthd...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Soundprint_news_09-00017: A Life of Ashes/A Prison Within a Prison
From: Soundprint
Series: SOUNDPRINT weekly series (News Hole Compatible)
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Soundprint_09-16 uploaded 4/24/09: A Life of Ashes/A Prison within a Prison

Bought by WRVO and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 24, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor, Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John K. MacLellan
The Ip family had escaped both the Nazis and the Soviets. Once in the United States, Israel Ip carved out a life for his family. Jay married, took ...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 27:47
  • Purchases: 1
Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John K. MacLellan
Jay Ipson is the original survivor. He and his mother and father escaped selections in the the Kuvna ghetto in Lithuania. When Nazis tightened the ...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
Our American "Empire" with controversal Harvard historian Niall Ferguson -- on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Contrarian historian Niall Ferguson says the US is an empire -- in denial! And that we'd better get our act together!!

  • Added: Mar 16, 2009
  • Length: 19:21
One Story of Disability Care in New Mexico
From: Rogi Riverstone
Series: KUNM News
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Interview with a single mom of two developmentally and physically challenged daughters on her struggles with the medical profession and the Childre...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 11:27
Green Planning
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Ocean dead zones. Air and water pollution worldwide. All this bad news is enough to cause “Eco-phobia.”

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Himmler's Angora
From: Brian Bull
Caption: Angora Rabbit and Heinrich Himmler
A look at a strange and curious relic of the Holocaust.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:15
America Receding
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: There is no mud, Credit: Muriel Murch
The global economy and global warming both bring changes to Northern California

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Feb 04, 2009
  • Length: 09:01
  • Purchases: 1
"A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE POOR"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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A modern look at the world's poor and the causes of poverty

  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:48
"Green" Energy
From: Marc de Giere
Series: The Digital Divide
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Interview with Brian Sloan of North American Rising Tide on "green" energy.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2009
  • Length: 26:32
There Was No One There
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A visit to the Endagered Species booth at the Common Ground Fair

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM/FM-WLHV FM


  • Added: Dec 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1
He Joined the Army after 9-11
From: The humble Farmer
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A young man was so upset over 9-11 that he immediately joined the army.

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM/FM-WLHV FM


  • Added: Nov 21, 2008
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 1
No Parallel Between Hitler and Bush
From: The humble Farmer
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Americans do not think like Europeans

  • Added: Nov 05, 2008
  • Length: :55

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