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The Food Shed
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eric Toensmeier
This first part of this half-hour is spent with author and professor Philip Ackerman-Leist. In his new book, he shows that people are turning to lo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Technology's Promise
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor William E. Halal
There are no crystal balls. No one really knows the direction technology is going to take us. But, there are always those best guesses.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 08, 2013
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 1
Island Stories: Virginia's Restless Archipelago Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Colony of American oyster catchers., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Some 40 years ago the Nature Conservancy began buying up the barrier islands of Virginia and the riparian areas on the mainland. Today they own all...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 27:13
Happy with Nothing
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A new version of success

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 21, 2012
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 2
EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create The World We Want
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nation Books, Credit: Alyssa Stepien
Reports of the health of our planet appear dim. Our conditions are becoming worse as hunger increases, and the variety of species disappear. Autho...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
Sustainable Cities: There's an App for That!
From: Denis Du Bois
Series: Energy Priorities
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Sustainable urban development is a whole new way of thinking for American cities. Technology is emerging to help planners, architects and residents...

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Google/Earth
From: Erin Gleeson
Series: Erin Gleeson Podcast
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After Keith Lea became an engineer at Google, he dove head-first into a sustainable lifestyle. But one gut-wrenching event made him step back and r...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Aug 21, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
Where in the World is Don Gamble?
From: peter stock
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In the late 1990s, crack environmental consultant Don Gamble checked out of his comfortable east coast professional life...and disappeared. Ten yea...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 02, 2011
  • Length: 21:42
  • Purchases: 1
Back to School for Energy Efficiency
From: Denis Du Bois
Series: Energy Priorities
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It's back to school for those left unemployed by the recession, and lots of people are signing up for green job training. Schools are turning out o...

Bought by WSKG


  • Added: Sep 13, 2010
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 1
Continuous Commissioning Watches for Waste in Big Buildings
From: Denis Du Bois
Series: Energy Minute
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Continuous commissioning is a way of using technology to make sure building systems are running at peak efficiency.

  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:21
Into The Woods
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Georgette Kanach loves to hunt, fish, hike, and do almost any activity that involves being out in the woods. It’s the place where she grew up, and ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 2
Women Rising 19: Masters of the Spoken Word
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Storyteller Diane Ferlatte, Credit: caverunstoryfest.org
Eve Ensler, playwright of the hit “Vagina Monologues” shares the work of her organization, V-Day, and storyteller, Diane Ferlatte, talks about usin...

Bought by KUT, Moab Public Radio, WSKG, and KRCB-FM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Erica Fernandez vs. BHP Billiton Petroleum
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Erica Fernandez, environmental activist who helped prevent a liquefied natural gas plant from being built near her hometown of Oxnard, Califonia., Credit: www.nbconference.org
We hear from 18-year-old Erica Fernandez. Winner of the 2007 Brower Youth Award, this fierce young woman took on the world’s largest mining compan...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
eWaste
From: Marc de Giere
Series: The Digital Divide
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A look at Free Geek, an organization that is giving ewaste a new life.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2009
  • Length: 13:01
  • Purchases: 1
Women Rising 18: Rescuers of Wildlife
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Cotton Top Tamarin Monkey, Credit: Wildlife Conservation Network
We hear from 4 leading animal rights activists, working in Columbia, Uzbekistan, the Animals Asia Foundation, and the International Union for the C...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
Green Military
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Engineers are working to turn military base more environmentally friendly.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2008
  • Length: 06:01
Backyard Farmers
From: Destination DIY
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Raising vegetables and livestock surrounded by surburban neighbors.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Sep 06, 2008
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1
Destination DIY: Urban Farming
From: Destination DIY
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City-dwellers raising plants and animals while holding down a day job.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 01, 2008
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
Scooter Bikes
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Scooter bikes are the new 'It' vehicles especially with metropolitan commuters.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 04:57
Destination DIY: Cycling
From: Destination DIY
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An exploration of human-powered transportation.

Bought by KUT, KUT, WSCS-FM, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2008
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 4
A Brief Moment in a Beautiful Place
From: Fitz Cahall
Series: The Dirtbag Diaries
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Two friends recount their story of traveling in Laos and one spectacularly bad idea, building a bamboo raft.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2008
  • Length: 24:24
Splendor From His Grass
From: Ed Janus
Series: Milk on Our Boots: The Terroir of Dairyland
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From corporate offices to dairy barn and farmstead cheese making

  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 13:36
Home Power Energy
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Is "cogeneration" the new way for powering your house and home?

  • Added: Sep 21, 2007
  • Length: 06:40
Nature Profile: Women and the Woods
From: The Environment Report
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A woman who has every reason to fear the woods rejects that fear.

Bought by Vocalo.org, KXOT Public Radio, and WAMC


  • Added: Aug 13, 2007
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 3
So Many Straws! A Day on the Charles River Clean Up Boat
From: Paige Doughty
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Environmental issues are so complicated these days wouldn't it be nice if we could all stop talking about it and DO SOMETHING! Well, the folks who...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2007
  • Length: 07:02