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Food guy Michael Pollan’s new book is “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation.” He is a personable, well-spoken walking encyclopedia of Ameri...
- Added: Jun 14, 2013
- Length: 09:59
In her new book, author and journalist Judith D. Swartz reveals that our ability to transform many of our problems – climate change, desertificatio...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Judy Wicks founded the White dog Café on the first floor of her house in West Philadelphia. After helping to save her block from demolition, Judy g...
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- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Every spring, river herring return to the rivers and ponds of Cape Cod to spawn. They are met by a group of volunteers who, come rain or shine, sho...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 07:58
Why itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny backpacks may be the key to understanding how animals capture prey.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 1
Camels are known for their ability to travel long distances across the desert without water.
But they’re also becoming an increasingly important s...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 03:41
Brooke Tanner and Ken Wolff are different from one another. One's a young woman trying to start a huge project, the other's at the end of a long ca...
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 03:08
Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...
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- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Three hours of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Collector's music so that you don't need to spend your adulthood in yo...
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 02:55:29
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...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
When a species goes extinct, that’s usually the end of the story. We don’t exactly have dinosaurs or dodo birds running around these days.
But some...
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- Added: Mar 28, 2013
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 1
Making a living is a struggle this year for Maine lobster fishermen - due in part to strong conservation regulations.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...
- Added: Mar 17, 2013
- Length: 10:11
Churches are taking diverse actions to address climate change through stewardship, advocacy, spirituality and justice. Contributions from leading C...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 19:57
- Purchases: 1
The construction of the Ashokan Reservoir and the Catskill Aqueduct to provide NYC with water has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal....
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 06:37
This week's stories are all about being outsiders. Stories by Judith Gardner, Frank Fusco, and Alan Reese. True stories told by the Southerners who...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Former USA Vice President, Al Gore was an elected official for a quarter century before becoming the poster boy for climate change after the 2000 p...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 09:43
A sound picture of nature's restful season of change and anticipation, along with its accompanying human happenings, all framed by music as varied ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 59:35
- Purchases: 2
Prince Edward Island is known the world over for its mussels. Nothing quite like them and those produced on PEI account for 80 percent of all musse...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 27:06
Wolves and moose are at the heart of the world’s longest running study of a predator and its prey. The drama unfolds on Isle Royale National Park ...
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- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:47
- Purchases: 1
Researchers have studied the wolves and moose on a remote island archipelago in Lake Superior for 54 years. These days, the wolves are in trouble.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 1
Marsh Muirhead, a writer, dentist, flight instructor, and much else besides, lives near Bemidji, MN on the banks of the Mississippi with his dog, S...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 01:55
Poet Athena Kildeagard, a University of Minnesota - Morris lecturer, looks deeply and metaphorically at a Blue Herring's stop in the poem "On Juggl...
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- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 1
There are no crystal balls. No one really knows the direction technology is going to take us. But, there are always those best guesses.
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- Added: Jan 08, 2013
- Length: 28:55
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While visiting Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, I had the good fortune to meet a Maya subsistence farmer named Bartolo. When Bartolo found out I was int...
- Added: Dec 31, 2012
- Length: 05:05
