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When horses need social time they turn to everything from farm animals to spider monkeys.
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 01:47
In this episode we investigate the science beneath our streets. First how a team of amateur speleologists are keeping Howe Caverns safe. Then a loo...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 16:35
Columbia University historian Timothy Mitchell, whose latest book traces the relationship between carbon-based energy production and the developme...
- Added: Apr 26, 2013
- Length: 58:01
We revisit one of our first interviews with environmental historian Richard White. He addresses the (mis)perceptions of the natural world, the ambi...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 23:59
Historian, author, and urban park ranger Jenny Price makes her case for throwing out the well-tread “save the planet” mantra in favor of a new envi...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 39:49
First, two authors set out on a life-changing journey together to examine the ugly realities of racism, the enduring cultural scars left by the Ame...
Bought by WCWP
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 1
Curator for the Museum of PostNatural History in Pittsburgh, Richard Pell describes a new way for us to view how humans control the evolutionary pa...
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 19:03
Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Chautauqua scholar Lee Stetson, who portrays environmental conservationist John Muir. Muir founded the ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 29:01
A 16-minute spoken history / audio documentary on Appalachian regional history and the prominent issue of mountaintop removal coal mining. Compiled...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 15:55
In this episode we see old bones made new again. First the ongoing restoration of Philadelphia's 19th Street Baptist Church. Then a discussion abou...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 17:11
Environmental historian Jon Christensen discusses the mythos of the American frontier and some of his unique approaches to history. Christensen als...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 40:29
The story of a unique landmark off the eastern coast of England - a packing shed built in the 1890s for the cleaning, sorting, and packing of oysters.
- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 29:00
"The Regular Life of Wild Things" , prose/ poem story by G.T. on Wild Turkeys in North East of Turtle Island and commentary on extinction of wild t...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 05:00
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
This piece explores the unintended consequences that occurred to a once rural New York community after the building of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 08:13
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will take us on a tour of the canals of the world.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 06:11
Richard signs up with his roommate to work amidst the lakes and falls and trees in Upstate New York. Richard and Jim preach on Sundays and spend th...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:05
Almost 50 years ago, a group of concerned citizens battled energy giant Consolidated Edison and launched the environmental movement.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 07, 2013
- Length: 16:41
- Purchases: 1
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 04:23
Climate change may have unraveled the sophisticated Maya empire.
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 01:00
There It Is—Take It! is a self-guided car audio tour through Owens Valley, California along U.S. Route 395 examining the controversial social, poli...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:33:49
The untold story of the how the Coastal Commission took on the Southern Pacific Railroad in Monterey to prevent the sale of their abandoned railroa...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 11:14
Saving Crystal Cove - The story of Laura Davick, an accidental activist, who used the California Coastal Act to save the historic 1930's cottages i...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 21:58
Richard White, a MacArthur “genius” and the author of "Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?,' explains how our notions of wilde...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 49:47
