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Host Phalana Tiller talks with author Tom Tierney and nonprofit performance expert David Hunter about the ways that nonprofits and their funders ca...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 47:59
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After Apartheid, genocide, or after civil wars...how do nations, or people who've been pitted against each other, resolve their differences and liv...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Cheryl Rogowski, Farmer and MacArthur "Genius"
Where does our food come from? Since we pay close attention to so many aspects of food in the holiday season, host Majora Carter visits Cheryl Rogo...

Bought by WZEN.org, KZYX, North Country Public Radio, and WUIS


  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Marla Spivak, Bee Researcher and MacArthur "Genius"
When you sit down at your holiday table, thank a bee. A third of the food on your plate is made possible by these pollinators, whose numbers are be...

Bought by WUIS, WCAI / WNAN, KLCC, KZYX, WCPN and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Before Katrina, Sharon Hanshaw owned a beauty salon and lived in a house on a tree-lined street. All that all changed when the hurricane hit Biloxi...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, New Hampshire Public Radio, Vermont Public Radio, KOSU, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
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New Orleans East is home to the most-dense ethnically Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. In the Gulf region, about 80 percent of Vietnamese ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, KGNU, Vermont Public Radio, WTIP, KOSU and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Chemist Wilma Subra has spent her career defending local communities against Louisiana’s powerful oil and gas industry. Since the Deepwater Horizon...

Bought by Vermont Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN, KOSU, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
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For Nat Turner, garden rakes and shovels are tools for transformation. He's transformed an old store in New Orlean's Lower Ninth Ward into an urba...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, New Hampshire Public Radio, Vermont Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, KOSU and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Dr. Kyshun Webster is a man who gets things done. And before that, he was a kid who got things done. Now the founder and executive director of Oper...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Vermont Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WFIU, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Brenda, 19, walks through her Minneapolis neighborhood. She's been living as an illegal immigrant in Minnesota since she was 7 years old., Credit: MPR Photo/Jeff Thompson
When Brenda was 7, she was carried across the border from Mexico. Now 19, the Minneapolis teen wishes she could live and work legally in the countr...

Bought by WGXC, KUNM, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and KSFR


  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c. 2000
Carmen Delzell was homeless for a couple of years in the early 1990's. This piece was produced in 1996, after she got on her feet and was living i...

Bought by KUT, KGLT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
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Winona LaDuke has spent decades working on issues of renewable energy, health, and environmental justice on northern Minnesota's White Earth Reserv...

Bought by KZYX, KBRP Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN, KWIS 88.3 FM, KVMR and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
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John Francis spent two decades walking across North and South America, spreading a silent message of respect for the earth. He takes host Majora Ca...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Vermont Public Radio, WRVO, Rhode Island Public Radio, KUNM and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Brenda Palms Barber is driven by a certainty that "people deserve second chances and you can choose to turn your life around." Brenda started a tra...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Vermont Public Radio, WRVO, Rhode Island Public Radio, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
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If Frank and Audrey Peterman have their way, many more of their fellow black Americans will visit our national parks. They take host Majora Carter ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Vermont Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WRVO, Rhode Island Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Pioneering researcher and "queen of the forest canopy" Nalini Nadkarni, shows host Majora Carter the wonders of the Olympic rain forest — from the ...

Bought by WZEN.org, WCAI / WNAN, Vermont Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WRVO and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Tish Morgan Mata, Credit: Tish Morgan Mata
Tish Morgan Mata has been bipolar from a very young age, and used drugs, alcohol, sex and food to self-medicate. In this interview she describes wh...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2010
  • Length: 24:14
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Discover how a curious pathologist turned into an expert on death and challenged our ideas of life and self-determination.

Bought by WNIN, WHRV, Iowa Public Radio, and WFPL News


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 55:55
  • Purchases: 4
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In Boston's densest neighborhood, the Chinatown Storefront Library converted a vacant commercial space into a thriving community center. And then i...

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Feb 17, 2010
  • Length: 13:44
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Black Tuna Diaries
Robert Platshorn "Bobby Tuna" spent 30 years behind bars after being convicted of marijuana smuggling in the 1970's. Out of prison now, Bob has pie...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2009
  • Length: 30:46
Caption: The Learning Barge, Credit: Phoebe Crisman, UVa
The world’s first floating wetlands classroom comes to the aid of one of the country's most polluted waterways.

Bought by WFIU and KVSC


  • Added: Aug 24, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Soundprint_09-31 uploaded 7/31/09: The Convict Streak/Survivors

Bought by WRVO and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 02, 2009
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
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An exclusive interview with Pete Seeger, who turns 90 in May. (May 3rd) Program is relatively undated, referencing that Pete turns 90 "this year." ...

Bought by Prairie Public, WCPN, KUT, KOSU, KUNR and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2009
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 24
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Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue of Sea Change host an intimate chat with Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai about the links between environmental just...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2009
  • Length: 29:35
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Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:03