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From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy

Caption: Growing Old, Credit: Growing Old Project

Picture what it would look like for Seattle's housing and hospital infrastructure to reflect Coast Salish culture. Consider the role that forced st...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Sing the Old Songs: Part 1 (episode 4)

From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy

Explore the systems of assimilation that aimed to eliminate Native culture in the United States, systems that began in Washington State. Travel to ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KVSC

Be the Hummingbird (episode 2)

From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy

Go to the heart of Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, where an immigrant family and thousands of volunteers turned 20 acres into a Japanese gard...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KVSC

This is the kind of story that begins in a forest

From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy

This is the kind of story that begins in a forest, on the traditional lands of the Duwamish and Coast Salish People, past and present. It’s a story...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Welcome to Growing Old

From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy

This is the kind of story that begins in a forest, on the traditional lands of the Duwamish and Coast Salish People, past and present. It’s a story...

Oh, Give Me a Home | Episode 2 | The Red Man Was Pressed

From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold

Caption: The Apache Reaper, Credit: Edward Curtis

How did we go from more than 50 million wild bison to just 23 free-roaming animals? And how does the decimation of the herds relate to the oppressi...

Bought by KPIP-LP, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio and more

700 Fathoms under the Sea

From: David Schulman

Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel

Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more

Sandy in Gowanus

From: Jamie Courville

Hurricane Sandy was nearly one year ago. Days after the storm, one woman described seeing the storm surge cause a flood of the extremely toxic wate...

Saving Crystal Cove

From: KRCB 104.9
Series: Stories of the Coast - How the California Coast was Saved

Caption: Crystal Cove in the good old days

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...

Life By The Drop: Drought, Water and the Future of Texas

From: KUT

Life By the Drop is a close look at the state of water and drought in Texas, looking both to the past and the future for answers on how the state c...

Bought by WZEN.org, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and KUHF

The Blue Revolution

From: Chrys Bocast
Series: Aquaculture and You

The history of aquaculture from the mid-20th century to the present.

Humankind: Passengers (Hour Two)

From: Humankind

With federal support for public transit hanging in the balance, this sound-rich series (two one-hour documentaries) examines how our personal trans...

Bought by WCPN, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio, KUT, KXOT Public Radio and more

Humankind: Passengers (Hour One)

From: Humankind

With transportation jobs on the line, this sound-rich series (two one-hour documentaries) examines how our personal transportation choices - privat...

Bought by KVSC, WCPN, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio, KUT and more

Aldo Leopold and the Emerging Land Ethic (59:00 / 54:00 - Free Program)

From: Jack Loeffler

Caption: Aldo Leopold, Credit: Aldo Leopold Foundation

A celebration of the life Aldo Leopold, the man who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” in 1949, and introduced Ethics as the fundamental concept that sh...

Bought by KZYX, WRGY, KUPR low power FM, WMUU-LP, KCMJ Community Radio and more

These Buildings Have Feelings

From: Hannah Krakauer

Caption: Bellingham Granary, Credit: Washington Trust for Historic Preservation

An in-depth exploration of the waterfront development in Bellingham, WA.

Documentary - Coal: Dirty Past, Hazy Future

From: The Environment Report

Brew the coffee, turn on the radio, and check your electronic mail – you’re on your way to burning 20 pounds of coal for the day. That’s how much ...

Bought by KUER, WYSO, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, KSFR and more

Buffalo Commons

From: Long Haul Productions

The American Prairie Foundation is working to reintroduce thousands of bison and other native species to parts of Montana, with the hopes of luring...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, Yellowstone Public Radio, and The Nature Podcast

Haunting the Quabbin: Inside Out

From: Inside Out Documentaries

How four towns in an idyllic valley were levelled and burned in the late '30s to build the biggest drinking water reservoir of the era, as experien...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, WNIJ, and WGBH Radio Boston