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What's Next? (pt 1)
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: thenextsystem.org, Credit: The Next System Project
What is the possibility of a post-capitalism economic model to support the values and behaviors for a new era filled with alternative technologies,...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2015
  • Length: 05:24
Into the Woods
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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It’s not everyday that family pets and enthusiastic retirees get together to find dead bodies—unless you belong to Maine Search and Rescue Dogs.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:19
Sunny's Back Yard: A Chubby Little Bird
From: WTIP
Series: Lake County Journal
Caption: Woodcock, Credit: Biodiversity Heritage Library
Sunny lives in Lake County, Minnesota, and is a regular commentator on WTIP North Shore Community Radio. In this episode from May, Sunny delights i...

  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 05:09
Drowned
From: Sean Callahan
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Inspired by an Old Spice commercial as a kid, Kieran Burke always wanted to be a surfer. But learning proved difficult with no one to teach him.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 04:39
Bird Files: Romantic Stylings of the Red-breasted Merganser
From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment
Caption: Red-breasted Merganzer, Credit: Peter Massas
Red-breasted Merganzers are ducks with mohawks.

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:58
Black folks in nature
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Rue Mapp, founder of Outdoor Afro, leads a group on a white water adventure, Credit: Outdoor Afro
There's a mountain of statistics that suggest black Americans don’t go out in nature as much as people of other ethnicities, but one Bay Area organ...

Bought by KSKA and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 2
A park ranger and Buffalo Soldier
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Yosemite National Park ranger Shelton Johnson in uniform as a "Buffalo Soldier."
Shelton Johnson is a ranger at Yosemite National Park. He’s part Cherokee, part African American, and part Seminole. And he’s used his background ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 08:28
  • Purchases: 2
The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning nature writer Gary Ferguson talks about and reads from his memoir 'The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness.'

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Living With Bears
From: Josh Clement
Series: All Things Natural With Ed Kanze
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If there are bruins in the neighborhood, trouble may be brewin'. Listen and learn how to avoid it.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:45
Ladies And Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones!
From: Josh Clement
Series: All Things Natural With Ed Kanze
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They rock and roll them. We're talking about those boulders we all see in the woods. Geologists call them "erratics."

  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 03:53
Give War and Peace a Chance (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...

Bought by WCNY, KPVL, CHSR-FM 97.9, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WFHB and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 8
Field Exercises
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Stephanie Westlund
Stephanie Westlund holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies. For the past 5-years she has been researching the lives of war veterans. Specifically...

Bought by KVNF and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 12, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sounds Abound
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Sounds Abound, Credit: Seth Shostak
The world abounds in sound. Now we know what the fuss is about. With computers we can analyze the song of birds (they give each other nicknames) ...

Bought by Gallatin Valley Community Radio, KRPS, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WYAP and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Nature of Elephants
From: Paul Messing
Series: Paul Messing's Audio Producer's Grab Bag
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Two stories about elephants, one from Carol Buckley, co-founder of the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, and one from author Susan Chernak McElroy (...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fire on the Mountain: Climate Change, Fire, and the Ecological Future of the American West
From: Aengus Anderson
Caption: In the summer monsoon season, grass carpets the Chiricahua foothills., Credit: Aengus Anderson
In the wake of a catastrophic fire, researchers use Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains to look centuries into the future of climate change and ask "wha...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 2
#485: August 3, 2014
From: Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds
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THIS WEEK: Splitting the Clapper Rail; bird feeding help for condo owners; a swimming songbird; and, are you out there, Saskatchewan?

  • Added: Aug 15, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
#486: August 10, 2014
From: Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds
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THIS WEEK: Is it a bird…or a cowboy boot? Help is on the way for the Wood Thrush, but will it arrive in time? And we answer a listener's question a...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
The Plight of the Bumblebee
From: Mike Hally
Series: Wildlife Nature and Environment around the World
Caption: Bumblebee at Work, Credit: Mike Hally
An investigation into the declining numbers of bumblebees in the United Kingdom and the efforts being made by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust to p...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 27:59
All things winged, wicked and wonderful
From: WTIP
Series: Magnetic North
Caption: Vicki's Crane
Welcome back to Magnetic North where winged critters, both wondrous and wicked now trump the weather for the number one topic of conversation in th...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
June has Arrived
From: WTIP
Series: Wildersmith on the Gunflint
Caption: Wild Strawberries
"June is bustin' out all over" as the old tune goes. On this edition of Wildersmith on the Gunflint, Fred points out all the new signs of summer, a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 1
Snipe Hunt
From: Jennifer Jerrett
Caption: A Wilson's snipe mid flight, Credit: NPS / Neal Herbert
A mysterious sound sends us on a snipe hunt in Yellowstone National Park.

Bought by KALW, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 3
Midawin Remedies for Headaches
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: Traditional Ojibwe Plants, Herbs and Teas
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Midawin remedies for headaches and convulsions.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 3
Aches and Pains
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: Traditional Ojibwe Plants, Herbs and Teas
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Making a balm for aches and pains.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 3
Bird Watching
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: Environmental Voices
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Marie Rock interviews Shirley Nordrum about bird watching.

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 09:41
Episode 5: Dropping Like Flies
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Every year for the past few years, tens of thousand of flytraps have gone missing – from the wild, from gardens, from nurseries. And, really, nobod...

Bought by KALH, 90.5 WESA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 21:00
  • Purchases: 3

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