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Indie bookstores go electronic to survive
From: KALW
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Who would have thought that Borders, the corporate bookselling behemoth that had stores in practically every mini mall across America, would now be...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:44
Off the Grid and onto your plate: The rise of mobile food trucks
From: KALW
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The Bay Area is known for being home to some serious “foodies.” So it’s no surprise that among the five-star restaurants that compete for notoriety...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 05:08
The Bernal Buck starts here
From: KALW
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Bernal Heights is a San Francisco neighborhood of about 25,000 located in the southern part of the city. The main commercial street in Bernal Heigh...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 08:23
  • Purchases: 1
Non-profit helps low-income earners save for the American dream
From: KALW
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As recent graduates struggle to find jobs, they do so with an alarming amount of student debt. Education debt has now surpassed the nation’s credit...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 09:03
Dream Jobs 2011: Outside The Cubicle
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
In Dream Jobs: Outside the Cubicle listeners will hear the stories of three very determined people who struggled to find the career path outside co...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WESM 91.3 FM, KMXT, RadioFreePalmer, WEKU and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 28
The Natural State
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Song/Story
Caption: natural gas well, Credit: long haul productions
Producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister traveled to Arkansas to talk to people about what's going on under their feet ... both the extraction ...

Bought by HowSound, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 3
Flight of Fancy: The Air Travel Dilemma
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Swierenga
Airplanes transport over 2.2 billion passengers a year but they are also a significant contributor to climate change, producing approximately 600 m...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Survival of an Island
From: Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland
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On Arranmore - one of the few inhabited islands off the Donegal coast - fishing has sustained a population for generations. Now, as the fishing ind...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 39:35
  • Purchases: 1
EMPIRE OF SILVER -- Writer/director Christine Yao
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Christine Yao talks talks ethics, passion, and banking

  • Added: Jun 12, 2011
  • Length: 18:06
Radical Idea: Grow your own farm-fresh wardrobe
From: KALW
Caption: Rebecca Burgess has pledged to wear clothes made completely within 150 miles from her home
Few of us know exactly what goes into making our clothes – the chemicals, fibers, and dyes. But one Bay Area woman is determined to take localism t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 08, 2011
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 2
When you get the Oprah opportunity, what happens?
From: Changing Gears
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt
Caption: Behind the register at Moveable Feast Geneva , Credit: Niala Boodhoo
Over the years, the Oprah Winfrey show and its famous host have influenced politics, literacy - and hundreds of small businesses – who have been se...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:48
Midwest Food Trucks Hit Legal Roadblocks
From: Changing Gears
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt
Caption: People line up outside the Dim and Den Sum food truck for gourmet tacos and kimchi mac and cheese.
Food trucks have become all the rage in big cities like L.A., New York, and Boston. They’re transforming the way people think about street food and...

Bought by Vocalo.org and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Sports Shooting Popularity Rising - Even in New York City
From: Lily Rothman
Caption: Darren Leung, owner of Westside Rifle and Pistol Range, Credit: Lily Rothman
Gun sports continue to grow in popularity. Sports shooting has gained popularity over the last decade and sales of guns remain strong even as the p...

  • Added: May 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:37
The Vendor's Hustle
From: Matt Rogers
Caption: Yolanda, tamale vendor
There are ten thousand street vendors in New York City, that magnet for the world's poor and America's hopeful; some licensed and some not. Vendors...

  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 48:34
DIY Economy
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Local currency, bartering on the playground and other ways of looking at money through a DIY lens. ***This show aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, XRAY.fm, WRVO Public Media, WYSO, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD -- Morgan Spurlock
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Morgan Spurlock, San Francisco, CA 4/8/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Morgan Spurlock talks selling out, buying in, and bathing with a Shetland pony.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 18:12
REAGAN SMALL BUSINESS MEETING
From: Joseph Carraro
Series: THE AVERAGE JOE
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses his first meeting with Ronald Reagan, and how he was the only true small businessman in the then-governor's small business ro...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:28
Drive my car, please
From: KALW
Caption: Reporter Casey Miner rented her car out to a stranger through one of the city's personal carsharing companies., Credit: Casey Miner
Three new companies in the Bay Area are trying to match unused cars with people who can use them – it’s called carsharing. So you, with that car in...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 10:05
Keith Cunningham - Riches to Rags to Riches
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Keith Cunningham
Most of us are familiar with the bestselling book by Robert Kiyosaki, "Rich Dad Poor Dad." But most of us don't know that Keith Cunningham is Rich ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2011
  • Length: 24:23
INSIDE JOB -- Filmmaker Charles Ferguson Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Charles Ferguson, 9/21/10, San Francisco, CA, Credit: Andrea Chase
Charles Ferguson talks bodyguards, confrontation, and getting to the facts for his Oscar(tm)-winning documentary.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2011
  • Length: 17:09
Bison Meat Boom
From: Grace Hood
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A shortage of bison meat is pushing prices to a near record-high.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:22
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Secret Advisor
From: WNYC
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The names of many of Reverend Martin Luther King Junior’s associates are well known: Harry Belafonte, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young. But one of his m...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KLCC, Prairie Public, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 28
Coloring Outside the Lines
From: NBPC
Series: Rip And Rebind
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Legal art is commercial. There is no true "public" art. The most free art is illegal. A proposition in sound.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 03, 2011
  • Length: 10:06
  • Purchases: 1
How We Survive: The Recession Generation
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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If you’re a young person looking for a job, it looks pretty dismal out there, and it may not brighten up anytime soon. On this edition of How We Su...

Bought by WCSU-FM, WXVU 89.1 FM Villanova, and KZYX


  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Radio Berkman 162: Lessig & Zittrain Take On… Competition!!
From: The Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Series: Radio Berkman
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Lawrence Lessig and Jonathan Zittrain - two of the greatest minds on the web - talk about how competition works in technology market

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Nov 04, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1

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