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The city of Oakland has received more than $140 million in stimulus money over the past three years for workforce development and energy efficiency...
- Added: Aug 29, 2011
- Length: 08:43
You may have heard by now that California’s prisons are overcrowded. Last May, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that California must decrease its priso...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 05:54
- Purchases: 1
Every year, Americans throw away more than 300 million outdated lap tops, cell phones, printers, broken computer monitors and old television sets. ...
Bought by KSRQ, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WTIP
- Added: Aug 04, 2011
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 3
Companies like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Heinz ketchup have determined that plastic made from plants — not oil — makes sense both for the environment a...
Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WTIP
- Added: Aug 04, 2011
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 3
Until very recently Philadelphians recycled a dismal five-percent of their trash. But all that began to change a few years ago when the city steppe...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WTIP
- Added: Aug 04, 2011
- Length: 04:21
- Purchases: 2
Here's one silver lining to a slow economy: High recycling rates. Americans are wasting far less, and recycling far more. Nowhere is the trend as s...
Bought by KZYX, WRVO Public Media, WTIP, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 04, 2011
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 4
Thirty-five people were arrested last night in San Francisco, after a gathering to protest the shooting death of a Muni fare evader turned violent....
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
Take a stroll through the Tenderloin District in San Francisco – or the Mission, or the Western Addition – and you’ll pass at least one single room...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 09:04
Remember when your parents told you to look both ways before crossing the street? It’s good advice – and not just for kids. In San Francisco, cross...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 06:29
Woody Allen made hypochondria famous as a source of self-deprecating humor, but this clinical condition can be seriously debilitating for individua...
Bought by PRX Remix and Jazz 91.9 WCLK
- Added: Jul 11, 2011
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Right now, about 1% of the adult population in the U.S. is in prison or jail. The vast majority, 95%, will not spend the rest of their lives locked...
- Added: Jun 15, 2011
- Length: 05:57
Last week, a new law debuted that’s supposed to save the state millions of dollars a year. The new law, passed last year, is called “medical parole...
- Added: Jun 06, 2011
- Length: 05:31
Whether you’re going to the library or the laundromat, in Richmond, a lot of people get around using AC Transit. The Alameda-Contra Costa Transit D...
- Added: Apr 27, 2011
- Length: 05:03
California’s attorney general says the state has a correctional crisis.
KAMALA HARRIS: We have a prison system right now that is accommodating twi...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 10:44
In Oakland, there are many strategies at play in the struggle to stem violent crime, which has actually decreased in recent years, though it’s stil...
- Added: Apr 04, 2011
- Length: 05:31
This piece looks at what it means to be transgender through a profile piece, and also explores transgender health disparities through the frame of ...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 14:13
- Purchases: 1
Underground news from Santa Cruz, CA. Played on On What Grounds on KZSC, 88.1fm.
- Added: Feb 11, 2011
- Length: 43:59
On this edition, we’ll hear part two of a documentary called Heavy Weather, produced by freelancer Barbara Bernstein. She’ll look at how climate c...
- Added: Apr 23, 2010
- Length: 29:00
On this edition, we’ll hear part one of a documentary called Heavy Weather, produced by freelancer Barbara Bernstein. She’ll explore the connection...
Bought by WUAL and The Neighborhood
- Added: Apr 13, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In Boston's densest neighborhood, the Chinatown Storefront Library converted a vacant commercial space into a thriving community center. And then i...
- Added: Feb 17, 2010
- Length: 13:44
- Purchases: 2
From the Sudan Radio Project: we hear about a Sudanese NGO that is working to get out the vote for the upcoming national elections.
- Added: Feb 07, 2010
- Length: 05:18
From a grassroots toxic canal clean up to a long-standing watershed war, we’ll hear from U.S. water stewards across the country. They’re people wor...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and WRPI
- Added: Oct 16, 2009
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 2
This week we talk to lenders who are doing things differently and to people who are helping others stave off financial scammers.
- Added: Oct 01, 2009
- Length: 29:00
From a grassroots toxic canal clean up to a long-standing watershed war, we’ll hear from U.S. water stewards across the country, working to protect...
Bought by CKMO
- Added: Sep 23, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
