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GN_6.55_ For the Love of Lakes
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A young Indian activist quits his Google job to clean up lakes in his country.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
Travis Novitsky and Joel Halvorson talk Dark Sky Festival
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Cook County is home to one of the darkest skies in the nation, and adventurers, artists, and photographers from around the world travel here to exp...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 22:16
Farming in Harmony With Nature: John Chester and The Biggest Little Farm
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: John and Molly Chester's Farm
The award winning documentary The Biggest Little Farm is the focus of Dave's conversation with film maker turned farmer John Chester. He and his wi...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Haiti Untold
From: Round Earth Media
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HAITI UNTOLD New one-hour documentary from Round Earth Media January 12, 2019, will mark nine years since Haiti was struck by a devastating earthqu...

Bought by MPR News Stations, KUNM, WBST, KTNA, WNYC and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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The home ownership gap continues to widen.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
513-Mtn Ops
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, would not find a single asteroid without Steward Observatory's Mountain Lemmon Operations, or Mtn Ops for short. ...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRWG, WTIP and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Kriste Peoples: Empowerment in the outdoors
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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Sunshine enthusiast Kriste Peoples is a speaker, writer and producer in Denver Colorado.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
ThinkPlanet — a conversation with Dr. John Hausdoerffer
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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Dr. John Hausdoerffer is dean of the Western Colorado University School of Environment and Sustainability.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2018-10-07 Christiana Figueres: A Conversation on Mindfulness and Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Former UN climate negotiator Christiana Figueres credits Buddhist teachings both for helping her through a personal crisis, and for providing a sou...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, NPR Now, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KWIT and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 7
311: Listen To Your City / 312: Facing Hate, 9/29/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Listen To Your City" - What's it like to explore a city with your ears? Depends on how your listen. HOUR TWO: "Facing Hate" - Is fasci...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:57
Author Jack Blackwell on "Boundary Waters Boy"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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After his father died, 17-year-old Jack Blackwell joined his grandfather, Alec Boostrom, on his trapline here in northern Minnesota's canoe country...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 32:06
450-Saint Patrick's Day Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On Saint Patrick's Day I discovered a comet which I share with my wife Annie Grauer.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
446-Asteroid Homestead
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the future one can envision a space mining family boarding a descendent of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Vehicle for a trip into low Earth orb...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KKRN, WVTF, KRWG and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
429-2017's Catch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2017 my team the Catalina Sky Survey led the world in the discovery of Earth approaching objects by identifying 987 of them as they whizzed by us.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , Bandon Community Radio, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
424-Long Winter Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Long Winter nights with good seeing, from start to finish, are those on which the asteroid hunter makes new discoveries while being treated to view...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WEJP-LP 107.1, KKRN, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Author Gail Francis on walking from Mexico to Canada
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Gail Francis is an author and outdoor enthusiast based in Duluth. Her book, "Bliss(ters): How I Walked From Mexico to Canada One Summer," chronicl...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 20:40
Survival of the Kindest: Tom Shadyac #201 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Tom Shadyac is a successful Hollywood comedy director who found the traditional trappings of success were not the key to happiness. He traded a man...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Nov 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
406-2 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In less than 24 hours, while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona , I discovered two 25 foot diameter ...

Bought by KENW, KKRN, WTIP, KSFR, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
354-Returnee
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What had appeared as a solitary point of light returns to near Earth to reveal that it is two asteroids in a tight dance.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KKRN, WOUB and more


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
348-16
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A snap shot of the kinds of objects which constantly streak past our Earth.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
A House Built on Sand
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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There’s a very robust debate going on right now as to exactly how much sea level rise we’re in for, and the Cliffs Notes version is that it’s betwe...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 22:05
  • Purchases: 1
Debbie Duncan, Defining Jazz Vocalist
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Debbie Duncan, Credit: Nathan Youngerberg
When Debbie Duncan sings and lets her imagination run on a song melody, you are in the presence of someone who is a master of her craft. Debbie’s i...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2016
  • Length: 07:58
The Allegheny Front Earth Day Special
From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment
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A 29-minute special including interviews, sound-rich features and historical clips about the history of Earth Day.

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lauret Savoy - Trace, Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Caption: Lauret Savoy
WV talks with environmental earth scientist and writer Lauret Savoy about her stunning new book, TRACE. In it, Savoy examines how the country’s sti...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
Explorer Lonnie Dupre on his latest adventure, Vertical Nepal
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Grand Marais-based explorer Lonnie Dupre recently returned from Nepal, where he and his team explored newly-opened areas for possible climbs in 201...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 20:35