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The small country of Lithuania is leading the way in recycling with its wildly successful “deposit refund scheme,” which has resulted in a whopping...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Food insecurity plagues much of the developing world. Tasmanian agriculture scientist Bruce French is intending to change this tragedy by catalogin...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
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What if your bicycle could help power your neighborhood? That's the idea behind S-Park, a system that uses kinetic energy harnessed from bicycles t...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:28
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A mobile phone app and web platform that allows people to search for, discover, and rate public places based on how accessible they are for everyone.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
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Finland solved infant mortality over 90 years ago and their successful program for doing so is alive and well today.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:35
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
After being declared the dirtiest city in the world in 2015, Paris takes action by launching a monthly “No Car Day."

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Art should be able to be enjoyed by all. Thanks to 3-D and audio technology, the blind are able to experience art on their own terms.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
It's not about how much money you have, it's how you spend it. Scientists prove that experiences are more worth it than material things.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Lunch-room anxiety is real for people of all ages. A California high-schooler is finding everyone a seat with her new app,

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
There is a floor tile that uses the power of footsteps to generate electricty!

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Peaceful activists come together to protect sacred Native American land from the cruel, crude oil industry.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Native American's have been overlooked since America got its start. Now, they are finally starting to get the appreciation they deserve instead of ...

Bought by WTIP, KLCC, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A small craft brewery in Florida is feeding the ocean instead of polluting it with a remarkable solution to single-use plastic packaging.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Step on a crack, break your mother's back! But what if the concrete never cracks? A microbiologist has invented living, self-patching concrete.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Vegan Leather? Seems like an oxy-moron, but now there is a leather-like material made of pineapples.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Spinal cord injuries are mostly considered irreversible. Scientists from Duke University are changing that by utilizing virtual reality technology.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:31
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
When Egypt comes to mind, most think about the desert. Thanks to German and Egyptian scientists the country could soon be covered in trees.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Trees are the lungs of our planet. Norway takes a stand for mother earth by banning deforestation.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Meet Olli: a self-driving 3-D printed vehicle that could change public transportation forever.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The average American meal travels on average 1500 miles from farm to table. In Orlando, a growing collective, are utilizing neighborhood front yard...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Styrofoam has long been the bane of environmentalists. In San Francisco, this harmful material is finally getting banned.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
An endangered California butterfly is on the rise thanks to one man's efforts to restore their environment.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
With garden space on earth getting more limited, growing up instead of out is the new normal for the farm industry.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Leftover coffee grounds are saving lives as the main ingredient for an essential slow-burning fire source In sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Ireland has finally shared the pot-o-gold at the end of their rainbow by pledging to fully divest from fossil fuels.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30