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Baratunde Thurston describes his experiences as a Black man in nature and the influence his mother had on his positive outlook. He’s a comedian, wr...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2024
  • Length: 29:22
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Coming up on this week's episode of The Spark Weekly. Two Philadelphia Inquirer reporters that have investigated forever chemicals of PFAs that go...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 46:24
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To round out Women’s History Month in style, this week we are back in conversation with Leslie Bennett, Oakland, CA based landscape designer creati...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Julian Assange Fights Last Battle to Stop UK Extradition to US; Worldwide ...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, I am ...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Karen Washington and Bryant Terry, Credit: Alex Akamine
The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of shared labor, wor...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
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Camille Dungy is perhaps best known for her remarkable and award winning often environmentally focused poetry and editing of collections of environ...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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​ Jennifer Jewell ​ Caribbean born British-based writer and Gardener, Marchelle Farrell is the author of Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Coun...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Dec 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Climate affects everyone, but not equally. Those affected first and worst are often the same communities that suffer from housing and income inequa...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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Gwendolyn Wallace is a gardener, a student, a teacher, a historian, and the author of two new works of illustrated children’s literature. Joy Takes...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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One of medical science’s greatest paradoxes: The cancer cells that killed Henrietta Lacks revolutionized medicine -- medical care her own family co...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:14
Caption: Left is a Mullein Plant and the author, Michele Elizabeth Lee.  , Credit: Anita Johnson
In some parts of the world, traditional herbal remedies are the norm. When we think of natural remedies we tend to think of older generations liv...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Connecting with our ancestors. Our guest Stephanie R. Burns starts by describing her all-inclusive view of ancestors which is far vaster than our b...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:37
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Extremist Supreme Court Overturns Affirmative Action, Ignoring Decades of ...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Opponents Gear Up to Fight GOP’s Latest Plan to Cut Social Security & Medi...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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As we head into the exuberance of May and towards mother’s day celebrations here in the U.S., this week we speak again with award-winning poet, sch...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:17:40
Caption: Camille T Dungy, Credit:  Beowulf Sheehan
Ecopoet and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T Dungy discusses how history and race complicates nature writing

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Ty Wilson
Many perceive philanthropy to be the exclusive domain of the super wealthy.  Those people are apparently unaware of the efforts of this week's gues...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Isha Clarke, Credit: Illustration by Rosy Petri
Isha Clarke is a founding member of Youth vs. Apocalypse, an activist organization that organized the first-ever youth climate strike in San Franci...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 8
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A conversation with Korie Griggs of the Color of Coffee Collective.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Bigotry and Hate Drives GOP Ouster of Rep. Ilhan Omar from House Foreign ...

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Abra and members of the Oakland Cemetery horticulture and administrative teams in Atlanta, January 2023; Images from the Auburn University’s Black Garden History graduate class’ award-winning show garden, "Mixed Shades, Much Joy” at the 2022 Philadelphia , Credit: Jennifer Jewel
Love is already a theme in the work of Cultivating Place, to be sure, but with last week’s loving work around the restoration of historic apple orc...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Topic 1 - Green Lights for Migraines; Topic 2 - Black in Science; Topic 3 - Lithium Mining

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 51:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Art can inspire community and conversation, provide fresh insights into understanding history, and cultivate connection. It can challenge your worl...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Art can inspire community and conversation, provide fresh insights into understanding history, and cultivate connection. It can challenge your worl...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00