PRX - Pieces for Topic: Environment
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:42
Tecoma stans angustata is in the Bignonia family Bignoniaceae and there are a bunch of species of Tecoma starting here in the borderlands with our ...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:51
Cactus wrens were one of the first Sonoran Desert birds I learned when I arrived in Tucson to go to the University of Arizona. They are such rascal...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:44
This is Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey. Cloudy Cold days these days. Petey talks about lifesaving snow in the desert, the beauty of Sandhill C...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
I was reading a Christmas card from some very dear friends and in the hand written portion of the card it mentioned this season as being the “holie...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:53
There are around 30 species of Porophyllum, the majority of which are found in Mexico and southward. Around me in the borderlands of Arizona Sonora...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
In July of 2002 I produced an episode about the summer monsoon and spadefoots. It was so much fun to write and record. In July of 2013 I re-recorde...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:35
There is no getting around it, every summer monsoon when the borderlands come to life it is so exciting!
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:23
I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how it was cho...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:21
I like the phrase in Arizona Flora about the Loasa family Loasaceae ; it is “remarkable for the diversity and peculiar structure of the hairs.” And...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:05
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
As the coal industry in West Virginia declides, a nonprofit is offering displaced workers an environmentally friendly industry instead—beekeeping.
- Added: Aug 30, 2021
- Length: 02:38
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
Beautifying the world and saving the bees at the same time by making "seed bombs" that grow beautiful flowers perfect for pollination.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Why be buried in a casket when you can be buried as a tree? Bios urns are giving people a second shot at life after death.
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Exercise is not all about improving your physique, but also your mind. Matt Morley has created a nature-immersed workout experience to improve both.
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Planting and harvesting fresh food in a Los Angeles back yard grows a successful local food exchange.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:32
In the search for more sustainable construction materials, a California artist is making bricks out of fungus, and they are stronger than concrete.
- Added: Apr 04, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Farmers use bees to deter elephants from crop raiding.
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 02:33
A bee-saving plan in America's upper midwest.
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 02:33
Farmers are discovering that going organic pays well, reduces costs, and sustains the health of not only the people, but the earth itself.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:26
Studies at Stanford University have shown that meal worms are able to eat Styrofoam and the enzymes in their guts break it down into something comp...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:24
A determined New Yorker makes city composting a real thing.
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:22
The city of Atlanta, Georgia is transforming 7 acres of unused land into the nation's largest food forest.
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:36
This week on the show: Whose outdoors is it anyway? -
The outdoor community hasn't always had a good record when it comes to diversity. This w...
Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, and WXDU
- Added: Aug 23, 2020
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 4
