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This episode features a thoughtful conversation with Jack Clinton about his environmental novel, Clovis. He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Prairie Public, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
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Chris Turner discusses his book ,The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands. He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Prairie Public, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KWMR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Paige Embry discusses her book Our Native Bees: America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KWMR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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HOUR ONE: "Imagining Climate Change" - We have lots of facts about climate change. What we need is more stories. Can imagination save the planet? ...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
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The late poet Kenneth Irby (1936-2015) traveled the States before settling in Lawrence, where he spent his teaching and writing career at the Unive...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNJR, and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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HOUR ONE: "In the Company of Wolves" - Wolves are among the most controversial animals on the planet. We'll track Yellowstone's wolves with the peo...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:59
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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
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Celebrated author Sy Montgomery talks with us about the essays she and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas have written and collected in a wonderful new book...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 01:34:38
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David Owen discusses his nonfiction book, Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River. He also reads a short segment from the book.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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The Maumee River runs more than 100 miles before emptying into Lake Erie in Ohio. And it carries a lot of the farm runoff that triggers algae bloom...

Bought by WBFO, WCPN, and WKSU


  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: :45
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: "A Year in the Wilderness," named one of 20 Big Indie Books of Fall 2017 by Publishers Weekly
Explorers Amy and Dave Freeman spent a year in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to bring attention to threats to this area. Now they're ou...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 02, 2017
  • Length: 24:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Douglas Wood, longtime wilderness guide, is also a prolific author, perhaps best known for his first book, "Old Turtle." Now he's out with a memoir...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 16:12
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Karen Joy Fowler talks about her compelling and heart breaking novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves."

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Looking into the Sun, Credit: Katie Carter
Many of our listeners were moved by Monday's solar eclipse. We heard from Tom Salwasser who wrote about his experience in Remer Eclipse Story and ...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2017
  • Length: 10:41
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HOUR ONE: "Imagining Climate Change" - We have lots of facts about climate change. What we need is more stories. Can imagination save the planet? ...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:57
Caption: Tales from the Warming by Lorin R. Robinson, Credit: Open Books
Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Lorin R. Robinson, the author of Tales From The Warming published in 2017 by Open Books. Combining scient...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 12:32
  • Purchases: 1
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What will New York City look like in 2140? Scifi author Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel explores a possible future in which NYC is partly subme...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 40:50
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How do cultural constructs, like race, influence our relationship to the natural world? Poet and professor Camille Dungy explores this question by ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 25:50
Caption: Dave Smith
In the other half of this conversation with Dave Smith, the author of more than 20 books of poetry, essays, memoir and fiction, he talks about the ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 24, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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With the mystery fog surrounding them, the Radio Icebox crew hides in the station basement and tries to figure out a plan. Cody finally loses his ...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 30:11
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It’s Thanksgiving day and the staff is in jail! A quiet holiday among friends somehow results in food poisoning, football on VHS, and a re-animate...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 26:32
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It’s Halloween, and a ghost infestation has hit Radio Icebox and Jennifer has run away. It’s up to Cody to figure out the solution and get Jennife...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 23:55
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A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 24:59
Caption: Dan Egan, Credit: W.W. Norton & Company
A new book by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Dan Egan examines Great Lakes history and current issues facing the region.

Bought by WCMU Michigan, WBFO, North Country Public Radio, and WKSU


  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: “Polychrome Vase in the Form of a Fish” British Museum Postcard El-Amarma, XVIIIth Dynasty, (c. 1365 BC) Glass. 1.2 3/4? , Credit: The British Museum, London
In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill reads “The Fish,” a poem by Marianne Moore from a collection entitled "American Sea W...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 04:11