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Do bottle bills work?
From: Possibly
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Today’s question comes from a listener here in Rhode Island. They’ve been following local efforts to pass a bottle bill- that’s where you get money...

Bought by Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
What is wilderness?
From: Possibly
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Last summer, our reporter Charlie Adams spent ten weeks working in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. It’s a slice of northwest Montana that’s over one m...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 2
How can I get involved with Public Utilities Commissions?
From: Possibly
Series: What does a Public Utilities Commission have to do with climate change?
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In another episode, we talked about a state agency that can play a big role in helping us get more of our energy from renewable sources. Here in Rh...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 2
Could green spaces next to our roads help bees and other pollinators?
From: Possibly
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Today, we’re talking about how the green spaces along our roadsides could be used to help pollinators. Meg Talikoff and Will Malloy are here to exp...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 2
What should I do with my pumpkin after Halloween?
From: Possibly
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The weather is cooling, the leaves are changing, and all of my neighbors are putting pumpkins on their porches. It got me thinking, what is the env...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 2
Does cloud computing use a lot of energy?
From: Possibly
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These days, I can log on to my phone and pull up a file that’s stored thousands of miles away. It’s pretty awesome. But does access to all of this ...

Bought by KMXT, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 3
Her Own Magical Fairyland
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
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A city girl, Sophie finds a tiny gap between her house and the next, wriggles through it and finds herself in a magical, secluded fairyland.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:49
Is Spring Overrated?
From: Sharon Glassman
Series: What's to Love About...?
Caption: Writer/performer Sharon Glassman, Credit: Katie Weisberger
Its roots are natural, sure. But isn't spring a bit...overpromise-y? Sharon Glassman makes the case for a name change. Or maybe just a change of he...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
Mind your own beeswax
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
City Sprouts
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
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Young gardeners enhance the green spaces of Cambridge, Mass., while learning about the natural world and earning a little pocket money.

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: :51
  • Purchases: 1
Recycle Rhythms-Coke Can
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
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A rhythmic riff on recycling

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2009
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
A Crazy, Convoluted Journey: Getting Water to Tucson
From: Terrascope Radio
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Tucson, Arizona, lives on water from the Colorado River, which is hundreds of miles away and half a mile downhill. This is the story of how it gets...

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, KDNK, WMPG, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 4
Science Barge
From: Tom Niemisto
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Working to educate and demonstrate sustainable and renewable resources

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Dec 07, 2008
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Urban Farming
From: Tom Niemisto
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Urban farming for sustainable food sources

  • Added: Nov 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:45
Nature Deficit Disorder
From: Tom Niemisto
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What happens when kids spend too much time indoors?

  • Added: Nov 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:49
Unclogging a Drain
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
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Ways to unclog a drain.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
Since The Flood
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: PRX default Piece image
New Orleanians reflect on their lives in the three years since the failure of the Federal Levees resulting from Hurricane Katrina

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 28, 2008
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
Clifford & Kidd - Preggers
From: Jesse Thorn
Series: Comedy From Clifford & Kidd
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Home Depot Hijinks

Bought by KZYX and WUSM


  • Added: Jan 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 2
Our Window
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A magical view from a window includes the dark side of nature.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:56
1989 Joanne Kyger - Springtime Adonis Poem
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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One of the few Beat-era women writers reads her work

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 4
1975 Gregory Corso - The Mad Yak
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Beat great Gregory Corso reads in 1975

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 2