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Blue Highways #2: Energy Frontiers
From: Eric Mack
Series: Blue Highways
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This on-the-road magazine special looks at our sources of energy - present and future - beginning with our Virginia producer who traces her househo...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 09, 2008
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 2
Migrating with Antelope
From: Addie Goss
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Pronghorn antelope trek 340 miles each year, the longest land migration in the lower 48. But the route is filling in with homes and oil and gas we...

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 06:34
  • Purchases: 1
Brazil: From Sugar Cane to Chevrolets
From: The Stanley Foundation
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Keith Porter examines Brazil's ethanol industry.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 1
Bike to Work!
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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How hard is it to trade in four wheels for two?

Bought by WRVO Public Media and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 2
Sage Grouse Strut
From: Wyoming Public Radio
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Noise from energy development may threaten Sage Grouse mating

  • Added: Apr 28, 2008
  • Length: 05:12
A California Story: Redwood Trees vs Solar Panels
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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When it comes to solar planels, is tree planting a crime?

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Oil Spill Cleanup: From Hazmat to Hairmat
From: Catherine Girardeau
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Eco-minded volunteers clean up after SF Bay oil spill using mats made of human hair.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WBHM


  • Added: Jan 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Mysterious Death of the Barn Owl
From: Guy Hand
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Barn owls die in larger numbers than any other animal on Idaho highways. Why?

  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 03:56
The Grape Escape
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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A look at planned communities planted in vineyard country.

Bought by Real Estate Today


  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
QUEST Nature Deficit Disorder
From: KQED
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How can we get kids outside?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Cleansing the Past with White Water
From: Guy Hand
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An Idaho mill town builds a white water park on the site of its former timber mill.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2007
  • Length: 03:37
The Traffic Tax
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Would you be willing to pay a fee to drive downtown?

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Nov 30, 2007
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
QUEST_How Do You Clean Up An Oil Spill?
From: KQED
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Why San Francisco's recent oil spill will be so hard to clean up.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2007
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Sabine Refuge Becomes Industrial Landfill
From: Pauline Bartolone
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A news feature about the environmental impact of Hurricane Rita

  • Added: Nov 04, 2007
  • Length: 04:22
Global warming has a goose face in Northwest
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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Climate change sends Artic Snow geese to pastures in the Lower 48, nibbling away at farmers' profits.

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
QIEST_Reconsidering Nuclear Power
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A group of Fresno businessmen is challenging California's 31 year-old ban on new nuclear power plants.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 30, 2007
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 2
Juneau's urban-avalanche forecasters
From: John Ryan
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Avalanche forecasters at work on the snowy slopes above Juneau, AK.

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 1
Big Perks for Tiny Houses?
From: The Environment Report
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Reporter Rebecca Williams takes a peek into some itsy bitsy homes

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBEZ, and WILL


  • Added: Mar 19, 2007
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 4
Humpback Whale Song
From: Heidi Chang
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Why do humpback whales sing? Some researchers are trying to solve that mystery as they take you on a wild adventure in Hawaii. Experience some cl...

Bought by PRX Remix, Here and Now, 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station, The Nature Podcast, KRCC-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 6
Artillery attacks urban avalanches (audio postcard)
From: John Ryan
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Juneau fights snow slides with howitzer shells

  • Added: Feb 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:15
Trash into Cash
From: Charles Lane
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story of Riverhead, New York, a community that's trying to turn its closed landfill into marketable resources

  • Added: Dec 18, 2006
  • Length: 04:54
PART 4: TOO MUCH MANURE?
From: The Environment Report
Series: Pollution in the Heartland
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A look at the environmental costs of a large-scale dairy operation.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2006
  • Length: 04:32
Using Wildfire As A Classroom
From: KSUT
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Students from 5 states visit Southwest Colorado to learn about the origins of wildfires

Bought by KRFC


  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Housing for South Africa's poor
From: David Barasoain
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How to house South Africa's poor.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2004
  • Length: 05:21