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Clean Energy U.N. SDG #7
From: melodically challenged
Series: Saving the Planet: The United Nations Sustainability Goals
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We continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
Talkin' Trash
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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According to the Keep America Beautiful website, Americans generate 251.3 million tons of garbage per year and since 1960, the amount of waste gene...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
MN Reads: "Impermanence" by Sue Leaf
From: WDSE
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Author Sue Leaf talks about her new book "Impermanence"

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 08:20
Christmas at Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This holiday season on World Ocean Radio we return with a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson writte...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 04:03
08-18: Erosion and Evolution: Our Undoing is Our Becoming, 12/27/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Terry Tempest Williams
Erosion and evolution. Shadow and light. Death and rebirth. These are some of the strands that the acclaimed author, naturalist and activist Terry ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Dissonant Landscapes: Music of Iceland
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the book "Dissonant Landscapes," which explores how Icelandic musicians are often discussed in relationship to the...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
MN Reads: "Climate Grief" by Shawna Weaver
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Shawna Weaver talks about her new book "Climate Grief"

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 12:37
The Poetry Bug
From: melodically challenged
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Warmer weather brings us sunshine, flowers, trips to the beach, picnics, and BUGS, BUGS, BUGS!!!! And this week, we’ll have bugs: spiders, bees, f...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
US Poet Laureate Ada Limón
From: New Letters on the Air
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For National Poetry Month, we'll hear early work by our current U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. The author of six poetry books, including the 2022 c...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KMUN


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Untold Story of Mississippi River Mayhem with Author and Historian Dean Klinkenberg
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack dives into the Mississippi River and all its mayhem wi...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:27
Desolation Peak
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We are back in Joshua Tree with tales of desert creatures, snowy mountains, and the secret journals of Jack Kerouac newly published as Desolation P...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kim Stanley Robinson: Writing the Future Story People Want
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can a novel become a catalyst to help us address impending climate disaster? That’s one question posed by the legendary Kim Stanley Robinson, in hi...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Coyote
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard about Coyotes and their howl.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Doug Chadwick
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author and wildlife biologist Doug Chadwick discusses his new book, "Four Fifths a Grizzly: A New Perspective on Nature that Just Might Save Us All."

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


  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Annie Connole
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Montana author Annie Connole discusses her new book, "The Spring: A Mythic Memoir," and reads from the book.

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


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - John N. Maclean
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author and journalist John N. Maclean discusses his newest book, "Home Waters," and his family's legacy on the Blackfoot River.

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Allison Cobb
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Allison Cobb talks about her new book, "Plastic: an Autobiography."

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


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
2021-02-19 Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
210219: Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson, 2/19/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
New book tells the story of Quetico's longest serving interior ranger
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Joe Friedrichs is just out with a book about Janice Matichuk, Quetico’s longest-serving interior ranger. The book is called Her Island. Ann spoke ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 20:01
The Write Question - Sarah Aronson
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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This episode features an interview with poet, therapist, and outgoing host of The Write Question, Sarah Aronson.

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


  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - David Axelrod - 436
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet and essayist David Axelrod discusses his book "The Eclipse I call Father: Essays on Absence." He also reads a short selection.

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


  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
200515: Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis, 5/15/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
2020-05-15 Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

Bought by WUTC, WJCT, KICI Iowa City, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
The New Silence: a poem for the new climate
From: The National Audio Theatre Festivals
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By getting personal and a little surreal The New Silence by Brian Price uses humor, heightened language, and edgy jazz to take on the thorny questi...

Bought by KAAD-LP and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 27:13
  • Purchases: 2