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Sea of Plastic
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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"The toilet bowl that never flushes"

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, WBEZ, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 17, 2008
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 4
DNC08: Lackluster Protests in Denver
From: Anil Mundra
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Behind the protest hype at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver

Bought by PRX Election Podcast


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
Sinkhole May Swallow Amtrak Service To Memphis
From: WKNO
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Memphis is the #1 destination for Amtrak's City of New Orleans. If a gaping sinkhole is not fixed, Amtrak may discontinue service.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2008
  • Length: 04:14
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
Brazil Takes Off
From: The Stanley Foundation
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Simon Marks travels to the headquarters of Embraer, one of Brazil's most successful businesses, to get a first-hand look at how Brazil's taking off...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio and KUT


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 2
City Crackdown Tests Recyclers' Metal
From: NYCity News Service
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Department of Sanitation have begun a crackdown on people caught with stolen recyclables. Fines have ...

  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 04:15
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
Blue Highways Day Trip #1 - The REAL Health Care Crisis
From: Eric Mack
Series: Blue Highways
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There's lots of talk about the health coverage crisis - but the real crisis is that there aren't enough doctors to go around - a report from North ...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2008
  • Length: 05:01
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
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
Lost and Found at the Border: A Special Report by KUT Radio and Latino USA
From: KUT
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an exploration of immigration and our understanding of what?s gained when people cross an international border... and what?s lost with every journey.

Bought by KRZA, WCQS, KUER, Audible, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Day the Music Died - web radio in peril
From: Eric Klein
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on July 15th radio over the internet is going to undergo a BIG change

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and WJCU


  • Added: Jul 10, 2007
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 2
Aceh: Preserving the Peace, Post Disaster
From: The Stanley Foundation
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Jocelyn Ford examines how American aid after the tsunami is impacting Aceh, Indonesia, for better or worse.

  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 06:39
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
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
Troopers Slide Behind the Wheel of a Re-Made 1960s Muscle
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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The Dodge Charger is Back as a Hi-Performance Police Car

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 02, 2007
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 2
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
Black Belt Poverty
From: Tanya Ott
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The Black Belt of the Deep South stretches from Virginia to Texas. It got its name from the dark, rich soil that made cotton production a highly p...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 07:09
Can Your Lunch Kill You?
From: Tanya Ott
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Mad Cow. Avian Flu. Mercury-contaminated fish. Every day there seems to be a new threat to the U-S food supply. But how real is the risk and are co...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2006
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 2
The Pope's Polish Legacy in New York
From: Thomas Grove
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Residents of New York's Polish neighborhood of Greenpoint watch Pope John Paul II's final days

  • Added: Jul 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:38