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300-Biggest Ear
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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China has built and is operating the world's largest Radio telescope.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KGUA, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
296-Tilted History
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Where you are from and where you live has been influenced by changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation relative to its orbit around the Sun.

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Reinvent the Economy: Gus Speth #118
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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While world leaders wring their hands over forecasts of timid GDP growth, a growing list of visionaries around the world are collaborating to redef...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WSLR, 91.7 WHUS Storrs and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 10
Limits to Growth: Dennis Meadows #116
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“Our computer-generated scenarios all showed this growth stopping in the early decades of the 21st century, and, I must say, looking back now, it s...

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Durable Future: Bill McKibben #115
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Relocalization may be the most important strategy for minimizing climate change. According to Bill McKibben, “working as communities is the most im...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 7
What We Want More Of: Hunter Lovins #111
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Our ecosystems contribute tens of trillions of dollars to our economy every year, but – as L. Hunter Lovins notes, “At present we’re losing every m...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Behaving Against Our Interests: Paul Ehrlich #110
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Today it could be argued that human beings daily act against our own self-interests. How? Biologist Paul Ehrlich and fellow scientists tell us we a...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KRZA, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Unspun Grieves with Guy McPherson Over the Demise of Homo Sapiens
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Guy McPherson
Guy McPherson, professor emeritus of natural resources and the environment at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2015
  • Length: 59:37
Rewriting Our Cultural Narrative: William Rees #105
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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How big is your ecological footprint? Probably bigger than you think. After all, out of sight, out of mind. As an originator of ecological footprin...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 7
WorldCanvass: Energy Cultures and the Age of the Anthropocene (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Host Joan Kjaer and her guests explore the age of the Anthropocene through the lens of energy, investigating the global environmental transformatio...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2015
  • Length: 27:53
Truth About Drug Addiction -- In 81 Seconds
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MARCH 2015
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Controversial British wunderkind, Johann Hari, reads from his lauded new book, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs. It'...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
62-From Big Dark Asteroid To Beautiful Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large dark asteroid becomes a beautiful comet as it approaches the Sun.

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
WorldCanvass: The Crossroads Project (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Art and science meet at the crossroads in this program focused on climate change, sustainability, and the future of our planet and ourselves. This...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 24:31
WorldCanvass: Genetics and New Technologies
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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An exploration of the many ways in which genetics and new technologies are changing the world we live in and challenging long-held assumptions.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:37
It may not sound like medicine...
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The growing field of music therapy found recent success in the treatment of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Her therapists sang or played...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Canine vaccines protect against Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme. The human one was discontinued., Credit: Jesse Costa
Modern science has given us a vaccine to protect against Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness in the United States. But we don't use it.

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2012
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 2
Dead Zones
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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A renowned marine biologist is studying a silent killer in oceans and bays. Allison Quantz has the story.

Bought by KENW


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Al Bartlett talks about global sustainability.
From: Richard Kiefer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Al Bartlett talks about how we must achieve a sustainable world. This piece has aired on KGNU Boulder.

  • Added: May 02, 2012
  • Length: 24:14
Green Design
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Commentary that argues that to be environmentally friendly we want products designed so that the high value materials can be removed - reserving re...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:48
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
How much water do we use?
From: William S. Hammack
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look at how a typical American uses water - a large percentage of which is imported from outside the US!

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
Great Lakes Danger Zone?
From: Center for Public Integrity
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A report on a suppressed study about environmental hazards in the Great Lakes region.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2008
  • Length: 05:29
Magnetic Seizure Therapy
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Powerful magnetic currents seek to replace electroshock treatments for severe depressions.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2008
  • Length: 07:48
MegaCities Series 4: Shanghai, China
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
MegaCities Series 4: Shanghai, China

  • Added: Jun 21, 2007
  • Length: 13:15
MegaCities Series 3: Mumbai, India
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
MegaCities Series 3: Mumbai, India

  • Added: Jun 21, 2007
  • Length: 12:34