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We often hear about vertical economic growth and vertical integration in business but the idea of growing our food vertically sounds fantastical.
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- Added: Nov 22, 2011
- Length: 30:00
The Total Artificial Heart is one of the many wonders of modern medicine. Elliot Majerczyk has this report on a medical team pioneering a new techn...
Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
A woman carries a baby to term for her best friend, whose chronic disease would make pregnancy hazardous.
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 06:58
John Latimer shares his observations of the change in nature in our lives. Plus bonus content: a video of John talking about Pussy Willows in March!
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 14:58
Environmental visionary Van Jones, former White House special adviser for green jobs, is featured
Bought by Vermont Public, KBBI Alaska, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KWIT, Marfa Public Radio and more
- Added: Mar 16, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 12
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
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: The Sounds of Progress: The Changing Role of Girls and Women in Science and Engineering
Series: The Sounds of Progress: The Changing Role of Girls and Women in Science and Engineering
Norfolk State University (NSU) created a scholarship program to encourage African American students to pursue degrees in STEM. African American wom...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: Sep 19, 2008
- Length: 12:10
- Purchases: 1
Sir Patrick Moore talks about his life in astronomy, life on Mars, and playing music with Einstein.
- Added: Feb 19, 2008
- Length: :18
The waters near the Papua Province of Indonessia is home to a stunning variety of marine life, including species never before seen.
- Added: Apr 16, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Maybe there's hope for troublemakers. Some creatures thrive in hot water...
- Added: Apr 16, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? Certainly not wildlife lovers in eastern Germany...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
A study in the journal Nature found that up to 90 percent of the larger specimens of these species have disappeared from the world's oceans.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Amphibians have existed for 300 million years. But in recent decades, 168 species are believed to have gone extinct, and almost 2,500 others are di...
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Trading carbon credits, or "cap and trade," is a promising free-market solution.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Have you ever wondered where migratory birds get all the energy for such long, grueling flights? Well, there are pit stops along the way, like the ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Scientists studied seven plots of rainforest in Borneo, Malaysia, India, Puerto Rico, Panama, and Thailand. They took a complete census of all the ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
First, pollution and over-harvesting caused the population of Puget Sound oysters to plummet. And then, a new sea creature came to town! The "arche...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Car sharing is catching on in cities across the country. Today, about 92,000 people belong to car-sharing services like Zipcar and Flexcar.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Why do we grow old and die? Most scientists cite genetics, environmental factors, and chance. Shane Rea, a scientist at the University of Colorado,...
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Small but mighty is one way to describe the organism called "salp." A report in the journal Deep Sea Research suggests that salp, along with the ti...
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
Have you ever wanted to help "green up" your town, but the project seemed too daunting? This inspiring story is about how a handful of folks in Tac...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
A lot of medicines are derived from plants. And today, the growing popularity of traditional medicine has many of us using herbs to prevent and tre...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
There's an alternative way to treat wastewater: filtering it with live plants and even snails!
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
A team of expert veterinarians is always on alert to help save animals from the devastating consequences of marine oil spills.
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
"Green" buildings incorporate the latest technology to squeeze the most out of the energy that's used for heating, cooling, and lighting. They're a...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
