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Dubai: Cool Sand Beaches

Dubai has found yet another over-the-top way to use energy with reckless abandon. It's like Las Vegas on crack.

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Program: Morning Edition
Playtime: 27 seconds
Date: December, 2008

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Design, Environment, Bad News

Where Does Storm Water Go?

Soundprint Story about how Baltimore is trying to keep toxic storm runoff from polluting Chesapeake Bay.

Part "The Wire," part Environmental Hydrology.

[Realplayer required].

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Producer: Katie Gott
Program: Soundprint
Playtime: 28 minutes 30 seconds

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Environment, American Issues, Politics

The time is nigh!

The New Yorker's Ben McGrath talks about how the financial collapse relates to the end of the world as we know it...and he feels fine.

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Program: New Yorker
Playtime: 10 minutes 20 seconds
Date: January, 2009

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Money, Interesting, Environment, Economy, American Issues

The Pacific Ocean's Giant floating Garbage Dump

"In the Central North Pacific, plastic outweighs surface zooplankton 6 to 1."

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Program: the Leonard Lopate Show
Playtime: 23 minutes
Date: January, 2009

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Environment, Bad News

Are Our Old Computers Posioning Africans?

Laura Lynch reports from Ghana for PRI's "The World."

[Find where to recycle e-waste.]

 

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Technology, Environment

Illegal Beekeeping NYC

NYTimes Audio slide show on rooftop beekeeping on the sly.

 

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Environment, Animals, Food and Beverage

Another Great Slide Show from NYTimes

15 years of organic gardening in a Brooklyn public housing project.

 

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Environment, Food and Beverage, Gardening

Dolphin killing in Japan

How Flipper spured an international obsession with dolphins, swimming with dolphins, and places like Seaworld which, in turn, supports a multi-million dollar industry that slaughters dolphins.

 

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Animals, Bad News, Death, Environment, Violence

Making the desert bloom

Could global warming create greener deserts?  This three part doc format he BBC examines the question.

 

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Environment, Science

The World's Most Powerful Island

The Danish island of Samso creates more renewable power than it uses.

 

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Technology, Science, Environment

Missing Island In Mexico

BBC with an in-depth documentary on a fascinating story that is apparently of no interest to the North American Press?

 

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Weird, History, Environment

Five Farms Documentary Series

This series from the Center for Documentary Studies was apparently released this past spring but is a perfect listen for the fall harvest season.  Five American family farms profiled including a traditional Hopi farm family.

 

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Gardening, Environment, Native American, American Issues

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out...

The green burial movement:  featuring a 34-year-old woman who would like to have her body composted by worms.

Winner of Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Documentary, from the Radio & Television News Directors Association, 2009. Winner of PRNDI Award for Best Documentary from Public Radio News Directors Inc., 2009.

 

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Science, Environment, Death

Dumpster Diving as a Career

The epitome of a resourceful, green-friendly small business owner.  Behold the professional dumpster diver as capitalist.

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Date: September, 2009

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Environment, Economy

BBC Environmental Road Trip

The BBC's weekly environmental programme, One Planet, goes on an American road-trip. The Englishmen see big cars, generous people, and the inventor of lithium-ion batteries. All on the road to Copenhagen.

- Audio Documentary London Bureau

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Playtime: 27 minutes 2 seconds
Date: November, 2009

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Technology, Science, Interview, Environment, Education, American Issues

Visit the South Pole

Britain's most renowned natural sound recordist, Chris Watson, has been to Antarctica. In this enhanced podcast, he provides just enough details to set the scene – and then lets the sounds bring you there. Some of the most engrossing audio you'll hear.

– Audio Documentary London Bureau 

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Playtime: 50 minutes 21 seconds

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Sound Rich, Animals, Science, Environment

A Good Place to Hide

A rich feature in the European tradition, blending vérité, drama, and music. A lake in the Norwegian mountains. Fish, family, friends, strangers.

- Audio Documentary London Bureau

 

(Photo: Martin Williams)

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Producer: Martin Williams
Playtime: 54 minutes 32 seconds

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Sound Rich, Interesting, Fish, Environment