Sprouts Radio from the Grassroots is a 30-minute weekly program featuring radio programs produced at community radio stations or by other independent producers from across the country and sometimes around the world.
Recent Episodes
May 19, 2022 National, News & Public Affairs
CLEAN TRUCK COALITION PUTS PEDAL TO THE METAL
Diesel exhaust is heating the planet and harming communities plagued by heavy truck traffic.
ListenMay 11, 2022 National, News & Public Affairs
TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE IN LOUISVILLE, KY
Louisville Metro Governments sustainability team discuss the goals, initiatives, and challenges of mitigating climate change in their city.
ListenMay 5, 2022 National, News & Public Affairs
UKRAINE 2 4 2
Anne Levine at WOMR Community Radio in Provincetown MA, speaks with three professionals currently serving Ukrainians in three different ways in wartime.
Read MoreApril 27, 2022 National, News & Public Affairs
KRAINA FM NATIONAL RESISTANCE RADIO IN UKRAINE
Ukraine's first all-Ukrainian-language radio, broadcast in 26 cities in Ukraine, has rebranded itself as "National Resistance Radio," since the Russian invasion.
Read MoreApril 21, 2022 National, News & Public Affairs
EARTHALUJAH! AN ENVIRONMENTAL SERMON & INTERVIEW WITH LABOR ORGANIZER CHRIS SMALLS
Earth Riot Radio invites everyone to an uplifting session with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir.
The program shares environmental updates and interviews Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls and activist for Save East River Park Sarah Wellington.
Read MoreApril 7, 2022 National, News & Public Affairs
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: JED FAHEY INTERVIEW
Did you know that phytochemicals in plants deserve more of our attention for their role in protecting our healthspan? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fft2.81
Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Jed Fahey, Ph.D., nutritional biochemist and former Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School where he directed the Cullman Chemoprotection Center. Fahey shares his expertise of plant physiology and human nutrition, discusses the many benefits of phytochemicals in general and specifically sulforaphane found in broccoli and broccoli sprouts. He also explains how and why we get a greater phytochemical load from organically grown fruits and vegetables, and laments the loss of biodiversity in vegetable seeds, as depicted by National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/infographic-design/
March 24, 2022 National, News & Public Affairs
RUSSIA SOWS DISINFORMATION; UKRAINE NEEDS JETS
Nick Espinosa talks again with Ukraine's Deputy First Minister of Education & Science, Inna Sovsun MP. They discuss daily life in Ukraine, Russian disinformation, nuclear threats, alleged bio weapons labs, and what Ukraine needs most.
Read MoreMarch 10, 2022 National, News & Public Affairs
MUNICIPAL CLIMATE ACTION PLANS – THREE LEADERS
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez describes how the 2019 Green New Deal presented to Congress has accelerated and inspired municipalities across the USA to create and adopt Climate Action Plans.
Three leading cities are visited here to find out what is being crafted and tested to provide blueprints for many in the future: Ithaca New York; Louisville, Kentucky; and Petaluma, California.
Read MoreMarch 3, 2022 National, News & Public Affairs
THE UKRAINE CRISIS WITH UKRAINE PARLIAMENT MEMBER INNA SOVSUN
Ukraine Parliament Member Inna Sovsun is in Kyiv as the Russians are closing in. After a few days of harrowing messages where she dropped off for hours and we all feared the worst, Nick Espinosa of the Deep Dive Cybersecurity Show was able to sit down and talk with her over Zoom.
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2022 National, News & Public Affairs
BLACK RADIO ROCHESTER
A group of high school students uncovers the hidden history of Rochester, New York's first African American radio personalities. They explore how Howard Coles and Alma Kelso used radio to demand social change and create community, interweaving their own views on music, media, and racial justice in the process.
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