February 19th, 2008 - Podcatching: NPR Environment

NPR Environment is a great way to listen to my favorite news stories from NPR without listening to the radio all day long. It gathers environment stories from Morning Edition, All Things Considered and other NPR programs. I think each episode is about 30 minutes long (I don’t have any in my directory right now, since I’ve already listened to this week’s).

The NPR Environment website has links to more stories and stories in more depth. I haven’t explored the site, so I don’t know if the audio versions are longer or more varied or just link to the stories individually that are collected in the podcast. The individual story pages link to other related stories–some of which are in the podcast some of which aren’t.

I’m quite impressed with NPR’s website. It’s not just whole shows but those shows chopped up into individual stories. I wouldn’t have expected that.

I rarely listen to the radio. At work, I could listen online, but I quickly figured out that I can’t pay attention to news stories and work at the same time. I’m rarely in the car. If running errands in the afternoon, we do often play WPR IDEAS Network, but it’s a call-in show at that time usually. On the weekends, I do listen to morning shows like Calling All Pets, Zorba Pasteur On Your Heath, Whaddya Know, and Car Talk. But usually only parts while running errands or baking. (I would also listen to music in the kitchen, but our radio gets one station clearly–WPR from the campus transmitter 1/3 mile from our house.)

And now that I can listen to shows on the iPod, I rarely listen to the kitchen radio, either! Just explaining why I don’t listen to my favorite news stories actually on the radio itself.

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2 Responses to “Podcatching: NPR Environment”

  1. L Anderberg Says:
    February 21st, 2008 at 8:12 pm EST

    Why don’t you purchase one of those under-the-counter dock stations for your ipod? That’s what we have, and then you can happily listen to podcasts in your kitchen without worrying about hearing loss from using your earbuds.

  2. jeneflower Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 2:16 am EST

    Thanks for the links!

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