{"podcast":{"title":"Up From Dust","slug":"up-from-dust-6861514","podcast_index_feed_id":6861514,"rss_url":"https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-from-dust/rss.xml","website_url":"https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-from-dust","image_url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f1c0bd9/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3001x3001+0+0/resize/2000x2000!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F41%2F2d%2Fe31cab4b42a582dcc5aabe92f7d5%2Fufd-2026-1podcast-tile-3000x3000.png","author":"KCUR Studios (web@kcur.org)","episode_count":24,"summary":"Humans broke the environment — but we can heal it, too. Up From Dust is a podcast about the price of trying to shape the world around our needs, as seen from the Great Plains and the Midwest. Host Celia Llopis-Jepsen wanders across prairies, farm fields and suburbia to find the folks who are fixing our generational mistakes. From Harvest Public Media, KCUR Studios, and the NPR Network.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T18:18:24.178885+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/up-from-dust-6861514"},"episode":{"title":"Kayakers vs. river pollution","slug":"kayakers-vs-river-pollution","published_at":"2025-07-02T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/up-from-dust-6861514/kayakers-vs-river-pollution","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/up-from-dust-6861514","url":"https://www.kcur.org/2025-07-02/kayakers-vs-river-pollution","audio_url":"https://dovetail.prxu.org/10752/7fac6523-583f-4c1b-a1bc-8786bcace892/final_Up_From_Dust_Ep_13_mixdown_for_Omny.mp3","summary":"For decades, the world’s longest prairie river was treated as a convenient dumping ground by cities and industries. Government regulation dramatically improved water quality here and around the country. Today the Kansas River is a place to scope out beavers and bald eagles. But decades-old garbage and other pollution still plague the river, so a motley crew of kayakers took it upon itself to dig out the trash.","meta_description":"For decades, the world’s longest prairie river was treated as a convenient dumping ground by cities and industries. Government regulation dramatically imp…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1672,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/up-from-dust-6861514/episodes/kayakers-vs-river-pollution/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/up-from-dust-6861514/kayakers-vs-river-pollution.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}