{"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":"Our changing Midwest","slug":"our-changing-midwest","published_at":"2026-01-07T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/up-from-dust-6861514/our-changing-midwest","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/up-from-dust-6861514","url":"https://www.kcur.org/2026-01-07/our-changing","audio_url":"https://dovetail.prxu.org/10752/d0bdba57-625b-4b79-9ef7-93cf391a0498/UFD_Kraske_episode_-18lufs_for_dovetail.mp3","summary":"As we embark on our third year of Up From Dust, we discuss why we started an environmental podcast in the Midwest — and what we’ve learned along the way. In 2026, stay tuned for stories about farmers, astronomers, turtles, bats and more. We’ll overcome fears and rethink how we grow food and build our cities. And we’ll meet the people in the Heartland who tackle the challenge of climate change with determination and resolve. Thanks for coming along with us.","meta_description":"As we embark on our third year of Up From Dust, we discuss why we started an environmental podcast in the Midwest — and what we’ve learned along the way.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1112,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/up-from-dust-6861514/episodes/our-changing-midwest/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/our-changing-midwest.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}