All Pieces for Catalina Island Conservancy

 
A Tale Of Two Heads
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Seems there are some strange critters living in water. Take for example the anglerfish with its glow-in-the-dark lantern on its forehead.

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Carbon Eaters
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Here's a two-fer: A renewable fuel source that also reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Scientists in Denmark are looking at a species of sea...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Emission-Free Ride
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If your friends call you an "early adopter," you'll want to take note of MIT student Ben Gulak's way-cool emission-free vehicle. It looks like a cr...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Greenlight For Saiga?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember playing with animal match books? By flipping the left- or right-hand pages you could match the picture of an animal's head with its body. ...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Futures For Future Species
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Can a stock market tool save a species? Conservationists often struggle to project animal populations because they hinge on complicated, interdepen...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Pizzeria Takes The LEED
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it's the environment! At least it is at Pizza Fusion -- a chain of gourmet pizzerias.

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Class Students Dig
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Ever wanted to go organic in your garden, but didn't know how? Well, students in East Palo Alto, California, are learning. In fact, they really dig...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Greener Cleaner
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Soap and Detergent Association is cleaning up its act. A recent conference that included officials from the Consumer Product Safety Commission,...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Flea Beetles
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Montana ranchers will tell you non-native plants are tough to wrangle. And getting rid of them? Even tougher.

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Dissolving Golf Balls
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Golf balls away, my boys, golf balls away...For sailors at sea, seems there's nothing more relaxing than hitting a few golf balls off the deck of a...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Lava Flows Are For The Birds
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Raising endangered birds...on a volcano? It has benefits -- or, so says Alan Lieberman, head of the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center, perched on Ha...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Car Wash
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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That classic American pastime, washing the family car, might soon get washed down the drain.

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Be Environmentally Friendly In This Life And The Next
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It's possible to be eco-friendly in this life and the next, with "green," or, "natural" burials. Bob Butz, author of "Going Out Green," describes t...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Tailpipe Carbon Recycling
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Imagine a conventional, gas-powered car, with no carbon emissions. I mean, absolutely zero. In the cartoon world, the only way to do that was a ban...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Healthier Cities
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The shape of our cities might be determining...the shape of our bodies. Several recent studies conclude that sprawling, car-dependent communities c...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Green Reaper
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Have you ever thought of using your loved ones as compost? Uh, I'd better explain...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Where The Buffalo Roam
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Home, home on the range only covers 20 percent of what it used to. That's worldwide, according to a new study from the World Wildlife Fund.

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Where’s The Beef?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Economist Nathan Fiala of the University of California at Irvine has a beef...about beef. Specifically, he's concerned about the impact producing b...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Team Tracking Slower Species Emergence
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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French poet Paul Valery wrote, "the trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." He might've been onto something.

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
We All Benefit From Biodiversity
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The business of conservation -- preserving and protecting an ecosystem and all of the plants and animals in it -- is often characterized as interfe...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2

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