May 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Series produced by Catalina Island Conservancy
Fun, entertaining, science-based radio show exploring critical issues regarding our natural world.
Isla Earth, a production of the Catalina Island Conservancy, is a radio series exploring environmental issues of local, national, and global importance. Our mission is to increase ecological awareness, deepen understanding, and encourage environmentally sustainable choices.
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Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University recently received a Presidential citation for developing an environmentally fri...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Call it the Manure Mandate. California’s utilities face a state-ordered goal: Provide one-fifth of electricity from renewable resources by 2010. No...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Can we really harness ocean waves to make electricity? We might actually do more.
Bought by KMXT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KOSU
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
We've all heard of individuals who go, "off the grid." You know, the folks who install solar panels or have their children ride stationary bicycles...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Remember that old-fashioned mode of transportation -- the trolley, or streetcar? It's making a comeback worldwide.
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
So, you want to get out and freshen up your garden a tad. Great! But, before you begin planting willy nilly, take a moment and consider if what you...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Think you know how to conserve water? Not like Australia, mate, it's in its worst drought on record. Some toddlers Down Under don't even know what ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
A German company has developed a way to get more mileage out of junked cars. Of course they have to shred them to pieces first.
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Okay, so you’re out in the clear waters of Hawaii and notice that algae are smothering the beautiful coral reefs just below the surface. What’s goi...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
University of Calgary biology professor, Peter Dunfield, has been to hell and back looking for ways to keep methane gas out of the atmosphere.
Bought by KMXT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KOSU
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
From “Aardvark” to “zipper,” you can find it using Google. And, now you can also find Google’s Clean Energy 2030 initiative, a $4.4 trillion plan t...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Midwestern settlers of yesterday would feel unsettled by what they’d see there today. They wouldn’t recognize the forests for the trees. According ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
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...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Isolated from the rest of the world for most of their existence, the Galapagos Islands are home to more unique plant species than almost any other ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien.
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. But near Serpa, in neighboring Portugal, the sun shines nearly all the time. This is why an internati...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The Marine Mammal Protection Act celebrated its 35th birthday recently. Thanks to that legislation, more marine mammals have also celebrated birthd...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Changing seasons in New England is well, second nature. But a change in the look of the season is a change that has folks concerned.
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that’s one of the things the automotive industry is looking at be...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
