August 2013 - 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.
22 Pieces
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Is that monthly home heating bill burning a hole in your wallet? I thought so. With the economic uncertainties of recent months, we all get that si...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
The forests of America face double jeopardy these days. First, there’s pressure to harvest wood from native forests -- even forests that provide ha...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
What if we traded asphalt jungles for grass-phalt jungles? That's happening. One September day each year, on National Park(ing) Day.
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
They sighted him wandering through the Bavarian Alps, and the German media named him “Petzi” -- the first brown bear known to roam through super-po...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Have you ever been really bugged by a new ding in your car, but weeks later, you barely noticed it? We all learn to tolerate negative changes by ad...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Some folks would like to have a galaxy named after them. Others, like Jeff Goddard, are honored with a sea slug.
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Replacing your floor with wood? Sounds very, well, natural. But, could your wood floor be destroying forests? Well it could, but, it doesn’t have to.
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
“Range anxiety” is what hits would-be electric car buyers when they ponder traveling too far from home and running out of power.
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Ocean dead zones. Air and water pollution worldwide. All this bad news is enough to cause “Eco-phobia.”
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to.
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Mangrove trees are simply amazing, in a sci-fi kind of way. They live in perhaps the most hostile plant environment imaginable -- a coastal war zon...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Did you know it takes over 132 gallons of water to make a tortilla? No doubt, more than you thought. But it’s also more than experts thought too! B...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Paper book or e-reader? Which is greener? Digital readers may save trees. But are they better environmentally overall than good ol’ book books?
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
San Francisco, a lovely progressive earth-conscious city by the Bay, is coming out with a new web site listing products that meet the city’s strict...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Looking for a five-star dinner tonight? Check out the greens. Not vegetable dishes, but supply chain color.
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Our oceans have had their fill of carbon dioxide! So says a significant new study from Columbia University. It reports that oceans no longer abso...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Carbon offsets are setting off controversy. Here’s the gig: Airplane travelers, commuters or anyone generating carbon emissions, can pay a fee to b...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Generally, it’s better to flush. It’s the polite thing to do. But a couple of chemists say, why flush away a great energy source?
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Here’s a curious problem. What should you do with old ships, trucks, subway cars, and even military tanks? For one company, California Ships to Ree...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Goodbye, Willy Wonka, hello sustainably farmed chocolate! Actually, that's increasingly the case, as chocolate manufacturers recognize the sweet ma...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
