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Believe it or not, just two generations ago, it was unheard of not to recycle glass beverage bottles. Today, that idea itself is getting recycled.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Are you wasting your...waste? A company called RecycleBank says: maybe! So they've come up with a high-tech way to encourage people to recycle...by...
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Alternative fuels are more environmentally friendly than petroleum products, right? Actually, that’s not always the case.
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
There’s nothing like ice cream on a sweltering summer day. And it doesn’t much matter whether it’s in a cone, a shake, a sundae, or a banana split....
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The ethanol experts are at it again. Scientists in Brazil have found a way to boost biofuel production that’s naturally more attractive.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
A piece on Boston's plan to create a fleet of city bicycles for public use.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 21, 2009
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 1
On what would have been his 75th Birthday, we remember Robert Moog, creator of the Moog synthesizer with Roger O’Donnell, former keyboardist with T...
Bought by WMNF
- Added: May 19, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
It’s no news flash that, over the years, one of the dirtiest sources of energy has been coal; in fact, it’s among the top contributors to carbon di...
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Remember mowing your grandparent’s lawn with a push mower? Back then, the older generation had push mowers. Everyone else was into power.
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Here’s a home that’s truly “outside the box” -- or inside, depending on where you stand. They’re made out of recycled steel shipping containers. Ye...
- Added: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
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: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
What do you get when you cross a whale with a ship? A disaster at sea.
- Added: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Car companies say that flex-fuel vehicles reduce our dependence on foreign oil. But how do they measure up where the rubber meets the road?
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Here’s a conundrum. What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?!
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Have you ever bathed in paint? Canary yellow or baby blue? Well of course you haven’t! But almost three million Americans could have last year, sin...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
To anyone who’s ever gone skinny-dipping in a pond, the green stuff floating on top is really disgusting. But to Professor Dave Bayless, blue-green...
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
We mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We talk with musician Angélique Kidjo about how she uses music to spread...
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Dec 09, 2008
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 1
Does it really pay to be energy-efficient? The folks at Clarum Homes hope so.
- Added: Nov 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
So, what's so great about fossil fuels, anyway? Well the truth is, they burn easily, so they're handy for powering internal combustion engines or e...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Nov 28, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
So what should you do with your doggie's doo? Your dog Fido probably wishes you'd just leave it in the yard -- let the world know that somebody imp...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Nov 28, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
