September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Series produced by Catalina Island Conservancy

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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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Polar Bears Threatened
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Animated Polar Bears are the cutest creatures. Remember the commercial with the adorable Polar Bear drinking a soda? In the real world though, Pola...

Bought by WTIP and KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Echo Parakeet Comeback
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Like its name, the Echo Parakeet is bouncing back. And the Mauritius Wildlife Foundation couldn’t be happier.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fresh Water Mussel Conservation
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Although less "charismatic" than whales, the Monkeyface, Threehorn Wartyback, and Pink Heelsplitter, deserve our attention too!

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Microbial Fuel Cells
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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How now, brown cow? With digestive fluid you say? Along with some hay? That’s how researchers are generating electricity at the University of Ohio ...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Green Plate Lunch
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When is a good time to get a kid interested in reducing waste? As early as possible! And, if you pack your child’s school lunch, try getting them s...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Wild Grasslands Do Best
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Which is better? A picture perfect golf course, or a wild and wooly prairie? Well, when it comes to ecosystem health, the more native plants -- the...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Green Gas Station
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Watch out, Hollywood, there's a new starlet in town. It's the nation's first green gas station, called, Helios House.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Barnyard Pyrolysis
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Forget Chicken Little’s paranoid delusions about the sky falling. With chicken litter, we really do have a problem.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
How to Keep Green, and Clean
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Soap and Detergent Association is cleaning up its act.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Roads and Health
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The shape of our cities might be determining...the shape of our bodies.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Better Biogas in Grass
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In 1900, America used 80 million acres of grassland to feed the 30 million or so horses and mules pulling America’s wagons, buggies, and carriages....

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
“CDA” Saves Fuel, Cuts Pollution
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Is there an environmentally friendly way to land airplanes? There is.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Golfing at Sea
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - 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...

Bought by WLPR and KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Bird with a Spoon-shaped Bill
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Here’s a question for you aspiring ornithologists out there. Why does the Spoon-billed Sandpiper have a spoon-shaped bill?

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Acorn Shortage
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What's autumn without acorns? Residents of Eastern states, unfortunately, found out.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Earthworm Gold
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Earthworms rate pretty low on the “cuddly” scale for most people, but they do something exceedingly well: They eat all kinds of trash and turn it i...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Seattle Targets Zero Waste
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In Seattle, everyone composts their kitchen scraps. They do it because city laws prohibit food waste from heading to landfills.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Better Tanning
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Scientists in India have developed a way to save energy called “reverse tanning.”

  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Rocky Flats Declared Clean
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It took ten years, but one of the country’s worst toxic waste sites is clean.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Extreme Urban Makeover
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Don't you love urban sprawl? Right. Thirty years ago, car-friendly developments, and the freeways to get us there, were smart planning. Today? They...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30