May 2010 - 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.
21 Pieces
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With wind turbine blades approaching 90 feet in length whipping around at 150 miles an hour, they’ve been called everything from “raptor-matics” to...
- Added: May 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Hybrid vehicles on a wall socket: The next “plug-and-play” technology? We might have an answer soon.
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
It turns out that one of the world’s top Earth Friendly getaways is the Mauna Lani Resort on the Kohala Coast of Hawaii’s Big Island.
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Running with the wolves just isn't happening on upper Michigan's Isle Royale. That's because most wolves on the remote isle have advanced arthritis.
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
The biggest power plant on earth is high in the sky -- it’s the sun. But, we only get one percent of our energy from it because it typically costs...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Now playing in Australia: Invasion of the Monster Toads! Today’s story began back in the 1930s when Australia’s sugar-cane farmers had a problem.
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
I don’t know if Santa Claus ever collected seeds, but one of his neighbors sure does. About 200 miles from the North Pole, the United States is bu...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Forget using the Internet to track fashion trends. Internet chatter may actually be able to predict ecological changes.
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
No free plastic! That's IKEA's position. The Swedish retailer charges customers five cents for every plastic bag they use to pack their purchases. ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Nature builds neighborhoods in the most interesting places. Caves, for example, are pretty spectacular neighborhoods.
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Sometimes the devil makes for good company -- at least that's what they think in Tasmania.
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
There’s a bounty on carbon dioxide molecules these days. And for good reason. Too much C02 can create global trouble by trapping heat in our planet...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
The biggest winner from Beijing, China's 2008 Olympic Games may be the environment.
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Even if you don’t want to talk about the proverbial “elephant in the room,” you could at least count the number roaming around wild. Or so you’d t...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What’s happening with to them these days? Well, in Pennsylvania, they’re hitting the road!
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Followers of fish facts -- especially North Atlantic Cod enthusiasts -- are doing a double-take these days.
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
When it comes to discovering sources of renewable energy, Penn State engineering professor Bruce Logan is outstanding in his field. A corn field, ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 04:30
The flight from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic tops 9,300 miles. If you’re a red knot, a dove-sized shorebird that makes that migration yearly, you...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Save the Salmon -- it’s easier said than done. Efforts to restock Maine’s many rivers with Atlantic salmon have been going on for 130 years. But t...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
