July 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.
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New Orleans. Home to Dixieland Jazz, Mardi Gras, and some of the best fresh seafood you’ll ever eat. Shrimp etouffee. Oysters on the half shell. Wh...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
In the early 1980’s, it looked like the Pacific Northwest might lose all its old growth forests to logging. Enter, The Northwest Forest Plan.
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The animated character Spongebob Squarepants is running loose on the ocean floor everyday of the week after school on the Nickelodean channel. And ...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Farming has always been subject to the uncertainties of weather and market conditions. But farmers in Huron County, Michigan, have found something...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Up in the air -- it’s a bird; it’s a plane; it’s a -- flying windmill?
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Here’s a two-fer: A renewable fuel source that also reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
An umbrella is a handy thing to have around during a down pour. Likewise, an umbrella species protects other plants and animals that live in their ...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
If you don’t have time for gardening, you can still turn over a new leaf -- without turning dirt! That is thanks to farmers who offer personal agri...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
On top of everything else ailing Mother Earth these days, apparently she’s got gas. Lots of it. Specifically, carbon dioxide.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Too much of a good thing. We all know the hazards of that: too much fat, too much beer, too much chocolate...(Maybe not too much chocolate...)
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Medieval alchemy -- you’ve seen it in the movies: A wizard-like figure hovers over a glowing vat adding mysterious ingredients in his quest to turn...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day’s carbon report. Carbon report?
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Putting space heaters in caves might sound...well, batty. But it could mean survival for bats in 17 Eastern states.
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
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: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Get in and get out! It works for the Navy Seals. So why not do the same with a crack team of scientists?
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The world’s rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate. But conservationists have a new trick that may help restore them. All it takes is so...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
It’s no news to anyone that Hurricanes’ can be devastating. Luckily, hurricane forecasting has improved a lot over the years. We owe much of that i...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Don't flush! At least not your ship's ballast tanks. In port, cargo ships load tons of seawater into ballast tanks that add weight to balance the s...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Wait! Stop! What’s that you’re throwing away? Each year, Americans dump nearly 180 million tons of trash into landfills according to the Environmen...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
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: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
