July 2013 - 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.


23 Pieces

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Green Independence
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Fourth of July is almost here complete with picnics and fireworks. How do you honor the red, white and blue while honoring the environment at t...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
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Reattaching Giant Sponges
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The animated character Spongebob Squarepants is running loose on the ocean floor everyday of the week after school on the Nickelodean channel. And ...

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West Coast Impact
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The U.S. West Coast took a stress test recently and things aren’t looking so good. In the two-year study marine ecologists at the University of Cal...

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Lighting Up India’s Homes
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In rural India, electricity is scarce. About 70 percent of rural areas have no electricity, so most families use kerosene lamps for light. These a...

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Hydrogen Storage
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Gassing up new family cars with green, clean hydrogen is edging closer to reality.

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Nice Lice
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Lice aren’t nice, unless you’re wild mice. Parasitologist Jan Bradley studies immune responses to parasites in wild mice from woods near Britain’s ...

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Fire and Climate Change
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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We live on a flammable planet! Consider our forests: Vegetation that dries out seasonally. And our atmosphere? Oxygen! Add lightening strikes, volc...

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Geothermal Energy in U.S. Turns 50
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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White vapor billows from a pristine mountaintop. Is it a volcanic eruption? No, it’s the harmless steam from The Geysers, a geothermal energy plan...

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Toolbox for Green Classrooms
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Hooray for building environmentally friendly schools! But what about improving existing ones?

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Coral Reefs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When you think of Hollywood bad guys -- say, the Joker in Batman -- they’re ‘bad to the bone.’ They try to take over the town, seize its good citiz...

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Biophilia: For Your Sanity
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Gnarls Barkley’s award winning song “Crazy” starts off with the lyrics, “I remember when I lost my mind.” Perhaps you can relate. But noted entomol...

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Bale House
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Why build a house when you can grow one? So says sustainable building designers at Britain's University of Bath. They recently created a home from ...

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Chinese Alligators
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Imagine China without…dragons. Not the paper kind, but real ones. Interestingly, the mythical Chinese dragon is based on a rare, and very real, “Ch...

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Irrawaddy Dolphins
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Endangered species stories sometimes end happily. Take Southeast Asia's critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphin, also called the Mekong River dolphin.

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Fish Food
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Aw, c'mon. Building a lakeside getaway…hurts fish? That sounds…fishy.

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Roof Gardens
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Why be boring and plant your garden in the ground when there’s a whole world of gardening possibilities up on the roof. So says Olyssa Starry, a Un...

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Shrinking Deer
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Isolated on islands, large animals can become small like the pygmy mammoth, and small animals LARGE like the Galapagos Tortoise. Yeah, everything’s...

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Sea Grass
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember the neighborhood old man who yelled, “Yoooou kids! Get off my lawn!” Well maybe Florida should post “keep off the grass” signs. Underwater...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
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The Talking Grey Parrot
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Alex was hatched without fanfare in 1976. But when he died in 2007, he was one of the most famous talking grey parrots on the planet. The reason? ...

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Wild Horse Habitat Shrinking
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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He was smart and really funny. And as a TV personality, Mr. Ed the talking horse was a big hit in the 1960’s. Of course, horses can’t talk. Though...

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