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Rental Cars Go Green
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Next time you travel, forget renting that gas-guzzler. A few rental car companies are offering hybrids and cars that run on biodiesel.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Bears in Deutschland?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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They sighted him wandering through the Bavarian Alps, and the German media named him "Petzi" -- the first brown bear known to roam through super-po...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
EPA Cancels Pesticide Registration
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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You might say carbofuran is an equal-opportunity killer. It takes out Eagles, Red-tailed Hawks, and migratory song-birds of all types.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Irish Winds are Smiling
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Ireland is poor in fossil fuel resources, and nearly 90 percent of its total energy needs are met by imported fuels. But the country is rich in win...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Language Arts
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Series: Passionate Citizens
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Anya Sippen profiles Language Arts, a Durham-based hip-hop group

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2007
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Citizen Scientists help Protect Amphibians
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Amphibians have existed for 300 million years. But in recent decades, 168 species are believed to have gone extinct, and almost 2,500 others are di...

Bought by KMXT and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Trees Offsetting Vehicle Emissions
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Filipinos are aiming to improve the quality of the air they breathe by planting trees on the country's roadways.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Sustainable College
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The green building trend hasn?t been lost on higher education.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Collection Threatens Southern California Lizard
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Unlike its animated counterpart, the barefoot-banded gecko is a secretive lizard that likes to stay out of the limelight.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Peace Talks Radio: Nonviolent Communication With Marshall Rosenberg (58:00 / 54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Marshall Rosenberg, who founded the NVC technique, is captured before a live Albuquerque audience in 2005 talking about how this communication styl...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUOW, KUOW, KUOW, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2007
  • Length: 57:05
  • Purchases: 9
Nature Selects for Diversity in Rainforests
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Scientists studied seven plots of rainforest in Borneo, Malaysia, India, Puerto Rico, Panama, and Thailand. They took a complete census of all the ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Citizen Scientists Help Preserve Wetlands
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The volunteer stewards also participate in scientific projects. Working with biologists and other scientists, the volunteers gather seeds for genet...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
"Living Machine" Eats Wastes
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2006 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There's an alternative way to treat wastewater: filtering it with live plants and even snails!

Bought by KMXT, KOSU, and WEPS


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Better Weather Forecasting Can Curb Epidemics
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2006 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Could more accurate weather forecasts help prevent epidemics? Yes, according to recent research.

Bought by KMXT, KOSU, and WEPS


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
A Miracle in New Jersey
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2006 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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About 20 years ago, New Jersey's filthy beaches were the butt of jokes. The medical wastes and other garbage that washed up onshore were forcing lo...

Bought by KMXT, KOSU, and WEPS


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 3
Congress Unites for Wetlands
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2006 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems in the world. But since European settlers first arrived on American shores, more than half of the...

Bought by KMXT, KOSU, and WEPS


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 3
18 Dumped Plastics Deadly for Marine Life
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2006 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The plastic sandwich bag you pick up today could save a sea turtle tomorrow.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 11, 2006
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 1
Richie Havens Retrospective on FM Odyssey
From: FM Odyssey
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Richie Havens takes us on a guided tour of his career

Bought by KRCB 104.9, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KZYX, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Aug 10, 2006
  • Length: 01:57:56
  • Purchases: 4
The Greatest Funk Band in the World?
From: KUT
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Rediscovered disks by a '70's era high school stage band are creating a new cult following

  • Added: Jul 25, 2006
  • Length: 09:08
Eat Your Greens 5: The Tri Community Festival at the Fairview Garden
From: Maeve Conran
Series: Eat Your Greens
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To celebrate a successful growing season, three communities gather to celebrate the Fairview Community garden.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:53
Essential Fire Radio
From: Lou Taylor
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Essential Fire Radio is a weekly relationship talk show. Lively, informative, interactive and uniquely powerful.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2006
  • Length: 02:00:45
Peace Talks Radio: Regarding Gandhi (59:00/54:00/29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The life and legacy of Mohandas Gandhi is recalled by Arun Gandhi (Mohandas Gandhi's grandson) and Gandhi scholar John Dear.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUOW, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2006
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 15
What's the Word? Petrarch and Love Poetry
From: Modern Language Association
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A look at how many contemporary ideas about love come from the love sonnets of fourteenth-century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch

Bought by KVSC, WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 9
Teens are Smarter than Their Schools
From: Ellen Weber
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Teens bring extravangant minds to school daily, and deserve the best back.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2005
  • Length: 03:57
Ever Consider Mental Reinvention As a Way of Life?
From: Ellen Weber
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You can grow more intelligence at pretty much any age.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2005
  • Length: 09:45

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