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Don't Be Fuelish, Do the Math
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
British scientists recently had this suggestion about the European Union's target of having ten percent of gas and diesel come from renewable resou...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Green Surfing
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Surfing's been around a long time. And from Gidget, to the sport of Hawaiian kings; some two million "surfer dudes and dudettes" hit beaches worldw...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Concentrated Solar Power
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How can we get more energy from our most abundant, clean, renewable resource? By concentrating.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Glassy Beaches Shore Up Erosion
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The folks in Broward County, Florida, have long considered themselves on the cutting edge of conservation. Now they're at it again.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Raising the Roof
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
They're a fairly down-to-earth group of people, the folks from the American Society of Landscape Architects that is. But these days they are raisin...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:29
A Second Life for Your Old Cell Phone
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today, hundreds of millions of people carry pocket-sized cell phones. There are more than 213 million in use in the United States, and each year, a...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:29
Best Homes "Waste Not, Want Not"
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
"Waste not, want not" is how the old saying goes. And if you're in the market for a new home, you might want to take it to heart.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Wind Power Achieves Milestone
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Last year the wind industry reached an important milestone in the United States...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:04
  • Purchases: 1
Inverted Rates Run off Hogs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Waverly, Iowa became the first in the Midwest to own and operate its own wind generation facilities.

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Getting Real With Auto Emissions
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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American motorists are familiar with the need to have emissions checked regularly to certify automobiles for registration. But a team of engineers ...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 1
Fuel Cells for Ships
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Your ship has come in, environmentalists. And it's powered by cleaner-burning, highly efficient, fuel cells.

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome to Conservation Island
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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On Survivor Island, everyone is out for themselves. On Conservation Island, everyone is out for the planet.

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Smart Sprinklers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Have you talked to your sprinkler today? Maybe you should. It might tell you it shouldn't be on and that you're wasting precious water.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Algae Biodiesel
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Fill 'er up with: Algae 100 - you know, the gas that's made from those golden brown or green plants growing along our coasts...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Virus Used to Track Cougar Movements
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Viruses don't win many popularity contests. But a virus is helping wildlife biologists protect one of nature's fiercest and most elegant animals.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Platinum Pollution
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Looking for platinum to give someone special? Here's an unlikely place, check out your tail pipe.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 15, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Desalination for Water
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Desalination may not be the best solution for providing water.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:31
  • Purchases: 1
Counting Whales
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
You'd think the world's biggest mammal would be hard to miss. But counting blue whales is turning into a whale of a challenge.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
What's (Solar) Cookin'?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Now you can whip up a meal while you work on your tan. And that's with free, non-polluting, energy from the sun.

Bought by KMXT and WEPS


  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 2
Undersea Mining
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Canadian company is considering dredging up gold and copper off the coast of New Guinea...that could be just as bad as strip mining on land.

Bought by KMXT and WEPS


  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2
Three Cheers for Agrichar
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Let's hear it for "agrichar"! Why? First, because agrichar is a carbon byproduct of pyrolysis, and secondly, because agrichar dramatically improve...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
Old-Fashioned Mower
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Remember mowing your grandparent's lawn with a push mower? Back then, the older generation had push mowers. Everyone else was into power.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
The Biological Car
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940, he developed the world's first "bio-car."

Bought by WEPS


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Mushrooms for Insulation
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
There's a fungus among us that could become a more environmentally-friendly way to weatherize your home, or business.

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Ships and Whales Don?t Mix
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Canadian Defense Department recently tested a robotic submarine that detects the presence of whales and transmits a warning to stay out of thei...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 1