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Be Environmentally Friendly In This Life And The Next
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It's possible to be eco-friendly in this life and the next, with "green," or, "natural" burials. Bob Butz, author of "Going Out Green," describes t...

Bought by WXPR, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KKRN


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Pizzeria Takes The LEED
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it's the environment! At least it is at Pizza Fusion -- a chain of gourmet pizzerias.

Bought by WXPR, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KKRN


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
A Greener Cleaner
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Soap and Detergent Association is cleaning up its act. A recent conference that included officials from the Consumer Product Safety Commission,...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Flea Beetles
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Montana ranchers will tell you non-native plants are tough to wrangle. And getting rid of them? Even tougher.

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Roofs And Rainwater
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Wilma and Fred Flintstone lived in a flat-rock-roofed house. That's how Hanna-Barbera built them back in the cartoon stone-age. Nowadays, with the ...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Lava Flows Are For The Birds
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Raising endangered birds...on a volcano? It has benefits -- or, so says Alan Lieberman, head of the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center, perched on Ha...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Mowing Grass, Green
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember mowing your grandparent's lawn with a push mower? Back then, the older generation had push mowers. Everyone else was into power. Muscle ca...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Car Wash
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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That classic American pastime, washing the family car, might soon get washed down the drain. Some communities struggling with water pollution, and ...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Tailpipe Carbon Recycling
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Imagine a conventional, gas-powered car, with no carbon emissions. I mean, absolutely zero. In the cartoon world, the only way to do that was a ban...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 4
Healthier Cities
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The shape of our cities might be determining...the shape of our bodies. Several recent studies conclude that sprawling, car-dependent communities c...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Green Reaper
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Have you ever thought of using your loved ones as compost? Uh, I'd better explain...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Shade Trees Save Money
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Cool lemonade under a shade tree? Priceless. Well, not quite priceless. Shade has a value, and it's a lot more than a lemon. How much? Researchers ...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Where’s The Beef?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Economist Nathan Fiala of the University of California at Irvine has a beef...about beef. Specifically, he's concerned about the impact producing b...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
We All Benefit From Biodiversity
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The business of conservation -- preserving and protecting an ecosystem and all of the plants and animals in it -- is often characterized as interfe...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Green Office Buildings Turning Gold
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Eco-friendly office buildings aren't just green, they're gold. Why? Because they are profitable!

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Ice Melts Create New Shipping Passage
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There's now a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, courtesy of climate change. Rising temperatures are melting more and more Arctic se...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
A Better Jet Fuel
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Ever wonder what jet fuel is made of? So do scientists from four universities working on a $7.5 million project funded by the Air Force and an airc...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Snipe Hunt
From: Jennifer Jerrett
Caption: A Wilson's snipe mid flight, Credit: NPS / Neal Herbert
A mysterious sound sends us on a snipe hunt in Yellowstone National Park.

Bought by KALW, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 3
Waves Of Energy
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Interest in developing new sources of renewable energy is on the rise, and scientists at Florida Atlantic University are going with the flow.

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Climate Change Game
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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To the world-at-large, global warming is anything but a game. But if you happen to be on the Internet, it can be.

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Power Of BOB
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Everything's bigger in Texas. Even BOB! "BOB" stands for "Big 'ol Battery." The nickname conferred by locals in Presidio, Texas, to an experimental...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Nemo
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Nemo was the cutest little animated fish. In the movie, he gets lost in the big blue ocean and dad goes looking for him. Well, it turns out that fo...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Cleaning Up With Mushrooms
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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His name is Paul Stamets, but you can call him the Mushroom Man. Stamets is a "mycologist," or mushroom expert. He lives on Washington State's Olym...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Busy Beetles Take Years
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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After a forest fire, it's common for salvage logging companies to clear out damaged trees. But taking the wood too soon may interrupt a beetle doin...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Turtle Diary
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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You might have heard of animals shifting their nesting dates in response to climate change. That's happening with turtles in the Midwest; in this c...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1