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The Wildcat's Meow
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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For over 200,000 years, the Iriomote Cat lived in isolation on a tiny island between Taiwan and Japan. More recently, however, Iriomote Island has...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
The 2007 Solar Home Tour
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What do Jackson Shaw, Ellen Mackey and Eric and Juowie Lin have in common?

  • Added: Mar 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Life and Death on Australia's Great Barrier Reef
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In recent years, scientists have watched in dismay as large parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef have died off.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Think Globally. Drive Locally.
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they're...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Got Corn?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What's better than a glass of cold milk? How about a glass of cold organic milk from a biodegradable bottle.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 01:25
Puffin Stuff
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Saving the puffins is a tough job. But folks in Maine miss the colorful little birds resembling miniature penguins that can fly.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Counting Fish
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Why can't members of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization sleep at night? They're counting fish instead of sheep.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Which came first? The hydrogen or the egg?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Engineers at Ohio State University are cracking up over a new way of separating gasses. And they've possibly created a new process to produce a cle...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Smart Meters Save$$
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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So how much did you pay for that last electron? Probably a lot more than you think if you add in the environmental cost to make electricity.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
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Mussel Development
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Although less "charismatic" than whales, the Monkeyface, Threehorn Wartyback, and Pink Heelsplitter, deserve our attention too!

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Chicken Litter
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Forget Chicken Little's paranoid delusions about the sky falling. With chicken litter, we really do have a problem.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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The Passive Environmentalist
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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How many environmentalists does it take to screw in a passive light bulb? None! And that's the beauty of it.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Got Rumen?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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How now, brown cow? With digestive fluid you say? Along with some hay?

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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When Wind Turbines Wind Down
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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With wind turbines popping up all over the world, wind power is quickly becoming one of today's most popular renewable energy sources. But what hap...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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The Case of the Disappearing Plants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember Pete Seeger's song, "Where have all the flowers gone?" He blamed their disappearance on young girls picking them.But with eight thousand f...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Is There an Echo Here?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Like its name, the Echo Parakeet is bouncing back. And the Mauritius Wildlife Foundation couldn't be happier.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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The Clot Thickens
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The latest air pollution discovery reads like a murder mystery. Thousands died from strokes and heart attacks within 24 hours after jumps in partic...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Mileage May Vary (But Not So Much Anymore)
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Until now, fuel economy estimates on new vehicle stickers were about as believable as a used car salesmen. But all that's changing starting in 2008.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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"Don't it always seem to go..."
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember these lyrics from Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi? "Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you got till it's gone?" Unfortun...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Goby Fish: Catching a Ride to a New World
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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By 1999, the Round Goby a harmless-looking little bug-eyed fish from the Black Sea, was found in all five of the Great Lakes. And it was wreaking ...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Grasses Growin' Wild
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Which is better? A picture perfect golf course, or a wild and wooly prairie?

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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The New Great Lakes Goby Fish Gang
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby.

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Where Hurricanes are Born
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Hurricane Katrina demonstrated just how destructive wind and water can be. New research into the genesis of these powerful storms could help coasta...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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The Butterflies are Back
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The recent removal of the Bald Eagle from the endangered species list generated lots of excitement. And, another conservation success is giving us ...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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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