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Root And Tillage
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Farmers, start your vacations. Because after crops come in, you can leave the debris where it is and let microbes do the rest.

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Penguin Poo At Pole Polluted
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If you're wondering how our penguin friends in the Antarctic are doing these days, here are the cold, hard facts. Their poo is getting mighty pollu...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Tuna Tagging
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Hello, Bluefin Tuna. Tag, you're it! No, you're really it -- you are among the last of a species that once thrived throughout the Atlantic.

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Dust Bowl Survivor
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Sunday, April 14th, 1935, mid-afternoon: A monstrous black dust cloud quickly forms over southwest Kansas -- and within minutes, people were runnin...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Bird Friendly Turbines
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Wind turbines are a great source for alternative energy. They're less great, however, for birds.

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Green Roofs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember Carole King's song, "Up on the Roof"? You know...When this old world starts a getting me down, And people are just too much for me to face...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
New Tool May Help Save Endangered Plants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Unless you like plants, you might find them rather boring. After all, they don't seem to do much. And, they're not cute and cuddly. But in fact, th...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Callendar Effect, Affects Change
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Wouldn't it be great to have a freeway named after you, a galaxy - or, maybe a complex formula for calculating carbon dioxide's effect on climate c...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Biodegradable Car
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940s, he developed the world's first "bio-car." Actually, it was a prototype displayed once at a ...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
More Power To Cattle
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Attention feed lot operators. Panda Energy International in Hereford, Texas, wants your manure. But only the good stuff.

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Patent For Better Insulation
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There's a fungus among us that could become a more environmentally-friendly way to weatherize your home, or business. Eben Bayer, a recent graduate...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Take Home Box
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Here's a home that's truly "outside the box" -- or inside, depending on where you stand. They're made out of recycled steel shipping containers. Ye...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
RBI Highlights Conservation Needs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Get in and get out! It works for the Navy Seals. So why not do the same with a crack team of scientists?

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Drinking Ocean Water
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Experts say that as population and water use rise, the world's fresh water supplies are shrinking. Then why don’t we desalinate more sea water and…...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Rice Growers Go Dry
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Did you know rice doesn’t need to grow in water? In fact, the main reason for rice paddies is to prevent weeds.

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
“Good Onya, Oz”
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Think you know how to conserve water? Not like Australia, mate, it's in its worst drought on record. Some toddlers Down Under don't even know what ...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Grass Defends Turf Naturally
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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“Get out of my space--or else!” Most people don’t know it, but some plants go to extremes to defend their turf. Some even produce a kind of poison ...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Recycling Electronics
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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About two and a half million tons of old computers, televisions, cell phones, fax machines, and other equipment are trashed each year in the United...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The New Power Suit
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Power Suit is back. Yep. Thanks to scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. But goodbye polyester: These suits use molecular-sized ...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Gecko Robot
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If imitation is really the sincerest form of flattery, Mother Nature must love today's story. Geckos -- those friendly little animated creatures th...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bright Ideas
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In the race to energy efficiency it looks like CFLs, or compact florescent lightbulbs, are slowly gaining on traditional incandescents. But, there'...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Shark Photo ID
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Smile, whale shark, you're on candid camera -- the high seas version. Whale sharks are truly impressive creatures, growing up to 66 feet long and w...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Earth Friendly Resort
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Welcome to Isla Earth. Or should I say, Aloha? It turns out that one of the world's top Earth Friendly getaways is the Mauna Lani Resort on the Koh...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Climate Change And Fish Bones
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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To prepare for climate change, sometimes it's good to get down to the bare bones. Fish bones, that is.

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tracking Pandas
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Giant pandas are about as cute as an animal can get -- and, just as endangered. Population estimates of pandas in the wild range from just 1,600 to...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1