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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 ...

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


  • 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...

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


  • 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 ...

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


  • 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...

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


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 4
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...

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


  • 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...

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


  • 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!

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


  • 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...

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


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • 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.

Bought by WXDU and KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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...

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...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Beetle Feet Inspire Technology
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Ever been told you have feet of clay? How about feet of a beetle? Well now you can take that one as a compliment.

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Reproducing The White Rhino
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Veterinarians at the San Diego Zoo who breed white rhinoceroses are finding themselves, well, on the horns of a dilemma. Their female white rhinos ...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Environmentally Friendly Public Buildings
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What is green and gold and read all over? Give up? It's Southern California's Santa Monica Public Library. Allow me to explain.

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Hydrogen Fuel Cells
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Hydrogen fuel cells could make for a better car. Proponents say if we can get past the technology's many hurdles, at a cost people can afford, they...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Insect Birth Control
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Skinny, boot leg, or flare? A new pair of jeans makes you feel so good. Like a million bucks, right? But cotton, the key ingredient in those jeans,...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Hydrogen And Egg Shells
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - 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...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Health And Pollution
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - 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...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Recycling Wind Turbines
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - 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 in the m...

Bought by KTXK and KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Tofu Glue Is Sticking
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Easing fossil fuel dependence involves more than energy-efficient cars and light bulbs. It also involves tofu. That's because scientists at the U.S...

Bought by WXDU and KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
'Green' Concrete
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The road to a sustainable future could soon be paved with green concrete. Okay, not as enchanting as a road paved with gold. But since some 27,000 ...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Habihuts
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Nearly 828 million people live in what the United Nations calls "slums." In some cases, these are temporary "tent" cities that crop up after natura...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Project Open Hand
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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San Francisco's Project Open Hand is in a lot of hot water these days. About 170,000 gallons a year, to be exact. And it's heated by clean, non-pol...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fuel Cells Improve With Platinum
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that's one of the things the automotive industry is looking at bef...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Galapagos Conservation Helps Native Species
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Isolated from the rest of the world for most of their existence, the Galapagos Islands are home to more unique plant species than almost any other ...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1