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What would it feel like to live in a world where our built environment was as elegant as nature's designs? What if our living and working spaces nu...
- Added: Dec 04, 2023
- Length: 28:30
There is a floor tile that uses the power of footsteps to generate electricty!
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Vegan Leather? Seems like an oxy-moron, but now there is a leather-like material made of pineapples.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:32
With garden space on earth getting more limited, growing up instead of out is the new normal for the farm industry.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Exercise is not all about improving your physique, but also your mind. Matt Morley has created a nature-immersed workout experience to improve both.
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Cigarettes are horrible for you, but their butts are quite useful for recycling. A garbage startup in New Jersey is turning trash into outdoor furn...
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
This special episode of The Flyovers was recorded live at The Wright: Something Independent — an annual conference in Golden, Colorado designed to ...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Oct 27, 2019
- Length: 58:10
- Purchases: 1
Offshore wind projects on the Great Lakes have been discussed for years, and the first one will likely happen soon, on Lake Erie. Andy Balaskovitz,...
- Added: Jan 24, 2018
- Length: 17:08
A team at the University of Minnesota has invented a new technology to produce renewable car tires from trees and grasses. Lead researcher Prof. P...
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 10:38
The basic idea of the circular economy is that in production, nothing should be wasted, and everything at the end of its life should be made into s...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 14:00
Greg Nichols is part of the Sawtooth Mountain Maple Syrup Company in Lutsen--currently the largest sugarbush in Minnesota. He sat down with WTIP's ...
- Added: Apr 12, 2016
- Length: 20:53
Today The Rough Draft Diaries meets Josh Murnen. He is the Vice President & General Counsel of the Lucas County Land Bank. Never heard of a land ba...
- Added: Feb 29, 2016
- Length: 06:06
Minnesota's largest solar power project went online in December atop two parking ramps at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. Dennis Probst, who spea...
- Added: Jan 12, 2016
- Length: 17:31
Colorado is one of many states that has tried to create a cash for recycling program, or bottle bill. However, opposition from some surprising sour...
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 06:31
Jeff Gunderson, director of Minnesota Sea Grant, spoke with WTIP's Randy Eastlund recently about work they did with Wisconsin Sea Grant to identify...
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 12:01
The recycling economy of southern Maine
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 07:07
When David Gottfried come up an idea for green environmental building 20-years ago, he ran into a number of hurdles. The building industry had been...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Mae Davenport, associate professor in the department of forest resources at the U of MN, has just received a grant to help North Shore community le...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 17:50
- Purchases: 1
Julia Kennedy interviews Christoph Lueneburger on sustainable practices.
- Added: Dec 01, 2010
- Length: 24:31
As an executive at RecycleBank, Ian Yolles is familiar with incentives and sustainability. The company's business mission is to entice consumers to...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Dec 01, 2010
- Length: 30:22
- Purchases: 1
In recent decades, it’s gotten harder and harder for small fishermen and women to earn a living from the sea.
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 06:35
- Added: Jan 05, 2009
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 1
Today, you can recharge many gadgets with solar power.
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Wind is the world's fastest-growing energy source, with an average annual growth rate of 29 percent over the last 10 years. Wind-driven turbines co...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Today, there?s a new trend in the building industry called ?deconstruction.?
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Oct 11, 2006
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 1
