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Keeping plastic out of the ocean can begin at the dump. Recycling medicines is a win-win, but it's pretty rare. And composting 101.
- Added: Jul 05, 2016
- Length: 16:29
Keith Stewart describes tailings ponds, a deadly byproduct of the tar sands exploration of Northern Alberta.
- Added: Jul 05, 2016
- Length: :48
Wasting water? Is it your long showers or something else? Shirley Camia explores who is emptying Canada's lakes.Your long shower is nothing compare...
- Added: Jul 05, 2016
- Length: 10:40
You may take long showers but you are not the big water waster...find out who is. A “Tailings Pond” is a dead lake. Who killed it? Tricky convos: W...
- Added: Jul 05, 2016
- Length: 22:45
Watching out for "squalene" in your food and beauty products.
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 01:46
Melina Laboucan Massimo talks about the site she set up to honour & celebrate indigenous women who have been murdered.
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 03:53
The enormous implications of deep sea mining. Kasia Gladki looks at mining the ocean and an oceanographer talks about the effect of this on marine ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 09:42
The enormous implications of mining the floor of the deep sea. It's starting. It's called "squalene" and is in lots of beauty products. It's usuall...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 18:27
Have you ever looked at a rotten oak burl and thought, “Man, that’s beautiful?” Phil Holtan has. Plenty of times. Phil is a master wood turner in ...
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- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 12:37
- Purchases: 1
Tune into our Innovate interview with Managing Editor Robert Rimm and Liz Maw, CEO of Net Impact. Liz discusses nonprofit strategy and the importan...
- Added: Oct 23, 2015
- Length: 34:18
The Lau Basin in the Pacific Ocean has been studied for decades, but new information unearthed by doctoral student Sean Wei surprised all the exper...
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 12:00
- Purchases: 2
The sustainability studies minor available at the U of MN allows students to make sustainability part of any academic program, helping students rec...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 19:57
- Purchases: 1
Join host Alix Litwack as she talks with local Herbalist Greg Monzel about his journey to overcome Lyme disease, the science behind the disease and...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 28:16
- Purchases: 1
Expert commentary on Orchid plants including; Orchid species, Orchid habitat & bloom periods, where to find Orchids, issues Orchids face and the hu...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 08:48
- Purchases: 1
Israel's mild, desert climate makes it possible for cats to give labor three, sometimes even 4-times a year. And when heat cycles can start as ear...
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- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 03:50
- Purchases: 1
In this edition of Radio Curious we’re visiting with Helen Menasian, director of the Redwood Valley Outdoor Education Project located north of Ukia...
- Added: Feb 22, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Putting lids on pots and pans to save electricity.
- Added: Sep 17, 2008
- Length: 04:00
We visit wetlands around the San Francisco Bay, where scientists are waging a scorched-marsh campaign against a devastating kind of East Coast grass.
- Added: Jan 04, 2008
- Length: 29:00
On Survivor Island, everyone is out for themselves. On Conservation Island, everyone is out for the planet.
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- Added: Dec 14, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Have you ever been really bugged by a new ding in your car, but weeks later, you barely noticed it? We all learn to tolerate negative changes by ad...
- Added: Jul 27, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Are you worried about global warming? Well, here's an idea. How about rocketing one trillion miniature umbrellas into orbit somewhere between us ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:23
Tropical rainforests are home to a spectacular variety of frogs. This rich diversity of species helps drive conservation efforts in the tropics. Th...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Once upon a time in the West, there were 30 million American bison. Now, around Yellowstone National Park, there are only 3900-but that's up from j...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Domestic tranquility has its place, but we all need a little walk on the wild side from time to time. And, apparently, the same goes for bees...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
The decomposition of tiny sea animals and plants that died hundreds of thousands of years ago created enormous natural gas deposits under the seafl...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: 01:17
