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With the effects of climate change all around us, there's a push to power more of our lives with renewable electricity, including things that used ...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: May 12, 2022
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 1
I started my nursery/horticulture career in the spring of 1980 at Desert Trees Nursery northwest of Tucson. It was and still is a wholesale nursery...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:16
The riparian woodland Ms. Mesquitey and I were hiking in is at around 6,000 ft. in elevation. I think that may be the upper limits of the elf owls'...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:33
With the weather getting warmer, I’ve been thinking about air conditioning. I know that ACs are getting more efficient, but more people are using t...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 25, 2022
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 1
These days, we can buy almost anything we want online—fancy food, designer clothes, new computers, the works. But is all this online shopping creat...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 03:22
- Purchases: 1
Today we’re answering a question about sustainable travel. What’s the best way to take a trip down the East Coast?
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 04, 2022
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
Two years ago, we aired an episode responding to a question from a listener named Monica. She wanted to know if it was possible to convert her gas ...
Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Mar 21, 2022
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 2
We are living in stressful times and getting out of the house, if only to your back yard, is always a good idea. Native flora and fauna can cure th...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:59
Encelia farinosa (brittle bush, incienso) loves rocky hillsides and gravelly desert. And though this native shrub has a large range showing up in t...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:35
Anyone who lives in groundhog country will have a woodchuck tale or two to tell. Growing up in Kentucky I sure did. At the University of Arizona in...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 03:47
I forgot to say that the genus Crotalus comes from the Greek krotalon or krotos for rattle or rattling. (A couple favorite native plants are called...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:18
One of the most magical moments of my childhood was when I first dug up potatoes in a garden and we later had some for dinner. I was awe struck! Th...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:59
Our oceans are rising and taking over more land every year. Most governments try to fix this by blocking the water out and sealing the humans in. B...
- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 2
Today we’re answering a question from Cori Myers- she’s the sister-in-law of our founder Stephen Porder. She wants to know if the laundry detergent...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
In recent episodes, we’ve talked a lot about electric cars, but we haven’t really spent time talking about what makes them work- the battery. What ...
Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 2
Cactus wrens were one of the first Sonoran Desert birds I learned when I arrived in Tucson to go to the University of Arizona. They are such rascal...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:44
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:09
I was reading a Christmas card from some very dear friends and in the hand written portion of the card it mentioned this season as being the “holie...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:53
Veganuary is a month long challenge to substitute plant products for meat and dairy. Even those who don't stay vegan make long term cuts in consum...
- Added: Jan 11, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
The Green Mountain State banned food from landfills to cut methane and mountains of garbage in half
Bought by KVNF, KRZA, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 11, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
The photos are mine of a chiltepin at our our home. It’s one of several we have in pots. They are great in the ground too, but I love the way they ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:52
Wandering through a woodland.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:16
A few months ago, our team was talking on Zoom when our founder, Stephen Porder, asked if he could pitch a story idea. For this episode, we’re goin...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 14, 2021
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
What does it take to keep your lawn looking green and healthy? A lot of people say you need to use fertilizer. But do you really? And what’s the co...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jul 09, 2021
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 1
As our podcast series concludes and our cicada friends begin their new 17-year cycle, Dr. Gene Kritsky from Mount St. Joseph University talks about...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 29, 2021
- Length: 24:34
- Purchases: 1
