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Ever wanted to go organic in your garden, but didn’t know how? Well, students in East Palo Alto, California, are learning.
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
To the world-at-large, global warming is anything but a game. But if you happen to be on the Internet, it can be.
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Can a stock market tool save a species? Conservationists often struggle to project animal populations because they hinge on complicated, interdepen...
- Added: Dec 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
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...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
In the race to energy efficiency it looks like CFLs, or compact florescent lightbulbs, are slowly gaining on traditional incandescents. But, there’...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Cool lemonade under a shade tree? Priceless. Well, not quite priceless. Shade has a value, and it’s a lot more than a lemon.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Can mid-career professionals realistically switch to "green" careers? One certainly did.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The forests of America face double jeopardy these days. First, there’s pressure to harvest wood from native forests...And second, some non-native t...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Nab a New York apartment with a river view? That's easy -- for a beaver named Jose.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Well, it’s back to the future again. Farmers are turning to “companion planting,” an agricultural trick that Native Americans came up with centurie...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Did you know bananas might soon slip into history? That's because from Paris to Peoria, we all eat only one variety, and it's vulnerable to a fungu...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Remember these lyrics from Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi? "Don’t it always seem to go,
That you don’t know what you got till it’s gone?"
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
How many environmentalists does it take to screw in a passive light bulb? None! And that’s the beauty of it.
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Veterinarians at the San Diego Zoo who breed white rhinoceroses are finding themselves, well, on the horns of a dilemma.
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
So how much did you pay for that last electron? Probably a lot more than you think if you add in the environmental cost to make electricity.
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Hurricane Katrina demonstrated just how destructive wind and water can be. New research into the genesis of these powerful storms could help coasta...
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Animated Polar Bears are the cutest creatures. Remember the commercial with the adorable Polar Bear drinking a soda? In the real world though, Pola...
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
When is a good time to get a kid interested in reducing waste? As early as possible! And, if you pack your child’s school lunch, try getting them s...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The Soap and Detergent Association is cleaning up its act.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
It took ten years, but one of the country’s worst toxic waste sites is clean.
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Don't you love urban sprawl? Right. Thirty years ago, car-friendly developments, and the freeways to get us there, were smart planning. Today? They...
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
What if we traded asphalt jungles for grass-phalt jungles? That's happening. One September day each year, on National Park(ing) Day.
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
In recent years, scientists have watched in dismay as large parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have died off. Fortunately, they’re beginning t...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
