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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?"
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- 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...
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- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The Soap and Detergent Association is cleaning up its act.
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- 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...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they’re...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Cambodia's endangered "whispering bird," the Bengal florican, now has a whisper…of hope!
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
For over 200,000 years, the Iriomote Cat lived in isolation on a tiny island between Taiwan and Japan. More recently, however, Iriomote Island has...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Did you know rice doesn’t need to grow in water? In fact, the main reason for rice paddies is to prevent weeds.
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Cheetahs are fast, but time is catching up with them. Their numbers are dwindling due to a small gene pool that makes these graceful Big Cats vulne...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Veterinarians made a house call on the world’s rarest cat recently to give it a high-tech medical examination. It was one of thirty Amur leopards b...
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
"Unleaded, super unleaded, or tree fungus." It could be an option someday!
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
What happens to our consumer electronics after they've served their useful life? Discarded computer monitors often get shipped to Asia or Africa.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Believe it or not, just two generations ago, it was unheard of not to recycle glass beverage bottles. Today, that idea itself is getting recycled.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
In the groovy 60s we were singing “Where have all the flowers gone?” Could a day come when we’ll sing the same about the honeybees?
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
That classic American pastime, washing the family car, might soon get washed down the drain.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Are you wasting your...waste? A company called RecycleBank says: maybe! So they've come up with a high-tech way to encourage people to recycle...by...
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
