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Have you ever bathed in paint? Canary yellow or baby blue? Well of course you haven’t! But almost three million Americans could have last year, sin...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to. A research team at the University of Warwick, England, recently discovered a natura...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Call it the Manure Mandate. California’s utilities face a state-ordered goal: Provide one-fifth of electricity from renewable resources by 2010. No...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. But near Serpa [say err pa], in neighboring Portugal, the sun shines nearly all the time. This is why...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
A German company has developed a way to get more mileage out of junked cars. Of course they have to shred them to pieces first.
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University recently received a Presidential citation for developing an environmentally fri...
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? Yep. They might be just around the corner -- no kidding!
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
It’s no news flash that, over the years, one of the dirtiest sources of energy has been coal; in fact, it’s among the top contributors to carbon di...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Aug 02, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that’s one of the things the automotive industry is looking at be...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
When it comes to selling solar cells, it pays to be cheap -- and thin. At least that’s what Professor Ken Durose at England’s Durham University is ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Let’s hear it for “agrichar”! Why? First, because agrichar is a carbon byproduct of pyrolysis, a process that involves heating crop waste in the a...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940s, he developed the world's first "bio-car." Actually, it was a prototype displayed once at a ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Attention feed lot operators. Panda Energy International in Hereford, Texas, wants your manure. But only the good stuff.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
There’s a fungus among us that could become a more environmentally-friendly way to weatherize your home, or business. Eben Bayer, a recent graduate...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
In rural India, electricity is scarce. About 70 percent of rural areas have no electricity, so most families use kerosene lamps for light. These a...
- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
New Orleans. Home to Dixieland Jazz, Mardi Gras, and some of the best fresh seafood you’ll ever eat. Shrimp etouffee. Oysters on the half shell. Wh...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Farming has always been subject to the uncertainties of weather and market conditions. But farmers in Huron County, Michigan, have found something...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Up in the air -- it’s a bird; it’s a plane; it’s a -- flying windmill?
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Here’s a two-fer: A renewable fuel source that also reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
On top of everything else ailing Mother Earth these days, apparently she’s got gas. Lots of it. Specifically, carbon dioxide.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Medieval alchemy -- you’ve seen it in the movies: A wizard-like figure hovers over a glowing vat adding mysterious ingredients in his quest to turn...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
It’s no news to anyone that Hurricanes’ can be devastating. Luckily, hurricane forecasting has improved a lot over the years. We owe much of that i...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
“Thermal depolymerization.” No, it’s not a code word for ‘global warming.’ But it IS a big buzz in alternative energy circles.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
With wind turbine blades approaching 90 feet in length whipping around at 150 miles an hour, they’ve been called everything from “raptor-matics” to...
- Added: May 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
