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From “Aardvark” to “zipper,” you can find it using Google. And, now you can also find Google’s Clean Energy 2030 initiative, a $4.4 trillion plan t...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
If your friends call you an “early adopter," you’ll want to take note of MIT student Ben Gulak’s way-cool emission-free vehicle. It looks like a cr...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. But near Serpa, in neighboring Portugal, the sun shines nearly all the time. This is why an internati...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
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...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
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 ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
If you build it, they will come. But they might not come back! This is what Brazilian engineers learned recently in their effort to save fish stocks.
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
“Cradle-to-Cradle” is the newest buzz in green manufacturing circles. It’s the next evolution of the idea of “Cradle-to-Grave, ” where recycled mat...
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
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...
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Remember mowing your grandparent’s lawn with a push mower? Back then, the older generation had push mowers. Everyone else was into power.
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940s, he developed the world's first "bio-car."
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Attention feed lot operators. Panda Energy International in Hereford, Texas, wants your manure. But only the good stuff.
- Added: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Here’s a home that’s truly “outside the box” -- or inside, depending on where you stand. They’re made out of recycled steel shipping containers. Ye...
- Added: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Is that monthly home heating bill burning a hole in your wallet? I thought so. With the economic uncertainties of recent months, we all get that si...
- Added: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
What do you get when you cross a whale with a ship? A disaster at sea.
- Added: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The Howland Cultural Center is a beautiful performance space, gallery, and host to cultural events in the Hudson Valley. The historic building rec...
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 01:46
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 tur...
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Farming has always been subject to the uncertainties of weather and market conditions. But farmers in Huron County, Michigan, have found something...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day’s carbon report. Carbon report? That’s right. NOAA has developed a system to track carb...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Up in the air -- it’s a bird; it’s a plane; it’s a -- flying windmill? That’s right, a flying windmill.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
“Thermal depolymerization.” No, it’s not a code word for ‘global warming.’ But it IS a big buzz in alternative energy circles.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
It’s no news to anyone that Hurricanes’ can be devastating. Luckily, hurricane forecasting has improved a lot over the years.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Here’s a two-fer: A renewable fuel source that also reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
It's said that “time and tide wait for no man.” But it looks like there’s considerable power waiting for us in the tides.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The African Stenocara beetle has learned a thing or two about water conservation and scientists are hoping to capitalize on the beetle’s adaptation...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Now here’s a ride Little Miss Sunshine and her eccentric family would have appreciated…
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1