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Emission-Free Ride

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

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...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Jan 28, 2015
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Futures For Future Species

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Can a stock market tool save a species? Conservationists often struggle to project animal populations because they hinge on complicated, interdepen...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Jan 28, 2015
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Pizzeria Takes The LEED

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it's the environment! At least it is at Pizza Fusion -- a chain of gourmet pizzerias.

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Jan 28, 2015
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Dissolving Golf Balls

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Golf balls away, my boys, golf balls away...For sailors at sea, seems there's nothing more relaxing than hitting a few golf balls off the deck of a...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Jan 28, 2015
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Lava Flows Are For The Birds

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Raising endangered birds...on a volcano? It has benefits -- or, so says Alan Lieberman, head of the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center, perched on Ha...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Jan 28, 2015
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

The Car Wash

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

That classic American pastime, washing the family car, might soon get washed down the drain.

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Jan 28, 2015
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Tailpipe Carbon Recycling

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Imagine a conventional, gas-powered car, with no carbon emissions. I mean, absolutely zero. In the cartoon world, the only way to do that was a ban...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Jan 28, 2015
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

A Better Jet Fuel

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Ever wonder what jet fuel is made of? So do scientists from four universities working on a $7.5 million project funded by the Air Force and an airc...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Jan 27, 2015
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

The Power Of BOB

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Everything's bigger in Texas. Even BOB! "BOB" stands for "Big 'ol Battery." The nickname conferred by locals in Presidio, Texas, to an experimental...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Cleaning Up With Mushrooms

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

His name is Paul Stamets, but you can call him the Mushroom Man. Stamets is a "mycologist," or mushroom expert. He lives on Washington State's Olym...

Bought by KALH, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 3

Beetle Feet Inspire Technology

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Ever been told you have feet of clay? How about feet of a beetle? Well now you can take that one as a compliment.

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Reproducing The White Rhino

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Veterinarians at the San Diego Zoo who breed white rhinoceroses are finding themselves, well, on the horns of a dilemma. Their female white rhinos ...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Environmentally Friendly Public Buildings

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

What is green and gold and read all over? Give up? It's Southern California's Santa Monica Public Library.

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Waves Of Energy

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Interest in developing new sources of renewable energy is on the rise, and scientists at Florida Atlantic University are going with the flow.

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Mystery Cat

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Deep in a Borneo rainforest, a mysterious catlike creature pads across the jungle floor. It has dark red fur, a bushy tail, and could be the first ...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Hydrogen Fuel Cells

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Hydrogen fuel cells could make for a better car. Proponents say if we can get past the technology's many hurdles, at a cost people can afford, they...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Hydrogen And Egg Shells

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Engineers at Ohio State University are cracking up over a new way of separating gasses. And they've possibly created a new process to produce a cle...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Recycling Wind Turbines

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

With wind turbines popping up all over the world, wind power is quickly becoming one of today's most popular renewable energy sources. But in the m...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

New Plastics From Old Paint

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

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...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

RBI Highlights Conservation Needs

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Get in and get out! It works for the Navy Seals. So why not do the same with a crack team of scientists?

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Electric Fans For Cars

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Getting better gas mileage for the ride doesn't have to mean hydrogen fuel cells, or a fancy hybrid. One solution already exists right under the ho...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Saving Energy On Street Lights

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Already declared the third smartest city in the U.S. by Forbes Magazine, Ann Arbor, Michigan recently had another bright idea. They decided to repl...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Beetle Juice

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

The African Stenocara beetle has learned a thing or two about water conservation. Living in the Namib desert, it uses its wings to capture water va...

Bought by KMXT, KALH, and Radio Baha'i, WLGI