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Zap The Trash
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Here’s a conundrum. What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?!

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Paint Plastics
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The New Power Suit
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Power Suit is back. Yep. Thanks to scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Elephant DNA Maps
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Plug and Drive?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Hybrid vehicles on a wall socket: The next “plug-and-play” technology? We might have an answer soon.

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Wind Turbine Warning?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Down With Carbon
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There’s a bounty on carbon dioxide molecules these days. And for good reason.

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Aloha to CO2
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It turns out that one of the world’s top Earth Friendly getaways is the Mauna Lani Resort on the Kohala Coast of Hawaii’s Big Island.

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  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Tuning Into Elephant Sounds
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Even if you don’t want to talk about the proverbial “elephant in the room,” you could at least count the number roaming around wild. Or so you’d t...

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  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Hope Floats (and it’s Slimy!)
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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To anyone who’s ever gone skinny-dipping in a pond, the green stuff floating on top is really disgusting. But to Professor Dave Bayless, blue-green...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Rubber Road
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What’s happening to them these days?

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Solar Cell Breakthrough?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The biggest power plant on earth is high in the sky -- it’s the sun. But, we only get one percent of our energy from it because it typically costs...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Energy Fields
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When it comes to discovering sources of renewable energy, Penn State engineering professor Bruce Logan is outstanding in his field. A corn field, ...

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  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Solar Cell Sets a New World Record
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Here’s something that probably won’t be in the Guinness Book of World Records. But maybe it should be since it could impact more people than anyth...

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  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Auto Recycling
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Here’s some good news for Japan's landfills. Piles of scrapped cars are becoming a thing of the past.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Saving Money and Energy
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Does it really pay to be energy-efficient? The folks at Clarum Homes hope so.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Water Logging
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If a tree at the bottom of a lake falls, does it make a sound? Either way, it doesn’t matter to lumberjacks at the Triton Logging Company.

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
New Fuel From Old Sources
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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So, what's so great about fossil fuels, anyway? Well the truth is, they burn easily, so they're handy for powering internal combustion engines or e...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Doggy Doo Do
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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So what should you do with your doggie's doo? Your dog Fido probably wishes you'd just leave it in the yard -- let the world know that somebody imp...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
I.D. for Elephants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Probably the last place you'd expect to see a photo I.D. would be in the wilds of India -- featuring a photo of a male Asian elephant no less. But ...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Trailer Treasure
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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One architecture professor is giving trailer parks a good name. Michael Berk of Mississippi State University has developed award-winning mobile hom...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
What to Do with Doggy Doo
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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A rhinestone dog collar: $35. A doggy doo composter: Priceless...At least that's what Sharon Slack of Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture thinks...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Cod Farming
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Pass the fish and chips, please. Pardon me for eating on the radio, but I just can't pass up the fish and chips. Neither can a lot of people it s...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
LEDs Bright Future
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What do you get when you cross folk art with photonic technology? A very bright idea.

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Underwater Powerhouse
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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We burn a lot of fossil fuels, and many of us would like to curb our dependence on foreign oil. Ocean tides and crashing waves could be at least a ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2