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Let's talk about high fashion and Target, the big box store. The two seemingly opposites converged, recently, largely because of the environmentall...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
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 hood!
Bought by KOSU
- 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...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
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 KOSU
- 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
Wind turbines are a great source for alternative energy. They're less great, however, for birds.
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
We find out how brownfields are converted into something useful and why Dow Chemical chose Midland, Michigan, for their plant location. Chemical Ag...
- Added: Jul 08, 2009
- Length: 11:57
- Added: Jun 25, 2009
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 19, 2009
- Length: 52:53
- Purchases: 1
Alex Bogusky tells us how European style bike-sharing can drastically reduce the traffic in American cities. And we'll find out about an innovativ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WFSU, WBEZ, WLRN, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 58:52
- Purchases: 5
Americans love potatoes. Fried, baked, steamed, boiled, and broiled. On average, each of us scarfs up about 140 pounds of this delectable tuber a y...
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
"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
Imagine a conventional, gas-powered car, with no carbon emissions. I mean, absolutely zero.
- 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
What to do you get after you empty a barrel of fermented beer or whiskey? Besides a hangover, that is.
- 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
Alternative fuels are more environmentally friendly than petroleum products, right? Actually, that’s not always the case.
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Dutch researcher Jos Meeuwen would like to put in a plug for energy self-sufficiency. Why?
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Is it ‘hip,’ or ‘cool,’ to be environmentally sustainable? That's a question that some of the biggest companies are asking about the world's most p...
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 1
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, the Gulf was (and is) still in a shambles in many places. The culprits of the man-made disaster? Ridiculed but l...
- Added: Jun 09, 2009
- Length: 06:58
Canada's national weekly science program
- Added: Jun 05, 2009
- Length: 52:53
Canada's weekly national science program.
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: 52:53
A frozen zoo...for all animals? Well, no one’s making the Panamanian golden frog shiver in its terrarium. Instead, this is a unique way that the Sa...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
