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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?!

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jan 29, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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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...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jan 29, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jan 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A look at Free Geek, an organization that is giving ewaste a new life.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2009
  • Length: 13:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Canada's weekly national radio science program

Bought by North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2009
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
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You can save on electricity if you never open the door

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Jan 10, 2009
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jan 09, 2009
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jan 06, 2009
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The story explores emerging "green" businesses in Oregon.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2009
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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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...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What’s happening to them these days?

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  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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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...

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  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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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, ...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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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...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Canada's weekly national radio science program.

Bought by North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2008
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Canada's weekly national radio science program

Bought by North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 12, 2008
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Smart City we going green, and going online. Our guests will talk about getting citizens to collaborate online, and working with deve...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 10, 2008
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
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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