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Cedar Waxwings
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Winter brings hordes of handsome cedar waxwings to our region, where they’ll throng our junipers and devour every berry they can find. What makes t...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pine Dining
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Pine trees are much more than symbols of Christmas and sources of timber. They serve up a smorgasbord for many wild animals and insects. Who dines ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tom McCall, January 8, 1983
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The true story of the first state to sponsor a rock concert ... nicknamed "the Governor's Pot Party"... and what became of that governor.

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Dec 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nature Provides Clues for Survival
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Believe it or not, sometimes, it’s a good idea to be “as cold as ice.” Take, for example, the arctic ground squirrel. He's a creature that knows a ...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Creative Solutions for Climate Change
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Are you worried about global warming? Well, here’s an idea. How about rocketing one trillion miniature umbrellas into orbit somewhere between us ...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Creosote Medicine
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: A creosote flower., Credit: Megan Wilde
Creosote’s therapeutic applications would make any biotech CEO green with envy. What are this desert shrub’s medicinal properties? And why is it su...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Coping with Aridity
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Horned lizards get water from the ants they eat., Credit: Cathryn Hoyt
Animals have adapted to surviving with little or no water during the Chihuahuan Desert's dry winter and spring. How do they do it?

Bought by KENW and KENW


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Fuel Cells improve with Platinum
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Costly Invasive Fire Ants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Water Pollution Cleanup
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Christoph Lueneburger on Leading Sustainable Practice
From: Carnegie Council
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Julia Kennedy interviews Christoph Lueneburger on sustainable practices.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 24:31
Ian Yolles on RecycleBank
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Green Ethics
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As an executive at RecycleBank, Ian Yolles is familiar with incentives and sustainability. The company's business mission is to entice consumers to...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 30:22
  • Purchases: 1
The Troubled Rio Grande
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Giant cane dominates the muddy banks of the Rio Grande in many places., Credit: Megan Wilde
Sediment is slowly choking the Rio Grande in the Big Bend region of Texas, causing more frequent floods and making it easier for invasive plants to...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 19, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Products for Responsible Consumers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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...

Bought by KMXT, KOSU, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 3
Roof Gardens
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Why be boring and plant your garden in the ground when there’s a whole world of gardening possibilities up on the roof?

Bought by KMXT, KOSU, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 3
Traveling Seeds
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Maple seeds can fly with their papery propellers. , Credit: Cathryn Hoyt
You might think of plants as immobile, but they've evolved diverse strategies to scatter their offspring far and wide. What are some dispersal tact...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Texas' Aspens
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Quaking aspens in Big Bend National Park, Credit: James Zech
With their towering white trunks and fluttering leaves, quaking aspens are icons of the Rocky Mountains. Yet every fall, aspen stands paint West Te...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Action Speaks! - What's Eating Us?:1987 The Roaming Mobro Trash Barge
From: Action Speaks Radio
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In 1987, a barge filled with New York City garbage was dragged up and down the East Coast and into Mexican and Caribbean waters. Our panelists use ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, WRPI and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
Return of the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: A Rio Grande silvery minnow, Credit: Aimee Roberson/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
These tiny fish disappeared from Texas almost fifty years ago. But today, silvery minnows swim again in the Big Bend reach of the Rio Grande. What ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Triops
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: A triops in Big Bend Ranch State Park., Credit: Cathryn Hoyt
When rain falls in the desert, these tiny crustaceans seize the day.

Bought by KENW and KENW


  • Added: Oct 29, 2010
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2
New Technology for Cheetah Conservation
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bale House
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Why build a house when you can grow one? So says sustainable building designers at Britain's University of Bath. They recently created a home from ...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fire and Climate Change
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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We live on a flammable planet! Consider our forests: Vegetation that dries out seasonally. And our atmosphere? Oxygen! Add lightening strikes, volc...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Creating A Better Commute
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they’re...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Prairie Tallgrass Biofuel
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Prairie tallgrass may soon make an electrifying comeback. Long considered one of the earth's most endangered ecosystems, today, prairie grass -- es...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30