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What to do you get after you empty a barrel of fermented beer or whiskey? Besides a hangover, that is...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
We may be able to get drinking water from treated sewage -- and water shortages could eventually force us to rely on this option.
Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Is the much-maligned electric car poised for a comeback?
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KGOU
- Added: Jun 19, 2008
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jun 18, 2008
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University recently received a Presidential citation for developing an environmentally fri...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:30
Can we really harness ocean waves to make electricity? We might actually do more.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
It started off routinely enough -- at least in this day and age of genetic engineering and other laboratory efforts to "improve" upon nature.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The ethanol experts are at it again. Scientists in Brazil have found a way to boost biofuel production that's naturally more attractive.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
An unusual banquet is underway in North Carolina -- and the worms are going hog wild.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Remember that old-fashioned mode of transportation -- the trolley, or streetcar -- it's making a comeback worldwide.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Conserving energy and reducing pollution is as easy as changing a light bulb.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming...is there a way to capture the carbon bef...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:26
Here's a conundrum. What do you do with 3000 tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?!
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Between rampant pollution and climate change, scientists say our oceans are ailing. But in order to correctly diagnose it, they've concluded they ...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Together with Sandia National Labs, engineers from Knight and Carver of San Diego have added a new twist to wind turbines used for generating elect...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:17
Already declared the third smartest city in the U.S. by Forbes Magazine, Ann Arbor, Michigan recently had another bright idea. They decided to rep...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Next time you travel, forget renting that gas-guzzler. A few rental car companies are offering hybrids and cars that run on biodiesel.
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
When it comes to committing to wind power, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, blows the rest of the country away.
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
Golf balls away, my boys, golf balls away...
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Scientists in India have developed a way to save energy called "reverse tanning."
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
What do Jackson Shaw, Ellen Mackey and Eric and Juowie Lin have in common?
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
What's better than a glass of cold milk? How about a glass of cold organic milk from a biodegradable bottle.
- Added: Mar 26, 2008
- Length: 01:25
Use water wisely, and we all benefit. Produce a film inspiring others to, and you could win thousands of dollars.
- Added: Mar 26, 2008
- Length: 01:32
