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Glass Bottle Comeback
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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.

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Products For Responsible Consumers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - 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 KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Green Skyscrapers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The new frontier isn't to the north, south, east, or west. It's up, as in skyscrapers. And, the tallest? The Burj-Khalifa tower in Dubai.

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Recycled, Again
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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"Cradle-to-Cradle" is the newest buzz in green manufacturing circles. It's the next evolution of the idea of "Cradle-to-Grave."

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Greenest Fuel
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Alternative fuels are more environmentally friendly than petroleum products, right? Actually, that's not always the case.

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Carbon Eaters
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Here's a two-fer: A renewable fuel source that also reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Scientists in Denmark are looking at a species of sea...

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Exotic States Materialize With Supercomputers
From: Jorge Salazar
Series: Science and Supercomputers Podcasts
Caption: Exotic state of matter known as quantum spin Hall effect shown here by red crossing lines that traverse the band gap of the discovered material and conduct electricity only at its edges., Credit: Credit: Qian et. al.
Materials with novel electrical properties discovered using XSEDE computational resources Stampede and Lonestar supercomputers of TACC.

Bought by Radio Newark and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 16, 2015
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 2
Emission-Free Ride
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If your friends call you an "early adopter," you'll want to take note of MIT student Ben Gulak's way-cool emission-free vehicle. It looks like a cr...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Futures For Future Species
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Can a stock market tool save a species? Conservationists often struggle to project animal populations because they hinge on complicated, interdepen...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Pizzeria Takes The LEED
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it's the environment! At least it is at Pizza Fusion -- a chain of gourmet pizzerias.

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Dissolving Golf Balls
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Golf balls away, my boys, golf balls away...For sailors at sea, seems there's nothing more relaxing than hitting a few golf balls off the deck of a...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Lava Flows Are For The Birds
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Raising endangered birds...on a volcano? It has benefits -- or, so says Alan Lieberman, head of the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center, perched on Ha...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Car Wash
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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That classic American pastime, washing the family car, might soon get washed down the drain.

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Tailpipe Carbon Recycling
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Imagine a conventional, gas-powered car, with no carbon emissions. I mean, absolutely zero. In the cartoon world, the only way to do that was a ban...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Better Jet Fuel
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Ever wonder what jet fuel is made of? So do scientists from four universities working on a $7.5 million project funded by the Air Force and an airc...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Life on Mars?
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Maria Lane, author of Geographies of Mars, relates what Percival Lowell observed on the red planet. This segment comes from BackStory's episode "Th...

Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Power Of BOB
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Everything's bigger in Texas. Even BOB! "BOB" stands for "Big 'ol Battery." The nickname conferred by locals in Presidio, Texas, to an experimental...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Cleaning Up With Mushrooms
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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His name is Paul Stamets, but you can call him the Mushroom Man. Stamets is a "mycologist," or mushroom expert. He lives on Washington State's Olym...

Bought by KALH, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Beetle Feet Inspire Technology
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Ever been told you have feet of clay? How about feet of a beetle? Well now you can take that one as a compliment.

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Reproducing The White Rhino
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Veterinarians at the San Diego Zoo who breed white rhinoceroses are finding themselves, well, on the horns of a dilemma. Their female white rhinos ...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Environmentally Friendly Public Buildings
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What is green and gold and read all over? Give up? It's Southern California's Santa Monica Public Library.

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Waves Of Energy
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Interest in developing new sources of renewable energy is on the rise, and scientists at Florida Atlantic University are going with the flow.

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Mystery Cat
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Deep in a Borneo rainforest, a mysterious catlike creature pads across the jungle floor. It has dark red fur, a bushy tail, and could be the first ...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Hydrogen Fuel Cells
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Hydrogen fuel cells could make for a better car. Proponents say if we can get past the technology's many hurdles, at a cost people can afford, they...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Hydrogen And Egg Shells
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Engineers at Ohio State University are cracking up over a new way of separating gasses. And they've possibly created a new process to produce a cle...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2