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Fuel Cells for Ships
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Your ship has come in, environmentalists. And it's powered by cleaner-burning, highly efficient, fuel cells.

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome to Conservation Island
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On Survivor Island, everyone is out for themselves. On Conservation Island, everyone is out for the planet.

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Smart Sprinklers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Have you talked to your sprinkler today? Maybe you should. It might tell you it shouldn't be on and that you're wasting precious water.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Algae Biodiesel
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Fill 'er up with: Algae 100 - you know, the gas that's made from those golden brown or green plants growing along our coasts...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Virus Used to Track Cougar Movements
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Viruses don't win many popularity contests. But a virus is helping wildlife biologists protect one of nature's fiercest and most elegant animals.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Platinum Pollution
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Looking for platinum to give someone special? Here's an unlikely place, check out your tail pipe.

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Desalination for Water
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Desalination may not be the best solution for providing water.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:31
  • Purchases: 1
Counting Whales
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
You'd think the world's biggest mammal would be hard to miss. But counting blue whales is turning into a whale of a challenge.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
What's (Solar) Cookin'?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Now you can whip up a meal while you work on your tan. And that's with free, non-polluting, energy from the sun.

Bought by KMXT and WEPS


  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 2
Undersea Mining
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Canadian company is considering dredging up gold and copper off the coast of New Guinea...that could be just as bad as strip mining on land.

Bought by KMXT and WEPS


  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2
The World of 1607 part 3
From: WCVE
Series: The World of 1607
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Measuring the Macrocosm and the Microcosm

  • Added: Nov 07, 2007
  • Length: 01:02
Three Cheers for Agrichar
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Let's hear it for "agrichar"! Why? First, because agrichar is a carbon byproduct of pyrolysis, and secondly, because agrichar dramatically improve...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
Old-Fashioned Mower
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Remember mowing your grandparent's lawn with a push mower? Back then, the older generation had push mowers. Everyone else was into power.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
The Biological Car
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940, he developed the world's first "bio-car."

Bought by WEPS


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Mushrooms for Insulation
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
There's a fungus among us that could become a more environmentally-friendly way to weatherize your home, or business.

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Ships and Whales Don?t Mix
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Canadian Defense Department recently tested a robotic submarine that detects the presence of whales and transmits a warning to stay out of thei...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 1
Pass the Gas
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On top of everything else ailing Mother Earth these days, apparently she's got gas. Lots of it.

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Batteries That Run on Sugar
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? They might be just around the corner.

Bought by KMXT and WEPS


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2
The World of 1607 part 2
From: WCVE
Series: The World of 1607
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A Cabinet of Wonder

  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 01:01
TODAY'S GREEN MINUTE - "In The Billions"
From: Jim Parks
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A daily one-minute news feature about the greening of America

  • Added: Oct 22, 2007
  • Length: 01:00
TODAY'S GREEN MINUTE - "Greener Glue"
From: Jim Parks
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A daily one-minute news feature about the greening of America

  • Added: Oct 22, 2007
  • Length: 01:00
Listening for Elephants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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 KUAC


  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Retired Tires On the Road Again
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What's happening with them these days?

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Fields of Clean Energy
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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 KUAC


  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Natural Pesticide
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to. A research team at the University of Warwick, England, recently discovered a natura...

Bought by KMXT and KUAC


  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2