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Sustainable Flooring Products
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: June 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Replacing your floor with wood? Sounds very, well, natural. But, could your wood floor be destroying forests? Well it could, but, it doesn’t have to.

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  • Added: May 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Keeping Sea Urchins in Check
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: June 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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An ecosystem is like a finely woven garment -- pull out one thread, and the entire thing might come apart. An unraveling, of sorts, happened off th...

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  • Added: May 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
New Plastics from Old Paint
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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.

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
RBI Highlights Conservation Needs
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Get in and get out! It works for the Navy Seals. So why not do the same with a crack team of scientists?

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Banking on Seeds
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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I don’t know if Santa Claus ever collected seeds, but one of his neighbors sure does.

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bacteria Super Power
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Batman step aside! You're no match for these polluting villains.

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Nature Provides Clues for Survival
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Believe it or not, sometimes, it’s a good idea to be “as cold as ice.”

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Beetle Juice
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The African Stenocara beetle has learned a thing or two about water conservation.

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Books vs. E-Readers
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Paper book or e-reader? Which is greener?

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Sinks
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Our oceans have had their fill of carbon dioxide! So says a significant new study from Columbia University. It reports that oceans no longer absor...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Smarter Electric Cars
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Tomorrow’s electric cars could get smarter, thanks to artificial intelligence and…well, military tanks.

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
That Sinking Feeling
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Here’s a curious problem. What should you do with old ships, trucks, subway cars, and even military tanks? For one company, California Ships to Ree...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Turtles
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Marine scientists recently launched a pilot study to track the elusive loggerhead turtle. Even though loggerheads are the most common sea turtle in...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Parking Lots
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There’s a move to put the "park" back in parking lots! Several universities have explored the idea, testing pavements that absorbs water but keeps ...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Water Rights
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Water conservationists might learn a thing or two from the oil industry. That’s right!

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Robofish
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Technology inspired by nature, to help nature. This led an engineer and a zoologist to create a fish-shaped robot...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Edible School
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In two New Orleans schools, the favorite course is...lunch! But, not for the reason you might think.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Better Packaging
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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t's difficult to imagine these days, with hermetically sealed food products everywhere, but there was a time when soda crackers were purchased out ...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Roof Gardens
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - 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.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fish Food
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Aw, c'mon. Building a lakeside getaway...hurts fish? That sounds...fishy.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bale House
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - 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.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Coral Reefs
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When you think of Hollywood bad guys -- say, the Joker in Batman -- they’re ‘bad to the bone.’ They try to take over the town, seize its good citiz...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Toolbox for Green Classrooms
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Hooray for building environmentally friendly schools! But what about improving existing ones?

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
West Coast Impact
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The U.S. West Coast took a stress test recently and things aren’t looking so good.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fire and Climate Change
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - 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...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1