March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Series produced by Catalina Island Conservancy

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Fun, entertaining, science-based radio show exploring critical issues regarding our natural world.

Isla Earth, a production of the Catalina Island Conservancy, is a radio series exploring environmental issues of local, national, and global importance. Our mission is to increase ecological awareness, deepen understanding, and encourage environmentally sustainable choices.


21 Pieces

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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...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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So how much did you pay for that last electron? Probably a lot more than you think if you add in the environmental cost to make electricity.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
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Although less "charismatic" than whales, the Monkeyface, Threehorn Wartyback, and Pink Heelsplitter, deserve our attention too!

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Forget Chicken Little's paranoid delusions about the sky falling. With chicken litter, we really do have a problem.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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In 2007, seven rare silverback mountain gorillas were shot and killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park in three differen...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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How many environmentalists does it take to screw in a passive light bulb? None! And that's the beauty of it.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
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How now, brown cow? With digestive fluid you say? Along with some hay?

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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You don't have to an eco-activist to switch to solar power anymore. Just a savvy consumer.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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With wind turbines popping up all over the world, wind power is quickly becoming one of today's most popular renewable energy sources. But what hap...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Remember Pete Seeger's song, "Where have all the flowers gone?" He blamed their disappearance on young girls picking them.But with eight thousand f...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Like its name, the Echo Parakeet is bouncing back. And the Mauritius Wildlife Foundation couldn't be happier.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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The latest air pollution discovery reads like a murder mystery. Thousands died from strokes and heart attacks within 24 hours after jumps in partic...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
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Until now, fuel economy estimates on new vehicle stickers were about as believable as a used car salesmen. But all that's changing starting in 2008.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Remember these lyrics from Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi? "Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you got till it's gone?" Unfortun...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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By 1999, the Round Goby a harmless-looking little bug-eyed fish from the Black Sea, was found in all five of the Great Lakes. And it was wreaking ...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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If you ever need to shoo a herd of elephants out of your backyard, new research suggests that you may want to unleash: the bees!

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:29
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There's now a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, courtesy of climate change.

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Which is better? A picture perfect golf course, or a wild and wooly prairie?

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby.

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Hurricane Katrina demonstrated just how destructive wind and water can be. New research into the genesis of these powerful storms could help coasta...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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