April 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.
22 Pieces
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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
The Soap and Detergent Association is cleaning up its act.
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
In 1900, America used eighty million acres of grassland to feed the thirty million or so horses and mules pulling America's wagons, buggies, and ca...
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Golf balls away, my boys, golf balls away...
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Ever been told you have feet of clay? How about feet of a beetle? Well now you can take that one as a compliment.
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Here's a question for you aspiring ornithologists out there. Why does the Spoon-billed Sandpiper have a spoon-shaped bill?
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The planting of trees on Arbor Day has become a cherished environmental tradition.
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Earthworms rate pretty low on the "cuddly" scale for most people, but they do something exceedingly well: they eat all kinds of trash and turn it i...
- 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
It took ten years, but one of the country's worst toxic waste sites is clean.
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
It's another conservation success? Maybe not.
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Things are going to the birds. Land that is...
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
For over 200,000 years, the Iriomote Cat lived in isolation on a tiny island between Taiwan and Japan. More recently, however, Iriomote Island has...
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
And it's Billie first off the beach. Billie, in the lead. And the winner -- Billie!
- Added: Mar 27, 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
Not satisfied to just talk the talk, the World Conservation Union is planning to walk the walk when it comes to its own environmental impact.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
In recent years, scientists have watched in dismay as large parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef have died off.
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they're...
- 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
Saving the puffins is a tough job. But folks in Maine miss the colorful little birds resembling miniature penguins that can fly.
- Added: Mar 26, 2008
- Length: 01:32
