June 2014 - 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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Emission-Free Ride
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - 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...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Greenlight For Saiga?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember playing with animal match books? By flipping the left- or right-hand pages you could match the picture of an animal's head with its body. ...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Futures For Future Species
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - 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...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Be Environmentally Friendly In This Life And The Next
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It's possible to be eco-friendly in this life and the next, with "green," or, "natural" burials. Bob Butz, author of "Going Out Green," describes t...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Pizzeria Takes The LEED
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - 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.

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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A Greener Cleaner
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Soap and Detergent Association is cleaning up its act. A recent conference that included officials from the Consumer Product Safety Commission,...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Flea Beetles
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Montana ranchers will tell you non-native plants are tough to wrangle. And getting rid of them? Even tougher.

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Dissolving Golf Balls
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - 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...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Roofs And Rainwater
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Wilma and Fred Flintstone lived in a flat-rock-roofed house. That's how Hanna-Barbera built them back in the cartoon stone-age. Nowadays, with the ...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Lava Flows Are For The Birds
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - 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...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Mowing Grass, Green
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember mowing your grandparent's lawn with a push mower? Back then, the older generation had push mowers. Everyone else was into power. Muscle ca...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Car Wash
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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That classic American pastime, washing the family car, might soon get washed down the drain. Some communities struggling with water pollution, and ...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Tailpipe Carbon Recycling
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - 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...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 4
Healthier Cities
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The shape of our cities might be determining...the shape of our bodies. Several recent studies conclude that sprawling, car-dependent communities c...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Green Reaper
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Have you ever thought of using your loved ones as compost? Uh, I'd better explain...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Shade Trees Save Money
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Cool lemonade under a shade tree? Priceless. Well, not quite priceless. Shade has a value, and it's a lot more than a lemon. How much? Researchers ...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Where’s The Beef?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Economist Nathan Fiala of the University of California at Irvine has a beef...about beef. Specifically, he's concerned about the impact producing b...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
We All Benefit From Biodiversity
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The business of conservation -- preserving and protecting an ecosystem and all of the plants and animals in it -- is often characterized as interfe...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Green Office Buildings Turning Gold
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Eco-friendly office buildings aren't just green, they're gold. Why? Because they are profitable!

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Ice Melts Create New Shipping Passage
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There's now a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, courtesy of climate change. Rising temperatures are melting more and more Arctic se...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3