July 2010 - 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

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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New Orleans. Home to Dixieland Jazz, Mardi Gras, and some of the best fresh seafood you’ll ever eat. Shrimp etouffee. Oysters on the half shell. Wh...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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In the early 1980’s, it looked like the Pacific Northwest might lose all its old growth forests to logging. Enter, The Northwest Forest Plan.

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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The animated character Spongebob Squarepants is running loose on the ocean floor everyday of the week after school on the Nickelodean channel. And ...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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Farming has always been subject to the uncertainties of weather and market conditions. But farmers in Huron County, Michigan, have found something...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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Up in the air -- it’s a bird; it’s a plane; it’s a -- flying windmill?

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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Here’s a two-fer: A renewable fuel source that also reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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An umbrella is a handy thing to have around during a down pour. Likewise, an umbrella species protects other plants and animals that live in their ...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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If you don’t have time for gardening, you can still turn over a new leaf -- without turning dirt! That is thanks to farmers who offer personal agri...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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On top of everything else ailing Mother Earth these days, apparently she’s got gas. Lots of it. Specifically, carbon dioxide.

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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Too much of a good thing. We all know the hazards of that: too much fat, too much beer, too much chocolate...(Maybe not too much chocolate...)

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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Medieval alchemy -- you’ve seen it in the movies: A wizard-like figure hovers over a glowing vat adding mysterious ingredients in his quest to turn...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day’s carbon report. Carbon report?

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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Putting space heaters in caves might sound...well, batty. But it could mean survival for bats in 17 Eastern states.

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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Mangrove trees are simply amazing, in a sci-fi kind of way. They live in perhaps the most hostile plant environment imaginable -- a coastal war zon...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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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: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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The world’s rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate. But conservationists have a new trick that may help restore them. All it takes is so...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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It’s no news to anyone that Hurricanes’ can be devastating. Luckily, hurricane forecasting has improved a lot over the years. We owe much of that i...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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Don't flush! At least not your ship's ballast tanks. In port, cargo ships load tons of seawater into ballast tanks that add weight to balance the s...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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Wait! Stop! What’s that you’re throwing away? Each year, Americans dump nearly 180 million tons of trash into landfills according to the Environmen...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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Have you ever been really bugged by a new ding in your car, but weeks later, you barely noticed it? We all learn to tolerate negative changes by ad...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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