July 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Series produced by Catalina Island Conservancy
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.
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There are plans underway to eliminate waste in our nation’s parks. One cup at a time.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Americans love potatoes. Fried, baked, steamed, boiled, and broiled. On average, each of us scarfs up about 140 pounds of this delectable tuber a y...
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
"Unleaded, super unleaded, or tree fungus." It could be an option someday!
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Have you ever opened a pdf file? Or used slick software like PhotoShop to manipulate images? Just a click or two with the trusty mouse, and it’s by...
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
What happens to our consumer electronics after they've served their useful life? Discarded computer monitors often get shipped to Asia or Africa.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The common reed looks harmless as it waves in the wind of America’s wetlands. But, this exotic plant is one of nature’s most effective invasive sp...
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
When rain refills a dried out pond, life soon returns to normal. Frogs croak, algae grows and dragonflies dart back and forth. But that’s only part...
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Imagine a conventional, gas-powered car, with no carbon emissions. I mean, absolutely zero.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
It may not be plain to see “we’ve got a tiger by the tail” -- as the song Buck Owens made popular insists. But we do seem to have ’em right where ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Believe it or not, just two generations ago, it was unheard of not to recycle glass beverage bottles. Today, that idea itself is getting recycled.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
What to do you get after you empty a barrel of fermented beer or whiskey? Besides a hangover, that is.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
As eco-friendly furniture makes the transition from small specialty shops to mass market merchandisers, one thing is becoming clear. Green comes in...
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
If you can't stand the heat…hang in there? That's what some species are doing in response to climate change.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
In the groovy 60s we were singing “Where have all the flowers gone?” Could a day come when we’ll sing the same about the honeybees?
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
That classic American pastime, washing the family car, might soon get washed down the drain.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
While hydrogen is being touted as the environmentally friendly fuel of the future, a pair of Penn State engineers believe the future may be closer ...
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Are you wasting your...waste? A company called RecycleBank says: maybe! So they've come up with a high-tech way to encourage people to recycle...by...
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Alternative fuels are more environmentally friendly than petroleum products, right? Actually, that’s not always the case.
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The Book of Life: That book in heaven with the list of names? Well, biologists on earth have started their own version.
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Businessman Tom Herlihy has eight million employees -- eight million, hungry, little red worms, that is. And keeping this work-force fed is a full-...
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
