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That Sinking Feeling
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Here’s a curious problem. What should you do with old ships, trucks, subway cars, and even military tanks? For one company, California Ships to Ree...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Green Chocolate
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Goodbye, Willy Wonka, hello sustainably farmed chocolate!

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Turtles
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Marine scientists recently launched a pilot study to track the elusive loggerhead turtle. Even though loggerheads are the most common sea turtle in...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Parking Lots
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There’s a move to put the "park" back in parking lots! Several universities have explored the idea, testing pavements that absorbs water but keeps ...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Water Rights
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Water conservationists might learn a thing or two from the oil industry. That’s right!

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Robofish
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Technology inspired by nature, to help nature. This led an engineer and a zoologist to create a fish-shaped robot...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Feeding Ourselves
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If you’ve ever struggled to put dinner-for-four on the table, imagine trying to feed the estimated 9.2 billion people that will be on the planet 40...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Edible School
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In two New Orleans schools, the favorite course is...lunch! But, not for the reason you might think.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Low Carb Diet
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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A low “carb” diet: Good for us, and good for the planet. No, not carbohydrates but low carbon, as in eating foods that minimally impact our planet’...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Better Packaging
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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t's difficult to imagine these days, with hermetically sealed food products everywhere, but there was a time when soda crackers were purchased out ...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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King Crabs Go Deep
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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No crab wants to land in...hot water. And scientists are now discovering how true that is, since rising ocean temperatures could spell trouble for ...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Wild Horse Habitat Shrinking
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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He was smart and really funny. And as a TV personality, Mr. Ed the talking horse was a big hit in the 1960’s. Of course, horses can’t talk. Though,...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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The Talking Grey Parrot
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Alex was hatched without fanfare in 1976. But when he died in 2007, he was one of the most famous talking grey parrots on the planet. The reason? ...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Shrinking Deer
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Isolated on islands, large animals can become small like the pygmy mammoth, and small animals LARGE like the Galapagos Tortoise. Yeah, everything’s...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Roof Gardens
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Why be boring and plant your garden in the ground when there’s a whole world of gardening possibilities up on the roof.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fish Food
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Aw, c'mon. Building a lakeside getaway...hurts fish? That sounds...fishy.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Irrawaddy Dolphins
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Endangered species stories sometimes end happily. Take Southeast Asia's critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphin, also called the Mekong River dolphin.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Chinese Alligators
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Imagine China without...dragons. Not the paper kind, but real ones. Interestingly, the mythical Chinese dragon is based on a rare, and very real, “...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bale House
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Why build a house when you can grow one? So says sustainable building designers at Britain's University of Bath.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Biophilia: For Your Sanity
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Gnarls Barkley’s award winning song “Crazy” starts off with the lyrics, “I remember when I lost my mind.” Perhaps you can relate.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Coral Reefs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When you think of Hollywood bad guys -- say, the Joker in Batman -- they’re ‘bad to the bone.’ They try to take over the town, seize its good citiz...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Toolbox for Green Classrooms
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Hooray for building environmentally friendly schools! But what about improving existing ones?

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
West Coast Impact
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The U.S. West Coast took a stress test recently and things aren’t looking so good.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fire and Climate Change
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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We live on a flammable planet! Consider our forests: Vegetation that dries out seasonally. And our atmosphere? Oxygen! Add lightening strikes, volc...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Nice Lice
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Lice aren’t nice, unless you’re wild mice.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1