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We’ve celebrated Earth Day in the United States for more than 50 years. Today, we’re taking a look at what made the first Earth Day in 1970 such a ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 04:00
Last week we learned that individuals’ home water consumption doesn’t really make a dent in the water supply, and the benefit of personal water con...
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 03:37
Saving water might not seem all that important in a humid climate like Rhode Island. But actually, there are plenty of reasons why water conservati...
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 03:26
Today, we’re taking a look at how we dispose of our food. Next time you’re scraping a plate, should that food go into compost, your sink disposal, ...
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- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 1
oday, we’re talking about a new study from the University of Rhode Island about microplastics in the Narragansett Bay. We look into what the findin...
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- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
Today, we have a question from a listener named Susan. She wants to know about gift wrapping: “Is it better for the environment to wrap Christmas g...
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 2
We get a lot of questions about recycling, asking what to do with aluminum cans, glass, paper, or even plastic. All this has me wondering- when did...
- Added: Nov 10, 2022
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 2
I hope we all get all of our monsoon fixes this season. One of those for me and maybe you too will be toads calling from puddles.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:01
Today we’re answering a question from listener Molly Magid. She wants to know- what are the environmental impacts of space travel and how does it c...
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- Added: Jul 18, 2022
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 2
Why won't your teenager listen to you? Their brain. For real. Insert teenage eye roll here.
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- Added: Jul 14, 2022
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 2
I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and I’m not making this up, many yea...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 04:06
Harriet lived from around 1835 to 2006! She is believed to be one of the Earth's longest lived creatures ever recorded.
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- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 1
Imagine if you didn’t have a recycling bin anymore- You just put everything in the trash, but somehow the reusable stuff still got recycled? Some p...
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- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 04:01
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The Joshua tree is an icon and ecological keystone of the California deserts. However, climate disruption with hotter, drier summers and more frequ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 58:00
With the effects of climate change all around us, there's a push to power more of our lives with renewable electricity, including things that used ...
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- Added: May 12, 2022
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 1
I started my nursery/horticulture career in the spring of 1980 at Desert Trees Nursery northwest of Tucson. It was and still is a wholesale nursery...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:16
The riparian woodland Ms. Mesquitey and I were hiking in is at around 6,000 ft. in elevation. I think that may be the upper limits of the elf owls'...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:33
Two years ago, we aired an episode responding to a question from a listener named Monica. She wanted to know if it was possible to convert her gas ...
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- Added: Mar 21, 2022
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 2
Anyone who lives in groundhog country will have a woodchuck tale or two to tell. Growing up in Kentucky I sure did. At the University of Arizona in...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 03:47
One of the most magical moments of my childhood was when I first dug up potatoes in a garden and we later had some for dinner. I was awe struck! Th...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:59
You've heard of an ROV, a remotely operated vehicle. But did you ever think you'd see an FOV, a fish operated vehicle? Israeli scientists have atte...
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- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 04:56
- Purchases: 1
Our oceans are rising and taking over more land every year. Most governments try to fix this by blocking the water out and sealing the humans in. B...
- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 2
Today we’re answering a question from Cori Myers- she’s the sister-in-law of our founder Stephen Porder. She wants to know if the laundry detergent...
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- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
In 1978, Dr. Alexander Schauss and a research assistant mixed 1 gallon of white latex paint with a pint of shiny red and created P-618 aka Baker Mi...
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- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 05:06
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In recent episodes, we’ve talked a lot about electric cars, but we haven’t really spent time talking about what makes them work- the battery. What ...
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- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 03:45
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