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Dear Friend,
Welcome to our November Isla
Earth Radio Series e-Digest, an electronic publication
from the Catalina Island Conservancy.
Try your hand with an interactive jigsaw puzzle. Hint:
The final image is of a very interesting black and
yellow spider at home in its web on Catalina Island.
Click here, to start the puzzle fun!
(The puzzles are archived on our website for later
play.)
Do you have a nature picture that might make a
great jigsaw puzzle? Send us your story ideas, nature
pictures, or questions about conservation and the
environment by email to
islaearth@adelphia.net.
You can also hear Isla Earth radio shows online at
our
website
www.islaearth.org
and on radio stations throughout the U.S.
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With holiday entertaining, the dishes can pile up fast.
Can you save water with a dishwasher? Absolutely!
Here are a couple of tips for picking a dishwasher
that will really make your dishes shine and save a bit
of water as well.
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| The Return of the Wild Turkey |
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Roast turkey, a traditional Thanksgiving main course
has quite a history, sharing the land with such
creatures as the saber-toothed cat and the
Columbian mammoth. But the wild turkey nearly
disappeared. Hear about its remarkable comback.
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| The Barcoding of Life |
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Small snippets of DNA are going a long way to help
scientists identifiy indistinguishable species,
sometimes saving a rare species from extinction.
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| The Green Reaper |
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Conventional burial can put huge amounts of toxins
into the earth. So, what's a body to do? Hear about
the greenest way to go when you shuffle off this
mortal coil.
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WBAA-
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West Lafayette, IN
"I appreciate the clear and captivating manner in
which Isla Earth communicates with our listeners,
and
thus supports our mission of enriching lives through
education and engagement." David Bunte, Program
Director
WBAA-AM, West Lafayette, Indiana
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Indiana...
NICHES Land Trust is a natural-areas
conservation organization that owns and protects
over 2,000 acres of forests, wetlands and prairies in
northwestern Indiana. NICHES' restoration activities
include planting 120,000 trees on the Wabash River
floodplains. Its properties are open to public
for wildlife viewing; and they serve as educational
and research study sites.
Since 1991,
Sustainable Earth has operated as a not-for-
profit membership organization dedicated to the
development of sustainable family farming systems
and community food systems. Farmer and consumer
education emphasizes chemical-free farming
practices
on small, family operated farms that sell directly to
consumers. Our projects include an annual
conference, farm field days, a newsletter and the
Indiana Directory of Organic and Natural Food
Sources. Sustainable Earth operates a demonstration
farm that features organic agriculture, permaculture
design, an off-grid energy system and green buildings.
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