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Dear Readers,
Welcome to our November issue of the Isla Earth
Radio Series e-Digest.
Crossword Puzzle. This month our
puzzle is all about creature features. Like,
what's the eight letter name of a poisonous
creature that devours beetles in sugar cane
fields?
To start the puzzle fun, click
here.
| Batteries That Run On Sugar |
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We all know about the energy we get
from eating
a candy bar. But now sugar may soon power more
than just our bodies through an afternoon
slump.
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| Fooling Bats Restores Rainforests |
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Fake fruit sometimes looks so real you have
to touch it to know if it's plastic or not. It
seems the Amazon leaf-nosed bats have the
same trouble. Which is a good thing for
conservation efforts in rainforests.
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| Watts Up With CFLs? |
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Are they, or aren't they, environmentally
friendly?
Because Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFLs)
contain mercury, which is toxic, we had to know.
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| Mushrooms For Insulation |
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We like mushrooms in salads, on steaks, in
omlettes, and even as a replacement burger.
But how about a fungus for insulting your
home or office? It's a startup business that
it's owners hope will, well, mushroom.
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| Old-Fashioned Mower |
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In looking forward to more environmentally
friendly
products we can sometimes go to the past for the
solution. Old-fashioned? Maybe, but push mowers
have their advantages.
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Reading it will inspire you to become an
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Annenberg Foundation's Blue Planet
Initiative, and produced by the Catalina Island
Conservancy, because Earth is an Island.
About the Catalina Island Conservancy...
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Marfa, Texas
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CONNECT with Nature and Conservation
efforts in Texas...
The Native Prairies Association of Texas is a
non-profit land trust dedicated to the
conservation,
restoration, and appreciation of native
prairies,
savannas, and other grasslands in Texas. Less
than 1% of the original 20 million acres of
Texas' beautiful tallgrass prairie remains.
This organization protects prairies through
acquisition,
partnerships, and by accepting donations of
conservation easements and property to
protect native
prairie in perpetuity. They restore native
prairie on their
own land, and promote restoration on other
private and
public lands to benefit the native plant
communities,
grassland birds, and other prairie wildlife
of Texas.
They also provide informational resources and
advice to
assist restoration.
The last of Texas' native bighorns were gone
by the
early 1960's. Initial efforts at restocking
wild sheep
met with failure and were abandoned. Then in
1981 a
small group of bighorn supporters formed the
Texas
Chapter of the Foundation for North American
Wild Sheep and the Texas Bighorn Society, and
began
an intense lobbying effort to obtain support
for the re-
introduction effort in the Texas Legislature
and with the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission. These two
groups later merged under the auspices of the
Texas
Bighorn Society. Today, nearly 600
bighorns roam
seven locations in the mountains of West
Texas, but
the story is not over. The organization is
dedicated to returning
bighorns to all their native ranges in the
state, which
would raise those numbers to more than 1500.
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