Earth Beat on WSDL NPR News/Talk 90.7

Stories of sharing. We explain why not to look a gift horse in the mouth (especially when there's free energy at stake) and meet the people turning every bit of green space in their town - ditches, roundabouts, abandoned parking lots - into glorious edible gardens where the fruit and vegetables are for the taking.

We bring you stories from people who've gone above and beyond the basics, in one case, putting themselves through backbreaking hard work. Hear why, from people whose appreciation of this planet has led them to go the extra mile.

We go all arborophile, or tree-hugger, as we celebrate the joys of tree. What we use them for, how to climb them, how to chuck them out of an aeroplane... In-tree-gued? Listen to the show for more bad puns and all things tree.

Everything is not as it seems, as we explore the artificial world. From robots that plough the fields then scatter, to man-made coral reefs. Faking it for nature.

Necessary evils, like the tar sands in Canada. The fact is, we could use the oil, but is it worth the obliteration of a once-pristine forest landscape? Hear from a woman who treats her painful arthritis with yet more pain, and the man who kills rabbits, to save an ecosystem.