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111. Environment Show #385

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 May 17
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
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1) Peter Berle talks with Representative Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) about his decision to reject legislation that would repeal parts of the Endangered Species Act. 2) Thomas Lalley talks with officials from the United States Environmental Protection Agency and spokespeople from General Electric about Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination in the Hudson River. 3) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Tony Delcavo, a United Airlines pilot who educates passengers about clear cuts in national forests while flying over the Bald Mountains. 4) Bill McKibben reads from his introduction to the 1997 re-release of ?Walden? by Henry David Thoreau. 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with farmers from eastern Missouri about the asparagus harvest. 6) Berle talks with Juanita Joyner, Director of Community Development at Isles, about bioremediation and using the Indian mustard plant to clean Brownfield sites. 7)Peter Berle talks with Jack Weinberg, senior campaigner for Green Peace, Kip Howlett, Vice President and managing director of the Chlorine Chemistry Council, and Dr. James Simons, professor of civil and environmental engineering, about the impact of chlorine on the environment. 8) Author Don Gayton reads a passage from his book, ?Landscapes of the Interior: Re-explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit.? 9) Folk musician Pete Seeger sings, ?My Dirty Stream,? from his album, ?Clearwater II.?
Subject:
General Electric Company, Endangered species--Law and legislation--United States, Clearcutting, and Polychlorinated biphenyls--Environmental aspects--Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J)

112. Environment Show #384

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 May 10
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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1)Thomas Lalley reports from Washington, D.C. about the debris, garbage, and raw sewage pollution in the Anacostia River. 2) Peter Berle talks with Charlie Barch, a senior policy analyst specializing in development at the Northeast Midwest Institute, and Juanita Joyner, Director of Community Development at Isles, about cleaning and re-developing Brownfield sites. 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Dan Gleason, biology professor at the University of Oregon, about migration patterns of swifts. 4) Report about proposed federal budget cuts for endangered species and wilderness areas. 5) Peter Berle moderates a debate between Rick Daniels, President of the Mine Reclamation Corporation, and Brian Hughes, Pacific Regional Director for the National Parks and Conservation Association, about the location of the proposed Eagle Mountain Landfill site near Joshua Tree National Park in California. 6) Peter Berle talks with 1997 Goldman Prize winner Terry Swearingen. 7) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson reports on the Close-line Plan to educate the public about the dangers of nuclear power. 8) Author Lee Hoinacki reads from his book, ?El Camino: Walking to Santiago De Compostela.? 9) Musical performance, ?River? from the Rankin Family?s CD, ?Endless Seasons.?
Subject:
Brownfields, Eagle Mountains (Calif.), Anacostia River (Md. and Washington, D.C.)--Environmental conditions., and Swifts

113. Environment Show #383

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 May 3
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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1)Thomas Lalley reports from Annapolis, Maryland on the anti-sprawl bill passed by the state?s legislature. 2) Peter Berle talks with Tim Wurman, Vice President of American Farmland Trust, and Deborah Bowers, author of ?Holding Our Ground: Protecting America?s Farms and Farmland,? about the loss of farmland throughout the country. 3) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about conserving gas, the BioBio River dams, and shad fishing in the Hudson. 4)Bill McKibben reads from his introduction to the 1997 re-release of ?Walden? by Henry David Thoreau. 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle visits vernal pools in Massachusetts. 6)Peter Berle talks with Carl Safina, head of the National Audubon Society?s Living Oceans program, about tagging tuna fish with tracking devices to log their movement and population trends. 7) Peter Berle moderates a debate between Nina Young, scientist at the Center for Marine Conservation, and Sam LaBudde from the Marine Mammal Fund, about changing the legal definition of dolphin-safe tuna. 8)Peter Berle talks with Dr. Jim Lee, Director of the Trade & Environment Database Project, about the impact and cost of trade restrictions. 9)Thomas Lalley talks with John Barry about his book, ?Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America.? 10) Recording of the Grateful Dead?s rendition of Johnny Cash?s song, ?Big River.?
Subject:
Vernal pools?Massachusetts, McKibben, Bill, Cities and towns?growth, and Land use, rural ?United States

114. Environment Show #382

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 April 26
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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1) Thomas Lalley talks with Stephen Leatherman, Director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research, and Espen Ronneberg, Minister Counsel from the Marshall Island?s Mission to the United Nations, about the effects of thermal expansion and rising sea levels on coastal areas around the world. 2) Peter Berle talks about nuclear power with Dr. Henry W. Kendall, Nobel Prize winning physicist and Chairman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prizing winning historian and journalist. 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Duncan Porter, a botany professor from Virginia Tech, about wildflowers in the Appalachian Mountains. 4) Berle talks with Howard Quigley from the Hornocker Wildlife Institute about their attempts to protect Siberian Tigers. 5) Berle talks with Lynn Salder, executive director of the Mountain Lion Foundation, Steve Touris from the California Department of Fish and Game, and Dr. Rick Hopkins, Senior Wildlife Ecologist at Harvey and Associates, about how the expanding human population in California continues to effect mountain lions (cougars). 6) Author Gregory McNamee reads a passage from his book, ?A Desert Bestiary: Folklore, Literature, and Ecological Thought from the World?s Dry Places.? 7) Barb Barton sings, ?Spring Time? from her album, ?From the Eye of the Hawk.?
Subject:
Global warming, Wild flowers--Appalachian Region, Hornocker Wildlife Institute, and Nuclear energy

115. Environment Show #381

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 April 19
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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1)Thomas Lalley visits the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ to talk with Tiwana Steward-Griffin, Head of Ironbound Committee Against Toxic Waste, and June Kruszewski, resident and founding member of Ironbound Committee Against Toxic Waste, about their efforts to prevent Bio Gro (subsidiary of WMX) from building a sludge processing plant in neighborhood. 2) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about overpopulation and ecotourism. 3) Thomas Lalley talks with Goldman Award winner, Juan Pablo Orrego, about his efforts to prevent the construction of another hydroelectric dam on the Biobio River in Chile. 4) Author Gregory McNamee reads a passage from his book, ?A Desert Bestiary: Folklore, Literature, and Ecological Thought from the World?s Dry Places.? 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Bob Gabrielson, President of the NYS Commercial Fisherman?s Association, about Shad fishing in the Hudson River. 6) Report about toxic pollutants in the Arctic. 7)Peter Berle talks with Mark Evans, Chief of Operations and Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Craig Williams from the Chemical Weapons Working Group, and Mary Hoinkes, General Counsel of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, about the Chemical Weapons Convention and destruction of chemical weapons. 8) Folk musician Robert Hoyt sings, ?It?s Quittin? Time on the High Tech Plantation,? from his album, ?Dumpster Diving Across America.?
Subject:
Environmental justice, Industrial sites--New Jersey--Newark, Bi?o-Bi?o River (Chile), and McNamee, Gregory

116. Environment Show #380

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 April 12
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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1) Thomas Lalley talks with scientists and government officials about global warming, climate stabilization, and the Kyoto Treaty. 2) Peter Berle talks with John Thornton from the U.S. Department of Energy?s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Don Osborne, Director of the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District, about photovoltaic solar panels and power generation. 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jean Francois Bertrand from the Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography about the annual Grunion run in Southern California. 4) Peter Berle talks with John Ryan, author of ?Stuff: The Secret Life of Everyday Things,? Alan Hammond, a program director for the World Resources Institute, and Dr. Albert Adriaanse, a senior counselor for the Netherlands Ministry of Environment, to discuss ways to reduce energy consumption. 5) Peter Berle talks with Paul Bray, an environmental and planning law attorney and fellow at the American Academy in Rome, about Italy?s efforts to create new national parks in order to meet European Economic Union (EEU) standards. 6) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson interviews Susan Tellem from American Tortoise Rescue. 7) Thomas Lalley talks with John Thornton about the solar energy system that powers the Orangutan Research Center in Borneo. 8) Folk musician Victoria Parks sings, ?I?m going Solar? from her album, "Sure Feels Like Home."
Subject:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). Protocols, etc., 1997 Dec. 11., Photovoltaic power generation, California grunion, and National parks and reserves?Italy

117. Environment Show #379

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 April 5
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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1)Peter Berle reports on the proposed agreement between Pacific Lumber Company owned by Maxxam, Inc., California, and the United States Government to protect land in Headwaters Forest. 2) Todd Jefferson Moore reads an excerpt from his one man show, ?In the Heart of the Woods.? 3) Bruce Berger reads an excerpt from his book, ?The Telling Distance: Conversations with The American Desert.? 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with officials from the African Conservation Center in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss the annual mass migration of animals in the region. 5) Thomas Lalley talks with experts to determine if fish hatcheries make environmental or economic sense. 6) Berle consults with Katrina Brandon, professor and consultant to the World Bank, and Craig Sully from International Expeditions to provide an overview of responsible ecotourism. 7) In the Then and Now segment, Richard Fort, resident of Laurence County, South Dakota describes the changes in the Black Hills region and ongoing problems with mining. 8) Folk musician Christopher Shaw sings, ?Once More A?Lumberin Go? from his CD, "Adirondack."
Subject:
Moore, Todd, Berger, Bruce, Headwaters Forest Wilderness (Calif.), and Pacific Lumber Company

118. Environment Show #378

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 March 26
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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1) Nancy Marshall interviews Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) about his environmental policy initiatives and his support for the construction of a temporary nuclear waste storage facility in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. 2) Peter Berle talks with Howard Lyman from the Humane Society?s Eating with Conscience campaign, Dr. Klapper, M.D., and Dennis Avery from the Center of Global Food Issues about the impact of meat based diets on the environment. 3) Roderick Nash, environmental studies history professor at University of California at Santa Barbara, reads a passage from his book, ?Big Drops: Ten Legendary Rapids of the American West.? 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, biologist Kenneth Clifton describes seaweed reproduction. 5) Thomas Lalley reports from Hawthorn Valley Farms in Ghent, NY about the growing movement for community supported agriculture. 6) Report discussing how cows affect the environment. 7) Thomas Lalley interviews Kent Whealy from Seed Savers Exchange about the organization?s mission to maintain heirloom plant varieties. 8) Lee Talbott discusses his role as a consultant for the World Bank?s dam project on the Nam Theun River in Laos. 9) Recording of Aaron Copeland?s composition, ?Simple Gifts.?
Subject:
Nash, Roderick, Livestock--Environmental aspects, Murkowski, Frank H, and Radioactive waste repositories--Nevada--Yucca Mountain

119. Environment Show #377

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 March 22
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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1) Host Peter Berle talks with Congressman George Miller (D-California), Chairman of the House Resources Committee, about the Public Resources Deficit Reduction Act and efforts to reduce corporate subsidies to resource industries. 2)Peter Berle talks with David Roodman from the World Watch Institute about his paper, "Paying the Piper: Subsidies, Politics, and the Environment," and Mike Orlando and Chris Douglass from the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University about their book, "Toward a Healthier Environment and Stronger Economy: How to Achieve Common Ground." 3) Author Don Gayton reads a passage from his book, "Landscapes of the Interior: Re-explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit." 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Berle talks with the owners of Durand Family Ponds and Farms in Louisiana about crawfish harvesting and rice fields. 5) Thomas Lalley talks with Joseph McGonigle about the environmental impact of aquaculture. 6) Stephanie Goitchman consults with experts to answer listeners' questions about paper recycling and indoor compositing. 7) In the Then and Now segment, Thomas Lalley talks with Bill Gartner from the University of Wisconsin at Madison about pre-Columbian communities and sustainable living practices. 8) Author Gary Ferguson reads a passage about Chehalis Indian folklore from his book, "Spirits of the Wild: The World's Great Nature Tales." 9) Folk musician John Prine sings "Paradise."
Subject:
Crayfish industry--Louisiana, Miller, George, 1945-, Subsidies--Environmental Aspects, and Gayton, Don, 1946-

120. Environment Show #376

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 March 15
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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1) Thomas Lalley reports on the proposed restructuring of the electric industry through consumer choice and competition. 2) Stephanie Goitchman consults with experts to answer listeners? questions about how to better regulate truck emissions. 3) Linda Anderson talks with Ron Renoni, a biology teacher and volunteer for the National Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey, about the New York State bald eagle population. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with experts about the Saw-whet owl?s hooting, mating, and eating habits. 5) Peter Berle interviews experts about ice in the Hale-Bopp comet. 6) Peter Berle consults with experts to answer listeners? questions about Green Funds (Investing). 7) Song from folk musician Alice Di Micele?s album ?Searching.?
Subject:
Diesel motor exhaust gas--Environmental aspects--Law and legislation, Bald Eagle ?North America, Northern saw-whet owl, and Electric utilities?United States