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131. Environment Show #365

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 December 29
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
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1.) Host Peter Berle talks with two members of the show's advisor council, Idaho Senator Mary Lou Reed and Joan Davidson former head of the New York state Office of Parks of the Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, about the past year's environmental legislation and they look ahead to 1997. 2.) In the segment Portrait of a Place author Garrett Bowman talks about his evening winter walks in Nunda, New York. 3.) Berle talks with two other members of the show's advisory council, professor at the University of Washington at Seattle Brewster Denny and editor of Audubon Magazine Michael Robbins, about the past year as well as the year ahead. 4.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Dr. Steven Webster of the Monterey Bay Aquarium about kelp forests located along the Pacific coast.
Subject:
Kelp forest, Reed, Mary Lou, Environmental law--United States, and Nunda (N.Y.)

132. Environment Show #364

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 December 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 religious leaders about excessive consumption and the holidays. 2.) Thomas Lalley talks with Bob Lilienfeld, editor of the Use Less Stuff Journal, about the publication. 3.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Professor Owen Gingrich of Harvard University about the winter solstice. 4.) Gary Ferguson, author of "Spirits of the Wild: World's Great Nature Myths", reads a myth about how the first winter solstice came to be in Australia.
Subject:
Ferguson, Gary, 1956-, Lilienfeld, Robert M., Consumption, and Winter solstice

133. Environment Show #363

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 December 15
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
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1.) Host Peter Berle talks with Debbie Sprentz of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Wayne Brow of the Citizens for a Sound Economy about their differing views on the Environmental Protection Agency's newly proposed air quality standards. 2.) Berle talks with Greg Ward, owner of Ward's Nursery and Garden Center, about purchasing and caring for a living Christmas tree. 3.) Thomas Lalley reports from Poughkeepsie, New York, about an environmental education program called Eco Inquiry, that teahes children about the environment. 4.) In the segment Portrait of a Place, writer Julia King talks about a pond in Goshen, Indiana. 5.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Richard Lee, professor of zoology at Miami University, about the wood frogs' hibernation process.
Subject:
Air quality--Standards, Christmas tree growing, Goshen (Ind.), and Environmental education

134. Environment Show #362

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 December 8
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 Francis Etherington of Umpqua Watersheds, about the recent mudslide in Umpqua, Oregon and the reason she believed it occurred, clear cutting. 2.) Thomas Lalley talks with Craig Packer, author of "Into Africa", about his book and time in Africa. 3.) Lalley talks with Dr. Bruce Stein of the Nature Conservancy about the hemlock woolly adelgid, an invasive insect that could cause the extinction of hemlock plants. 4.) In the Earth Calendar segment, Berle talks with astronmer Bob Berman about the upcoming Geminids meteor shower.
Subject:
Packer, Craig, Hemlock woolly adelgid, Umpqua (Or.), and Meteor showers

135. Environment Show #361

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 December 1
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.) In the segment Talking Green, host Peter Berle discusses bovine growth hormone with professor of genetics Joe Cummins and Dr. Wayne Calloway of the Dairy Commission. 2.) Thomas Lalley talks with David Foster, director of the Harvard Forest, about deforestation and regrowth. 3.) In the segment Earth Calendar Berle talks with Kevin Ford about hand shearing sheep.
Subject:
Bovine growth hormone, Sheep-shearing, and Harvard Forest (Research facility)

136. Environment Show #360

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 November 24
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 wolf conference that was held in Albany, New York and talks with attendees including Richard Schlickheisen of Defenders of Wildlife. 2.) Kent Nerbern reads the story "Benediction" from his book "A Haunting Reverence: Mediations on a Northern Land". 3.) Host Peter Berle reports on the World Food Summit Conference in Rome and talks with attendee Dan Glickman about the conference. 4.) In the segment Earth Calendar Berle talks with Sarah Mitchell of the Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary in Georgia about Right whales.
Subject:
Right whales, World Food Conference (1996 : Rome, Italy), and Wolves

137. Environment Show #359

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 November 17
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 discusses the need for legislation to protect the albatross from long lines off fishing boats. 2.) Dick Nunley, professor at Berkshire Community College reads the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Coleridge. 3.) Jerry Dennis, author of "The Bird in the Waterfall", discusses a creek in Michigan. 4.) Thomas Lalley talks with Dr. Bill Weber of the Wildlife Conservation Society about how environmental degradation has played a part in the war in Rwanda. 5.) Berle talks with physicist Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute about hybrid cars. 6.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with researcher Larry Bryan about wood storks.
Subject:
Albatross, Dennis, Jerry, 1954-, Hybrid cars, and Rwanda--Environmental conditions

138. Environment Show #358

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 November 9
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 discusses a recent proposal to tax outdoor goods like binoculars and tents. 2.) In the segment Locking Horns David Jenkins of the American Canoe Association and Doug Enkley of the National Wildlife Federation discuss whether the outdoor goods tax should be initiated. 3.) Berle talks with educator and explorer Wil Steger about his trips to the Arctic region. 4.) Berle talks with the chief of the U.S. Forest Service Jack Ward Thomas, who recently announced his retirement. 5.) Thomas Lalley reports from the Land Trust Alliance Conference and talks with Jeff Roberts of the Landtrust. 6.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Cindy Thayer, owner of Dorthia Farm, an organic farm in Maine.
Subject:
Land Trust Alliance, Steger, Will, Thomas, Jack Ward, and Taxes

139. Environment Show #357

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 November 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.) Host Peter Berle talks with Lee Talbott, professor of Environmental Sciences at George Mason University, about the effects the Ertan dam in China may have on the environment. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports from Rochester, New York at a remanufacturing plant and discusses their positive environmental impact. 3.) Berle moderates a discussion on the effects of mountain biking on the ecology of hiking trails. 4.) In the segment Earth Calendar Berle talks with Dave Maginall of the Nature Conservance about the work he and a group of boy scouts are doing that involves planting acorns in Illinois.
Subject:
Dams-China, Acorns, Mountain biking, and Remanufacturing

140. Environment Show #356

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 October 27
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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Host Peter Berle talks with Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbit about his attempts to change the policies surrouding the regulations of dams. 2.) Thomas Lalley talks with Jean Hacker of the Land Trust Alliance about the work land trust organizations do to preserve land. 3.) Gary Ferguson, author of "Spirits of the Wild" tells a a story involving a nature myth. 4.) Berle talks with State Department attorney David Bolton about a new treaty that plans to regulate shrimping to better protect sea turtles. 5.) In the segment Earth Calendar Richard Martin of the Nature Conservancy discusses the endangered bald eagle.
Subject:
Ferguson, Gary, 1956-, Sea turtles Conservation, Babbitt, Bruce E., and Land trusts