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81. Environment Show #415

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 December 13
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) Peter Berle talks with Ellen Z. Harrison from the Cornell University Waste Management Institute, Steve Berman, a lawyer from Seattle, and Michael Shapiro, acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste Emergency Response at the EPA, about using sludge from sewage treatment plants as fertilizer. 2) Steve Westcott talks with officials from the Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant near Boston, MA, about the new equipment recently installed at this state of the art sewage treatment facility. 3) Peter Berle explains how a listener placed himself on junk mail lists and used the paper to heat his home with a converted furnace. 4) Rachel Phillips plays listeners? comments about population growth and the impact of immigration on environmental pollution. 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Bob Berman, author of ?Secrets of the Night Sky? and an astronomy columnist for Discover magazine, about the winter solstice. 6) Steven Westcott talks with Mark Hostetler, a zoologist with the University of Florida, about his book, ?That Gunk on Your Car: A Unique Guide to Insects of North America.? 7) Peter Berle talks with Gale Norton from the Coalition of Republican Environmental Advocates, and Victoria Simarano, a political analyst for the Sierra Club, about Republican politicians and the environmental movement. 8) Dick Noneley, an English professor at Berkshire Community College, reflects on hunting season.
Subject:
Advertising, Direct-mail--Environmental aspects--United States, Berman, Bob, Sewage disposal plants, and Sewage sludge as fertilizer--Environmental aspects

82. Environment Show #414

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 December 6
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 talks with Steve Brooke, Project Coordinator for the Kennebec Coalition, and Mark Isaacson, Vice President for the Edwards Manufacturing Company, about the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission?s decision to remove the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River. 2) Steve Westcott talks with Dudley Foster from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute about using the Alvin submarine to conduct deep sea research. 3) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Tom Ross, Assistant Director for the Recreation and Conservation Division of the National Park Service, about the Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance program. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Brett Miller, owner of the Christmas Tree Farm, about growing and pruning Christmas trees. 5) Peter Berle talks with John Pugioli, an irrigation engineer and Area Manager of Central Africa for Rangood International, about building canals with animal escapes. 6) Peter Berle talks with Scott Peterson, Senior Director of External Communications for the Nuclear Energy Institute, and Alco Piercemont, an energy policy analyst for the Public Citizen: Critical Mass Energy Project, about using nuclear power to reduce greenhouse emissions. 7) Author David Petersen reads an excerpt from his book, ?The Nearby Faraway: A Personal Journey Through the Heart of the West.?
Subject:
Christmas tree growing, Alvin (Submarine), Kennebec River (Me.), and United States. National Park Service.

83. Environment Show #413

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 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) Rachel Philips talks with Jim Lyons, Under Secretary of Natural Resources and Environment for the Department of Agriculture, and Peter Rooney, Secretary of Environmental Protection in California, about cleaning Lake Tahoe. 2) Peter Berle talks with Mike Yost, a forest instructor at Feather River College and author of the ?Quincy Library Plan,? and Roy Keen, a public interest forester for the Native Forest Council, about changing forest management policies to allow for natural burning in order to restore forest ecosystems. 3) Peter Berle discusses the environmental impact of junk mail and strategies to reduce it. 4) Steve Westcott talks with John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. about their book, ?The River Keepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right.? 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Roger Still from the Nature Conservatory?s Sandy Island Bald Eagle Sanctuary about migration patterns of Bald Eagles. 6)Steve Westcott investigates the death of dozens of Canadian Geese in Upstate New York due to lead poisoning, and talks with Ward Shone, a pathologist for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. 7) Peter Berle talks with Charles Lee from the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice, Roger Clegg, General Counsel for the Center for Equal Opportunity, and Melva J. Hayden, Environmental Justice Coordinator for Region Two of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, about environmental justice. 8) Author William Tapply reads an excerpt from his book ?A Fly-Fishing Life.?
Subject:
Cronin, John, 1950-, Advertising, Direct-mail--Environmental aspects--United States, Forest biodiversity--Effect of fires on, and Tahoe, Lake, Watershed (Calif. and Nev.)

84. Environment Show #412

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 November 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) Steve Westcott talks with Chris Yoder, Manager of the Ecological Assessment Unit for the Environmental Protection Agency in Ohio, and John Hull, President of Hull & Associates, about their plan to use experimental pellets called Aqua Block to cover sediment at the bottom of the Ottawa River in order to prevent additional PCB?s from entering the water. 2) Peter Berle talks with Gary Matlock, Director of the Office of Sustainable Fisheries, Kim Davis, Regional Fisheries Project Manager for the Center of Marine Conservation, and Patricia Fiorelli, Public Affairs Officer for the New England Fishery Management Council, about overfishing and revisions to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. 3) Rachael Phillips plays listeners? comments about automobile emissions. 4) Peter Berle talks with Barbara Pyle, environmental journalist and CNN?s environmental editor about receiving the United Nations Environment Programme Sasakawa Environment Prize. 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Mark Hostetler, ecology professor at the University of Florida, about insect hibernation. 6) Steve Westcott talks with scientists from the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean Project, which is supported by the National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research, about ice pack studies in the Arctic Ocean. 7) Peter Berle talks with Michael Webber, Special Assistant to the Director of the National Marine Fishery Service, and Joe McGonigle, Executive Director of the Maine Aquiculture Association, about the environmental impact of salmon farming. 8) Janet Anderson, correspondent for Radio Netherlands, reports on how the International Service for National Agricultural Research is using the Internet to disperse information to scientists in developing countries. 9) Peter Berle talks with musician Paul Winter, and plays tracks from his CD, ?Canyon Lullaby.?
Subject:
Polychlorinated biphenyls--Environmental aspects, Arctic Ocean Research, Overfishing, and UNEP Sasakawa Environment Prize

85. Environment Show #411

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 November 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) Peter Berle talks with Gregg Cooke, an environmental lawyer, Keith Cope, Joint Venture Manager for Broomfield Joint Venture, and Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk about Brownfield development in Texas. 2) Scott Westcott talks with Don Henley about the Walden Woods Project and his efforts to protect Walden Woods and Walden Pond from development. 3) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with contest organizers from the Prettiest Places in America Contest sponsored by the Paint Quality Institute, Better Homes and Gardens, and Architecture magazine. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Lynn Bennett from Bennett Turkey Farms about raising turkeys. 5) Rachel Philips talks with Bill Ziegler, Vice President of Conservation and Science for the American Wilderness Experience, and Roy Geiger, the National Wildlife Federation?s Coordinator for Education and Volunteer Programs, about nature centers and nature malls. 6) Peter Berle talks with Dan Stein, Executive Director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and Santas Gomez, a member of the organizing board for the Political Ecology Group, about the impact of immigration on the environment. 7) Steven Westcott talks with Carol Reed-Jones about her book, ?Green Weddings That Don?t Cost the Earth.?
Subject:
Brownfields, Henley, Don, Walden Woods Project, and Turkey industry

86. Environment Show #410

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 November 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) Peter Berle talks with Congressman George Miller (D-California) about the Interior Appropriations Bill. 2) Steven Westcott talks to Dr. Larry Liddle, a professor of marine biology at Long Island University, about slowing the spread of Caulerpa Taxifolia seaweed in the Mediterranean Sea. 3) Peter Berle talks with nature photographer Frans Lanting about his new book, ?Eye to Eye: Intimate Encounters with the Animal World.? 4) Peter Berle talks with Joe Ognibene, fishing columnist for the Niagara Gazette, about musky fishing in the Niagara River. 5) Bob Zanotti, a correspondent with Swiss Radio International, talks with scientists about Chlorofluorocarbon emissions from refrigeration units in developing countries. 6) Peter Berle and Susan Arbiter talk with Drew Caputo, a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Bob Szabo, Executive Director and Counsel for the National Wetlands Coalition, about the Clean Water Act and protection of wetlands. 7) Author Howard Frank Mosher reads an excerpt from his book, ?North Country: A Personal Journey.?
Subject:
Fishing--New York (State), Caulerpa taxifolia--Mediterranean Sea, Lanting, Frans, and Miller, George, 1945-

87. Environment Show #409

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 November 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) Peter Berle talks with Carol Browner, administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency and representative for the United States on the Committee on Environmental Cooperation, about the committee she serves on and their most recent meeting in Montreal. 2) Rachel Phillips talks with Richard Wilson, a senior research scientist for the Center for Climate Systems Research, Dr. Sallie Baliunas, an astrophysicist for the Harvard Smithsonian Center at Harvard University, and Dr. Alan Arching, an atmospheric physicist at John?s Hopkins University, about the impact of solar radiation on global climate change. 3) Steven Westcott talks with Jeanie Tomlinson, managing director of the Windstar Foundation, about co-founder John Denver?s vision for the organization. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Carl Safina, Vice President of the Living Oceans Project for the National Audubon society, about the migration patterns of fish and sharks off the coast of Long Island. 5) Steven Westcott talks with Nina Fascione from the Defenders of Wildlife and Mission Wolf about the organization?s efforts to gain public support for the reintroduction of wolves to the Adirondack Mountains. 6) Peter Berle talks with Andy Kerr, former Executive Director of the Oregon Natural Resources Council, and Pat Waak, Director of the Population and Habitat campaign for the National Audubon Society, about controlling growth, limiting sprawl, and making communities livable and sustainable. 7) Author Alison Hawthorne Deming reads an excerpt from her book, ?Temporary Homelands: Essays on Nature, Spirit, and Place.?
Subject:
Global warming, Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montre?al, Que?bec), Windstar Foundation, and Wolves

88. Environment Show #408

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 October 25
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) Steven Westcott talks with environmentalists who are urging Department of the Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to stop ARCO from drilling off the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. 2) Peter Berle talks with Debbie Lucas, an activist from the Coalition for China Left, about the blockade against the sale of old growth timber in the Siskiyou National Forest. Peter Berle also talks to Lisette Panna about the decision by the U.S. Forest Service to withdraw the sale. 3) Rachael Philips plays listeners? comments about the management of national parks and private use of federal forests. 4) Author Daniel Duane reads an excerpt from his book, ?Caught Inside: A Surfer?s Year on the California Coast.? 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with James Murakami, staff meteorologist in atmospheric science department at the University of California at Los Angeles, about the Santa Ana Winds. 6) Rachael Philips talks with Dr. Jim Howard, biology professor at Frostburg State University in Maryland, about a grant he received from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the U.S. Golf Association to study the ecological impact of golf courses on amphibian populations. 7) Peter Berle talks with Dr. Joseph Romm, acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for the Department of Energy, and William Niskanen, chairman of the Cato Institute, about the potential economic impacts of proposals to reduce green house gas emissions. 8) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Kirsten Gerhard, coordinator from Alabama?s Watchdog Campaign, about their efforts to reduce pollution.
Subject:
Forest reserves--United States?Management, Santa Ana winds, Duane, Daniel, 1967-, and Oil well drilling--Alaska--Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

89. Environment Show #407

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 October 18
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 talks with Dr. Vincent Garry, a professor and Director of Environmental Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota, about his research on the correlation between agricultural chemicals and birth defects. 2) Steven Westcott talks with Henry Linden, professor of energy and power engineering and management at the Illinois Institute of Technology, about his theory that temperature increases during the past century are attributed to the recovery from the Little Ice Age. 3) Rachel Philips reports that Ranger Rick Magazine, a publication of the National Wildlife Federation, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. 4) In the Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jim Aldrich, from the Jim Beam Nature Preserve and the Nature Conservancy, about fall foliage and the various tree species along the Kentucky River. 5) Rachel Philips responds to a report in E: The Environmental Magazine, and talks with officials from Wyoming, which was named the state with the lowest percentage of recycled materials by the magazine. 6) Peter Berle talks with Dan Becker, Director of the Global Warming and Energy Program at the Sierra Club and member of the Presidential Commission on Auto-Exhaust Emissions, and Dr. Richard Klimisch, an expert on alternative fuels and Vice President of Engineering Affairs with the American Automobile Manufacturing Association, about American automobile manufactures? reluctance to adopt new technology to reduce tailpipe emissions. 7) Author Colin Fletcher reads an excerpt from his book, ?River: One Man?s Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea.?
Subject:
Fall foliage, Ranger Rick books, Global temperature changes, and Agricultural chemicals--Health aspects

90. Environment Show #406

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 October 11
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 talks with Tom Simpson, professor and Coordinator of the Chesapeake Bay Agricultural Program at the University of Maryland, Michael Hirshfield, Vice President of Resource Protection at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and Tim Eichenberg, Program Council for the Center for Marine Conservation and Co-Chair of the Clean Water Network, about Pfiesteria Pescado, a single-celled organism emitting toxins in rivers surrounding the Chesapeake Bay. 2) Steven Westcott talks with Henry Kendall, professor of physics at MIT and a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Kelly Sims, Science Policy Director for Ozone Action, and Dr. Jane Lubchenco, professor of zoology and marine biology at Oregon State University, about global warming and climate change. 3) Naturalist John Weeks describes the Oak Orchard River in Orleans County, New York. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jim Bergens, Manager of the Jasper Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Center, about migration patterns of Sandhill cranes. 5) Peter Berle talks with David Western, Director of the Kenyan Wildlife Service and author of ?In the Dust of Kilimanjaro,? about the interdependency between humans and wildlife. 6) Peter Berle moderates a debate between Robert Bradley, President of the Institute for Energy Research and a scholar for the Cato Institute, and Paul Jefferiss, Director of Energy for the Union of Concerned Scientists and lecturer of stainable development at Tufts University; Peter Berle asks, ?is renewable energy expensive, environmentally counterproductive, and unsustainable?? 7) Rachael Phillips compares winter weather predictions from the National Weather Service to information in ?The Farmer?s Almanac,? and talks to meteorologists about the impact of El Nino. 8) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson, reports from the Clearwater (sloop), a movable classroom and laboratory, and talks with Christopher Bower, the Clearwater?s environmental educator.
Subject:
Global warming, Cranes (Birds), Orleans County (N.Y.), and Pfiesteria piscicida