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91. Environment Show #405

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 October 4
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
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1) Peter Berle reports on the reauthorization of the Superfund law. Report includes excerpts from a speech by Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, along with comments from Sarah Chasis, an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Mark Behan, spokesman for the General Electric Corporation, and Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana). 2) Steven Westcott reports on the results of groundwater tests for radioactive material in the Nevada desert. 3) Rachael Philips talks with Laurie Godfrey, professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, about her research in a Madagascar sink hole that contains fossils from extinct Lemur species. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Peter Ten Eyck, owner of Indian Ladder Farms in New York State, about harvesting apple crops. 5) Rachael Philips talks with scientists from Cal Tech, who are working with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet program, which is sponsored by the Office of Polar Programs at National Science Foundation, about conducting ice stream research in Antarctica. 6) Peter Berle talks with Dr. Robert Amler, Chief Medical Officer for the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry, Dr. Henry Faulk, Director of the Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects at the National Center for Environmental Health, and Dr. Steve Gaulson, Scientific Director for the Office of Children?s Health Protection at the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, about links between environmental conditions and childhood cancer. 7) Author Peter Jenkins reads an excerpt from his book, ?Along the Edge of America.?
Subject:
Apple growers, United States. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, Groundwater--Pollution--Nevada, and Lemur (Genus)

92. Environment Show #404

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 September 27
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 Sam Hamilton, acting Assistant Director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, about the Fish and Wildlife study on the disappearance of wetlands. 2) Steven Westcott talks with Dan Kimball, Atlantic salmon recovery specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Maine, Ed Baum, senior fishery scientist from Maine?s Atlantic Salmon Authority, and Bill Taylor, President of the Atlantic Salmon Federation, about efforts to place the Atlantic Salmon on the Endangered Species List. 3) Rachael Philips plays listeners? comments about dumping garbage in the ocean and logging in National Forests. 4) Peter Berle talks with Stuart Deutsch, professor of law at the Chicago -Kent College of Law, about legal redress against being exposed to cigarette/cigar smoke. 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Scott Flickinger, a park manager at Virginia?s Kiptopeke State Park, about bird watching. 6) Rachael Philips reports on the failed Senate vote to end government subsidies for logging roads. 7) Peter Berle talks with Tim Zorc, member of the National Association of Homebuilders and Chairman of the Homebuilders Subcommittee on the Endangered Species Act, and Roger Schlicheisen, President and CEO of the Defenders of Wildlife, about current legislation reauthorizing the Endangered Species Act. 8) Gordon Martin reports from a meeting of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. 9) Author SueEllen Campbell reads an excerpt from her book, ?Bringing the Mountain Home.?
Subject:
Bird watching?Virginia, Atlantic salmon, Wetlands--United States, and Cigarette smoke

93. Environment Show #403

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 September 20
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 Scott Holste, spokesman for the Missouri Attorney General?s Office, Charlie Arnot, Vice President of Communications for Premium Standard Farms, and Ralph Summers, Coordinator of the EPA?s Wastewater Discharge Program for the northern Missouri area, about the investigation into the waste discharge practices at Premium Standard Farms and the general problems associated with large-scale pig farms. 2) Lee Talbott discusses his role as a consultant for the World Bank?s dam project on the Nam Theun River in Laos. 3) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Elizabeth Richardson from Colorado Open Lands, a non-profit land trust, about efforts to preserve open land throughout Colorado. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jennifer Kaiser, Communications Director for the Lindsay Wildlife Museum, about tarantula mating season. 5) Eugene Sohn talks with Marva Ginrich, an outdoor recreation planner at the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge, and Bernd Blossey, Director of the Biological Control of Non-Indigenous Plant Species Program for the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, about efforts to control Purple Loosestrife, an invasive species, at the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. 6) Peter Berle talks with Mary Olson, a nuclear waste specialist for the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and Dale Klein, Associate Vice-Chancellor for the University of Texas System and a scientist at the National Research Center in Amarillo, about the First International Convention on Managing Spent Nuclear Fuel. 7) Lauren Cometeau reports from Holland about pig farms, pork exports, and impact of swine fever on local pig farmers.
Subject:
Land trusts?Colorado, Swine--Manure--Environmental aspects, Nam Theun River (Laos), and Tarantulas

94. Environment Show #402

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 September 13
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 Paul Hartfield, a biologist with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and George Folkerts, a professor of zoology at Auburn University, about the extinction of several animal species in Alabama?s Mobile River Basin due to damming of the Mobile River. 2) Rachael Philips talks with Dr. Lein, Director of the Diagnostic Laboratory at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, and Dr. Stone, a wildlife pathologist with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, about the efforts to vaccinate raccoons and other animal populations against rabies. 3) Producers play listeners? comments about energy, taxes, and hydrogen fuel. 4) Peter Berle talks with Pat Shea, the newly appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Land Management. 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle and Rachael Philips talk with Jerry Jerrold, acting Director of the National Hurricane Center, about hurricane season. 6) Peter Berle and Rachael Philips talk with Dick Rice, Senior Editor of Resource Economics at Conservation International, about sustainable forestry. 7) Peter Berle talks with guests, Mark Rey, staff member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Steve Holmer, a campaign coordinator for the Western Ancient Forest campaign, to answer listeners? questions about Senator Larry Craig?s (R-Idaho) proposals to change the way federal forests are managed. 8) Rachael Philips talks with Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel about their musical influences, and plays ?Bonsai Picnic? from their CD, ?In the Garden.?
Subject:
Rabies in animals?Vaccination, Public lands--United States?Management, Mobile River Watershed (Ala.), and Hurricanes

95. Environment Show #401

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 September 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) Nancy Marshall talks with members of Russia?s Green Party about their ideology and efforts to fund local level projects. 2) Peter Berle consults with Dr. Stephen Webster, Marine Science Advisor for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Bert Vescolani, Director of Education for the Shedd Aquarium, to answer listeners? questions about the role of aquariums in promoting education, activism, and research. 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Sandra Perez from the Department of Entomology at the University of Kansas, about migration patterns of monarch butterflies. 4) Steve Westcott talks with Jerry Casgrove from the Land Preservation Project, George Allen, a dairy farmer, and other residents from Easton, New York about their opinions on land use in the town and the decision to not build a nuclear power plant there. 5) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Mary Estes, Coordinator of the Arizona Site Steward Project, about the state?s efforts to train volunteers to monitor archeological sites in order to protect artifacts and petroglyphs. 6) Rachael Philips reports on the collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy, EPA, and Maytag to design a high efficiency washing machine to conserve water and energy. 7) Michael Ray Taylor reads an excerpt from his book, ?Cave Passages: Roaming the Underground Wilderness.?
Subject:
Monarch butterfly?Migration, Archaeological sites--Management, Green movement--Russia (Federation), and Aquariums

96. Environment Show #400

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 August 30
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 Professor Marvin Miller from the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about his visit to a nuclear reprocessing plant in La Hougue, France. 2) Peter Berle talks with Charles Terry, an electrical engineer from Phoenix Arizona, about separating carbon dioxide and hydrogen from fossil fuels. 3) Nancy Marshall talks with environmentalists from Green Peace in Moscow and officials from Russia?s Nuclear Safety Department about Russia?s nuclear power program and their efforts to construct ten new nuclear reactors. 4) Author Colin Fletcher reads an excerpt from his book, ?River: One Man?s Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea.? 5) Peter Berle talks with Bobby Bernett about his experiences as a thru-hiker on the Appalachian Trail. 6) As part of the continuing series on El Nino, Peter Berle talks with Peter Greenbaum, Vice President and Latin American economist for Smith Barney, about the economic impacts of El Nino on the Andean countries in South America. 7) Rachel Philips talks with Lester Brown from the World Watch Institute about his study, ?Agricultural Link: How Environmental Deterioration Could Disrupt Economic Progress.? 8) Peter Berle consults with experts Brian Dunkiel, Director of Tax Policy at Friends of the Earth, and Andrew Hoerner, Director of the Environmental Tax Program, to answer listeners? questions about taxes, the environment, and the new tax bill signed by President Clinton. 9) Recording of Vanessa Rubin?s song, ?Being Green.?
Subject:
Radioactive waste disposal?France, Nuclear reactors--Russia (Federation), Fletcher, Colin, and Fossil Fuels

97. Environment Show #399

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 August 23
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 Robert Stanton, the newly appointed Director of the National Park Service. 2) Peter Berle talks with John Cahill, Commissioner of Environmental Conservation for New York State, about the petition he filed under section 126 of the Clean Air Act to take action against Midwest utility companies. 3) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with a spokesman for the Critical Mass bicycling event in San Francisco. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Susan Roney Drennan, Vice President for Ornithology at the National Audubon Society, about the migration of Shore birds from the Arctic to South America. 5) Rachel Phillips talks with Arthur McKenzie, Director of the Tanker Advisory Center, about using hydrostatic loading to reduce the chance of oil spills. 6) Peter Berle talks with Joseph Golden, Senior Research Meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Director of the federal government?s Atmospheric Modification Program, and Tom Henderson, President of Atmospheric Sciences, about weather modification. 7) Recording of Fred Small?s song ?Hot Frogs on the Loose.?
Subject:
United States. Clean Air Act, Cyclists, United States. National Park Service., and Shore birds ?migration

98. Environment Show #398

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 August 16
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 Robert Socolow, professor and Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Princeton University, about separating carbon dioxide and hydrogen from fossil fuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 2) Peter Berle consults with experts Edward Norton, Vice President of Law and Public Policy for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and author of ?Reclaiming Our Heritage: What We Need To Do To Preserve America?s National Parks,? Sharon Buccino from the Natural Resources Defense Council, Alston Chase, author of ?Playing God at Yellowstone: The Destruction of America?s First National Park,? and Mark Boyce, Chair of Ecology in the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin, to answer listeners? questions about the conditions in and management of U.S. National Parks. 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Martin Uman, Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, about lightning. 4)Thomas Lalley visits the Living Technologies, LTD. sewage treatment plant in South Burlington, VT to learn about how they are using greenhouse facilities with flowering plants as an alternative method to treat sewage. 5) Peter Berle talks with J. Barlow, head of the Coastal Marine Mammal Program for the National Marine Fishery Service in La Jolla, California, about the effects of El Nino on marine mammals such as sea lions and harbor seals off the coast of California. 6) Michelle Corem talks with Edna and C.J. Elfont, authors of the book, ?Sand Dunes of the Great Lakes.? 7) Geoffrey Canada reads an excerpt from his book, ?Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America.? 8) Recording of the Talking Heads? song, ?This Must Be the Place,? from the CD, ?Speaking in Tongues.?
Subject:
Lightning, Sewage disposal plants, United States. National Park Service, and Fossil Fuels

99. Environment Show #397

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 August 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)Lee Farben talks with Ron Wolford, an educator with the Urban Gardening Program at the University of Illinois? Cooperative Extension Service, about the Farmers Market Nutrition Program (WIC) and the Cook County Jail?s Vegetable Garden Project. 2) Thomas Lalley talks with Dr. Kevin McGowan, Associate Curator of birds and mammals at Cornell University, about crow?s extended family groups and social structure. 3) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about the health and environmental aspects of seafood. 4) Mark Jenkins reads an excerpt from his book, ?To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger.? 5) Peter Berle talks with Alan McRobert, Associate Editor of Sky and Telescope Magazine, about the Perseid Meteor Shower. 6) Thomas Lalley talks with Gene Logsdon, author of ?The Contrary Farmer,? and ?The Contrary Farmer?s Invitation to Gardening.? 7) Peter Berle talks with Eric Holst from Rainforest Alliance?s Agricultural Certification Program, Paul Katzeff, CEO of the Thanksgiving Coffee Company and creator of Songbird Coffee, David Griswold, President and Founder of the Sustainable Harvest Coffee Company, and Jeffrey Parrish, a conservation ornithologist with the Nature Conservancy and the Wings of America Program about shade grown coffee. 8) Recording of ?We Belong to the Earth? performed by Kim and Reggie Harris and Magpie.
Subject:
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (U.S.), Meteor showers, Jenkins, Mark, 1958 Nov. 22-, and Crows

100. Environment Show #396

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 August 2
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 Don Kaplan from FXFowle Architects about designing the new Conde Nast building as an environmentally friendly skyscraper. 2) Peter Berle talks with Bill Becker, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy?s Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development about establishing a fleet of mobile solar panels to be deployed after a natural disaster. 3) Thomas Lalley talks with Anne Marie Borbely, an energy industry analyst with Frost & Sullivan, about distributed generation. 4) Michael Ray Taylor reads an excerpt from his book, ?Cave Passages: Roaming the Underground Wilderness.? 5) In the continuing series on the Great American Harvest, Peter Berle talks with Craig Moss about harvesting wheat in Nebraska. 6) Peter Berle talks with Dr. John Ehrenfeld, Director of the Technology, Business, and Environment program at MIT, about corporate culture and environmental management systems. 7) Peter Berle consults with experts Dr. Marion Moses from the Pesticides Education Center in San Fransisco and author of ?Designer Poisons: How to Protect Your Health and Home from Toxic Pesticides,? Bob Rosenberg, Director of Government Affairs from the National Pest Management Association, and Susan Whitney, entomologist and Pest Education Coordinator at the University of Delaware, to answer listeners? questions about pest control and toxic pesticides. 8) Recording of the Zucchini Brothers performing their song ?Bad Pollution? from the CD ?In Your Garden.?
Subject:
Taylor, Michael Ray, 1959-, Distributed generation of electric power, Skyscrapers--Environmental aspects, and Photovoltaic power generation