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331. Environment Show #62

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1991 March 10
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 Bruce Robertson talks about the recent efforts to recycle the steel from Iraqi tanks. 2.) Robertson talks with Sharon Newsom, of the National Wildlife Foundation, about the Foundation's protests against President Bush's recent proposal to open up parts of a refuge in Alaska for drilling. 3.) Robertson talks with Robert Couric, a water use consultant, about the drought in California and ways in which citizens all over the nation can cut down on water consumption. 4.) Robertson talks with Robert Grossman about his new book of poetry entitled "The Animals".
Subject:
Alaska, Recycling & reusing, Grossman, Robert L., 1954-, and Water use

332. Environment Show #61

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1991 March 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 Bruce Robertson reports on the controversy surrounding President Bush's recent energy policy and interviews proponents on both sides of the issues. 2.) Robertson discusses the issues surrounding Sioux reservation land that is being set aside to be a landfill. Roberts talks to two members of the Sioux, each on different sides of the argument.
Subject:
Waste management, Sioux Nation, and Energy policy--Environmental aspects

333. Environment Show #60

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1991 February 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. Host Bruce Robertson talks with Buck Wynne of the Texas Water Commission about the state's need for better waste management policies. 2.) Robertson talks with Congressman Calvin Dooley about what contributed to California's drought as well as possible solutions to the problem. 3.) Robertson talks with Eileen Evans of the National Hydropower Organization, about benefits of hydropower as well as the various roadblocks it faces.
Subject:
Droughts--California, Waste management, and Hydropower development

334. Environment Show #59

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1991 February 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.) Dave Foach reports from Wisconsin about the effects of road salt on the environment. 2.) Correspondent Scott Schegel reports on Denver's use of oxyfuels and the controversy surrounding their use. 3.) Robertson talks with author Michael Tobias about his book "Voice of the Planet, as well as actor William Shatner who stars in the television adaptation of the book.
Subject:
Salt--Environmental aspects, Tobias, Michael, Shatner, William., and Fuel--Oxidation.

335. Environment Show #58

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1991 February 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.) Host Bruce Robertson talks with Dr. James Burkett about desalination and its uses in the U.S. 2.) Robertson talks with Dennis Chase, executive editor of Advertising Age magazine, about their recent poll that found almost 80% of respondents identify as environmentalists. 3.) Robertson interviews Senator Richard Bryan from Nevada about his new Auto-mileage Bill, which would make an attempt to decrease the country's oil consumption/reliance.
Subject:
Environmentalists., Desalination and water purification, and Bryan, Richard H.

336. Environment Show #48

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1990 December 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.) Bruce Robertson discusses the recent clean up of the Rainy River, once considered to one of the most polluted in the world, with Rainy River Control Board members. 2.) Joy Newell talks with Andy and Kate Lipkus, founders of Tree People, about their work planting trees. 3.) Bruce Robertson interviews Dr. Carl Sagan about the Earth's place in the universe as well human's effect on the environment and our use of fossil fuels.
Subject:
Tree People, Rainy River, and Sagan, Carl

337. Environment Show #42

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1990 October 21
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.) Joy Newell reports on the controversy surrouding Prop 128, a proposal in California to preserve old growth redwood forests, increase taxes on oil companies, and reduce automobile carbon emissions. 2.) Bruce Robertson talks with John Pike, a lawyer in Oxford, North Carolina, who is fighting a recent proposal to set up a waste incinerator in his county. 3.) Interview with Michael Jones, a pianist, whose music is on the recent Wilderness Collection album. Jones discusses how he is able to show his love of the environment through music.
Subject:
Jones, Michael, Proposition 128, and Waste Incinerator

338. Environment Show #41

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1990 October 14
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 Bruce Robertson talks with Beth Zilbert of a Missouri public interest group about environmental initiatives in the upcoming elections. 2.) In Los Angeles Joy Newell talks with eco home owner Julia Russell about her goal to share her environmental activism with others. 3.) Robertson talks with Michael Norling of the Institute for International Cooperation and Development about recent trips some of their members have made to Mozambique to help plant trees. 4.) Robertson talks with Jeffrey Amestoy, attorney general of Vermont, about his work on the Environmental Enforcement Agency finding and punishing those who commit crimes against the environment
Subject:
Enforcement of law, Mozambique, Eco-Home Network, and Environmental policy

339. Environment Show #38

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1990 September 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.) Host Bruce Robertson talks with Judith Rolls, publisher of the Delaware State News and Ron Baker, president of U.S. Printing Ink Inc., about recent experiments with using soybean ink in newspapers. 2.) Bruce Robertson talks with Professor Gregory Noll about the California Air Resources Board's recent South Coast plan that proposes using alternative fuels for automobiles. 3.) Bruce Robertson plays clips from a recent symposium at Middlebury College that discussed examining the environment and environmental problems from both a theological and ethical perspective. 4.) Bruce Robertson ends by mentioning a recent bill that pushes for a study to be done looking into how an Arizona observatory is impacting local wildlife.
Subject:
South Coast Plan, Religion, and Soybean Ink

340. Environment Show #37

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1990 September 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.) Joy Newell reports from Los Angeles on the recent efforts of citizens to stop aerial spraying of the pesticide Melathion, and interviews Joel Wax, a councilman, about the issue. 2.) Dan Brody interviews Professor Bernard Neville about his textbook on environmental science. 3.) A poem "The Pasture" by Robert Frost is read. 4.) Host Bruce Robertson interviews Bill Rodgers, head of solar power company Power Kinetics, about his company's role in the future of solar power.
Subject:
Power Kinetics, Inc., Pesticides, Frost, Robert, 1874-1963, and Environmental science