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201. Environment Show #500

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 July 31
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
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Description:
1) Peter Berle presents a debate about the expansion of Vail Mountain in colorado to accommodate a ski slope at the expense of endangering the habitat of a Lynx species. Jonathon Staufer of Colorado Wild, Porter Wharton, spokesperson with Vail resorts and environmentalist Emily Wolfe guest. 2) Peter Berle discusses electrical generation from coal plants with Vermont senator, Jim Jeffords. 3) An environment quiz. 4) Author Susan Zwinger reads from her book, The Last Wild Edge: One Woman's Journey From the Arctic Circle to the Olympic Rain Forest. 5) Peter Berle talks about insect surveys in Wisconsin. 6) Peter Berle interviews Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura. 7) Peter Capella of Swiss Radio International speaks with Chris Flavin of the World Watch Institute about the effect global warming is having on disaster relief efforts.
Subject:
Vail Mountain, Coal Plants, Colorado, and Lynx

202. Environment Show #499

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 July 24
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 discusses the Florida Everglades Restoration Plan with Michael Davis, deputy assistant secretary of the army, Malcolm Wade, senior vice president of U.S sugar and Bob Graham, U.S senator. 2) Steven Westcott discusses the conservation of the endangered peregrine falcon with Bill Burnham, founder of the Peregrine Fund. 3) An update on the Weyerhauser purchase of the Macmillan-Bloepel timber company. 4) Leah Fleming and co-founder of West Harlem Environmental Action, Peggy Shepard, discuss the group's mission and impact. 5) Peter Berle presents his Earth Calendar segment on organic vegetables in Colorado and the squash bug. 6) Steven Westcott speaks with David Crockett of the Chattanooga Institute for Sustainability and councilman Yuseef Hareem about urban renewal of Chattanooga. 7) Peter Berle discusses urban renewal programs in the U.S with Randy Croxton of the Croxton Collaborative and Professor of environmental studies, David Orr.
Subject:
Timber, Florida Everglades, Urban Renewal, and Peregrine Falcon

203. Environment Show #498

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 July 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) Steven Westcott discusses the Weyerhauser Timber Company's acquisition of Macmillan Bloedel with Bruce Amundson, spokesperson with Weyerhauser and Charlie Raines of the Cascade Checkerboard Project (Sierra Club). 2) Peter Berle presents a segment on the origins of life. He discusses dust from outer space with Wayne Roberge, researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and with George Flynn, Astrobiophysicist from SUNY Plattsburgh. 3) Author W.D Wetherell reads from his book, One River More: A Celebration of Rivers and Fly Fishing. 4) Peter Berle talks about native and non-native plants blooming in the Canyon Grasslands of Idaho in his Earth Calendar segment. 5) Steven Westcott leads a debate on the environmental nuisances of jet skis with Paul Hanson of the Izaak Walton League. 6) Peter Berle talks about appropriation bills in his Green Tip segment. 7) Leah Fleming discusses the invasive Nutria with Mike Slattery of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Subject:
Wetherell, W.D., Logging Rights, Dust,planetary, and Clear cutting--Environmental aspects

204. Environment Show #497

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 July 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) Steven Westcott discusses the EPA's risk management program and the exclusion of worst case scenario data with Tim Fields, assistant administrator with the EPA and Jeff Van of the Chemical Manufacturers Association. 2) Linda Anderson presents a segment on declining shad stocks in the Hudson River. 3) Ann Zwinger reads from her book, The Mysterious Lands: A Naturalist explores The Four Great Deserts of the Southwest. 4) Peter Berle discusses the planet Venus. 5) Peter Berle leads a discussion on citizen's right to take legal action against polluters with Reed Hopper, principal attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation and John Echeverria of the Georgetown Environmental Law and Policy Institute. 6) Roy Probert of Swiss Radio International presents a segment on the Zurich Zoo in Switzerland.
Subject:
Clean Air Act, Environmental Protection Agency, Shad, and Disasters

205. Environment Show #496

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 July 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) Peter Berle discusses Salmon fishing rights between the U.S and Canada with Canadian negotiator, Donald McCrae and U.S deputy negotiator with the U.S National Marine Fisheries Service, Larry Rutter. 2) Linda Anderson presents a segment on the Congo Gorilla exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. She speaks with James Doherty, Curator at the Bronx Zoo. 3) Linda Fleming talks about Tree Utah, a learning resource for planting trees in urban areas. 4) Peter Berle talks about Loggerhead Turtles in South Carolina. 5) Peter Berle discusses the impact of dam removal on migratory fish with Steve Brooke of the Kennebec Coalition and Margaret Bowman, Director of Hydropower Programs at American Rivers. 6) Peter Berle gives tips on non-toxic ways to kill fleas. 7) Steven Westcott discusses global warming and the Larsen B ice shelf breaking away from Antarctica. Ted Scambos, research scientist with the University of Colorado guests.
Subject:
Bronx Zoo, Trees, Salmon, and Gorillas

206. Environment Show #495

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 June 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) Steven Westcott , Cornell professor of Entomology, John Losey and Margaret Mellon of the Union of Concerned Scientist discuss the health risks of BT corn. 2) John Elkington and Peter Berle discuss environmental practices of businesses. 3) Author David Peterson reads from his book, Elkheart: A Personal Tribute To Wapiti and Their World. 4) Peter Berle talks about edible wild plants. 5) Peter Berle and John Burns of Goathill Organics discuss the organic agriculture industry and the process of certification for organic foods. 6) Peter Berle talks about the Asian Longhorn Beetle infestation. 7) Steven Westcott and David Jude, research scientist discuss the Round Goby which feeds on the Zebra Mussel, an invasive species.
Subject:
Novartis, GMOs, Organic Certification, and Organic Agriculture

207. Environment Show #494

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 June 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) Peter Berle speaks with Timothy Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation, about a $1 Billion donation from Ted Turner. Timothy Wirth reflects on his first year as president. 2) Susan Arbetter reports on the new hall of biodiversity exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. 3) Nancy Lord reads from her book, Green Alaska: Dream from the Far Coast. 4) Peter Berle speaks with Richard Martin with the Louisiana Nature Conservancy about alligators in Lousiana 5) Peter Berle, Paul Simon, director of the Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University and Kenley Brunsdale with the Center for Middle East Peace discuss the fresh water crisis in the middle east. 6) Peter Berle makes some recommendations for energy efficient appliances. 7) Steven Westcott speaks with Howard Bluestein, Professor of Meteorology, about how tornadoes form, tornado chasing and how tornadoes are predicted.
Subject:
Lord, Nancy, Biodiversity, American Museum of Natural History, and United Nations Foundation

208. Environment Show #493

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 June 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) Steven Westcott and John Robinson of the Wildlife Conservation Society discuss bush meat and the commercial trade of wild meat. 2) Peter Berle, Tom Kiernan of the National Parks Association and Destry Jarvis of the Nationals Recreation and Park Services talk about urban sprawl and funding for national parks. 3) Peter Berle interviews Deane Peterson, professor of astronomy and James Kasting, professor of geoscience on the subject of interferometry in discovering properties of planets. 4) Peter Berle presents a segment on white orchids in South Dakota. 5) Steven Westcott reports on the 51st meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Grenada and Richard Mott of the World Wildlife Fund talks about resistance to whaling laws from Japanese attendees. 6) Peter Berle and Greg Whetstone of the Natural Resources Defense Council discuss Al Gore's Livability Agenda. 7) Don Ogden reads from his essay, The Road We Travel.
Subject:
Bush Meat, Nationals Parks, Central Africa, and Interferometry

209. Environment Show #492

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 June 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) Steven Westcott and Dan Chang, professor of Environmental engineering discuss the health risks of Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE)s in ground water. 2) Peter Berle speaks with John Moulder, oncologist and Libby Kelly with the Council on Wireless Technology about the environmental and health risks of cell phone towers. 3) Peter Berle discusses the American national park system. 4) Steven Bodio reads from his book, On the Edge of the Mind: Passions and Pleasures of a Naturalist. 5) Peter Berle and Dr. Stephen Kress discuss the success of the puffin project in Maine. 6) Linda Anderson presents a segment highlighting tensions in Gramercy Park where resident Aldon James protests the removal of trees. 7) Peter Berle speaks with Tim Townsend of the University of Florida, Peter Yost of the Homebuilders Research Center and Nevin Cohen of Inform Inc. about recycling, construction waste and the state of landfills. 8) Callers.
Subject:
Alaska, Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE), Cell Phone Towers, and National Parks

210. Environment Show #491

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 May 29
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 discusses the prevalence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the breast milk of native Alaskan mothers. 2) Steven Westcott speaks with ecologist Marc Abrams and arborist Donald Leopold about red maple trees. 3) Nancy Wilson reports on the relationship between Sandhill Cranes and the farmers of Othello, WA. 4) Peter Berle reports on organically grown cucumbers and produce. 5) Peter Berle speaks with oceanographer Mia Tegner about underwater kelp forests in California. 6) Peter Berle discusses the relationship between environmental stress and political instability. 7) Author Gary Ferguson reads from his book ?Shouting at the Sky: Troubled Teens and the Promise of the Wild?.
Subject:
Red Maple Trees, Sandhill Cranes, Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP), and Organic Farming

211. Environment Show #490

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 May 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 speaks with Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface Inc. about sustainability in production of textile products. 2) Steven Westcott and Barbara Mahoney of the National Marine Fisheries Service discuss the dwindling numbers of Beluga Whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet. 3) Peter Berle and Lynn Margolis discuss Gaia Theory. 4) Peter Berle discusses warblers migrating to Michigan. 5) Steven Westcott discusses the de-regulation of the electrical power industry and the implementation of a new ?merchant plant? on the Hudson River. 6) Peter Berle interviews Mike Brown, Economist with North Carolina State University and Danny McKinney of Burley Tobacco on the topic tobacco settlements have had on tobacco farming. 7) Calls from listeners.
Subject:
Beluga Whales, Sustainability, Gaia Theory, and Cook Inlet

212. Environment Show #488

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 May 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 discusses new federal law seeking to protect over-fishing of endangered sharks. Guests: David Wilmot, National Audobon Society; Sonja Fordham, Center for Marine Conservation; Rebecca Lent, National Marine Fisheries Service; Ecologist Carl Safina; and Bob Jones, Southeastern Fisheries Association. 2) Shawn Dudley reports on the emergence of ?hog farms? in Montana. 3) Steven Westcott and Dr. Tim O'Brien discuss the ecological impact of wildfires and its effect on wildlife. 4) Steven Westcott speaks with Rob Hicks of the Santa Rosa Ecological Center about wildflowers blossoming in Southern California. 5) Steven Westcott and Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan discuss the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) and the potential cooling effect that pollutants in the Indian Ocean are causing. 6) Peter Schwartz of the Ayn Rand Center and Kalee Kreider with Green Peace debate environmentalism. With Peter Berle. 7) Author Anne Eales reads from her book, Living By The Bugles
Subject:
Wildfires, Sharks, Sword Fish, and Hog Farms

213. Environment Show #487

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 May 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 and Alex Likhotal, President of Green Cross International, discuss the environmental effects of warfare in Yugoslavia. 2) Peter Berle speaks with Linda Descano, Vice-President of Environmental Affairs with Solomon Smith Barney and Alyssa Gravitz, representative of Social Investment Forum, about environmental impact and corporate investing. 3) Steven Westcott reports on the effect La Ni?a in Florida with Terrance McElroy, Press secretary for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. 4) Peter Berle speaks with Cal Lewis of Lewis Nursery and Farms about strawberry picking in North Carolina. 5) Yvonne Margarula and Yvonne Katona, winners of the 1999 Goldman Environmental Prize speak with Steven Westcott about protecting land in Kakadu, Australia from mining companies. 6) Peter Berle discusses the environmental impact of globalization and trade with Carol Welsch of Friends of the Earth and James Sheehan of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. 7) Alan Kesselheim reads from his book, ?Threading the Currents: A Paddler's Passion for Water?.
Subject:
World Bank, War, La Nina, and Yugoslavia

214. Environment Show #486

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 April 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) Peter Berle and Jane Goodall discuss Dr. Goodall's ?Roots and Shoots? program and how individuals can contribute to ecological conservation. 2) Steven Westcott talks about the Habitat Conservation Plan 3) Peter Berle speaks with chemist, Dr. Leslie Orgel about molecular reproduction on primitive earth. 4) Peter Berle speaks with science writer Andrea Gianopoulos about viewing Mars. 5) Steven Westcott and Joe Eastman, professor of anatomy discuss 4 new species of fish discovered in Antarctica. 6) Peter Berle, Dr. Henry Li, Dr. John Moulder and Libby Kelly debate the health effects of electromagnetic radiation and cell phone towers. 7) Naturalist John Weeks reads his essay ?ecological message in city lights?.
Subject:
Orgel, Leslie, HCB (Habitat Conservation Plans), Mars, and Shoots and Roots

215. Environment Show #485

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 April 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) Steven Westcott discusses the environmental impact and health risks of PCBs. 2) Steven Westcott talks about the resurgence of the California Gray Whale and illegal whaling. 3) Linda Anderson interviews the ?Bear Woman of Idaho? who rehabilitates orphaned black bear cubs and releases them back into the wild. 4) Peter Berle talks about the mating ritual of the Blue Footed Boobie. 5) Peter Berle and University of Alabama musical director, Jeff Reynolds, discuss Spring themes in classical music compositions by Antonio Vivaldi and Franz Joseph Haydn. 6) Peter Berle interviews Dr. Jane Goodall about her research and advocacy with Chimpanzees in Tanzania. 7) Steven Westcott takes calls from listeners about solar energy.
Subject:
Gray Whales, PCBs, Blue Footed Boobies, and Black Bears

216. Environment Show #484

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 April 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) Steven Westcott discusses the seven salmon species which have been listed as either threatened or endangered in the Pacific NW, 2) Peter Berle reports on efforts to produce certified/organic/shadegrown coffee, 3) Peter Berle talks about the anniversary of Earth Day with Dennis Hayes, 4) In the Earth Calendar Peter Berle reports on bald eagles nesting in southern Illinois, 5) Steven Westcott reports on the rebounding population of green turtles in the Caribbean, 6) In the Talking Green segment Peter Berle discusses a new management plan for timber sales from Tongas National Forest in Alaska, 7) William Leacock reports on his experiences with brown bear poachers on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.
Subject:
Coffee, Salmon, Endangered species--Pacific Coast (U.S.), and Earth Day

217. Environment Show #483

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 April 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) The disappearance of wetlands around the Great Lakes is discussed by Steven Westcott, 2) In the Origins of Life series Peter Berle talks about the formation of the earth's moon, 3) Linda Anderson reports on Recycline a comapany which makes recycled toothbrushes, 4) In the Earth Calendar Peter Berle reports on the end of the maple sugar season, 5) Steven Westcott talks with an engineer from IBM about that company's manufacturing of computer cases from recycled plastics, 6) In the Talking Green segment Peter Berle talks about the loss of farmland acreage in the U.S., 7) In Greentips Peter Berle talks about how to remove dandelions from your lawn without using pesticides and chemicals, 8) Craig Lambert reads from his book "Mind over Water."
Subject:
Great Lakes Region (North America), Life on earth, Wetlands, and Moon

218. Environment Show #482

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 March 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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1)Sean Dudley reports on developments in producing hybrid cars, 2) Steven Westcott discusses Home Depot's commitment to sell certified lumber, 3) Richard Dunnelly talks about skunk cabbage and reads a poem by William Bronk, 4) In the Earth Calendar segment Peter Berle talks about shad migration to spawning areas, 5) In the Talking Green segment Peter Berle discusses developments in solar energy products, 6) Peter Berle travels down the Irawaddy River in Myannmar.
Subject:
Forest products--Certification, Home Depot, Hybrid cars, and Swamp cabbage

219. Environment Show #481

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 March 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) Peter Berle reports on the anniversary of Three Mile Island and the regulations and training that were put in place afterwards to prevent a recurrence, 2) Steven Westcott reports on a storm chaser group at the Univ. of Missouri, 3) David Helvarg reads from his essay " A Day on the Water," 4) In the Earth Calendar Peter Berle reports on the nesting of prairie chickens in Texas, 5) Steven Westcott reports on the 1999 "Green Guide to Cars and Trucks," 6) In Talking Green Peter Berle talks with two people about environmental journalism - print and broadcast, 7) Updates on issues, 8) Listener comments.
Subject:
Prairie chickens, Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa.), Storm chasers, and Green guides

220. Environment Show #480

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 March 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 reports on dolphins dying due to pcbs in their blubber, 2) Sean Dudley reports on Jan Schlichtman, the lawyer depicted in the movie "Civil Action," who believes that mediation, rather than litigation, will solve environmental cases, 3)Peter Berle talks with Jim Napoitano of RPI about the makeup of human bodies which contain materials from outer space, 4) In the Earth Calendar Peter Berle reports on lambs being born on his farm in western MA, 5) Steven Westcott reports on the diminishing lobster population in Rhode Island and efforts to restore the population, 6) In the Talking Green segment Peter Berle talks about the 10th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill and efforts to insure that it doesn't happen again, 7) David Quammen reads from his book "Wild Thoughts from Wild Places."
Subject:
Polychlorinated biphenyls, Dolphins, Environmental law, and Schlichtmann, Jan

221. Environment Show #479

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 March 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 about the impact of a U.S. Court of Appeals decision shutting down logging on Forest Service lands in the southeastern U.S., 2) Steven Westcott reports on overfishing of cod on George's Bank, 3) a memorial to Henry Kendall an American physicist who was one of the founders of the Union of Concerned Scientists, 4) listener comments, 5) In the Earth Calendar segment Peter Berle reports on picking iceberg lettuce in Arizona, 6) Steven Westcott talks with Steve Brill an urban forager who searches urban parks for edible plants, 7) In Talking Green Peter Berle reports on slaughterhouses, 8) author Myron Arms reads from his book "Riddle of the Ice."
Subject:
Logging, United States. Forest Service, Cod fishing (Atlantic cod), and Georges Bank

222. Environment Show #478

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 February 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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2019-02-07T00:42:59Z
Description:
1) Steven Westcott discusses the interstate shipment of garbage from NYC to Virginia, 2) Peter Berle reports on possible environmental impact from possible computer malfunctions during Y2K, 3) Peter Berle reads from his essay on Myannmar "A Place to Talk," 4) In the Earth Calendar segment Peter Berle reports on the great horned owls, 5) Steven Westcott talks about environmental careers, 6) In Talking Green Peter Berle reports on green investing, 7) In Ear to the Ground Linda Anderson reports on the nonviolent training offered to ecowarriors by the Ruckus Society.
Subject:
Interstate commerce, Y2K problem (Computer systems), Myanmar, and Garbage

223. Environment Show #477

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 February 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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2019-02-07T00:42:38Z
Description:
1) Steven Westcott talks about the environment impact of backyard methamphetamine labs, 2) Peter Berle talks with a microbiologist about bacteria in hot springs in Yellowstone National Park, 3) Merrill Gilfillan reads from "Chokecherry Places," 4) Peter Berle talks about the diamondback rattlesnake in the Earth Calendar, 5) Steven Westcott describes the Green Scissors report about the 1999 federal budget, 6) Peter Berle reports on efforts to control and regulate diesel exhaust fumes in Talking Green, 7) Susan Emmett reports on desertification on the African continent.
Subject:
Yellowstone National Park, Diamondback rattlesnake, Bacteria, and Methamphetamine--Environmental aspects--United States

224. Environment Show #476

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 February 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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2019-02-07T00:42:17Z
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1)Peter Berle discusses the environmental initiatives in the federal budget for 1999, 2) Steven Westcott reports on the impact of gambling casinos on the environment in Southern Mississippi, 3) Linda Anderson reports on the efforts of the Surf Rider Foundation to keep the oceans and beaches clean for surfers and other in the Ear to the Ground segment, 4) Peter Berle talks about Punxsutawney Phil, 5) Steven Westcott talks with Greg Sauers a builder of traditional wooden canoes, 6) In Talking Green Peter Berle talks with proponents and opponents of ski resort expansion on U.S. government land, 7) Peter Berle talks about feeding deer in winter in Green Tips, 8) T.A. Barron reads from "To Walk in Wilderness."
Subject:
Budget--United States, Mississippi, Gambling casinos, and Environmental protection

225. Environment Show #475

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 February 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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2019-02-07T00:41:56Z
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1) Peter Berle continues a discussion of the impact of armed conflict on the environment and steps that the U.S.military is taking to mitigate that, 2) Peter Berle talks with Lester Brown of the World Watch Institute, 3) Steven Westcott reports on issues affecting Russian brown bears on the Kamchatka Peninsula, In the Earth Calendar Peter Berle reports on the harvesting of red and pink grapefruit, 5) Steven Westcott reports on British Columbia forestry official who resent boycott of their forest products by various corporations, 6) In Talking Green Peter Berle asks whether or not we have preserved enough wilderness land, 7) Jerry Dennis reads from "The River Home."
Subject:
Environment, Brown, Lester, 1934-, Economic development, and War

226. Environment Show #474

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 January 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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2019-02-07T00:41:35Z
Description:
1)Peter Berle talks about the environmental consequences of war, 2) John van Koske reports on threats to Connecticut family farms, 3) Steven Westcott reports on listener comments, 4) the Earth Calendar segment is a report on ice fishing in Lake Winnibigoshish Minnesota, 5) Sean Dudley reports on Mexican gray wolves and human predation, 6) In Talking Green Peter Berle discusses the need to strengthen or weaken the Endangered Species Act, 7) William Tapply reads from "A Fly Fishing Life."
Subject:
Environment, Ice fishing, Agriculture--Connecticut., and War

227. Environment Show #473

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 January 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) Steven Westcott talks with Dr. James Megan of NIAID about the use of satellites to track deer mice in studying hanta virus, 2) Peter Berle reports on the state of the Alaska brown bear (grizzlies) on the Kenai Peninsula, 3) Linda Anderson reports on efforts to limit development in the American Southwest, 4) Steven Westcott describes pirate perch breeding along the Savannah River, 5) Steven Westcott talks about the purchase of forest lands from Champion, 6) In the Talking Green segment Peter Berle talks about sustainable development with Paul Ehrlich and others, 7) Linda Hasselstrom reads from her book Leaning into the Wind.
Subject:
Kenai Peninsula (Alaska), Brown bear--Alaska, Hantavirus, and Satellite tracking

228. Environment Show #472

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 January 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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Description:
1) Steven Westcott discusses efforts to save old growth forests by a coalition of multinational corporations and environmentalists, 2) Peter Berle reports on efforts by advocates in Maine and New Hampshire to create a national park in each of those states, 3) Shawn Dudley reports on efforts to use DNA evidence to catch poachers in Maine, 4) the Earth Calendar segment reports on eastern tiger salamanders breeding in Maryland, 5) In Talking Green Peter Berle asks what items the Clinton administration should put on its environmental agenda for the rest of its term, 6) Peg Millett, an Earth First member, talks about her time in jail and her use of music and song to protest environmental issues.
Subject:
National parks, Old growth forests--British Columbia, Poaching, and DNA identification

229. Environment Show #471

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1999 January 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 Wilson reports on controversial efforts to remove 4 dams from the lower Snake River to promote salmon migration, 2) Peter Berle talks with astronomer Paul Butler abut recent discoveries of stars with orbiting planets, 3) Luis Urrea reads from his book Nobody's Son, 4) the Earth Calendar segment is about pecan harvesting in Georgia, 5) In Talking Green Peter Berle talks with three Environment Show advisers about the need for attitude changes to save the planet, 6) Green Tips is about saving water in your home, 7) Steven Westcott reports on proposed new mileage regulations for SUVs and light trucks.
Subject:
Extrasolar planets, Urrea, Luis Alberto, Pecan--Georgia, and Salmon--Spawning--Snake River (Wyo.-Wash.)

230. Environment Show #470

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 December 28
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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2019-02-07T00:40:11Z
Description:
1) Peter Berle revisits issues discussed on the program in the past year, 2) Steven Westcott reports on the impact of global warming on Alaskan glaciers, 2) Linda Anderson reports on the efforts of Save Our Cumberland Mountains, 3) Nancy Wilson reports on the adoption of a pack of wolves by the Nez Perce Indians in Idaho, 5) Peter Berle talks with the mayor of New Orleans about enhancements to the city, 6) In Talking Green Peter Berle talks about urban sprawl, economic growth, and land use.
Subject:
Electric utilities Deregulation, Cumberland Mountains, Wolves, and Glaciers Alaska

231. Environment Show #469

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 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) Shawn Dudley reports on efforts to control the Asian longhorn wood boring beetle in the U.S., 2) Steven Westcott reports on the use of nuclear explosion technology in detecting lightning over oceans, 3) Peter Berle talks with Dr. John Bradley about a meteorite fro Mars, 4) In the Earth Calendar setment Peter Berle reports on flamingos in Bolivia, 5) Dorian Jones reports on shipping water from Turkey to Cyprus, 6) Peter Berle talks about the land trusst movement in Talking Green, 7) Steven Westcott reports on the repurposing of Christmas tress to create offshore brush fences.
Subject:
Asian longhorned beetle, Lightning, Flamingos, and Meteorites

232. Environment Show #442

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 June 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) Peter Berle talks with Lynn Goldman about the global to control persistent organic pollutants (pops), 2) Rachel Ann Goodman reports on the Ocean Conference held in Monterey, CA which proposed a moratorium on offshore drilling until 2012, 3) Peter Berle recommends consolidated shopping tips in Green Tips, 4) the National Guard's role in environmental protection, 5) In Earth Calendar Peter Berle describes harvesting wheat in Kansas, 6) Steven Westcott reports on a colition of religious groups formed to protect forests, 7) In Talking Green Peter Berle disucsses wht environmental impact of offroad vehicles, 8) William Langeweische reads from his book Sahara Unveiled
Subject:
Offshore drilling for oil, PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS, Ocean pollution, and Dioxins--Environmental aspects

233. Environment Show #441

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 June 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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Description:
1) Peter Berle talks with scientists about underground nuclear testing in India and Pakistan, 2) Steven Westcott reports on the environmental imact of El Nino, increased algal blooms, 3) Peter Berle reports on neutrinos, 4) In Ear to the Ground Linda Anderson reports on the Friends of the Earth's campaign to reduce the number of SUVs, 5) In Earth Calendar Peter Berle talks about the increased visitation to the U.S. national parks, 6) Steven Westcott reports on the plan to build a newspaper recycling plant in the South Bronx, 7) In Talking Green Peter Berle talks with scientists about the efforts to protect whales, 8) Rick Bass reads from his work "Where the Sea Used to Be."
Subject:
El Nino Current--Environmental aspects, Underground nuclear explosions--India, Underground nuclear explosions--Environmental aspects, and Underground nuclear explosions--Pakistan

234. Environment Show #440

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 June 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) Steven Westcott reports on the impact of fires burning in Mexico on monarch butterfly habitat, 2) Peter Berle discusses the impact of overexploitation of Indonesia' environmental resources on its economy and environment, 3) Laurel Blossom reads her poetry about Florida, 4) In the Earth Calendar segment Peter Berle talks about orchids blooming on acreage near Woodstock, VT 5) Steven Westcott reports on wolves in Denali Nat'l Park and talks with Dr. David Meech, 6) In the Talking Green segment Peter Berle describes the dangers of lead paint in older houses, 7) the Green Tips portion reports on bats in your house, 8) Listener comments on recent shows
Subject:
Indonesia--Environmental conditions, Chimalapas Region (Mexico), Slash and burn cultivation, and Monarch butterfly

235. Environment Show #439

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 May 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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2019-02-07T00:38:29Z
Description:
1) Steven Westcott describes the attempt by a Canadian company to sell water from Lake Superior, 2) Peter Berle talks about the death of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas an advocate for the Florida Everglades, 3) In the Ear to the Ground segment Linda Anderson talks with members of Save our Cumberland Mountains about their efforts to obtain economic justice and protect their environment, 4) In Earth Calendar Peter Berle describes the migration of bowhead whales to the Beaufort Sea, 5) Steven Westcott discusses ecofriendly packaging developed by Earth Shell Corp. 6) In Talking Green Peter Berle discusses climate change and the Kyoto Accord, 7) Ann Zwinger reads a passage about the Chihuahuan Desert from her book The Mysterious Lands
Subject:
Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, Lake Superior, Water rights--Great Lakes (North America), and Everglades (Fla.)--Environmental conditions--History

236. Environment Show #438

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 May 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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Description:
1) Peter Berle discusses the Superfund Act, its lack of reform, and $650 million in funds no longer available, 2) Steven Westcott reports on Chippewa Indians in Minnesota who must farm raise perch and other fish because the stocks in Red Lake are depleted, 3) Eric Butner reports on the environmental impact of buying and owning exotic pets, 4) the Earth Calendar focuses on squash harvesting in South Carolina, 5) John Carlson reports on his trek on the Appalachian Trail, 6) Peter Berle talks with doctors about environmental factors affecting asthma in Talking Green, 7) Peter Berle reports on using reel lawn movers in Green Tips, 8) Steven Westcott summarizes listener comments to recent programs
Subject:
Chippewa Indians, Superfund, Browner, Carol M. (Carol Martha), 1955-, and Red Lake (Minn.)

237. Environment Show #437

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 May 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) Peter Berle discusses the growth of China and its impact on its and the world's environment, 2) Peter Berle discusses the removal of 29 animals from the Endangered Species List, 3) Steven Westcott describes a collective of Tramp of Folk Artists in Troy, NY, 4) In the Earth Calendar segment Peter Berle describes the migration and other habits of Mexican free tailed bats, 5) Linda Anderson talks with Alan Durning of the Northwest Environment Watch about the possiblity of substituting a pollution tax for income tax, 6) Peter Berle leads a discussion of fuel cells in the Talking Green portion, 7) Anne Eales reads from her book "Army Wives on the American Frontier"
Subject:
Free-tailed bats, Endangered species--United States, Tramp art United States, and China--Environmental conditions.

238. Environment Show #436

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 May 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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2019-02-07T00:37:25Z
Description:
1) Peter Berle discusses the making of paper from hemp and knaf with David Crane of Crane & Co., 2) Steven Westcott talks about the relationship among acorn production, white footed mice, white tail deer and Lyme disease, 3) Nancy Wilson reports on part 2 of her feature on overfishing in the Channel Is. off Santa Barbara, CA, 4) In the Earth Calendar segment Peter Berle talks with Peter Dunwoody about the varieties of wildflowers blooming on the San Juan Is. in the Puget Sound, 5) Steven Westcott talks with author Susan Cohn about her book "Green at Work," 6) Peter Berle talks with Sheldon Richmond and Diane D. Ridgely about whether or not economic incentives should be implemented to support smaller families, 7) Peter Berle provides tips to protect yourself from Lyme disease-carrying deer ticks, 8) Maya Angelou reads two poems
Subject:
Crane and Company, inc., Dalton, Mass, Hemp industry--United States, Kenaf, and Lyme disease--United States

239. Environment Show #435

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 April 28
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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2019-02-07T00:37:04Z
Description:
1)Steven Westcott talks with Carl Pope of the Sierra Club about the club's vote not to support immigration limits, 2) Nancy Willson describes a plan to create a no-take marine reserve around the Channel Is. Off Santa Barbara, CA 3) Peter Berle interviews author Jon Plaut about the relationship between corporations and environmental concerns, 4) Earth Calendar - Peter Berle describes the spring migration of whooping cranes from Alberta Canada to Texas, 5) Linda Wilson profiles John Carlson who is through-hiking the Appalachian Trail, 6) Talking Green - a discussion of the overtaking of lobsters from the waters off the coast of Maine, 7) Steven Westcott talks with Dr. Peter Fong about his research on the effects of Prozac on the sex lives of fingernail clams
Subject:
Immigration, Overfishing, Population control, and Channel Islands (Calif.)

240. Environment Show #434

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 April 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) Peter Berle discusses the plant life report about plant species extinction from the World Conservation Union, 2) Steven Westcott reports on freshwater mussels and their role in freshwater ecosystems, 3) Peter Berle talks about the recycling of Vietnam-era napalm by the U.S. Navy and its use as a fuel in cement kilns, 4) the Earth Calendar segment has a report on Vidalia onion harvesting, 5) Steven Westcott talks with Timothy Braylauer abuot the ancient meteorite that hit the Yucatan peninsula, 6) In Talking Green Peter Berle discusses the cleanup of nuclear waste from the Rocky Flats, CO, weapons production site, 7) Alan Weisman reads from his essay on Gaviotas Columbia
Subject:
Napalm, Biodiversity, Plants Extinction, and Freshwater mussels--United States

241. Environment Show #433

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 April 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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Description:
1) Peter Berle discusses the pros and cons of becoming a Superfund site with citizens of Pittsfield, MA, 2) Estella Leopold, daughter of Aldo Leopold, reflects on her father's work 50 years after his death, 3) Comments on Earth Day from Dennis Hayes and Linda Anderson reads from Sand County Almanac, 4) the Earth Calendar segment describes Bison calving, 5) Steven Westcott reports on the effects of deforestation with David Wright, 6) Peter Berle discusses genetically engineered crops w/ natural pesticides with Richard Helmich and Jane Risler, 7) James Calcoon discusses Earth Day and Aldo Leopold
Subject:
Pittsfield (Mass.), Leopold, Estella B, Superfund sites, and Leopold, Aldo, 1886-1948

242. Environment Show #432

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 April 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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System Modified Dtsi:
2019-02-07T00:36:01Z
Description:
1) Discussion of the ICE T Highway bill for highway construction, 2) Peter Berle discusses the reintroduction of Mexican gray wolves to the Apache National Forest with Wendy Brown of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 3) Steven Westcott talks with David Scoule about a program of environmental monitoring in the Amazon Rainforest, 4) the Earth Calendar segment has a piece on grizzly bears and black bears coming out of hibernation in Glacier National Park, 5) Steven Westcott interviews Jack Nasser about the visual appearance of cities, 6) In Talking Green Peter Berle describes the problems with pvc pipe (pre1977) discharging harmful vinyl chloride into drinking water, 7) Author David Noland reads from his essay about climbing Mount Kiliminjaro
Subject:
Mexican gray wolf, Highways, Apache National Forest (Ariz.), and Intermodal transportation

243. Environment Show #431

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 March 31
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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System Modified Dtsi:
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Description:
1) Federico Pena (Secretary of Energy in the Clinton Admin.) talks about the proposal to deregulate electricity and the potential impact of this on the environment, 2) Steven Westcott reports on fires in the Amazon forest in Brazil, 3) the Green Tips segments discusses how to conserve water in the use of home toilets, 4) Richard Nunnelly reads from an essay on the coming of spring in New England, 5) The Earth Calendar segment describes the migration of songbirds, 6) Peter Berle reflects on Love Canal 20 years after the discovery, 7) In Talking Green Peter Berle further discusses electric utility deregulation with Doug Long and Kevin Hartley, 8)in Ear to the Ground Linda Anderson reports on efforts to protect the prairie dog population
Subject:
Electric utilities--Deregulation--United States, Nunley, Richard, 1931-, Toilets--Environmental aspects--United States, and Amazon River Region--Environmental aspects

244. Environment Show #430

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 March 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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Description:
1) Steven Westcott talks with Dr. Robert Lee of the Wildlife Conservation Society about the ecosystem of the DMZ between No. & So. Korea, 2) Peter Berle discusses the Oceans' Act with Roger McManus, 3) John D. Werth of Stanford describes the effects of El Nino as he flies over parts of the So. Hemisphere, 4) In the Earth Calendar Peter Berle discusses sapodillas with Mark Ellenby, 5) Steven Westcott talks with author Bradley Sheard about the role of shipwrecks in providing marine habitat, 6) the Talking Green segment includes Peter Berle discussing the effects of hot water discharged from nuclear power plants with May Jane Johnson, Paul Richter, and Dr. Steve Schroeder, 7) David Peterson reads from "The Nearby Faraway"
Subject:
Manilkara zapota, Exclusive economic zones (Law of the sea), El Nin?o Current., and Ecosystem management--Korea--Korean Demilitarized Zone

245. Environment Show #429

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 March 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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System Modified Dtsi:
2019-02-07T00:35:01Z
Description:
1) Steven Westcott talks with Dr. Dean Judson and Pat Mulroy about the increased need for water in fast-growing Las Vegas, NV and the need for a water agreement about water from the Colorado River, 2) Peter Berle talks with Paul Hardy and Greg Block about the San Pedro River and the San Pedro Riperarian National Convention Area and Oliver North's (of Iran Contra fame) opposition to the work of the CEC which is working to resolve issues around the depletion of the water in the river, 3) In the Ear to the Ground segment Linda Anderson talks with Tom Goldtooth about the Indigeneous Envivronmentalists Network, 4) the Earth Calendar section Peter Berle talks with describe chicken turtles and their habitat along the Savannah River, 5) Steven Westcott interviews Connie Barlow about her book Greenspace, Green Time which discusses the "epic of evolution," 6) Peter Berle talks with John Perkins and Debbie Slighter about efforts to make corporations more environmentally responsible, 7) in the Portrait of Place segment author John Weeks reads from his essay "Watching the Geese from Van Rd." about geese on Beaver Lake near Syracuse, NY.
Subject:
Colorado River, Water--Management, Judson, Dean, and Mulroy, Patricia

246. Environment Show #428

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 March 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) Steven Westcott talks with Frank Richards of NWS Hydrological Center about the impact of El Nino and the development of flood prediction systems, 2) Peter Berle talks with former U.S. Senator Tim Wirth about the United Nations Foundation founded and funded by Ted Turner to develop programs and partnerships pm climate change and population stabilization, 3) In the Green Tips segment Peter Berle discusses the development of the Energy Star program and ways to cut energy usage by electronic equipment, 4) Jill Hoyt reports from Boise, Idaho on a proposed tax on recreational equipment which would support nongame wildlife habitat, 5) Peter Berle talks about pitcher plants in the Grand Bay (Alabame) Bioreserve with David Rupill, 6) Steven Westcott reports on the illegal harvesting of mahogany in the Amazon forest in Brazil and Dr. Philip Fernside describes possible solutions, 7) Peter Berle, Mark Hostettler and Mark Schiller describe environmentally-friendly landscaping and the use of native species in the Talking Green segment, and 8) David Quammen reads a piece on Tasmania from his book "Wild Thoughts from Wild Places" in Portrait of Place.
Subject:
Turner, Ted, Weather prediction, Floods Prevention, and El Nin?o Current--Forecasting.

247. Environment Show #427

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 March 7
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 Bob Turner, Washington-Area Director for the National Marine Fishery Service, about the National Marie Fishery Service?s proposal to list thirteen species of salmon and steelhead trout as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. 2) Peter Berle talks with Mayor Mark Morial about improving the urban environment in New Orleans. 3) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Kate Lewis from the Environmental Protection Agency about the Energy Star Buildings and Green Lights programs. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Bob Bluett, a wildlife biologist for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, about the mating habits of male coyotes. 5) Steven Westcott talks with Simon Taylor, Director of Global Witness, about illegal logging in Cambodia. 6) Peter Berle talks with Lake Barrett, Acting Director of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management for the Department of Energy, 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 nuclear waste storage facilities. 7) Author Nancy Lord reads an excerpt from her book, ?Fishcamp Life on an Alaskan Shore.?
Subject:
Green Lights Program (U.S.), Endangered species, New Orleans (La.), and Coyote

248. Environment Show #426

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 February 28
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. Matthew Meselson, a molecular biology professor at Harvard University, about the dangers of using anthrax as a biological weapon. 2) Steven Westcott talks with Peter Nye, unit leader of the Endangered Species Division for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, about the resurgence of bald eagles in the Hudson River Valley. 3) Kent Patterson reports on illegal timber harvesting in Mexico. 4) In The Earth Calendar Segment, Peter Berle talks with Cindy Dickie, an assistant at the Wildcare Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, about the mating habits of skunks. 5) Steven Westcott talks with Dr. Tyler Volk about his book, ?Gaia?s Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth.? 6) Peter Berle consults with Alison LaPlante, co-author of a US Public Interest Research Group report on the Responsible Care program established by the Chemical Manufacturers? Association, and Jim Solyst, Senior Director of Regulatory Improvement for the Chemical Manufactures? Association, to answer questions about current environmental standards in the chemical industry. 7) Author William Tapply reads an excerpt from his book ?A Fly-Fishing Life.?
Subject:
Timber?Mexico, Bald eagle, Skunks, and Anthrax

249. Environment Show #425

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 February 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) Peter Berle talks with Katie McGinty, Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality for the White House, and Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) about President Clinton?s budget proposal for 1999, which includes increases in environmental spending. 2) Steven Westcott talks with officials from the Wildlife Conservation Society and World Wildlife Fund about a survey that shows an increasing number of shops in North American are selling medicines containing tiger bones and parts from other endangered species. 3) Peter Berle provides tips about recycling plastic bottles. 4) Author Peter Jenkins reads an excerpt from his book, ?Along the Edge of America.? 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Peter Martori, farm manager at Eagle Produce, about growing and harvesting tangerines. 6) Steven Westcott talks with Earl Cummings, Relief Information Officer for the State of California, about the damage and advantages caused by the El Nino current. 7) Peter Berle talks with Lisa Speer, a senior policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Nelson Beideman, Executive Director of the Blue Waters Fisherman Association, about the National Resources Defense Council?s Give Swordfish a Break campaign. 8) In the Ear to the Ground Segment, Linda Anderson talks with Bill Dewiler from D2 Incorporated about the environmental advantages of making tree free paper from the Kenaf plant.
Subject:
Plastics--Recycling, Jenkins, Peter, 1951-, Endangered species--Law and legislation, and Environmental policy--United States

250. Environment Show #424

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 February 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) Steven Westcott talks to experts to uncover information about an oil spill from a Mobile Oil pipeline off the coast of Nigeria. 2) Kent Patterson reports on illegal timber harvesting in Mexico. 3) Peter Berle talks with chefs from the Commander?s Palace Restaurant in New Orleans about using fresh, local ingredients to enhance the flavor in Creole cuisine. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jeff Chester from the US Naval Observatory about solar eclipses. 5) Steven Westcott talks with scientists from the rehabilitation unit at the New England Aquarium about the increased number of dolphins stranded on the shores of Cape Cod Bay. 6) Peter Berle talks with Jonathan Kaplan, Toxic Programs Director for the California Public Interest Research Group, Vita Federici, Head of Communications for the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, and Andy Yasenovsky, Safety and Loss Control Manager for the San Bernardino Superintendent?s Office, about the use of pesticides in California?s schools. 7) Author Myron Arms reads an excerpt from his book, ?Riddle of the Ice: A Scientific Adventure into the Arctic.?
Subject:
Cooking, Creole, Timber?Mexico, Oil spills, and Solar eclipses

251. Environment Show #423

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 February 7
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 Mark Jorgenson, a resource ecologist at the Anza Borrego Desert State Park, and Susan Saul, a public affairs specialist with the Fish and Wildlife service, about listing the Peninsular Bighorn sheep as an endangered species. 2) Peter Berle talks with Mike Dombeck, Chief of the United States Forest Service. 3) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Leslie Ward, Director of Conservation for Trustees of Reservations, about protecting land in Massachusetts. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Dr. Steven Webster, Marine Science Advisor for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, about gray whale migration along the U.S. Pacific Coast. 5) Steven Westcott reports on the Antarctic Environment Protocol Treaty. 6) Peter Berle talks with Dr. Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence about her book, ?Hunting the Wren: Transformation of Bird to Symbol ? A Study in Human-Animal Relationships.? 7) Peter Berle talks with Robin Marx, senior policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Andy Baumert, Director of Environmental Studies for the National Pork Producers Council about factory farming and handling animal waste. 8) Author Daniel Duane reads an excerpt from his book, ?Caught Inside: A Surfer?s Year on the California Coast.?
Subject:
Dombeck, Michael P., Mountain sheep, Whales, and Trustees of Reservations (Mass.)

252. Environment Show #422

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 January 31
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 Lester Brown from the Worldwatch Institute about their annual report entitled, ?State of the World, 1998.? 2) Steven Westcott talks with Dr. Nan Bray from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization?s Marine Research Division in Australia, about aquaculture research. 3) Peter Berle provides information about certified lumber. 4) Peter Berle visits Lafayette Cemetery in New Orleans with Perry Willis. 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Bill Simmons, owner of E.W. Simmons Farms in Florida, about growing and harvesting strawberries. 6) Peter Berle talks with Environment Show Advisory Council members Jonathan Plaut, member of the NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation and consultant to the UN, and Paul Ehrlich, a professor of population studies at Stanford University, about the Kyoto agreements and population growth. 7) Peter Berle talks with Dan Becker, Director of the Global Warming and Energy Program at the Sierra Club, and Dr. Richard Klimisch, an expert on alternative fuels and Vice President of Engineering Affairs with the American Automobile Manufacturing Association, about air pollution from automobiles. 8) Steven Westcott talks with author John Perkins about his book, ?Shapeshifting: Techniques for a Global and Personal Transformation.?
Subject:
Worldwatch report, Strawberries, Aquaculture, and Cemeteries--Louisiana--New Orleans

253. Environment Show #421

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 January 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) Peter Berle talks with Margaret Wittenberg, National Communications Team Leader for Whole Foods Market, about the new organic food labeling rules established by the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA). 2) Steve Westcott talks with Mark Stadler, biologist with Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, about the impact of ice storms have on wildlife. 3) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about emissions trading, genetically engineered crops, and the Kyoto Conference. 4) Steve Westcott talks with humor columnist John Kelso, author of ?Beans, Beans, Bad for the Earth? and founder of the environmental group SOBER, about asking people to reduce their consumption of beans. 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Arthur Shapiro, professor of evolution, ecology, and entomology at the University of California at Davis, about the cabbage white butterfly. 6) Steve Westcott talks with Robert Bullard, Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, about his book, ?Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility.? 7) Peter Berle consults with experts Roger Schlicheisen, President of the Defenders of Wildlife, and Nina Fascione from the Defenders of Wildlife and Mission Wolf project to answer listeners? questions about the re-introduction of wolves in the Adirondack Park. 8) Author William Langewiesche reads an excerpt from his book, ?Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert.?
Subject:
Natural foods industry, Beans, Pieris brassicae, and Ice storms--New England

254. Environment Show #420

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 January 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) Peter Berle talks with Eileen Stommes, Deputy Administrator of Transportation and Marketing programs for the United States Department of Agriculture, about the USDA?s proposed guidelines for labeling organic foods. 2) Steven Westcott talks with officials from the Bronx Zoo?s Wildlife Conservation Society, the International Gorilla Conservation program, the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, and the Uganda Wildlife Authority, about the impact of the civil war in Rwanda on gorilla populations in the Virunga forest. 3) Peter Berle provides tips about how to reduce energy consumption. 4) Peter Berle talks with Environment Show Advisory Council members Douglas Costle, former EPA administrator under the Carter Administration, and Langdon Marsh, Director of Environmental Quality for the State of Oregon, about the Kyoto agreement and pollution. 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Dr. Nan Bray from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization?s Marine Research Division in Australia, about the recent draught and forest fires caused by the El Nino current. 6) Steven Westcott talks with Gary Mittlemen, President of Plug Power Incorporated, about manufacturing hydrogen fuel cells to power homes. 7) Peter Berle talks with Dr. Richard Methot, a stock assessment scientist for the National Marine Fishery Service, and Rod Moore, Executive Director of West Coast Seafood Processors Association, about new regulations restricting commercial ground fishing. 8) In the Ear to the ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Sharon Behar about the River Watch Network.
Subject:
Natural foods industry, El Nino Current--Environmental aspects, Fishery law and legislation--Pacific Coast (U.S.), and Gorilla--Africa, East

255. Environment Show #419

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 January 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) Rachel Philips talks with Scott Cassel, Director of Waste Policy for the Massachusetts? Department of Environmental Affairs, and Jim Dunbar, Program Manager of the Solid Waste Program for Georgia?s Environmental Protection Division, about closing unlined landfills and increasing recycling programs. 2) Steven Westcott talks with Dr. David Karen, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, about brown tide in the northeast. 3) Peter Berle talks with Environment Show Advisory Council members Brewster Denny, professor and former dean for the School of Public Administration at the University of Washington in Seattle, and Mike Robins, former editor of Audubon Magazine, about their concerns with the extinction of the king salmon and sharing space with wildlife. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jim Rod, manager of the Constitution Marsh Sanctuary, about the 97th Consecutive Annual Christmas Bird Count sponsored by the National Audubon Society. 5) Kent Patterson reports on illegal timber harvesting in Mexico. 6) Peter Berle talks with experts John Echeverria, an environmental law professor at Georgetown University, and Grant Mason, Director of Communications for Defenders of Property Rights, about their views on restricting private property rights in order to protect the entire community. 7) Author David Noland reads an excerpt from his book, ?Travels Along the Edge: 40 Ultimate Adventures for the Modern Nomad ? From Crossing the Sahara to Bicycling Through Vietnam.?
Subject:
Brown algae, National Audubon Society, Waste disposal sites--Environmental aspects, and Human-animal relationships

256. Environment Show #418

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 January 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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Peter Berle looks back on the stories and issues covered by the Environment Show during the previous year. 1) 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. 2) Peter Berle talks with Howard Quigley from the Hornocker Wildlife Institute about efforts to protect Siberian Tigers. 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 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. 5) Thomas Lalley visits the Hamilton Hills neighborhood in Schenectady, New York and talks with Beverly Bernett from Hill and Vale Affordable Housing about community loan funds and community land trusts. 6) Peter Berle talks with Dan Becker, Director of the Global Warming and Energy Program at the Sierra Club and a 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 Kent Nerburn reads from his book, ?A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land.?
Subject:
El Nin?o Current--Economic aspects--Andes Region, Clearwater (Sloop), Windstar Foundation, and Hornocker Wildlife Institute

257. Environment Show #417

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 December 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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1) Peter Berle talks with Mike Finley, superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, about court orders dealing with the management of park, the reintroduction of wolves, and buffalo/bison herds. 2) Correspondent Mitch Tike talks with Michael Denunzio, Director of Research and Education for the Adirondack Council, Andrea Colnes from the Northern Forest Alliance, and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) about potential land transfers in the Northern Forest and the Northern Forest Stewardship Act. 3) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks Tom Skeele, Co-founder and Director of the Predator Project, about the organization?s efforts to protect 12 predator species. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Ron Schlorff, wildlife biologist with California Department of Fish and Game, about the San Joaquin kit fox. 5) Steve Westcott talks with Steve Lerner about his book, ?Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today?s Environmental Problems? 6) Peter Berle talks with Dr. Randy Deaton, engineer from the Monsanto Corporation, and Paul Clark, a genetic engineering campaigner from Green Peace, about using Round-up weed killer on fields with genetically engineered crops. 7) Rachel Philips plays listeners? comments about environmental racism, nuclear energy, and Coalition of Republican Environmental Advocates.
Subject:
Lerner, Steve, Yellowstone National Park, Predator Project, and Forest reserves

258. Environment Show #416

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 December 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) Peter Berle talks with Greg Wetstone, Legislative Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, about the Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse emissions; includes statements by Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts). 2) Steve Westcott talks with Maryanne Guichard from the Washington State Department of Health, and Don Anderson, a scientist in the biology department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, about toxic red tide in the Puget Sound. 3) Peter Berle provides environmentally friendly gift wrapping ideas and Christmas decorating suggestions. 4) Kent Patterson reports on illegal timber harvesting in Mexico. 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Kendell Thompson, Yosemite National Park Ranger, about mule deer. 6) Jeffery Atunsia talks with counselors and kids from Camp Vacamas in New Jersey about the nature programs and environmental education offered at the camp each summer. 7) Peter Berle talks with Dr. Adam Rose, Head of the Department of Energy, Environment, and Mineral Economics at Penn State University, and Kelly Quirke, Executive Director of the Rainforest Action Network, about emissions trading. 8) Author Nancy Lord reads an excerpt from her book, ?Fishcamp Life on an Alaskan Shore.?
Subject:
Timber?Mexico, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). Protocols, etc., 1997 Dec. 11., Mule deer, and Red tide

259. 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):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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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

260. 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.

261. 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.)

262. 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

263. 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

264. 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-

265. 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

266. 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

267. 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

268. 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

269. 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
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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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)

270. 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):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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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

271. 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

272. 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

273. 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

274. 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

275. 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

276. 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

277. 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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System Modified Dtsi:
2019-02-07T00:23:56Z
Description:
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

278. 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

279. Environment Show #395

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 July 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) Peter Berle talks with Dr. Jerry Bell from the Climate Prediction Center at the National Weather Service about the effects of El Nino on the atmosphere and global climate. 2)Peter Berle talks with Jack Sobel, Director of the Ecosystems Protection Program at the Center for Marine Conservation, and Dr. Amy Kyle, a research scientist and lecturer for the School of Public Health at the University of California-Berkeley, about fish advisories from the EPA. 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Kathy Frost, a marine mammals biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, about Beluga whales. 4) Thomas Lalley talks with Glen Spain, Northwest Regional Director for the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen?s Associations, and Anne Platt McGinn from the Worldwatch Institute about the dispute between Canada and the United States over salmon fishing and the Pacific Salmon Treaty. 5) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Dr. Gary April, Founder and Director of Project Rose, about recycling motor oil. 6) Peter Berle talks with Jeff Wells, Director of New York State Important Bird Area Program for the National Audubon Society, and Bob Budliger from the Federation of New York State Bird Clubs, about designating important bird areas. 7) Thomas Lalley talks with Chris Manes, author of ?Other Creations: Rediscovering the Spirituality of Animals.? 8) Recording of Walkin? Jim Sholtz?s, ?Power in the Earth? from his CD, ?The Vision.?
Subject:
White whale, Fish as food--Contamination, El Nino Current--Environmental aspects, and Pacific salmon fishing--Northwest, Pacific

280. Environment Show #394

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 July 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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2019-02-07T00:22:54Z
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1)Peter Berle talks with environmental activists about the Porter/ Kennedy Amendment to the Interior Appropriates Bill that would eliminate federal subsidies for logging roads. 2)Thomas Lalley talks with scientists about the benefits and drawbacks of using biological control to manage and/or eliminate exotic and invasive plant and animal species. 3) Author Howard Frank Mosher reads an excerpt from his book, ?North Country: A Personal Journey.? 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Edward Johnson, professor and fire ecologist at the University of Calgary, about summer forest fires. 5) Peter Berle talks with Peter E. Lynch, author of ?Silvio: Congressman for Everyone: A Biographical Portrait of Silvio O. Conte,? about the congressman and the Silvio Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge along the Connecticut River. 6) Peter Berle consults with experts, Don Berry, acting Assistant Secretary of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks for the U.S. Department of the Interior, and Ginette Hemley, Director of International Wildlife Policy at the World Wildlife Fund, to answer listeners? questions about the most recent conference for the Convention on International Trade and Species. 7) Recording of Christopher?s ?This is the Earth? from the CD, ?More Pickings A Second Acoustic Harvest.?
Subject:
Mosher, Howard Frank, Subsidies--Environmental aspects--United States, Fire weather--United States, and Pests-- Biological control

281. Environment Show #393

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 July 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 Andre Mele, author of ?Polluting for Pleasure,? Tony Esposito from Mercury Marine, and Bob Young from Honda Marine about new EPA regulations for 2-stroke outboard motors. 2)Peter Berle consults with experts Nancy Zierenberg, Executive Director of the Wildlife Damage Review, and Peter Orwick, Executive Director of the American Sheep Industry Association, about the U.S. Department of Agriculture?s Animal Damage Control Program. 3)In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle describes the process of harvesting hay. 4)Peter Berle talks with Mark Spalding, guest lecturer for the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California in San Diego , Chris McGinn, Deputy Director of Global Trade Watch, Dan Seligman from the Sierra Club, and John D. Wirth, professor of history at Stanford University and director of the North American Institute, about NAFTA?s environmental side agreement. 5)Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about indoor air pollution and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). 6)Lee Talbot, a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Masson University, talks about his efforts to protect natural resources in Bhutan. 7)In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Ora Lee Carroll from the East Liberty Concerned Citizens Corporation about her organization?s efforts to replace littered vacant lots with flower and vegetable gardens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 8)Recording of Kim and Reggie Harris? rendition of ?Wade in the Water? from their CD, ?In the Heat of the Summer.?
Subject:
Hay?Harvesting, Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montre?al, Que?bec), ADC (Animal Damage Control Program (U.S.)), and Outboard motors--Environmental aspects

282. Environment Show #392

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 July 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 talks with Katie McGinty from President Clinton?s administration about climate change and greenhouse gas mitigation. 2) Thomas Lalley visits the Hamilton Hills neighborhood in Schenectady, New York and talks with Beverly Bernett from Hill and Vale Affordable Housing about community loan funds and community land trusts. 3) Author Colin Fletcher reads an excerpt from his book, ?River: One Man?s Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea.? 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jeremy Garrett from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation about Mexican Free-tailed Bats. 5) Thomas Lalley visits the Community Warehouse in Hoosick Falls, NY and talks with Meg Morris about the center?s mission, which is to collect and resell reusable items instead of sending them to landfills. 6) Peter Berle consults with experts George James, Program Manager for the Department of Energy?s Building America Program, and Pliny Fisk, architect and Co-director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, to answer listeners? questions about green housing and green design. 7)Recording of Craig Nuttycombe?s song, ?Stuff? from his album ?Planetorial Janitor.?
Subject:
Free-tailed bats, Fletcher, Colin, Community Land Trust, and Greenhouse gas mitigation

283. Environment Show #391

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 June 28
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 Wolfram Schulte, Councilor of Science and Technology at the Germany Embassy in Washington, D.C., Gail McDonald, President of the Global Climate Coalition, and Mike Oppenheimer, an atmospheric scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, about United States? greenhouse gas emission levels in response to criticism from the international community at the Summit of the Eight in Denver and Second United Nations? Earth Summit. 2) Peter Berle talks with James Corless, spokesman for the Surface Transportation Policy Project, and William Fey, President of the Highway Users Federation, about reauthorizing the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jayne Brim-Box, an aquatic geologist with the US Geological Survey, about Shinyrayed Pocketbook Mussels. 4) Thomas Lalley talks with Charles Yarish, a researcher from the University of Connecticut, about the potential of harvesting Nori seaweed as an environmentally friendly form of aquaculture. 5) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about organic farming. 6) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with George Ripley, founder of the Environmental Patriots of America. 7) Author Gregory McNamee reads a passage from his book, ?A Desert Bestiary: Folklore, Literature, and Ecological Thought from the World?s Dry Places.? 8) A recording of Roger Ridley playing ?Summer Time? from his album, ?Street Dreams.?
Subject:
Greenhouse gas mitigation, Sustainable aquaculture, Mussels, and Transportation--Environmental aspects--United States

284. Environment Show #390

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 June 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) Peter Berle talks with Julia Carabias, Minister for the Environment, Natural Resources, and Fisheries in Mexico, about changes to Mexico?s environmental laws. 2) Thomas Lalley visits Brooklyn?s Prospect Park to report on the current restoration project. 3) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? responses to Peter Berle?s interview of Holly Swanson. 4) Author SueEllen Campbell reads an excerpt from her book, ?Bringing the Mountain Home.? 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Thomas Lalley talks with G.B. Cornucopia and Daphne Ford from Chaco Culture National Historical Park about the sun dagger, the Anastasi Indians, and the summer solstice. 6) Nancy Marshall reports from Moscow about the effects of rising gas and oil prices on energy conservation in Russia. 7) Peter Berle consults with experts Dr. Linda Ford, CEO of The Asthma and Allergy Center in Omaha, Nebraska, and Nadav Malin, Editor of Environmental Building News, to answer listeners? questions about indoor air pollution. 8) Peter Berle talks with Hollie Shaner about ways to effectively segregate and dispose of hospital waste. 9) Recording of Southern Rail?s Carolina Lightning.
Subject:
Chaco Culture National Historical Park (N.M.), Environmental law?Mexico, Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.), and Campbell, SueEllen

285. Environment Show #389

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 June 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) Pete Berle talks with Greg Petrich, Conservation Director of the Alaska Rainforest Campaign, and Phil Janik, Regional Forester, about logging regulations in the Tongass National Forest. 2) Peter Berle consults with Grace Gershuny from the Northeast Organic Farming Association, Diane Bowen, Executive Director of California Certified Organic Farmers, and Joel Salatin, a farmer in the Shenandoah Valley, to answer listeners? questions about organic farming. 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Thomas Lalley talks with Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology, about termites. 4) Thomas Lalley talks with Bill Mollison about sustainable living and permaculture. 5) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Bethany Walder from Wildlands CPR about reversing the ecological impact of wild-land roads. 6) Thomas Lalley talks with David Shaw, Director of the Wind River Canopy Crane, about using construction cranes to access forest canopies. 7) Recording of Woody Guthrie?s ?Pastures of Plenty,? and ?This Land is Your Land,? from the CD, ?Woody Guthrie: The Asch Recordings.?
Subject:
Mollison, B. C., Termites, Tongass National Forest (Alaska)--Management, and Organic farming

286. Environment Show #388

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 June 7
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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2019-02-07T00:20:48Z
Description:
1) Peter Berle talks with Carol Browner, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, about clean air regulations and other policy agendas. 2) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about endocrine disrupters. 3) Thomas Lalley talks with James Pipkin from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Brian Riddle, a research scientist for the Department of Fisheries in Canada, and Glen Spain, attorney, about the dispute between Canada and the United States over salmon fishing and the Pacific Salmon Treaty. 4) Author Don Gayton reads a passage from his book, ?Landscapes of the Interior: Re-explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit.? 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Richard Merrick from the National Marines Fishery Service about the reproductive behaviors of Steller sea lions. 6) Peter Berle talks with Holly Swanson about her views regarding the green movement and her book, ?Set Up & Sold Out: Find Out What Green Really Means.? 7) Peter Berle consults with Dr. Alan Berkowitz from the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, and Michael Sanera, researcher from the Clermount Institute and author of ?Facts Not Fear: Teaching Children About the Environment,? to answer listeners? questions about environmental education. 8) Navajo songwriter Sharon Burch sings, ?Earth and Sun,? from her CD, ?Touch the Sweet Earth.?
Subject:
Pacific salmon fishing--Northwest, Pacific, Gayton, Don, 1946-, Steller?s sea lion, and United States. Environmental Protection Agency

287. Environment Show #387

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 May 31
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 an EPA Superfund site near Front Royal, Virginia and explains why Congress is considering a Superfund reform bill. 2) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Michael Green, biologist with the Wetlands Restoration Lab at Southeastern Louisiana University, about the Manchac Swamp Cyprus restoration project. 3) Author Scott Thybony reads from his book, ?Burntwater.? 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Alan Lasko and Martin Goffinet from Cornell University?s Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York, about apple blossom fertilization. 5) Berle talks with Lynn Goldman from the EPA?s Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, about the Toxic Release Inventory. 6) Berle consults with Meg Maguire, President of Scenic America, and Philip Gitlen, attorney and former counsel for New York State?s Department of Environmental Conservation, to answer listeners? questions about billboards and pollution. 7) Percussionist Donald Knaack plays ?Mishmash? from his CD, ?Junk Music.?
Subject:
Apples--Breeding, United States. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, Thybony, Scott, and Manchac Swamp (La.)

288. Environment Show #386

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 May 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) Peter Berle talks with Jim Leckey, Chief of the Protected Species Division for the National Marine Fishery Service for the Southwest Region, and Diane Valantine, Salmon Protection Advocate for the Oregon Natural Resources Council, about the efforts to save the Coho salmon through the Endangered Species Act. 2) Peter Berle talks with Dianne Dumoanoski, author of ?Our Stolen Future: Are we Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival ? A Scientific Detective Story,? and Sheldon Krimsky from Tufts University, about endocrine disrupters. 3) Author Gary Ferguson reads and excerpt from his book, ?Through the Woods: A Journey Through America?s Forests (The Sylvan Path).? 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Bob Hamilton, Director of Science and Stewardship for the Oklahoma Chapter of the Nature Conservancy?s Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, about Bison. 5) Thomas Lalley reports from the Tour de Sol Electric Car Rally; he talks with Tom Thompson, Executive Director of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, and Jason Mark, Transportation Analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists, about electric cars and alternative fuels. 6) Peter Berle talks with Gene Likens from the Institute of Ecosystem Studies about the effects of the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act on acid rain levels in the Northeast. 7) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about mountain lions and nuclear power. 8) Thomas Lalley talks with Frans de Waal author of, ?Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape.? 9) Author Kent Nerburn reads from his book, ?A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land.? 10) Folk musicians Lou and Peter Berryman sing, ?Here?s to Mother Nature,? from their album ?Cow Imagination.?
Subject:
Coho salmon, Ferguson, Gary, 1956-, Endocrine disrupting chemicals, and American bison

289. 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
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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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)

290. 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

291. 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

292. 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

293. 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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2019-02-07T00:18:19Z
Description:
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

294. 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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2019-02-07T00:17:57Z
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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

295. 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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2019-02-07T00:17:36Z
Description:
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

296. 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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2019-02-07T00:17:15Z
Description:
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

297. 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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2019-02-07T00:16:54Z
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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-

298. 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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2019-02-07T00:16:33Z
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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

299. Environment Show #375

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 March 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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2019-02-07T00:16:12Z
Description:
1.) Host Peter Berle talks with California Institute of Technology professory John Seinfeld and assistant professor of medicine Simon Spivak about smog and ozone formation. 2.) Stephanie Goitchman talks with Seeba Shibley of the Center for Marine Conservation about the effect of beach debris on marine wildlife. 3.) In the segment Ear to the Ground Linda Anderson talks with Nancy Zirbes of the Wildlife Damage Review about her work watching over the Animal Damage Control. 4.) In the segment Portrait of a Place author Rick Bass reads from his book "The Book of Yaak" about Yaak Valley in Montana. 5.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with biologist Mark Getterslaw about frogs. 6.) Thomas Lalley talks with Joseph Rom of the Department of Energy about heat islands, a city or location that is hotter than surrounding areas. 7.) In the segment Talking Green Berle talks with Ray Smith of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Paul Mccardal of the Department of Energy, and Pat Mosely of the International Lead Zinc Research Organization about alternative fuel vehicles. 8.) Lalley talks with author Joe Kane about his book "The Savages", about the Huaorani tribe. 9.) Berle talks with folk music group Magpie.
Subject:
Smog, Animal Damage Control Program (U.S.), Marine debris, and Yaak Valley (Mont.)

300. Environment Show #374

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 March 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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2019-02-07T00:15:49Z
Description:
1.) Host Peter Berle talks with Kevin Williams of the Western Organization of Resource Councils and environmental lawyer Dave Kamen about environmental audit statutes. 2.) In the segment Talking Green Berle talks with Diane Dillon Ridgely of Zero Population Growth, Aileen Gephart of the Population Reference Bureau and Margaret Pollock of the Department of State discuss international family planning. 3.) Stephanie Goitchman talks with professor of crop sciences Jack Whithorn about genetically altered soybeans. 4.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Kurt Bowman of the Savannah River ecology lab about sea turtles. 5.) Thomas Lalley talks with Daniel Evans of the Point Rays Bird Observatory and Dr. Gary Pertonick about the effects of cats on the bird population. 6.) In another Talking Green segment Berle talks with author David George Jordan and Steve Pirkell from the Sonora Arthropod Institute about bugs. 7.) Berle talks with Lee Talbott, professor at George Mason University, about biodiversity in Bhutan. 8.) In part of last week's story with the McLean Mix, they talk Lalley about the use of rainforest sounds in their music.
Subject:
Environmental auditing--United States., Family planning, Sea turtles, and Soybean--Genetic engineering