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181. Environment Show #315

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 January 14
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
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1.) Host Peter Berle discusses the recent Salvage Logging Rider and the environmental problems it poses and talks with Julie Domond of the environmental group Headwaters, about the issue. 2.) Berle discusses the issue of clear cutting trees in Maine. 3.) In the segment "Locking Horns", Bill Vale of the Maine Forest Products Council and John Carter of the Green Party, discuss the issue of clear cutting. 4.) In the segment "Ear to the Ground", Linda Anderson talks with Mary Angle Francini of the Save the Redwoods League about their efforts to save the trees. 5.) Berle talks with Nashville, Tennessee guitar maker Jim Triggs about his work. 6.) In the segment "Earth Calendar", Berle talks with Buffalo meteorologist Stan Levine about the causes of lake effect snow.
Subject:
Guitar--Construction, Salvage logging--Environmental aspects, Clear cutting--Environmental aspects, and Save-the-Redwoods League

182. Environment Show #314

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 January 7
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.) Thomas Lalley reports on the damage done to the ozone layer by certain gases, and talks with various scientists about the issue. 2.) Host Peter Berle talks with Dr. Peter Ehrlich of Stanford University the relationship between the environment and population. 3.) In the segment "Ear to the Ground", Linda Anderson talks with Brian Stazinsky, who started the "Destination Conservation" program to help school children become more aware of environmental issues. 4.) In the segment "Earth Calendar" Berle discusses how the flooding of the Amazon River has led to some serious environmental issues.
Subject:
Ozone layer depletion, Amazon River, Conservation, and Population Concern

183. Environment Show #313

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1995 December 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.) Host Peter Berle talks with various environmental leaders about the environmental issues of the past year and what they see for the year ahead. 2.) Berle talks with Dr. Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University about the effects of population on the environment. 3.) Berle talks with Diane Dylan Ridgely, Environment Show Advisory Council, about the relationship between women's issues and the environment. 4.) Berle talks with children's book author and head of the Readland Center Geoffrey Canada about a neighborhood in New York City.
Subject:
Canada, Geoffrey, Population Concern, and Women's issues

184. Environment Show #312

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1995 December 24
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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1.) Host Peter Berle talks with various environmental leaders about the environmental issues of the past year and what they see happening in 1996. 2.) He talks with Joan Davidson, New York State Parks, about the battle over protected lands. 3.) Berle talks with John Wirth, professor at M.I.T., about the effects of climate change. 4.) Berle talks with Louise Como of the Sierra Club about the potential of fuel cells.
Subject:
Climate change, National parks, and Fuel cells

185. Environment Show #311

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1995 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.) Thomas Lalley reports on transportation policy and examines some of the controversial issues surrounding it. 2.) In the segment "Locking Horns", Michael Rieblo of the Environmental Defense Fund and Taylor Bowden of the Highway Users Foundation discuss the reauthorization of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act. 3.) In a commentary Linda Anderson shares her ideas on how to have and environmentally friendly and sustainable holiday. 4.) Host Peter Berle talks with Maurice Modlin at Chrysler about their new electric car that is going into production. 5.) Bruce Robertson reports on the regulation of billboards and talks about the new Scenic America Regulation and how that will affect the billboard industry. 6.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with naturalist David Zuckerman about the migration of newts in California.
Subject:
Electric cars, Transportation policy, Billboards--Law and legislation, and Newts

186. Environment Show #310

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1995 December 10
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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1.) Host Peter Berle reports on deer management and the need to develop new techniques for better control of the deer population. 2.) Thomas Lalley talks with 3 theologians from the Islamic, Christian, and Jewish faiths about the "greening" of religion. 3.) Berle shares more listener suggestions for having an environmentally friendly and sustainable holiday. 4.) David Wicinas reads an excerpt from his book "Sagebrush and Cappuccino". 5.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Roy Mustalish of the Amazon Center for Environmental Education about how the flooding of the Amazon leads to the flourishing of the plants surrounding the river.
Subject:
Deer--Control, Wicinas, David, Religion--Environmental aspects, and Environmentalism

187. Environment Show #309

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1995 December 3
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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1.) Host Peter Berle reports on the controversy surrounding a proposal to open up the Arctic National Refuge to oil drilling and talks to proponents on both sides of the issue. 2.) In the segment "Locking Horns" Nancy Cassy of the Gwitchin peoples and Oliver Levitt of the Arctic Slope Regional Organization discuss whether or not oil drilling would threaten caribou in the refuge. 3.) Berle reads listener suggestions on how to have an environmentally friendly and sustainable holiday 4.) Thomas Lalley discusses the issue of deregulating utilities and questions whether the idea is good for the environment or your wallet. 5.) In the segment "Ear to the Ground", Linda Anderson talks with Kent Wheely who helped to start Seed Sources Exchange, which tries to save threatened fruits, vegetables, and grains from extinction.
Subject:
Caribou--Alaska, Arctic National Wildlife Range (Alaska), Deregulation, and Environmentalism

188. Environment Show #308

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1995 November 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.) Host Peter Berle reports on the controversy surrounding the reauthorization of the farm bill and impact it has on the environment. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports on the increasing duck population and talks with Dr. Chip Ulyss about what conditions may have led to the increase. 3.) Bruce Robertson reports on the use of septic wastewater as a valuable resource and how many people are using it to create constructed wetlands. 4.) In the "Outpost" segment Dr. Timothy O'Brien, of the Wildlife Conservation Society, talks about his trip to Indonesia and about the important connection between wildlife and the ecosystem. 5.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with ecologist Dr. Doug Ladd about the controlled burns that take place in prairies in order to preserve them.
Subject:
Constructed wetlands, Indonesia--Environmental aspects, Ducks, and Farming--Environmental aspects

189. Environment Show #307

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1995 November 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.) Host Peter Berle discusses the execution of Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro Wiwo. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports on "green washing" campaigns by companies to convince the public they are a green company. 3.) In the segment "Ear to the Ground" Linda Anderson talks with Renee Askins of the Wolf Fund about her work repopulating the wolf population of Yellowstone National Park. 4.) In the segment "Locking Horns", Rodger Schlickeisen of Defenders of Wildlife argues with Larry Burrett of the Farm Bureau about whether or not wolves should be brought to Yellowstone. 5.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with botanist George Yaskevitch about barrens and the rich variety of life they contain.
Subject:
Wiwa, Ken Saro-, 1941-1995, Environmental advertising claims, and Wolves--Yellowstone National Park

190. Environment Show #306

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1995 November 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.) Host Peter Berle discusses the controversy over the safe drinking water act and why some environmentalists take issue with the bill. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports on a controversy surrounding a proposal to build a water filtration plant near Woodstock, New York and why some think land preservation in the Catskills is a better bet. 3.) Lalley talks with Dr. Charles Lydeard about the recent decline in the mussel population. 4.) Berle talks with Dr. Alan Rabinowitz of the Wildlife Conservation Society about a trip he took to the Annamite Mountains in Vietnam and his discovery of several new species. 5.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Dr. Ira O'Keene of the University of Massachusetts Division of Cardiovascular Medicine about why he thinks humans' cholesterol levels increase in the winter.
Subject:
Vietnam, Mussels, Catskill Mountains (N.Y.), and Water quality