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.
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.?
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.?
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.?
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.?
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.?
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.
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.?
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.?
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.?