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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1997 January 25
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- 88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
- Description:
- 1.) Thomas Lalley reports on the issue of what to do with surplus plutonium and talks with Mary Olsen of the Nuclear Information and Resource Group about the problem. 2.) In the segment Locking Horns, host Peter Berle talks with Jim Petty of the Air Transportation Association and Jeff Bernard of the Grand Canyon Trust about whether new laws are needed to better regulate the amount of air traffic going over the Grand Canyon. 3.) In the segment Talking Green, Berle talks with Keith Cherryhomes of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, botanist Maynard Bauers, and Joe Doherty of the New York State Department of Transportation, about the effects of road salt on vegetation and water quality. 4.) Berle talks with Roger Mustalish of the Amazon Center for Education and Research Foundation about the rarely changing climate in the rainforest of the Amazon Basin in Peru. 5.) Berle talks with professor of plant physiology Tom Hodges about his work genetically engineering plants. 6.) In another Talking Green segment, Berle talks with Daniel Sperling, professor of civil engineering and Bob Batson of Electric Vehicles of America, about electric cars. 7.) Berle talks with author Thomas Power about his recent book "Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies". 8.) The show ends with a song by singer songwriter Bruce Coburn.
- Subject:
- Rainforest, Salt--Environmental aspects, Plutonium, and Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1997 January 18
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- 88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
- Description:
- 1.) Host Peter Berle talks with transportation expert Ian Lockwood about traffic problems Virginia residents are having with Route 50 and what he believes is the solution to those problems, traffic calming. 2.) Thomas Lalley talks with Jack Sobel of the Center for Marine Conservation about the controversy over a proposed Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. 3.) In the segment Portrait of a Place author Mary Byrd Davis talks about an old growth forest in Kentucky. 4.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Ron Nevine of the Oceanides Foundation about penguins in Antarctica. 5.) In the segment Talking Green Berle talks with Jack Barnett of the Environmental Protection Agency, Glen Pollow of te Iowa Prairie Network and Ron Clitaski of the Audubon Society about the Tallgrass Prairie National Park. 6.) Author Gary Ferguson reads nature myth about the almond tree from his book "Spirits of the Wild". 7.) Stephanie Goitchman talks with author David Ritz about his biography of Marvin Gaye and Gaye's environmental activism.
- Subject:
- Traffic calming, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (Fla.), Penguins--Antarctica, and Old growth forests
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1997 January 11
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- 88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
- Description:
- 1.) Thomas Lalley talks with Bill Hogarth of the National Marine Fisheries Service, about proposed legislation to better regulate the fishing industry to protect sharks. 2.) In the segment Talking Green host Peter Berle talks with Manna Jo Greene of the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency and Jean Banotall of the Cornell Waste Management Institute about composting. 3.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Bobby McGowan of Florida Citrus Mutual about the year's record breaking citrus crop. 4.) Steve Frinkel talks with Milton Clark, a scientist with the Environmental Protection Agency, about efforts to abolish POP's or persistent organic pollutants. 5.) Berle talks with members of the Environment Show's advisory council including John Worth, professor of history at Stanford University, Paul Ehrlich, professor of biological sciences at Stanford University, and Jonathan Plought, former director of environmental quality at Allied Signal, about the past year as well as the year ahead. 6.) In the segment Portrait of a Place, author Jerry Dennis talks about Lake Michigan. 7.) The song "Please don't leave the water running when you wash your dog" by Bill Oliver is played.
- Subject:
- Sharks, Compost--Environmental aspects, Citrus fruits--Harvesting, and Persistent pollutants
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1997 January 4
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- 88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
- Description:
- 1.) Thomas Lalley talks with biologist Dave Witherall about the government's decision to cut the pollock catch by 5%. 2.) In the segment Ear to the Ground Linda Anderson talks with Susan Tixier about the group she founded, Great Old Broads for Wilderness. 3.) Host Peter Berle talks with Environment Show advisory council member and president of Zero Population Growth, Dianne Dillonn Ridgley about the year ahead.4.) In the Earth Calendar segment Stephanie Goichman talks with Tom Waits, a professor at Michigan Tech University's School of Forestry, about gray jays.
- Subject:
- Gray jay, Pollock fisheries, Tixier, Susan, and Zero Population Growth, Inc.
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 December 29
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- 88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
- Description:
- 1.) Host Peter Berle talks with two members of the show's advisor council, Idaho Senator Mary Lou Reed and Joan Davidson former head of the New York state Office of Parks of the Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, about the past year's environmental legislation and they look ahead to 1997. 2.) In the segment Portrait of a Place author Garrett Bowman talks about his evening winter walks in Nunda, New York. 3.) Berle talks with two other members of the show's advisory council, professor at the University of Washington at Seattle Brewster Denny and editor of Audubon Magazine Michael Robbins, about the past year as well as the year ahead. 4.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Dr. Steven Webster of the Monterey Bay Aquarium about kelp forests located along the Pacific coast.
- Subject:
- Kelp forest, Reed, Mary Lou, Environmental law--United States, and Nunda (N.Y.)
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 December 22
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- 88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
- Description:
- 1.) Host Peter Berle talks with religious leaders about excessive consumption and the holidays. 2.) Thomas Lalley talks with Bob Lilienfeld, editor of the Use Less Stuff Journal, about the publication. 3.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Professor Owen Gingrich of Harvard University about the winter solstice. 4.) Gary Ferguson, author of "Spirits of the Wild: World's Great Nature Myths", reads a myth about how the first winter solstice came to be in Australia.
- Subject:
- Ferguson, Gary, 1956-, Lilienfeld, Robert M., Consumption, and Winter solstice
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 December 15
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- 88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
- Description:
- 1.) Host Peter Berle talks with Debbie Sprentz of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Wayne Brow of the Citizens for a Sound Economy about their differing views on the Environmental Protection Agency's newly proposed air quality standards. 2.) Berle talks with Greg Ward, owner of Ward's Nursery and Garden Center, about purchasing and caring for a living Christmas tree. 3.) Thomas Lalley reports from Poughkeepsie, New York, about an environmental education program called Eco Inquiry, that teahes children about the environment. 4.) In the segment Portrait of a Place, writer Julia King talks about a pond in Goshen, Indiana. 5.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Richard Lee, professor of zoology at Miami University, about the wood frogs' hibernation process.
- Subject:
- Air quality--Standards, Christmas tree growing, Goshen (Ind.), and Environmental education
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 December 8
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- 88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
- Description:
- 1.) Host Peter Berle talks with Francis Etherington of Umpqua Watersheds, about the recent mudslide in Umpqua, Oregon and the reason she believed it occurred, clear cutting. 2.) Thomas Lalley talks with Craig Packer, author of "Into Africa", about his book and time in Africa. 3.) Lalley talks with Dr. Bruce Stein of the Nature Conservancy about the hemlock woolly adelgid, an invasive insect that could cause the extinction of hemlock plants. 4.) In the Earth Calendar segment, Berle talks with astronmer Bob Berman about the upcoming Geminids meteor shower.
- Subject:
- Packer, Craig, Hemlock woolly adelgid, Umpqua (Or.), and Meteor showers
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 December 1
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- 88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
- Description:
- 1.) In the segment Talking Green, host Peter Berle discusses bovine growth hormone with professor of genetics Joe Cummins and Dr. Wayne Calloway of the Dairy Commission. 2.) Thomas Lalley talks with David Foster, director of the Harvard Forest, about deforestation and regrowth. 3.) In the segment Earth Calendar Berle talks with Kevin Ford about hand shearing sheep.
- Subject:
- Bovine growth hormone, Sheep-shearing, and Harvard Forest (Research facility)
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 November 24
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- 88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
- Description:
- 1.) Thomas Lalley reports on the wolf conference that was held in Albany, New York and talks with attendees including Richard Schlickheisen of Defenders of Wildlife. 2.) Kent Nerbern reads the story "Benediction" from his book "A Haunting Reverence: Mediations on a Northern Land". 3.) Host Peter Berle reports on the World Food Summit Conference in Rome and talks with attendee Dan Glickman about the conference. 4.) In the segment Earth Calendar Berle talks with Sarah Mitchell of the Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary in Georgia about Right whales.
- Subject:
- Right whales, World Food Conference (1996 : Rome, Italy), and Wolves