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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 September 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 Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens about revisions to the Magnuson-Stevens Act, relating to the conservation and mangament of fisheries. 2.) In the segment Locking Horns, Rhea Miller, commissioner of the San Juan Islands and Chris Hodgkins, attorney for a local tourist company, argue over recent legislation to outlaw personal watercrafts around the San Juan Islands. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports on possible dangers involved with fiberglass installation and talks with Ann Janet Dicarlo of the National Resources Defense Council about the issue. 3.) Berle talks with Gene Logsdon about his work in the book "Earth at Our Doorstep". 4.) In the segment Earth Calendar, Berle talks with Jim Nichols, a fourth generation corn and soybean farmer about corn harvesting.
- Subject:
- Fisheries and the environment, San Juan Islands (Wash.), Fiberglass, and Logsdon, Gene
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 September 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 Republican pollster Pete Snyder how the Republican party is dealing with environmental issues. 2.) Berle talks with George Davis of the Ecologically Sustainable Development company, about his most recent project, the Amur land basin located in China and Russia. 3.) Berle talks with Charles Hollister, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, about hurricane like storms near the bottom of the ocean. 4.) Thomas Lalley reports on socially responsible financial institutions and talks with Alicia Gravits of Co-op America. 5.) In the segment Earth Calendar, Berle talks with Pat Raves, educator at the North Carolina Aquarium of Roanoke Island about the Portugese Man of War jellyfish.
- Subject:
- Hurricanes--Atlantic Ocean, Socially responsible investments, Amur River Valley (China and Russia), and Environmental Issues-Politics
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 September 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 Democratic pollster Salinda Lake about the importance of environmental issues in the Presidential race. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports on the "Eden Alternative", a project developed by Dr. Bill Thomas, that brings plants, animals, and children into nursing homes. 3.) Berle talks with Wade Davis, an ethnobiologist, about the relationship indigenous peoples of Latin America have with plants. 4.) In the segment Portrait of a Place, author Scott Weidensaul talks about a mountain in the Appalachians of Pennsylvania. 5.) In the segment Earth Calendar, Scott Weidensaul discusses his book "Raptors: Birds of Prey".
- Subject:
- Raptors, Eden Alternative, Environmental Issues-Politics, and Indigenous peoples--Ecology--Latin America
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 September 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 Jack Ward Thomas, chief of the U.S. Forest Service, about forest fires. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports on the eco-tourism trend and talks with Katrina Brandon about the dangers involved in such an unregulated industry. 3.) Berle talks with Dr. Megan Beesley, professor of anthropology, about the negative effects eco-tourism is having on Botswana. 4.) Berle talks with Al Norman, a citizen activist, trying to fight big box developers from building around small towns. 5.) In the segment Earth Calendar Berel talks with B.J. Copeland of the North Carolina Sea Grant program about hurricane season.
- Subject:
- Eco-tourism, Botswana, Activism, Citizen, and Thomas, Jack Ward
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 September 1
- 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 discusses the environmental activism of corporations, including the Nature Company, Sebastian, and Stonyfield Farm. 2.) In the segment Locking Horns, Cindy King of the Sierra Club and Frank Harkenrider, mayor of Hermison, Oregon, debate the issue of chemical weapons incineration. 3.) Thomas Lalley talks with Harold Mayfield, an expert on Kirtland's Warblers, about the endangered species that is making a comeback. 4.) In the segment Portrait of a Place author David Grimes discusses the various rivers that have impacted his life. 5.) In the segment Earth Calendar Berle talks with John Neeshi, a biologist, about the mating rituals of the musk ox.
- Subject:
- Musk ox, Chemical weapons disposal, Kirtland's warbler, and Corporate environmental activism
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 August 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 talks with Gary Gardener of the Worldwatch Institute about environmental degradation and the loss of cropland worldwide. 2.) In the segment Portrait of a Place, author Patty Ann Rogers describes Shoal Creek, Missouri. 3.) Host Peter Berle talks with Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson about his recent book "In Search of Nature". 4.) Berle talks with Janet Hogan Taylor, author of "Dead Snails Leave no Trails", about natural pest control. 5.) In the segment Earth Calendar Berle talks with naturalist James Trager about wildflowers.
- Subject:
- Wilson, Edward Osborne, 1929-, Environmental degradation, Natural pesticides, and Shoal Creek (Mo. and Kan.)
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 August 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 reports on the controversy involving the regulation of dolphin safe tuna and talks with Brooks Yager of the Deparment of the Interior about the regulations. 2.) Berle discusses sustainable environment around the Columbia River in Washington. 3.) Thomas Lalley compares sustainable development in Washington to sustainable development in India and talks with architect Sue Hassini about the differences. 4.) In the segment Locking Horns, citizen activist Honey Sharp Wheeler argues with Ron Nessen of the cellular telephone industry association about how much say citizens' should have in the construction of cellular towers. 5.) In the segment Earth Calendar, Lalley talks with Steve Webster from the Monterey Bay Aquarium about blue whales.
- Subject:
- Cellular telephones--United States, Sustainable development--India., Sustainable development--Washington (State), and Tuna Industry
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 August 10
- 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 Carol Browner of the Environmental Protection Agency about the Safe Drinking Water Act. 2.) Susan Drennen of the Audubon Society remembers bird watching pioneer Roger Tory Peterson. 3.) Thomas Lalley reports on the controversy surrounding nuclear waste disposal and talks with Eileen Supko of Energy Resources International. 4.) In the segment Earth Calendar, Berle talks with Ron Nevine of the Oceanites Foundation about emperor penguins.
- Subject:
- Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996, Drinking water--Law and legislation--United States, Nuclear waste disposal, and Emperor penguin--Antarctica
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 August 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 reports on the effects pesticides on having on pollinators and talks with author Steven Buckman about the crisis. 2.) Lalley visits the Indian Ladder Farm in upstate New York to see how the pollinator crisis is effecting their apple crop. 3.) Host Peter Berle talks with Sarah Chassis of the National Resources Defense Council water pollution at our nation's beaches. 4.) Berle remembers his aunt's favorite place along the Merrimac River. 5.) In the segment Earth Calendar, Berle talks with research biologist Bill Cannon about free tailed bats.
- Subject:
- Free-tailed bats, Water Pollution, Pollinators, and Merrimac River (N.H. and Mass.)
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 July 28
- 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 Undersecretary of State Tim Wirth about binding commitments for the international community in regards to greenhouse gas emissions. 2.) Berle reports on the increased air pollution occurring in the Grand Canyon the steps the Environmental Protection Agency is taking to decrease the pollution and talks with Rick Moore of the Grand Canyon Trust about the issue. 3.) Storyteller Laura J. Bobrow reads an old Burmese fable. 4.) Thomas Lalley reports on air pollution in Los Angeles, half of which is caused by stationary sources.
- Subject:
- Greenhouse gases, Bobrow, Laura J., Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Environmental conditions, and Air--Pollution--California--Los Angeles