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171. Environment Show #325

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 March 24
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
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Description:
1.) Host Peter Berle discusses the possible reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act. 2.) In the segment "Portrait of a Place", author/explorer Janet Jordan talks about Angel Falls in Venezuela. 3.) In the segment "Locking Horns", Jerry Taylor of the Kato Institute and Chris Flavin of the World Watch Institute argue over solar power as a viable future energy source. 4.) Thomas Lalley reports on an attempt to change the regulations of pesticides in food. 5.) In the segment "Earth Calendar" Berle talks with ecologist Whit Gibbons about the Scarlet King Snake and his attempts to tag and study them.
Subject:
Pesticides, Solar power, Angel Falls (Venezuela), and Endangered species

172. Environment Show #324

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 March 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.) Host Peter Berle talks with Carol Browner of the Environmental Protection Agency about the slow clean up of toxic waste sites as well as about brownfields, waste sites that are not high risk and the efforts of the Clinton administration to revamp them. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports about a co-housing community in which the residents pooled their resources to build their very own sustainable neighborhood. 3.) In the segment "Ear to the Ground", Linda Anderson talks with Jim Shenk of Imago, a company that develops ecological neighborhoods. 4.) In the segment "Portrait of a Place", author Sid Marty describes Aspen Valley in Alberta, Canada. 5.) In the "Earth Calendar" segment, Berle discusses murex mollusks, mussels that during their mating ritual create a purple dye.
Subject:
Brownfields--Environmental aspects, Aspen--Canada, Imago (Organization : Cincinnati, Ohio), and Sustainable living

173. Environment Show #323

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 March 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 talks with various attendees of a conference on solar energy about the future of the technology. 2.) Host Peter Berle talks with Thomas Caine of the University of Cincinnati about the Movile cave in Romania and the over 30 new species of animals found there. 3.) Berle talks with Joseph Segui about his work the SPNI or Society for Preservation of Nature in Israel. 4.) In the segment "Earth Calendar", Berle talks with Jim Parkhurst of Virginia Tech about the great horned owl.
Subject:
Israel--Environmental aspects, Great horned owl, Solar energy, and Movile (Romania)

174. Environment Show #322

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 March 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 talks with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his recent trip to Cuba to talk with Fidel Castro about putting an end to his plans for a nuclear reactor and instead use sugar bagasse for power generation. 2.) Thomas Lalley talks with David Mutchnik about his work on Bronx 2000, a group that uses the waste of the city to make reusable goods, including turning wood from shipping pallets into flooring. 3.) In the segment "Ear to the Ground", Linda Anderson discusses Green Harvest, an idea from the greater Pittsburgh National Food Bank to use organic agriculture to get more fruits and vegetables to those in need. 4.) Berle talks with Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute about his annual State of the World report. 5.) In the segment "Earth Calendar" Berle talks with meteorologist Mike Rucher about the effects the cold dry weather is having on Florida's fire season.
Subject:
Cuba, Urban forestry, Organic agriculture, and Bagasse

175. Environment Show #321

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 February 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.) Thomas Lalley reports on the cost to the economy of global warming and how it will effect various industries including insurance and banks. 2.) In the segment "Ear to the Ground" Linda Anderson talks with Charlotte and Herb Reed of Indiana about their work on the Save the Dunes Council. 3.) Host Peter Berle report on the Clinton Administration's plan to restore the Everglades and talks with Katie McGinty, Chair of Environmental Quality about the plan. 4.) In the segment "Earth Calendar" Berle discusses how the use of a two crop system, rice and crawfish, has lead to an increase in the Louisiana snow geese population.
Subject:
Snow goose, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (Ind.), Global warming--Economic aspects, and Everglades (Fla.)

176. Environment Show #320

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 February 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.) Thomas Lalley reports on a controversy involving many environmentalists' beliefs that they are getting routed on bills in Congress by lobbyists and Political Action Committees. 2.) Host Peter Berle discusses a budget impasse regarding fisheries and talks with Douglas Hall of the National Marine Services about the need for a better understanding of fish stocks. 3.) In the segment "Earth Calendar" Berle talks with Tom Malone of the University of Maryland about the blooming of diatoms on the Chesapeake Bay.
Subject:
Political action committees, Fisheries, Diatoms, and Lobbying

177. Environment Show #319

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 February 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.) Host Peter Berle talks with Lincoln Brow, researcher at the Wildlife Conservation Society, about the causes for the decrease in the monarch butterfly population in Mexico. 2.) Berle discusses the controversy surrounding the dumping of PCB's into the Housatonic River and the fact that it will take generations to be fishable again. 3.) In the segment "Locking Horns" Dr. Anthony Macotti and Professor Barry Commerce argue over whether or not incineration is the right way to get rid of PCBs. 4.) Thomas Lalley reports about the growing movement toward community supported agriculture. 5.) In the segment "Earth Calendar" Berle talks with entomologist Tom Tirpin about how insects cope with winter.
Subject:
Polychlorinated biphenyls, Housatonic River (Mass. and Conn.), Monarch butterfly, and Community agriculture

178. Environment Show #318

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 February 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.) Host Peter Berle talks with Mary McKeel of the Environmental Protection Agency about the new International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14000 regulations that help manage environmental standards within a company. 2.) Berle discusses how the technicalities involved with streaming the Environment Show online. 3.) In the segment "Ear to the Ground" Linda Anderson talks with Yvonne Maea about ACER, the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research, and the work it is doing. 4.) In the segment "Portrait of a Place" Dick Nunley, a professor at Berkshire Community College, discusses the Adirondacks. 5.) In the segment "Earth Calendar", Berle talks with Rom Rice of the Savannah Ecology Lab about flying squirrels.
Subject:
Streaming audio, ISO 14000 Series Standards, Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research, and Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)

179. Environment Show #317

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 January 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.) Thomas Lalley discusses the recent oil spill off the coast of Rhode Island and talks about the effort to use micro-organisms to help clean up the spill. 2.) Host Peter Berle talks about green investing, or investing in environmentally friendly companies and mutual funds. 3.) In the segment "Portrait of a Place", Blackfoot Indian Curly Bear Wagner describes Sweet Grass Prairie in Montana. 4.) In the segment "Earth Calendar", Berle talks with Chris Sorvine of Fish and Wildlife Service about the process a grizzly bear goes through in order to hibernate for the winter.
Subject:
Grizzly bear--Behavior, Sweet Grass Co., Mont., Oil spills--Cleanup, and Investments--Environmental aspects

180. Environment Show #316

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 January 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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Description:
1.) Host Peter Berle talks with Fred Hanson of the Environmental Protection Agency about how they are dealing with reduced funding. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports on the deteriorating health of amphibians and talks with Ken Iyer of the Smithsonian Institute about the issue. 3.) In the segment "Locking Horns", California's Proposition 197, allowing for the hunting of mountain lions, is discussed by California Senator Tim Lesley and Paul Van Dyke, supervisor of the "No to prop. 197" campaign. 4.) In the segment "Ear to the Ground" Linda Anderson reports on Rutgers University and their use of environmental economics in hopes of one day achieving total sustainability on their campus. 5.) In the segment "Earth Calendar", Berle discusses the processes animals go through in order to hibernate for the winter.
Subject:
Amphibians, Rutgers University, Mountain lion, and Environmental Protection Agency