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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1996 June 2
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- 88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
- Description:
- 1.) In their continuing series about endocrine disruptors, host Peter Berle talks with J.P. Meyers, author of "Our Stolen Future", about how even low doses of these chemicals could have dangerous effects. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports fomr the Tour de Sol race in Manhattan where electric, hybrid, and many other types of environmentally friendly cars, go head to head in a race. 3.) Berle talks with Michael Colby of the activist group Food and Water Incorporated, about their work fighting to keep pesticides off your dinner plate. 4.) In the segment Earth Calendar, Berle talks with biologist Joan Walsh about the horseshoe crab mating season on Delaware Bay.
- Subject:
- Food and Water, Inc., Horseshoe crabs, Electric cars, and Endocrine disruptors
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- 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
- Description:
- 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
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1995 November 5
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- 88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
- Description:
- 1.) Drug-resistant infectious diseases often thrive in cities. Gretchen Daily of Stanford University, Mark Lappe (author of ?Breakout?) and Rodney Dietert of Cornell University speak on infectious diseases, environmental degradation, population growth and preventive care.(2) On sustainable cities, Randolph Croxton speak on how automobile suburbs take too much land and resources; James Kunstler (author of ?Geography of Nowhere?), on how these are destructive to social and economic life. Ray Bromley, professor of geography at University at Albany thinks that ?in filling? the city and overcoming racial problems and social tensions are of higher priority in improving urban life.(3) Reg Modlin of Chrysler and Sheila Lynch of Northeast Alternative Vehicle Coalition debate on whether electric vehicle mandates should be continued.(4)Jeff Canada, author and children?s advocate, speaks of living in 108th Street, NY and how people give character to urban centers.
- Subject:
- Urban Life, Electric cars, and Infectious Diseases
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1994 December 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 Bruce Robertson talks with Lenny Comb, director of the Last Great Wilderness Project, about his anger over Congress changing the numbers on environmental bills. 2.) Robertson talks with a manager of a project at Hydro Quebec that may make the electric car a viable option. 3.) Robertson talks with Ken Goddard, director of the Fish and Wildlife forensic lab, about his novel "Wildfire".
- Subject:
- Environmental Policy, Electric cars, Goddard, Kenneth William, and Hydro-Que?bec.