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  • Environment Show #395

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 July 26
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    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.?
    Subject:
    White whale, Fish as food--Contamination, El Nino Current--Environmental aspects, and Pacific salmon fishing--Northwest, Pacific

  • Environment Show #394

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 July 19
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    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.?
    Subject:
    Mosher, Howard Frank, Subsidies--Environmental aspects--United States, Fire weather--United States, and Pests-- Biological control

  • Environment Show #393

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 July 12
    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 Andre Mele, author of ?Polluting for Pleasure,? Tony Esposito from Mercury Marine, and Bob Young from Honda Marine about new EPA regulations for 2-stroke outboard motors. 2)Peter Berle consults with experts Nancy Zierenberg, Executive Director of the Wildlife Damage Review, and Peter Orwick, Executive Director of the American Sheep Industry Association, about the U.S. Department of Agriculture?s Animal Damage Control Program. 3)In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle describes the process of harvesting hay. 4)Peter Berle talks with Mark Spalding, guest lecturer for the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California in San Diego , Chris McGinn, Deputy Director of Global Trade Watch, Dan Seligman from the Sierra Club, and John D. Wirth, professor of history at Stanford University and director of the North American Institute, about NAFTA?s environmental side agreement. 5)Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about indoor air pollution and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). 6)Lee Talbot, a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Masson University, talks about his efforts to protect natural resources in Bhutan. 7)In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Ora Lee Carroll from the East Liberty Concerned Citizens Corporation about her organization?s efforts to replace littered vacant lots with flower and vegetable gardens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 8)Recording of Kim and Reggie Harris? rendition of ?Wade in the Water? from their CD, ?In the Heat of the Summer.?
    Subject:
    Hay?Harvesting, Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montre?al, Que?bec), ADC (Animal Damage Control Program (U.S.)), and Outboard motors--Environmental aspects

  • Environment Show #392

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 July 5
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    1) Peter Berle talks with Katie McGinty from President Clinton?s administration about climate change and greenhouse gas mitigation. 2) Thomas Lalley visits the Hamilton Hills neighborhood in Schenectady, New York and talks with Beverly Bernett from Hill and Vale Affordable Housing about community loan funds and community land trusts. 3) Author Colin Fletcher reads an excerpt from his book, ?River: One Man?s Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea.? 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jeremy Garrett from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation about Mexican Free-tailed Bats. 5) Thomas Lalley visits the Community Warehouse in Hoosick Falls, NY and talks with Meg Morris about the center?s mission, which is to collect and resell reusable items instead of sending them to landfills. 6) Peter Berle consults with experts George James, Program Manager for the Department of Energy?s Building America Program, and Pliny Fisk, architect and Co-director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, to answer listeners? questions about green housing and green design. 7)Recording of Craig Nuttycombe?s song, ?Stuff? from his album ?Planetorial Janitor.?
    Subject:
    Free-tailed bats, Fletcher, Colin, Community Land Trust, and Greenhouse gas mitigation

  • Environment Show #391

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 June 28
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    1) Peter Berle talks with Wolfram Schulte, Councilor of Science and Technology at the Germany Embassy in Washington, D.C., Gail McDonald, President of the Global Climate Coalition, and Mike Oppenheimer, an atmospheric scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, about United States? greenhouse gas emission levels in response to criticism from the international community at the Summit of the Eight in Denver and Second United Nations? Earth Summit. 2) Peter Berle talks with James Corless, spokesman for the Surface Transportation Policy Project, and William Fey, President of the Highway Users Federation, about reauthorizing the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jayne Brim-Box, an aquatic geologist with the US Geological Survey, about Shinyrayed Pocketbook Mussels. 4) Thomas Lalley talks with Charles Yarish, a researcher from the University of Connecticut, about the potential of harvesting Nori seaweed as an environmentally friendly form of aquaculture. 5) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about organic farming. 6) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with George Ripley, founder of the Environmental Patriots of America. 7) Author Gregory McNamee reads a passage from his book, ?A Desert Bestiary: Folklore, Literature, and Ecological Thought from the World?s Dry Places.? 8) A recording of Roger Ridley playing ?Summer Time? from his album, ?Street Dreams.?
    Subject:
    Greenhouse gas mitigation, Sustainable aquaculture, Mussels, and Transportation--Environmental aspects--United States

  • Environment Show #390

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 June 21
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    1) Peter Berle talks with Julia Carabias, Minister for the Environment, Natural Resources, and Fisheries in Mexico, about changes to Mexico?s environmental laws. 2) Thomas Lalley visits Brooklyn?s Prospect Park to report on the current restoration project. 3) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? responses to Peter Berle?s interview of Holly Swanson. 4) Author SueEllen Campbell reads an excerpt from her book, ?Bringing the Mountain Home.? 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Thomas Lalley talks with G.B. Cornucopia and Daphne Ford from Chaco Culture National Historical Park about the sun dagger, the Anastasi Indians, and the summer solstice. 6) Nancy Marshall reports from Moscow about the effects of rising gas and oil prices on energy conservation in Russia. 7) Peter Berle consults with experts Dr. Linda Ford, CEO of The Asthma and Allergy Center in Omaha, Nebraska, and Nadav Malin, Editor of Environmental Building News, to answer listeners? questions about indoor air pollution. 8) Peter Berle talks with Hollie Shaner about ways to effectively segregate and dispose of hospital waste. 9) Recording of Southern Rail?s Carolina Lightning.
    Subject:
    Chaco Culture National Historical Park (N.M.), Environmental law?Mexico, Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.), and Campbell, SueEllen

  • Environment Show #389

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 June 14
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    1) Pete Berle talks with Greg Petrich, Conservation Director of the Alaska Rainforest Campaign, and Phil Janik, Regional Forester, about logging regulations in the Tongass National Forest. 2) Peter Berle consults with Grace Gershuny from the Northeast Organic Farming Association, Diane Bowen, Executive Director of California Certified Organic Farmers, and Joel Salatin, a farmer in the Shenandoah Valley, to answer listeners? questions about organic farming. 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Thomas Lalley talks with Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology, about termites. 4) Thomas Lalley talks with Bill Mollison about sustainable living and permaculture. 5) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Bethany Walder from Wildlands CPR about reversing the ecological impact of wild-land roads. 6) Thomas Lalley talks with David Shaw, Director of the Wind River Canopy Crane, about using construction cranes to access forest canopies. 7) Recording of Woody Guthrie?s ?Pastures of Plenty,? and ?This Land is Your Land,? from the CD, ?Woody Guthrie: The Asch Recordings.?
    Subject:
    Mollison, B. C., Termites, Tongass National Forest (Alaska)--Management, and Organic farming

  • Environment Show #388

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 June 7
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    1) Peter Berle talks with Carol Browner, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, about clean air regulations and other policy agendas. 2) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about endocrine disrupters. 3) Thomas Lalley talks with James Pipkin from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Brian Riddle, a research scientist for the Department of Fisheries in Canada, and Glen Spain, attorney, about the dispute between Canada and the United States over salmon fishing and the Pacific Salmon Treaty. 4) Author Don Gayton reads a passage from his book, ?Landscapes of the Interior: Re-explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit.? 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Richard Merrick from the National Marines Fishery Service about the reproductive behaviors of Steller sea lions. 6) Peter Berle talks with Holly Swanson about her views regarding the green movement and her book, ?Set Up & Sold Out: Find Out What Green Really Means.? 7) Peter Berle consults with Dr. Alan Berkowitz from the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, and Michael Sanera, researcher from the Clermount Institute and author of ?Facts Not Fear: Teaching Children About the Environment,? to answer listeners? questions about environmental education. 8) Navajo songwriter Sharon Burch sings, ?Earth and Sun,? from her CD, ?Touch the Sweet Earth.?
    Subject:
    Pacific salmon fishing--Northwest, Pacific, Gayton, Don, 1946-, Steller?s sea lion, and United States. Environmental Protection Agency

  • Environment Show #387

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 May 31
    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 from an EPA Superfund site near Front Royal, Virginia and explains why Congress is considering a Superfund reform bill. 2) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Michael Green, biologist with the Wetlands Restoration Lab at Southeastern Louisiana University, about the Manchac Swamp Cyprus restoration project. 3) Author Scott Thybony reads from his book, ?Burntwater.? 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Alan Lasko and Martin Goffinet from Cornell University?s Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York, about apple blossom fertilization. 5) Berle talks with Lynn Goldman from the EPA?s Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, about the Toxic Release Inventory. 6) Berle consults with Meg Maguire, President of Scenic America, and Philip Gitlen, attorney and former counsel for New York State?s Department of Environmental Conservation, to answer listeners? questions about billboards and pollution. 7) Percussionist Donald Knaack plays ?Mishmash? from his CD, ?Junk Music.?
    Subject:
    Apples--Breeding, United States. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, Thybony, Scott, and Manchac Swamp (La.)

  • Environment Show #386

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 May 24
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    1) Peter Berle talks with Jim Leckey, Chief of the Protected Species Division for the National Marine Fishery Service for the Southwest Region, and Diane Valantine, Salmon Protection Advocate for the Oregon Natural Resources Council, about the efforts to save the Coho salmon through the Endangered Species Act. 2) Peter Berle talks with Dianne Dumoanoski, author of ?Our Stolen Future: Are we Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival ? A Scientific Detective Story,? and Sheldon Krimsky from Tufts University, about endocrine disrupters. 3) Author Gary Ferguson reads and excerpt from his book, ?Through the Woods: A Journey Through America?s Forests (The Sylvan Path).? 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Bob Hamilton, Director of Science and Stewardship for the Oklahoma Chapter of the Nature Conservancy?s Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, about Bison. 5) Thomas Lalley reports from the Tour de Sol Electric Car Rally; he talks with Tom Thompson, Executive Director of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, and Jason Mark, Transportation Analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists, about electric cars and alternative fuels. 6) Peter Berle talks with Gene Likens from the Institute of Ecosystem Studies about the effects of the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act on acid rain levels in the Northeast. 7) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about mountain lions and nuclear power. 8) Thomas Lalley talks with Frans de Waal author of, ?Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape.? 9) Author Kent Nerburn reads from his book, ?A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land.? 10) Folk musicians Lou and Peter Berryman sing, ?Here?s to Mother Nature,? from their album ?Cow Imagination.?
    Subject:
    Coho salmon, Ferguson, Gary, 1956-, Endocrine disrupting chemicals, and American bison