1) Peter Berle discusses the Superfund Act, its lack of reform, and $650 million in funds no longer available, 2) Steven Westcott reports on Chippewa Indians in Minnesota who must farm raise perch and other fish because the stocks in Red Lake are depleted, 3) Eric Butner reports on the environmental impact of buying and owning exotic pets, 4) the Earth Calendar focuses on squash harvesting in South Carolina, 5) John Carlson reports on his trek on the Appalachian Trail, 6) Peter Berle talks with doctors about environmental factors affecting asthma in Talking Green, 7) Peter Berle reports on using reel lawn movers in Green Tips, 8) Steven Westcott summarizes listener comments to recent programs
1.) Host Peter Berle talks with Carol Browner of the Environmental Protection Agency about the health effects of air pollution. 2.) Thomas Lalley talks with Dr. Jeffrey Mount, a professor of geology, about the effects of flood control measures. 3.) Stephanie Goitchman talks with microbiologist John Fagan about genetically altered soybeans. 4.) In the segment Portrait of a Place author Kent Nerburn reads reads from his book "A Haunting Reverance: Meditations on a Northern Land". 5.) In the Earth Calendar segment professor of biology Phillip Lobelle discusses fish spawning. 6.) Berle talks with chief of U.S. Forest Services Mike Dombeck. 7.) In the segment Talking Green Berle talks with Tom Lint, project coordinator of the Berkeley co-housing poject and architect Bruce Coldum about co-housing. 8.) Lalley talks with Priscilla and Barton McLean about the use of natural sounds in their musical group, the McLean Mix.
1.) Host Bruce Robertson plays excerpts from a speech by Environmental Protection Agency's administrator Carol Browner about the things that need to be done now and in the future to protect the environment. 2.) Robertson talks with Larry Sombke, author of "Beautiful Easy Gardens", about keeping your newly planted lawn healthy. 3.) Robertson talks with RPI professor Dr. David Torre about his work involving a new generation of wind turbines that turns in slower winds.
1.) Host Bruce Robertson talks with Theresa Woody of the Sierra Club about President Clinton's recent appointment of Florida's Secretary of the Environment Carol Browner to head of the Environmental Protection Agency. 2.) Robertson talks with Rob Hauser from the Center for International Environmental Law about some of the problems with NAFTA. 3.) Dr. Henk Fulmer, professor of economics from the Netherlands, discusses why the Europeans are beating the United States in environmental friendliness.