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.