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  • Environment Show #409

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 November 1
    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 for the Environmental Protection Agency and representative for the United States on the Committee on Environmental Cooperation, about the committee she serves on and their most recent meeting in Montreal. 2) Rachel Phillips talks with Richard Wilson, a senior research scientist for the Center for Climate Systems Research, Dr. Sallie Baliunas, an astrophysicist for the Harvard Smithsonian Center at Harvard University, and Dr. Alan Arching, an atmospheric physicist at John?s Hopkins University, about the impact of solar radiation on global climate change. 3) Steven Westcott talks with Jeanie Tomlinson, managing director of the Windstar Foundation, about co-founder John Denver?s vision for the organization. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Carl Safina, Vice President of the Living Oceans Project for the National Audubon society, about the migration patterns of fish and sharks off the coast of Long Island. 5) Steven Westcott talks with Nina Fascione from the Defenders of Wildlife and Mission Wolf about the organization?s efforts to gain public support for the reintroduction of wolves to the Adirondack Mountains. 6) Peter Berle talks with Andy Kerr, former Executive Director of the Oregon Natural Resources Council, and Pat Waak, Director of the Population and Habitat campaign for the National Audubon Society, about controlling growth, limiting sprawl, and making communities livable and sustainable. 7) Author Alison Hawthorne Deming reads an excerpt from her book, ?Temporary Homelands: Essays on Nature, Spirit, and Place.?
    Subject:
    Global warming, Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montre?al, Que?bec), Windstar Foundation, and Wolves

  • 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