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1. Environment Show #406
- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1997 October 11
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- 88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
- Thumbnail Path Ss:
- /assets/audio-5133b642ee875760dbd85bfab48649d009efd4bd29db1165f891b48a90b4f37e.png
- System Modified Dtsi:
- 2019-02-07T00:27:04Z
- Description:
- 1) Peter Berle talks with Tom Simpson, professor and Coordinator of the Chesapeake Bay Agricultural Program at the University of Maryland, Michael Hirshfield, Vice President of Resource Protection at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and Tim Eichenberg, Program Council for the Center for Marine Conservation and Co-Chair of the Clean Water Network, about Pfiesteria Pescado, a single-celled organism emitting toxins in rivers surrounding the Chesapeake Bay. 2) Steven Westcott talks with Henry Kendall, professor of physics at MIT and a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Kelly Sims, Science Policy Director for Ozone Action, and Dr. Jane Lubchenco, professor of zoology and marine biology at Oregon State University, about global warming and climate change. 3) Naturalist John Weeks describes the Oak Orchard River in Orleans County, New York. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jim Bergens, Manager of the Jasper Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Center, about migration patterns of Sandhill cranes. 5) Peter Berle talks with David Western, Director of the Kenyan Wildlife Service and author of ?In the Dust of Kilimanjaro,? about the interdependency between humans and wildlife. 6) Peter Berle moderates a debate between Robert Bradley, President of the Institute for Energy Research and a scholar for the Cato Institute, and Paul Jefferiss, Director of Energy for the Union of Concerned Scientists and lecturer of stainable development at Tufts University; Peter Berle asks, ?is renewable energy expensive, environmentally counterproductive, and unsustainable?? 7) Rachael Phillips compares winter weather predictions from the National Weather Service to information in ?The Farmer?s Almanac,? and talks to meteorologists about the impact of El Nino. 8) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson, reports from the Clearwater (sloop), a movable classroom and laboratory, and talks with Christopher Bower, the Clearwater?s environmental educator.
- Subject:
- Global warming, Cranes (Birds), Orleans County (N.Y.), and Pfiesteria piscicida