1.) Host Peter Berle talks with Democratic pollster Salinda Lake about the importance of environmental issues in the Presidential race. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports on the "Eden Alternative", a project developed by Dr. Bill Thomas, that brings plants, animals, and children into nursing homes. 3.) Berle talks with Wade Davis, an ethnobiologist, about the relationship indigenous peoples of Latin America have with plants. 4.) In the segment Portrait of a Place, author Scott Weidensaul talks about a mountain in the Appalachians of Pennsylvania. 5.) In the segment Earth Calendar, Scott Weidensaul discusses his book "Raptors: Birds of Prey".