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1. Environment Show #418

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1998 January 3
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
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Description:
Peter Berle looks back on the stories and issues covered by the Environment Show during the previous year. 1) As part of the continuing series on El Nino, Peter Berle talks with Peter Greenbaum, Vice President and Latin American economist for Smith Barney, about the economic impacts of El Nino on the Andean countries in South America. 2) Peter Berle talks with Howard Quigley from the Hornocker Wildlife Institute about efforts to protect Siberian Tigers. 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 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. 5) Thomas Lalley visits the Hamilton Hills neighborhood in Schenectady, New York and talks with Beverly Bernett from Hill and Vale Affordable Housing about community loan funds and community land trusts. 6) Peter Berle talks with Dan Becker, Director of the Global Warming and Energy Program at the Sierra Club and a member of the Presidential Commission on Auto-Exhaust Emissions, and Dr. Richard Klimisch, an expert on alternative fuels and Vice President of Engineering Affairs with the American Automobile Manufacturing Association, about American automobile manufactures? reluctance to adopt new technology to reduce tailpipe emissions. 7) ) Author Kent Nerburn reads from his book, ?A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land.?
Subject:
El Nin?o Current--Economic aspects--Andes Region, Clearwater (Sloop), Windstar Foundation, and Hornocker Wildlife Institute