1.) Host Peter Berle discusses the execution of Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro Wiwo. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports on "green washing" campaigns by companies to convince the public they are a green company. 3.) In the segment "Ear to the Ground" Linda Anderson talks with Renee Askins of the Wolf Fund about her work repopulating the wolf population of Yellowstone National Park. 4.) In the segment "Locking Horns", Rodger Schlickeisen of Defenders of Wildlife argues with Larry Burrett of the Farm Bureau about whether or not wolves should be brought to Yellowstone. 5.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with botanist George Yaskevitch about barrens and the rich variety of life they contain.
1.) Host Bruce Robertson talks with George Davis, an environmentalist with the Center for Citizens Initiative, about his recent visit to Lake Baikal in Russia and the attempts to save it before it's too late. 2.) Jill Hoyt talks with Charles Wilkinson, a law professor from Colorado University, about his recent book "The Eagle Bird: Mapping a New West", in which he calls for the government to make more passionately worded laws. 3.) Robertson talks with Linda Elliot, wildlife manager of Hyatt Regency Resort in Hawaii, about the resort's wildlife and recooperation treatment which helps to protect the environment on the Hawaiian islands. 4.) Linda Brown of Scientific Certification Systems discusses their new environmental report cards which will give consumers a cradle to grave analysis of the environmental impact of products they purchase.
1.) Host Bruce Robertson plays excerpts from a speech given by Environmental Protection Agency Chief William Reilly who will be joining President Bush at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. 2.) Robertson talks with sociologist Dr. Riley Dunlop about a recent survey he directed which found that a large portion of the citizens of the world, from both poor and wealthy countries, list the environment as one of their top concerns. 3.) Leslie Lamas reports on a recent ad campaign by Conoco industries, a subsidiary of DuPont, that Jack Doyle, of the Friends of the Earth Organization, believes gave false impressions of their environmental friendliness.