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1.Environment Show #400

Type:
Audio
Fecha de Creacion:
1997 August 30
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
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Descripción:
1) Peter Berle talks with Professor Marvin Miller from the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about his visit to a nuclear reprocessing plant in La Hougue, France. 2) Peter Berle talks with Charles Terry, an electrical engineer from Phoenix Arizona, about separating carbon dioxide and hydrogen from fossil fuels. 3) Nancy Marshall talks with environmentalists from Green Peace in Moscow and officials from Russia?s Nuclear Safety Department about Russia?s nuclear power program and their efforts to construct ten new nuclear reactors. 4) Author Colin Fletcher reads an excerpt from his book, ?River: One Man?s Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea.? 5) Peter Berle talks with Bobby Bernett about his experiences as a thru-hiker on the Appalachian Trail. 6) 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. 7) Rachel Philips talks with Lester Brown from the World Watch Institute about his study, ?Agricultural Link: How Environmental Deterioration Could Disrupt Economic Progress.? 8) Peter Berle consults with experts Brian Dunkiel, Director of Tax Policy at Friends of the Earth, and Andrew Hoerner, Director of the Environmental Tax Program, to answer listeners? questions about taxes, the environment, and the new tax bill signed by President Clinton. 9) Recording of Vanessa Rubin?s song, ?Being Green.?
Tema:
Radioactive waste disposal?France, Nuclear reactors--Russia (Federation), Fletcher, Colin, and Fossil Fuels

2.Environment Show #398

Type:
Audio
Fecha de Creacion:
1997 August 16
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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Descripción:
1) Peter Berle talks with Robert Socolow, professor and Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Princeton University, about separating carbon dioxide and hydrogen from fossil fuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 2) Peter Berle consults with experts Edward Norton, Vice President of Law and Public Policy for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and author of ?Reclaiming Our Heritage: What We Need To Do To Preserve America?s National Parks,? Sharon Buccino from the Natural Resources Defense Council, Alston Chase, author of ?Playing God at Yellowstone: The Destruction of America?s First National Park,? and Mark Boyce, Chair of Ecology in the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin, to answer listeners? questions about the conditions in and management of U.S. National Parks. 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Martin Uman, Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, about lightning. 4)Thomas Lalley visits the Living Technologies, LTD. sewage treatment plant in South Burlington, VT to learn about how they are using greenhouse facilities with flowering plants as an alternative method to treat sewage. 5) Peter Berle talks with J. Barlow, head of the Coastal Marine Mammal Program for the National Marine Fishery Service in La Jolla, California, about the effects of El Nino on marine mammals such as sea lions and harbor seals off the coast of California. 6) Michelle Corem talks with Edna and C.J. Elfont, authors of the book, ?Sand Dunes of the Great Lakes.? 7) Geoffrey Canada reads an excerpt from his book, ?Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America.? 8) Recording of the Talking Heads? song, ?This Must Be the Place,? from the CD, ?Speaking in Tongues.?
Tema:
Lightning, Sewage disposal plants, United States. National Park Service, and Fossil Fuels