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  • Environment Show #388

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 June 7
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    1) Peter Berle talks with Carol Browner, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, about clean air regulations and other policy agendas. 2) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about endocrine disrupters. 3) Thomas Lalley talks with James Pipkin from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Brian Riddle, a research scientist for the Department of Fisheries in Canada, and Glen Spain, attorney, about the dispute between Canada and the United States over salmon fishing and the Pacific Salmon Treaty. 4) Author Don Gayton reads a passage from his book, ?Landscapes of the Interior: Re-explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit.? 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Richard Merrick from the National Marines Fishery Service about the reproductive behaviors of Steller sea lions. 6) Peter Berle talks with Holly Swanson about her views regarding the green movement and her book, ?Set Up & Sold Out: Find Out What Green Really Means.? 7) Peter Berle consults with Dr. Alan Berkowitz from the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, and Michael Sanera, researcher from the Clermount Institute and author of ?Facts Not Fear: Teaching Children About the Environment,? to answer listeners? questions about environmental education. 8) Navajo songwriter Sharon Burch sings, ?Earth and Sun,? from her CD, ?Touch the Sweet Earth.?
    Subject:
    Pacific salmon fishing--Northwest, Pacific, Gayton, Don, 1946-, Steller?s sea lion, and United States. Environmental Protection Agency

  • Environment Show #377

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 March 22
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    1) Host Peter Berle talks with Congressman George Miller (D-California), Chairman of the House Resources Committee, about the Public Resources Deficit Reduction Act and efforts to reduce corporate subsidies to resource industries. 2)Peter Berle talks with David Roodman from the World Watch Institute about his paper, "Paying the Piper: Subsidies, Politics, and the Environment," and Mike Orlando and Chris Douglass from the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University about their book, "Toward a Healthier Environment and Stronger Economy: How to Achieve Common Ground." 3) Author Don Gayton reads a passage from his book, "Landscapes of the Interior: Re-explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit." 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Berle talks with the owners of Durand Family Ponds and Farms in Louisiana about crawfish harvesting and rice fields. 5) Thomas Lalley talks with Joseph McGonigle about the environmental impact of aquaculture. 6) Stephanie Goitchman consults with experts to answer listeners' questions about paper recycling and indoor compositing. 7) In the Then and Now segment, Thomas Lalley talks with Bill Gartner from the University of Wisconsin at Madison about pre-Columbian communities and sustainable living practices. 8) Author Gary Ferguson reads a passage about Chehalis Indian folklore from his book, "Spirits of the Wild: The World's Great Nature Tales." 9) Folk musician John Prine sings "Paradise."
    Subject:
    Crayfish industry--Louisiana, Miller, George, 1945-, Subsidies--Environmental Aspects, and Gayton, Don, 1946-