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  • Environment Show #409

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 November 1
    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 for the Environmental Protection Agency and representative for the United States on the Committee on Environmental Cooperation, about the committee she serves on and their most recent meeting in Montreal. 2) Rachel Phillips talks with Richard Wilson, a senior research scientist for the Center for Climate Systems Research, Dr. Sallie Baliunas, an astrophysicist for the Harvard Smithsonian Center at Harvard University, and Dr. Alan Arching, an atmospheric physicist at John?s Hopkins University, about the impact of solar radiation on global climate change. 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 Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Carl Safina, Vice President of the Living Oceans Project for the National Audubon society, about the migration patterns of fish and sharks off the coast of Long Island. 5) Steven Westcott talks with Nina Fascione from the Defenders of Wildlife and Mission Wolf about the organization?s efforts to gain public support for the reintroduction of wolves to the Adirondack Mountains. 6) Peter Berle talks with Andy Kerr, former Executive Director of the Oregon Natural Resources Council, and Pat Waak, Director of the Population and Habitat campaign for the National Audubon Society, about controlling growth, limiting sprawl, and making communities livable and sustainable. 7) Author Alison Hawthorne Deming reads an excerpt from her book, ?Temporary Homelands: Essays on Nature, Spirit, and Place.?
    Subject:
    Global warming, Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montre?al, Que?bec), Windstar Foundation, and Wolves

  • Environment Show #406

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 October 11
    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 Tom Simpson, professor and Coordinator of the Chesapeake Bay Agricultural Program at the University of Maryland, Michael Hirshfield, Vice President of Resource Protection at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and Tim Eichenberg, Program Council for the Center for Marine Conservation and Co-Chair of the Clean Water Network, about Pfiesteria Pescado, a single-celled organism emitting toxins in rivers surrounding the Chesapeake Bay. 2) Steven Westcott talks with Henry Kendall, professor of physics at MIT and a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Kelly Sims, Science Policy Director for Ozone Action, and Dr. Jane Lubchenco, professor of zoology and marine biology at Oregon State University, about global warming and climate change. 3) Naturalist John Weeks describes the Oak Orchard River in Orleans County, New York. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jim Bergens, Manager of the Jasper Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Center, about migration patterns of Sandhill cranes. 5) Peter Berle talks with David Western, Director of the Kenyan Wildlife Service and author of ?In the Dust of Kilimanjaro,? about the interdependency between humans and wildlife. 6) Peter Berle moderates a debate between Robert Bradley, President of the Institute for Energy Research and a scholar for the Cato Institute, and Paul Jefferiss, Director of Energy for the Union of Concerned Scientists and lecturer of stainable development at Tufts University; Peter Berle asks, ?is renewable energy expensive, environmentally counterproductive, and unsustainable?? 7) Rachael Phillips compares winter weather predictions from the National Weather Service to information in ?The Farmer?s Almanac,? and talks to meteorologists about the impact of El Nino. 8) 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.
    Subject:
    Global warming, Cranes (Birds), Orleans County (N.Y.), and Pfiesteria piscicida

  • Environment Show #382

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 April 26
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    1) Thomas Lalley talks with Stephen Leatherman, Director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research, and Espen Ronneberg, Minister Counsel from the Marshall Island?s Mission to the United Nations, about the effects of thermal expansion and rising sea levels on coastal areas around the world. 2) Peter Berle talks about nuclear power with Dr. Henry W. Kendall, Nobel Prize winning physicist and Chairman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prizing winning historian and journalist. 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Duncan Porter, a botany professor from Virginia Tech, about wildflowers in the Appalachian Mountains. 4) Berle talks with Howard Quigley from the Hornocker Wildlife Institute about their attempts to protect Siberian Tigers. 5) Berle talks with Lynn Salder, executive director of the Mountain Lion Foundation, Steve Touris from the California Department of Fish and Game, and Dr. Rick Hopkins, Senior Wildlife Ecologist at Harvey and Associates, about how the expanding human population in California continues to effect mountain lions (cougars). 6) Author Gregory McNamee reads a passage from his book, ?A Desert Bestiary: Folklore, Literature, and Ecological Thought from the World?s Dry Places.? 7) Barb Barton sings, ?Spring Time? from her album, ?From the Eye of the Hawk.?
    Subject:
    Global warming, Wild flowers--Appalachian Region, Hornocker Wildlife Institute, and Nuclear energy

  • Environment Show #298

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1995 September 17
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    1.) Host Bruce Robertson talks with Dr. Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental Defense Fund about the draft report by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change that discusses the effects humans have on global warming. 2.) Linda Anderson reports on the growing popularity of farmers using work horses instead of trackers on their farms. 3.) Robertson reports on some of the environmental standards that came out of the Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
    Subject:
    Global warming, Winter Olympic Games (17th : 1994 : Lillehammer, Norway), and Draft horses

  • Environment Show #196

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1993 October 3
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    1.) Host Bruce Robertson talks with Dr. Jeremy Legetta of Greenpeace about the negative effects global warming has on insurance companies. 2.) Robertson talks with Larry Sombke, author of "Beautiful Easy Gardens", about making a trellis for the entryway to your garden. 3.) Robertson talks with ecologist Dr. Norman Myers about his new book "Ultimate Security: Environmental Basis of Political Stability".
    Subject:
    Myers, Norman, Global warming, and Sombke, Laurence

  • Environment Show #69

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1991 April 28
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    1.) Host Bruce Robertson discusses the National Academy of Sciences global warming report and talks with Director Daniel J. Evans about the implications of global warming. 2.) Robertson reports from the Sloop Clearwater, a ship that has been sailing the Hudson River for over 20 year, dedicated to cleaning up the river. 3.) Robertson talks with Jeff Frederick, coordinator of the Mississippi River Revival, a project dedicated to cleaning up the Mississippi River. 4.) Leslie Lomas reports from Arizona about the recent controversy involving a mining company's attempt to expand mining into Navajo and Hopi reservations.
    Subject:
    Global warming, Mississippi River Revival, Clearwater (Sloop), and Navajo Indian Reservation