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1.Environment Show #391

Type:
Audio
Fecha de Creacion:
1997 June 28
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 Wolfram Schulte, Councilor of Science and Technology at the Germany Embassy in Washington, D.C., Gail McDonald, President of the Global Climate Coalition, and Mike Oppenheimer, an atmospheric scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, about United States? greenhouse gas emission levels in response to criticism from the international community at the Summit of the Eight in Denver and Second United Nations? Earth Summit. 2) Peter Berle talks with James Corless, spokesman for the Surface Transportation Policy Project, and William Fey, President of the Highway Users Federation, about reauthorizing the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jayne Brim-Box, an aquatic geologist with the US Geological Survey, about Shinyrayed Pocketbook Mussels. 4) Thomas Lalley talks with Charles Yarish, a researcher from the University of Connecticut, about the potential of harvesting Nori seaweed as an environmentally friendly form of aquaculture. 5) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about organic farming. 6) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with George Ripley, founder of the Environmental Patriots of America. 7) Author Gregory McNamee reads a passage from his book, ?A Desert Bestiary: Folklore, Literature, and Ecological Thought from the World?s Dry Places.? 8) A recording of Roger Ridley playing ?Summer Time? from his album, ?Street Dreams.?
Tema:
Greenhouse gas mitigation, Sustainable aquaculture, Mussels, and Transportation--Environmental aspects--United States

2.Environment Show #306

Type:
Audio
Fecha de Creacion:
1995 November 12
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.) Host Peter Berle discusses the controversy over the safe drinking water act and why some environmentalists take issue with the bill. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports on a controversy surrounding a proposal to build a water filtration plant near Woodstock, New York and why some think land preservation in the Catskills is a better bet. 3.) Lalley talks with Dr. Charles Lydeard about the recent decline in the mussel population. 4.) Berle talks with Dr. Alan Rabinowitz of the Wildlife Conservation Society about a trip he took to the Annamite Mountains in Vietnam and his discovery of several new species. 5.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Dr. Ira O'Keene of the University of Massachusetts Division of Cardiovascular Medicine about why he thinks humans' cholesterol levels increase in the winter.
Tema:
Vietnam, Mussels, Catskill Mountains (N.Y.), and Water quality