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  • Environment Show #396

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 August 2
    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 Don Kaplan from FXFowle Architects about designing the new Conde Nast building as an environmentally friendly skyscraper. 2) Peter Berle talks with Bill Becker, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy?s Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development about establishing a fleet of mobile solar panels to be deployed after a natural disaster. 3) Thomas Lalley talks with Anne Marie Borbely, an energy industry analyst with Frost & Sullivan, about distributed generation. 4) Michael Ray Taylor reads an excerpt from his book, ?Cave Passages: Roaming the Underground Wilderness.? 5) In the continuing series on the Great American Harvest, Peter Berle talks with Craig Moss about harvesting wheat in Nebraska. 6) Peter Berle talks with Dr. John Ehrenfeld, Director of the Technology, Business, and Environment program at MIT, about corporate culture and environmental management systems. 7) Peter Berle consults with experts Dr. Marion Moses from the Pesticides Education Center in San Fransisco and author of ?Designer Poisons: How to Protect Your Health and Home from Toxic Pesticides,? Bob Rosenberg, Director of Government Affairs from the National Pest Management Association, and Susan Whitney, entomologist and Pest Education Coordinator at the University of Delaware, to answer listeners? questions about pest control and toxic pesticides. 8) Recording of the Zucchini Brothers performing their song ?Bad Pollution? from the CD ?In Your Garden.?
    Subject:
    Taylor, Michael Ray, 1959-, Distributed generation of electric power, Skyscrapers--Environmental aspects, and Photovoltaic power generation

  • Environment Show #380

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 April 12
    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 scientists and government officials about global warming, climate stabilization, and the Kyoto Treaty. 2) Peter Berle talks with John Thornton from the U.S. Department of Energy?s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Don Osborne, Director of the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District, about photovoltaic solar panels and power generation. 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jean Francois Bertrand from the Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography about the annual Grunion run in Southern California. 4) Peter Berle talks with John Ryan, author of ?Stuff: The Secret Life of Everyday Things,? Alan Hammond, a program director for the World Resources Institute, and Dr. Albert Adriaanse, a senior counselor for the Netherlands Ministry of Environment, to discuss ways to reduce energy consumption. 5) Peter Berle talks with Paul Bray, an environmental and planning law attorney and fellow at the American Academy in Rome, about Italy?s efforts to create new national parks in order to meet European Economic Union (EEU) standards. 6) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson interviews Susan Tellem from American Tortoise Rescue. 7) Thomas Lalley talks with John Thornton about the solar energy system that powers the Orangutan Research Center in Borneo. 8) Folk musician Victoria Parks sings, ?I?m going Solar? from her album, "Sure Feels Like Home."
    Subject:
    United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). Protocols, etc., 1997 Dec. 11., Photovoltaic power generation, California grunion, and National parks and reserves?Italy