1.) Host Peter Berle talks with Gil Omenn of the Presidential Commission on Risk Assessment about the need for a new way of thinking about pollution. 2.) Berle talks with Alex Wilson, editor of Environmental Building News, about the disposal of pressure treated wood. 3.) Thomas Lalley reports on a new type of dry cleaning, wet cleaning, that is environmentally safer. 4.) Pierre Beland reads an excerpt from his book "Beluga: Funeral for Whales". 5.) In the Earth Calendar segment Tom Croad of the Missouri Botanical Gardens discusses the skunk cabbage. 6.) Berle talks with Jim Furnish, a forest supervisor in Oregon, about the need to better regulate clearcutting. 7.) In the segment Talking Green, Berle talks with Dave Dempsey of the Michigan Environmental Council, Rich Goodstein of Browning Forest Industries, and lawyer Eric Bach, about moving garbage and sewage sludge across state lines. 8.) Berle plays a song by Glen Waldach.
1.) Host Bruce Robertson talks with Eric Steedman, coordinator of the Campaign for Cleaner Corporations part of the Council on Economic Priorities, about their annually published report on the worst polluting companies in the U.S. 2.) Robertson talks with author William MacLeish about his new book "The Day Before America: Changing the Nature of the Continent'".
1.) Host Bruce Robertson discusses controversy over the clunker law, part of the Clean Air Act, which is an attempt to keep older and dirtier cars off the road. 2.) Robertson talks with Larry Sombke about finding the pH value of the soil in your garden. 3.) Robertson finishes his conversation with Dr. Norman Myers about his book "Ultimate Security: Environmental Basis of Political Stability".
This slide is from a presentation entitled "This is the Clearwater," created by Nancy Papish in cooperation with the Hudson River Archive. The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. is an environmental organization that advocates for the protection of the Hudson River and its ecosystems. Animals and fish of the Hudson River Valley can be endangered by water pollution and irresponsible land use, a problem that Clearwater members try to share with the public. (Color slide)