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1. Environment Show #372

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 February 13
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
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Description:
1.) Host Peter Berle talks with Katie McGinty of the White House Council on Environmental Quality about the role of the environment in the Clinton administration. 2.) Berle talks with David Kumel of Marquette University's Center for Highway and Traffic Engineering about urea as an alternative to road salt. 3.) In the segment Talking Green, Berle talks with Christopher Taylor of an Oregon public interest group and Pat Franklin of the Container Recycling Institute, about whether or not we need to update the bottle bill. 4.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Christine Shepherd, curator of ornothology at the Bronx Zoo, about red crowned cranes. 5.) Berle talks with Craig Brown of the National Cotton Council of America about the fairness of cotton subsidies. 6.) Thomas Lalley reports on new regulations for water saving toilets and talks with David Conrad of the National Wildlife Federation about the issue. 7.) Stephanie Goitchman interviews Los Angeles resident Alexandra Paul about her electric car. 8.) Berle talks with David Kumel of Marquette University's Center for Highway and Traffic Engineering about alternatives to road salt. 9.) Berle plays music from the Mbuti pygmies of Africa.
Subject:
Salt--Environmental aspects, McGinty, Kathleen Alana, 1963-, Beverage containers--Recycling--Law and legislation, and Red-crowned crane

2. Environment Show #369

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1997 January 25
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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1.) Thomas Lalley reports on the issue of what to do with surplus plutonium and talks with Mary Olsen of the Nuclear Information and Resource Group about the problem. 2.) In the segment Locking Horns, host Peter Berle talks with Jim Petty of the Air Transportation Association and Jeff Bernard of the Grand Canyon Trust about whether new laws are needed to better regulate the amount of air traffic going over the Grand Canyon. 3.) In the segment Talking Green, Berle talks with Keith Cherryhomes of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, botanist Maynard Bauers, and Joe Doherty of the New York State Department of Transportation, about the effects of road salt on vegetation and water quality. 4.) Berle talks with Roger Mustalish of the Amazon Center for Education and Research Foundation about the rarely changing climate in the rainforest of the Amazon Basin in Peru. 5.) Berle talks with professor of plant physiology Tom Hodges about his work genetically engineering plants. 6.) In another Talking Green segment, Berle talks with Daniel Sperling, professor of civil engineering and Bob Batson of Electric Vehicles of America, about electric cars. 7.) Berle talks with author Thomas Power about his recent book "Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies". 8.) The show ends with a song by singer songwriter Bruce Coburn.
Subject:
Rainforest, Salt--Environmental aspects, Plutonium, and Grand Canyon (Ariz.)

3. Environment Show #59

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1991 February 17
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
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1.) Dave Foach reports from Wisconsin about the effects of road salt on the environment. 2.) Correspondent Scott Schegel reports on Denver's use of oxyfuels and the controversy surrounding their use. 3.) Robertson talks with author Michael Tobias about his book "Voice of the Planet, as well as actor William Shatner who stars in the television adaptation of the book.
Subject:
Salt--Environmental aspects, Tobias, Michael, Shatner, William., and Fuel--Oxidation.