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1.Environment Show #415

Type:
Audio
Fecha de Creacion:
1997 December 13
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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System Modified Dtsi:
2019-02-07T00:30:08Z
Descripción:
1) Peter Berle talks with Ellen Z. Harrison from the Cornell University Waste Management Institute, Steve Berman, a lawyer from Seattle, and Michael Shapiro, acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste Emergency Response at the EPA, about using sludge from sewage treatment plants as fertilizer. 2) Steve Westcott talks with officials from the Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant near Boston, MA, about the new equipment recently installed at this state of the art sewage treatment facility. 3) Peter Berle explains how a listener placed himself on junk mail lists and used the paper to heat his home with a converted furnace. 4) Rachel Phillips plays listeners? comments about population growth and the impact of immigration on environmental pollution. 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Bob Berman, author of ?Secrets of the Night Sky? and an astronomy columnist for Discover magazine, about the winter solstice. 6) Steven Westcott talks with Mark Hostetler, a zoologist with the University of Florida, about his book, ?That Gunk on Your Car: A Unique Guide to Insects of North America.? 7) Peter Berle talks with Gale Norton from the Coalition of Republican Environmental Advocates, and Victoria Simarano, a political analyst for the Sierra Club, about Republican politicians and the environmental movement. 8) Dick Noneley, an English professor at Berkshire Community College, reflects on hunting season.
Tema:
Advertising, Direct-mail--Environmental aspects--United States, Berman, Bob, Sewage disposal plants, and Sewage sludge as fertilizer--Environmental aspects

2.Environment Show #398

Type:
Audio
Fecha de Creacion:
1997 August 16
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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System Modified Dtsi:
2019-02-07T00:24:17Z
Descripción:
1) Peter Berle talks with Robert Socolow, professor and Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Princeton University, about separating carbon dioxide and hydrogen from fossil fuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 2) Peter Berle consults with experts Edward Norton, Vice President of Law and Public Policy for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and author of ?Reclaiming Our Heritage: What We Need To Do To Preserve America?s National Parks,? Sharon Buccino from the Natural Resources Defense Council, Alston Chase, author of ?Playing God at Yellowstone: The Destruction of America?s First National Park,? and Mark Boyce, Chair of Ecology in the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin, to answer listeners? questions about the conditions in and management of U.S. National Parks. 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Martin Uman, Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, about lightning. 4)Thomas Lalley visits the Living Technologies, LTD. sewage treatment plant in South Burlington, VT to learn about how they are using greenhouse facilities with flowering plants as an alternative method to treat sewage. 5) Peter Berle talks with J. Barlow, head of the Coastal Marine Mammal Program for the National Marine Fishery Service in La Jolla, California, about the effects of El Nino on marine mammals such as sea lions and harbor seals off the coast of California. 6) Michelle Corem talks with Edna and C.J. Elfont, authors of the book, ?Sand Dunes of the Great Lakes.? 7) Geoffrey Canada reads an excerpt from his book, ?Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America.? 8) Recording of the Talking Heads? song, ?This Must Be the Place,? from the CD, ?Speaking in Tongues.?
Tema:
Lightning, Sewage disposal plants, United States. National Park Service, and Fossil Fuels