1) Steven Westcott discusses Home Depot's harvesting of wood products from endangered forests with Tom Tevlin of the Forest Alliance of British Columbia and Susanne Apple, representative with Home Depot. 2) Alan Chartock interviews New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on the New York State lawsuit against 17 coal burning plants in the mid-west. 3) Peter Berle presents his green tip on how to identify certified lumber. 4) Darcy Mitchum discusses the environmental influences contained in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. 5) Peter Berle discusses the migration of Striped Bass. 6) Peter Berle leads a discussion on the depletion of water resources with environmentalists Sandra Postel and Mark Reisner. 7) Peter Berle speaks with professor John Delano on the origins of life.
1.) Host Bruce Robertson discusses the controversial practice of sustainable yield and talks with botanist William Schuster about how he has practiced it in Black Rock Forest. 2.) Robertson talks with Larry Sombke, author of "Beautiful Easy Gardens", about using solar pathway lamps in your garden to keep away deer. 3.) Robertson visits the house of Joel Patterson, who has outfitted his home with photovoltaic panels and powers his the whole house with them, including a recording studio.