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  • Environment Show #416

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 December 17
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    1) Peter Berle talks with Greg Wetstone, Legislative Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, about the Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse emissions; includes statements by Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts). 2) Steve Westcott talks with Maryanne Guichard from the Washington State Department of Health, and Don Anderson, a scientist in the biology department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, about toxic red tide in the Puget Sound. 3) Peter Berle provides environmentally friendly gift wrapping ideas and Christmas decorating suggestions. 4) Kent Patterson reports on illegal timber harvesting in Mexico. 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Kendell Thompson, Yosemite National Park Ranger, about mule deer. 6) Jeffery Atunsia talks with counselors and kids from Camp Vacamas in New Jersey about the nature programs and environmental education offered at the camp each summer. 7) Peter Berle talks with Dr. Adam Rose, Head of the Department of Energy, Environment, and Mineral Economics at Penn State University, and Kelly Quirke, Executive Director of the Rainforest Action Network, about emissions trading. 8) Author Nancy Lord reads an excerpt from her book, ?Fishcamp Life on an Alaskan Shore.?
    Subject:
    Timber?Mexico, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). Protocols, etc., 1997 Dec. 11., Mule deer, and Red tide

  • 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