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  • Environment Show #487

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1999 May 1
    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 and Alex Likhotal, President of Green Cross International, discuss the environmental effects of warfare in Yugoslavia. 2) Peter Berle speaks with Linda Descano, Vice-President of Environmental Affairs with Solomon Smith Barney and Alyssa Gravitz, representative of Social Investment Forum, about environmental impact and corporate investing. 3) Steven Westcott reports on the effect La Ni?a in Florida with Terrance McElroy, Press secretary for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. 4) Peter Berle speaks with Cal Lewis of Lewis Nursery and Farms about strawberry picking in North Carolina. 5) Yvonne Margarula and Yvonne Katona, winners of the 1999 Goldman Environmental Prize speak with Steven Westcott about protecting land in Kakadu, Australia from mining companies. 6) Peter Berle discusses the environmental impact of globalization and trade with Carol Welsch of Friends of the Earth and James Sheehan of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. 7) Alan Kesselheim reads from his book, ?Threading the Currents: A Paddler's Passion for Water?.
    Subject:
    World Bank, War, La Nina, and Yugoslavia

  • Environment Show #475

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1999 February 6
    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 continues a discussion of the impact of armed conflict on the environment and steps that the U.S.military is taking to mitigate that, 2) Peter Berle talks with Lester Brown of the World Watch Institute, 3) Steven Westcott reports on issues affecting Russian brown bears on the Kamchatka Peninsula, In the Earth Calendar Peter Berle reports on the harvesting of red and pink grapefruit, 5) Steven Westcott reports on British Columbia forestry official who resent boycott of their forest products by various corporations, 6) In Talking Green Peter Berle asks whether or not we have preserved enough wilderness land, 7) Jerry Dennis reads from "The River Home."
    Subject:
    Environment, Brown, Lester, 1934-, Economic development, and War

  • Environment Show #474

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1999 January 30
    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 about the environmental consequences of war, 2) John van Koske reports on threats to Connecticut family farms, 3) Steven Westcott reports on listener comments, 4) the Earth Calendar segment is a report on ice fishing in Lake Winnibigoshish Minnesota, 5) Sean Dudley reports on Mexican gray wolves and human predation, 6) In Talking Green Peter Berle discusses the need to strengthen or weaken the Endangered Species Act, 7) William Tapply reads from "A Fly Fishing Life."
    Subject:
    Environment, Ice fishing, Agriculture--Connecticut., and War