1) Peter Berle discusses North America's worst polluters with Janine Ferretti of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Dan Schultz of the Ontario Ministry of Energy and Anne Mitchell of the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy. 2) Nancy Wilson reports on the reintroduction of wolves in Idaho. 3) Bob Zanotti with Swiss Radio International discusses the health risks of Dioxin. 4) Peter Berle discusses the migration of Monarch Butterflies. 5) Peter Berle discusses the environmental impact of golf course. 6) Steven Westcott discusses the threatened Javan Rhinoceros in Southeast Asia with Steve Osofsky of the World Wilfelife Fund.
1) Peter Berle revisits issues discussed on the program in the past year, 2) Steven Westcott reports on the impact of global warming on Alaskan glaciers, 2) Linda Anderson reports on the efforts of Save Our Cumberland Mountains, 3) Nancy Wilson reports on the adoption of a pack of wolves by the Nez Perce Indians in Idaho, 5) Peter Berle talks with the mayor of New Orleans about enhancements to the city, 6) In Talking Green Peter Berle talks about urban sprawl, economic growth, and land use.
1) Peter Berle talks with Carol Browner, administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency and representative for the United States on the Committee on Environmental Cooperation, about the committee she serves on and their most recent meeting in Montreal. 2) Rachel Phillips talks with Richard Wilson, a senior research scientist for the Center for Climate Systems Research, Dr. Sallie Baliunas, an astrophysicist for the Harvard Smithsonian Center at Harvard University, and Dr. Alan Arching, an atmospheric physicist at John?s Hopkins University, about the impact of solar radiation on global climate change. 3) Steven Westcott talks with Jeanie Tomlinson, managing director of the Windstar Foundation, about co-founder John Denver?s vision for the organization. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Carl Safina, Vice President of the Living Oceans Project for the National Audubon society, about the migration patterns of fish and sharks off the coast of Long Island. 5) Steven Westcott talks with Nina Fascione from the Defenders of Wildlife and Mission Wolf about the organization?s efforts to gain public support for the reintroduction of wolves to the Adirondack Mountains. 6) Peter Berle talks with Andy Kerr, former Executive Director of the Oregon Natural Resources Council, and Pat Waak, Director of the Population and Habitat campaign for the National Audubon Society, about controlling growth, limiting sprawl, and making communities livable and sustainable. 7) Author Alison Hawthorne Deming reads an excerpt from her book, ?Temporary Homelands: Essays on Nature, Spirit, and Place.?
1.) Thomas Lalley reports on the wolf conference that was held in Albany, New York and talks with attendees including Richard Schlickheisen of Defenders of Wildlife. 2.) Kent Nerbern reads the story "Benediction" from his book "A Haunting Reverence: Mediations on a Northern Land". 3.) Host Peter Berle reports on the World Food Summit Conference in Rome and talks with attendee Dan Glickman about the conference. 4.) In the segment Earth Calendar Berle talks with Sarah Mitchell of the Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary in Georgia about Right whales.
1.) Host Bruce Robertson talks with Brett Hulsey, environmental advisor to President Clinton, about what changes in environmental policy are coming in the new Clinton administration. 2.) Jill Hoyt talks with Rick Bass about his recent book "Nine mile Wolves" and the reintroduction of wolves into the wild. 3.) Robertson talks with Michael Reynolds, cellist of the Muir Quartet, about his new CD as well as about his environmental activism.
1.) Host Bruce Robertson talks with Matthew Davidson of the Open Space Institute about their recent purchase of 4000 acres of land in Phillipstown, NY, for preservation. 2.) Robertson talks with Florida Senator Bob Graham about his proposed National Wildlife Refuge System Management and Policy Act of 1991 that will better clarify the role of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 3.) Mary Boyle reports from Yellowstone National Park about the recent controversy about the recent proposal to reintroduce grey wolves into the park.