1.) Host Peter Berle talks with Carol Browner of the Environmental Protection Agency about the slow clean up of toxic waste sites as well as about brownfields, waste sites that are not high risk and the efforts of the Clinton administration to revamp them. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports about a co-housing community in which the residents pooled their resources to build their very own sustainable neighborhood. 3.) In the segment "Ear to the Ground", Linda Anderson talks with Jim Shenk of Imago, a company that develops ecological neighborhoods. 4.) In the segment "Portrait of a Place", author Sid Marty describes Aspen Valley in Alberta, Canada. 5.) In the "Earth Calendar" segment, Berle discusses murex mollusks, mussels that during their mating ritual create a purple dye.

Date created

• 1996 March 17

Type

• Audio

Creator

• Chartock, Alan

Original Medium

• Audiocassette

Duration

• 1.023611111

Date Digitized

• 2009 November 17

Master Format

• WAV

Identifier

• nam_apap_138_es_000324

Subject

• Brownfields--Environmental aspects
• Aspen--Canada
• Imago (Organization : Cincinnati, Ohio)
• Sustainable living

Digitization Specifications

• Popped tabs, Encoding: 24bit/48khz; Software: Pro Tools LE 7.3 ; Hardware: Marantz PMD500 Stereo Double Cassette Deck, Dell Precision T7400 with a 2.33 Ghz Intel Xeon processor.

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

  
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ITEM CONTEXT

Part of

88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b

Scope and Contents

Collection

WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the New York State Modern Political Archive