1) Peter Berle talks with Wolfram Schulte, Councilor of Science and Technology at the Germany Embassy in Washington, D.C., Gail McDonald, President of the Global Climate Coalition, and Mike Oppenheimer, an atmospheric scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, about United States? greenhouse gas emission levels in response to criticism from the international community at the Summit of the Eight in Denver and Second United Nations? Earth Summit. 2) Peter Berle talks with James Corless, spokesman for the Surface Transportation Policy Project, and William Fey, President of the Highway Users Federation, about reauthorizing the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). 3) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jayne Brim-Box, an aquatic geologist with the US Geological Survey, about Shinyrayed Pocketbook Mussels. 4) Thomas Lalley talks with Charles Yarish, a researcher from the University of Connecticut, about the potential of harvesting Nori seaweed as an environmentally friendly form of aquaculture. 5) Stephanie Goitchman plays listeners? comments about organic farming. 6) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with George Ripley, founder of the Environmental Patriots of America. 7) Author Gregory McNamee reads a passage from his book, ?A Desert Bestiary: Folklore, Literature, and Ecological Thought from the World?s Dry Places.? 8) A recording of Roger Ridley playing ?Summer Time? from his album, ?Street Dreams.?

Date created

• 1997 June 28

Type

• Audio

Creator

• Chartock, Alan

Original Medium

• Audiocassette

Duration

• 54:50:00

Date Digitized

• 2010 February 17

Master Format

• WAV

Identifier

• nam_apap_138_es_000391

Subject

• Greenhouse gas mitigation
• Sustainable aquaculture
• Mussels
• Transportation--Environmental aspects--United States

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