1) Peter Berle talks with Eileen Stommes, Deputy Administrator of Transportation and Marketing programs for the United States Department of Agriculture, about the USDA?s proposed guidelines for labeling organic foods. 2) Steven Westcott talks with officials from the Bronx Zoo?s Wildlife Conservation Society, the International Gorilla Conservation program, the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, and the Uganda Wildlife Authority, about the impact of the civil war in Rwanda on gorilla populations in the Virunga forest. 3) Peter Berle provides tips about how to reduce energy consumption. 4) Peter Berle talks with Environment Show Advisory Council members Douglas Costle, former EPA administrator under the Carter Administration, and Langdon Marsh, Director of Environmental Quality for the State of Oregon, about the Kyoto agreement and pollution. 5) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Dr. Nan Bray from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization?s Marine Research Division in Australia, about the recent draught and forest fires caused by the El Nino current. 6) Steven Westcott talks with Gary Mittlemen, President of Plug Power Incorporated, about manufacturing hydrogen fuel cells to power homes. 7) Peter Berle talks with Dr. Richard Methot, a stock assessment scientist for the National Marine Fishery Service, and Rod Moore, Executive Director of West Coast Seafood Processors Association, about new regulations restricting commercial ground fishing. 8) In the Ear to the ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Sharon Behar about the River Watch Network.

Date created

• 1998 January 17

Type

• Audio

Creator

• Chartock, Alan

Original Medium

• Audiocassette

Duration

• 55:20:00

Date Digitized

• 2010 April 14

Master Format

• WAV

Identifier

• nam_apap_138_es_000420

Subject

• Natural foods industry
• El Nino Current--Environmental aspects
• Fishery law and legislation--Pacific Coast (U.S.)
• Gorilla--Africa, East

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

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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