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Broadcast on WPKN/WPKM
On The Fourth Thursday Each Month
12:30 PM – 1 PM
The Forest
and the Trees is a global and local report on the environment.
Host Melinda Tuhus interviews newsmakers including environmental
leaders, policy makers and grassroots activists from around the
world and around the corner in Connecticut. Issues like deforestation,
water privitization, relaxation of federal air pollution regulations,
and much more – and the implications for public health.
2005 Editions
Listen
to The Forest And The Trees (mp3 audio – stream or download)
December 2005
A visit to Louisiana bayou country post-Katrina and -Rita,
featuring an interview with Rochelle St. Marie, a long-time
community organizer and trainer. Also, "Katrina" by
David Rovics.
November 2005
New Orleans on My Mind: Interviews with a line supervisor
in the New Orleans Water and Sewerage Board and the bus driver
of
a tour through the devastated Lower Ninth Ward.
October 2005
Excerpts of a New Haven talk by Peter Berg, on bio-regionalism
and re-inhabitation.
September 2005 [not available]
Interview with author Ross Gelbspan on hurricanes and global climate
change.
August 2005
Interviews with Madeline Weil on motor vehicle-caused air pollution,
and Dan Esty of Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies on a recent poll of American attitudes toward environmental
issues.
July 2005
A segment on the impact of global warming on lobstering in Long
Island Sound, and a round-up of environmental victories in
the Connecticut General Assembly with Lori Brown of the Connecticut
League of Conservation Voters and Nancy Alderman of Environment & Human
Health, Inc.
June 2005
Excerpts of a speech given by primatologist and humanitarian Jane
Goodall at Yale's Battell Chapel.
May 2005 [not available]
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April 2005
A debate about nuclear power and nuclear waste.
March 2005
An interview with John Walke of the Natural Resources Defense
Council on the fate of Pres. Bush's "Clear Skies Initiative," and
a short speech by French farmer and anti-corporate globalization
activist Jose Bove at the Connecticut NOFA (Northeast Organic
Farming Association) winter meeting.
February 2005
An interview with Haitian priest and Haiti solidarity activist
Sherman Malone about environmental degradation in Haiti, and
a segment about the Climate Crisis Coalition's People’s
Ratification petition addressing climate change.
January 2005
An interivew with Mark Ashton, of the Yale School of Forestry
and Environmental Studies, about environmental impacts of the
Indonesian tsunami.
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