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Scientists Environment, Ecology
  • Interviewing George Wald, biologist and philosopher, on the hazards of pollution, the environment, and peace

    1970

    Interviewing George Wald, biologist and philosopher, on the hazards of pollution, the environment, and peace. Wald talks about his speech at MIT "A Generation in Search of a Future".

  • Jacques Cousteau

    Jacques Cousteau discusses his book "The Cousteau Almanac: An Inventory of Life on Our Water Planet"

    Sep. 16, 1981

    Captain Cousteau talks about his book and the environmental movement in the United States and elsewhere.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller

    R. Buckminster (Richard ) Fuller talks with Studs Terkel

    Jan. 20, 1965

    A sprawling conversation with R. Buckminster Fuller including his great aunt Margaret Fuller, future communication, the nature of work, human nature, and physics.

  • Interview with David Brower

    Jul. 1, 1988

    Interviewing environmentalist and Friends of the Earth founder David Brower.

  • Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

    Dr. William Beecher, Dorothy Buell, Tom Dustin and Thelma McVey discuss the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

    Oct. 5, 1965

    Dr. William Beecher, Chi Academy of Sciences, Dorothy Buell, member of Dunes council, Tom Dustin, head of Indiana Issac Walton League, and Thelma McVey, head of the Sierra Club Midwestern, discuss why the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore must be saved, and the measures they are taking to do so.

  • Dr. Barry Commoner

    Discussing the book, "The Closing Circle: Confronting the Environmental Crisis"

    Nov. 3, 1971

    Discussing the book, "The Closing Circle: Confronting the Environmental Crisis," and interviewing the author, Dr. Barry Commoner.

  • Discussing the book "Einstein in America: The Scientist's Conscience in the Age of Hitler and Hiroshima" with the author, environmental activist Jamie Sayen

    Jun. 19, 1985
  • Dr. Kosta Tsipis discusses the dangers of nuclear war

    Mar. 9, 1982

    Discussing the dangers of nuclear war and its effect on people with nuclear physicist and co-director of the program of Science and Technology at MIT, Dr. Kosta Tsipis.

  • Discussing the book "The End of Nature" with the author and environmentalist Bill McKibben

    Oct. 13, 1989
  • Discussing the books "Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace" and "Energy Unbound: A Fable for America's Future" with Amory Lovins

    Jun. 9, 1987
  • Discussing the book "Making Peace with the Planet" with the author Professor Barry Commoner

    Apr. 12, 1990
  • Presenting a debate on nuclear energy with Nuclear Communications Specialist for Commonwealth Edison Jim Toscas, and author of "Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation"

    Jun. 3, 1983

    Presenting a debate over nuclear energy

  • Leo Szilard

    Leo Szilard talks with Studs Terkel

    Dec. 3, 1961
  • Stuart Chase, John Hawkinson, and Nancy Campbell Hayes discuss environment conservation and Hyde Park

    Oct. 1, 1965

    Stuart Chase, John Hawkinson, and Nancy Campbell Hayes discuss the "Save the Trees Program". They discuss saving the trees in Hyde Park. Includes Studs Terkel reading Mike Royko's poem.

  • Barry Commoner

    Barry Commoner discusses his book "The Poverty of Power: Energy and the Economic Crisis"

    May. 20, 1976

    Biologist and author Barry Commoner discusses his book "The Poverty of Power: Energy and the Economic Crisis."

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