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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".

  • David Attenborough

    David Attenborough discusses the book and television documentary "Life On Earth"

    Oct. 29, 1981

    Discussing his book and upcoming television series "Life on Earth," with the writer and narrator, David Attenborough.

  • Carl Sagan

    Discussing the book "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are"

    Oct. 5, 1992

    Discussing the book "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are" about the evolution and the future of the human species. Includes an excerpt of the astronomer Harlow Shapley speaking at the beginning. Includes Carl Sagan reading an excerpt from the book at the end.

  • 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.

  • Vine Deloria

    Vine Deloria discusses his book "The Metaphysics of Modern Existence"

    Oct. 12, 1979

    Vine Deloria discusses his book "The Metaphysics of Modern Existence", religion, ethics, Native Americans, Native American culture, and Native American history. Includes a previous interview with Vine Deloria at O'Hare Airport.

  • Discussing Physicians for Social Responsibility and interviewing Dr. Helen Caldicott

    Apr. 7, 1981
  • Dr. Bertram Carnow and Bob and Joan Ericksen

    Dr. Bertram Carnow and Bob and Joan Ericksen discuss occupational illnesses and pollution

    Nov. 21, 1974

    Discussing pollution and health hazards at work and in the general environment and interviewing Dr. Bertram Carnow and Bob and Joan Ericksen.

  • Dr. Bertram Carnow and Bob and Joan Ericksen

    Studs Terkel, Dr. Bertram Carnow, and Joan and Bob Ericksen discuss health hazards in work environments

    Jun. 5, 1974

    Discussing health hazards in work environments and environmental pollution. Interviewing Dr. Bertram Carnow and Bob and Joan Ericksen.

  • Dr. Bertram Carnow

    Dr. Bertram Carnow discusses the environment and pollution

    Aug. 24, 1973

    Interviewing Dr. Bertram Carnow about environmental health, air pollution, and occupational diseases.

  • Robert Boyle

    Discussing the book, "Acid Rain," with the co-author Robert Boyle. Boyle is a naturalist who writes about bass fishing

    Apr. 6, 1983
  • Michael Harold Brown

    Discussing the book, "Laying Waste: The Poisoning of America by Toxic Chemicals"

    May. 16, 1980

    Discussing the book, "Laying Waste: The Poisoning of America by Toxic Chemicals," with the author, Michael Harold Brown.

  • Interview with Holly Arntzen

    Mar. 25, 1992

    Interviewing Holly Arntzen, a folk singer and songwriter of political and social protest songs.

  • 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.

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