Program discusses the issues at the heart of the demise of this national treasure, and can be done to preserve it for future generations. In September of 1991, eight researchers were sealed inside a massive enclosed ecological system. Biospherian Abigail Alling speaks to these questions and more, as we go inside Biosphere 2, on this edition of EarthWatch. Biologist Aerial culling of the Alaskan wolf has sparked controversy among Alaskans and throughout the lower 48 states. Program's guest Al Manville has attended all the hearings and updates listeners on the issue.
Listener action is solicited on behalf of the wolf.
New Vision' companies are proving that profits can be made while paying just as much attention to social and environmental concerns. This program's guest represents one of the firms that wrote the book on building a business that lives up to its social responsibility. He tells how that firm is doing it, how others can make the transition, and how consumers can work to support environmentally conscious commerce. Ideas put forth in The Ecologist laid the groundwork for Britain's Green Party which swiftly gained international status. In response to the environmental movement, multi-million dollar extractive industries have conjured up environmentally friendly sounding organizations to do their bidding.