This edition: Science and the Environment
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Episode Details
Original tape date: April 1, 2014. First aired: April 22, 2014.This month’s Science & U! focuses on our environment and how we can work at making it... and keeping it... green and healthy. We examine the work being done to keep pine beetles in check in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, how batteries and fusion could be the energy of the future, a look at the progress that’s been made on keeping the Hudson River clean and a local school teaching kids all about going green.
Pineland Preservation Alliance - www.pinelandsalliance.org
NJDEP Forestry Service - www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/forest
Milo Johnson - beetlekill.wordpress.com
Forestry Images - www.forestryimages.org
Guest List
Sanjoy Banerjee, PhD Director of the CUNY Energy Institute, City College of New York
Lauren Barkan Growing Up Green Charter School
Ron Corcory NJ Forestry Services
Dr. Stefan Gerhardt Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
Dr. Amy Karpati Director of Conservation Science, Pineland Preservation Alliance
David King EPA, Hudson River Field Office
Larry Levine Natural Resources Defense Council
Dr. Barry Lyons Great Lakes Forestry Centre
Michael Shmukler Systems Engineer, Urban Electric Power
Dr. Dave Strayer Cary Institute
Bob Williams Certified Forester, Pine Creek Forestry
