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First Aired - 12/12/2011 10:00AM
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This week The Naturalist takes you on a historical tour of New York City's water supply. From the early days in the 1700s when the city got its water from aqueducts from Croton and the Catskill mountains to today's modern high-tech testing and treatment system. Learn what makes New York water some of the cleanest and best in the nation and how hydrofracking could ruin all of that. This episode is sponsored Roberta's Pizza.
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New York Water: A History (19:33)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Carol A. Butler, Handel, Water Music, water supply, manure, city water supply, water pumps, Westchester County, Croton River, dam, resevoir, Reseovoir, aqueduct, Central Park, Bethesda Terrace, Angel of the Waters, sculpture, women artists, Book of John, Emma Stubbs, gay, runoff, Catskill Mountains, masonry, the Bronx, East River, New Jersey, Delaware River,Ensuring Water Quality (21:54)
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elevation, water tanks, mountain streams, treated water, caprapods, Hasidic, chlorine, treating water, water testing, sediment, DEP, Water quality testing station, Department of Environmental Protection, biological testing, pH, turbidity, microorganisms, dirty water, Fiji water, bottled water, 311, fracking, natural gas, petri,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/16/2009 01:00PM
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Mark and guest host Katie speak with John Schwally about FDR's secret air-based tomfoolery, Michael Hurwitz & Meg McGrath stop by to educate us about the tomato blight, Alyssa Maresca talks NYC real estate, and Matt Hegarty horses around!
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John Schwally Talks About FDR's Secret Air Force (14:36)
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Cairo, embassy, air field, Tom Colbert, Ari G Davies, civil aviation, Andy Dawson, JKP Airport, documentary, filmmaking, Pan American World Airways, Africa, army, summer of 1940, Europe, French colonies in Africa were taken over by Germany, North Africa, World War II, US Military Bases in Latin America and South America, plane technology, Brazil, Mexico, Pan Am was running in September of 1941, Air Transport Command, General Arnold, Cornell University, http://www.jfsfilms.com, David Hartman, FDR's Secret Air force, Air & Space Museum, discretionary fund to FDR paid for this air force, Caribbean islands,Michael Hurwitz & Meg McGrath discuss the Tomato Blight (6:28)
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Michael Hurwitz, Meg McGrath, blight, organic farmers are struggling, green market, fungal like organism causes blight, normally a potato disease, gardeners, farmers, blight is a rare disease, this is the same pathogen as the Irish Potato Famine, Cornell, photo blog, this pathogen cannot survive on dead plant tissue, starting the plant from seed prevents the rapid spread of a pathogen, starting a plant from seed vs. a big box store plant,Tomato Blight: Causes & Effects (14:35)
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a disease requires a host, a pathogen, and the right environment, rain has proven to be favorable for late blight, Michelle Obama, starting plants from seed has less risk, you have to grow it to sell it, local agriculture, incinerating plants, proper composting, Long Island, late blight is a great learning experience, reality of agriculture, Home Depot, industrial production for retail sale, know your source, bury your moldy spuds, blight produces large spots on the leaves stems and fruits, greenmarket is an independent non-profit, Poughkeepsie, compost, tuber, flooding, drought, spores, tomatoes, sustainability,Reality Estate: Rentals in Roosevelt Island with Alyssa Maresca (11:51)
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rental market, NYC, In Focus, real estate, smallpox hospital, Roosevelt Island, farms, insane asylum, new developments, repurposing land, F Train and Air Tram to the island, East River, the island is part of Manhattan, many diplomats live there, high rises, rehab hospital, Long Island City, Astoria, a one bedroom costs about $1500 to $2500, rent stabilization, landlords,Horse Racing with Matt Hegarty (14:45)
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horses, Saratoga, derby, jockeys, Belmont, East Coast center of horse racing, Del Mar, Rachael Alexander, horse racing, triple crown, racing styles, jockeying is an art, Jerry Bailey, the horses enjoy running, thoroughbred racing, horses top out at 37 MPH, Kentucky, Bill Shoemaker, Calvin Burrell, slaughterhouses, finding homes for unwanted horses, federal legislation to ban slaughter, pleasure horses, humane slaughtering, animal shelters, better training methods, daily racing forum, aqueduct, Matt Hegarty,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
