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Meet Miss Buck

Reporter John Gregory sends an audio postcard from southwestern Illinois, where he’s visiting Emma Buck. The 95-year-old Miss Buck reminisces about her family’s connection to a particular 70 acres of farmland, tended by Bucks since Civil War times. She also worries what will happen to the land when she is gone.

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Coal’s Future

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West Virginia Mountain Top Mining Controversy

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Hemp to Replace Tobacco Crop?

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KENTUCKY FARM KIDS

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From the Living on Earth Profile Series #8: Wendell Berry: Philosophical Farmer

Farmer-philosopher Wendell Berry has written some thirty books. Most of them deal with issues firmly rooted in Berry’s native rural Kentucky. John Gregory of member station KFPL in Kentucky spent some time with Berry and has this profile.

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Blanton Forest

In the eastern United States, old-growth forests south of where the glaciers ended are fragments of an ecosystem perhaps a hundred thousand years old. In Southeastern Kentucky, a 2300-acre tract known as Blanton Forest is just such an ecosystem  ? and state and private organizations want to turn it into a nature preserve while developing […]

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Riding Chattanooga’s Success

Once one of America’s most polluted cities, Chattanooga, Tennessee now rides on the electric buses it manufactures, has revitalized its downtown, and includes citizens in its planning. Still, Chattanooga has more work it plans to do. John Gregory reports.

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1996 Presidential Candidates Profile Series: Lamar Alexander

The Republican former Tennessee Governor’s environmental outlook is profiled. Alexander believes states and municipalities, not the Federal Government, should be responsible for environmental planning and regulations. John Gregory of member station WFPL in Lousiville, Kentucky reports.

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Blanton Forest

In the eastern United States, old-growth forests south of where the glaciers ended are fragments of an ecosystem perhaps a hundred thousand years old. In Southeastern Kentucky, a 2300-acre tract known as Blanton Forest is just such an ecosystem  ? and state and private organizations want to turn it into a nature preserve while developing […]