EARTH MATTERS can be heard on 3CR in Melbourne Sunday 11am, 2XX Canberra Tuesday 10am, 8CCC Alice Springs Sundays between 8-9pm, 2NCR Lismore Friday 10am, 5UV Adelaide Thursday 2pm, 7LTN Launceston Monday 7:30pm, 2VOX Wollongong between 9-10am & much more!! Earth Matters Program 111b Juliet Fox 3CR Community Radio 03 9419 8377 ComRadSat Program 20/10/2000 INTRO : "Hello and thanks for =85"=20 OUTRO : "... see you then." DURATION : voice ends @ 26'03 frogs til 27'03" Californian energy deregulation Dan Berman is a resident of California and campaigner for community controlled energy. He's also an environmental activist who recently visited Melbourne where he gave a public lecture on "energy reform, social justic and the environment". Today on Earth Matters we hear from Dan on the Californian experience of opening up energy creation and distribution to a 'competitive' market. IN: "First Dan =85" OUT: "=85 tend to be for it." DUR: 12'40" Lead Poisoning and its on the environment October 20th is Lead Poisoning Awarenss Day - it commemorates the publication of a magazine article which, for the first time, described how lead can poison children. That was over 100 years ago and today lead continues to poison both people and environments. Elizabeth O'Brien is the National Coordinator of the LEAD Group, an organisation seeking to eliminate childhood lead poisoning and to protect the Australian environment from lead by 2002, and today she speaks with Earth Matters about the lead poisoning in Australia, environmental impacts and the future funding cuts set for Australia's only Lead Advisory Service. IN: "Well it's interesting =85" OUT: " =85 it is a national service that we run." DUR: 10'45" -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink