(Earth Focus: Episode 1) An environmental news magazine that puts a human face on environmental issues and legislation by featuring under-publicized stories about how environmental changes are affecting everyday people around the world. "Earth Focus" is produced for Link TV by Planet Vox.

Learn more on Link TV's climate change pages.

This installment of Earth Focus features the following stories:

An interview with Frank Loy, former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs from 1998 to 2001, who is now the Chairman of Environment 2004, an organization dedicated to electing leaders who understand the importance of environmental protection. Loy describes how Environment 2004 will be reaching people through media events and rallies featuring prominent experts, campaign advertising, and direct voter contact to make a stand for environmental leadership in 2004.

An interview with Russell Peterson, the former director of the Council on Environmental Quality during the Nixon and Ford Administrations, and a former Republican Governor of Delaware, who has written a new book that blasts the environmental record of President George W. Bush. The book, Patriots, Stand Up! This Land Is Our Land; Fight to Take It Back, accuses the Bush Administration of broadly deceiving the American people, not just about the environment, but about the war in Iraq, terrorism, and the economy.

A report on Perchloroethylene, or perc, the chemical solvent used by most drycleaning stores, that may cause cancer and and has been a public health concern since the late 1970s. The Environmental Protection Agency calls perc "moderately toxic" to humans and classifies perc as a water and air pollutant. Until recently, there were few alternatives to perc for people looking to clean clothes with tough stains or made with fine fabrics. But now, new green garment cleaning technologies are taking the perc, and the dirt, out of clothes. Earth Focus takes a look at two of the more promising technologies.

A story about the Embrey Dam, built in 1910 by the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia to harness the power of the Rappahannock River. The dam was breached this past February when explosives planted by the Army Corps of Engineers blew apart the dam's concrete walls. The historic event drew a crowd of thousands from the Fredericksburg area who came to witness the spectacle and to celebrate the environmental restoration of their community's river. Earth Focus joined the onlookers, and presents this video journal of the breach of the Embrey Dam.

(5/01/2007)

(Earth Focus: Episode 1) An environmental news magazine that puts a human face on environmental issues and legislation by featuring under-publicized stories about how environmental changes are affecting everyday people around the world. "Earth Focus" is produced for Link TV by Planet Vox.

Learn more on Link TV's climate change pages.

This installment of Earth Focus features the following stories:

An interview with Frank Loy, former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs from 1998 to 2001, who is now the Chairman of Environment 2004, an organization dedicated to electing leaders who understand the importance of environmental protection. Loy describes how Environment 2004 will be reaching people through media events and rallies featuring prominent experts, campaign advertising, and direct voter contact to make a stand for environmental leadership in 2004.

An interview with Russell Peterson, the former director of the Council on Environmental Quality during the Nixon and Ford Administrations, and a former Republican Governor of Delaware, who has written a new book that blasts the environmental record of President George W. Bush. The book, Patriots, Stand Up! This Land Is Our Land; Fight to Take It Back, accuses the Bush Administration of broadly deceiving the American people, not just about the environment, but about the war in Iraq, terrorism, and the economy.

A report on Perchloroethylene, or perc, the chemical solvent used by most drycleaning stores, that may cause cancer and and has been a public health concern since the late 1970s. The Environmental Protection Agency calls perc "moderately toxic" to humans and classifies perc as a water and air pollutant. Until recently, there were few alternatives to perc for people looking to clean clothes with tough stains or made with fine fabrics. But now, new green garment cleaning technologies are taking the perc, and the dirt, out of clothes. Earth Focus takes a look at two of the more promising technologies.

A story about the Embrey Dam, built in 1910 by the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia to harness the power of the Rappahannock River. The dam was breached this past February when explosives planted by the Army Corps of Engineers blew apart the dam's concrete walls. The historic event drew a crowd of thousands from the Fredericksburg area who came to witness the spectacle and to celebrate the environmental restoration of their community's river. Earth Focus joined the onlookers, and presents this video journal of the breach of the Embrey Dam.

(5/01/2007)