Herb Needleman's guest appearances

Herb Needleman

Moir’s Environmental Dialogues

DAVID WAGNER

Eric Jay Dolin

Ed Smith

Olivia Newton John

Randy Olson

Frances Moore Lappe

Nan Beaver

Clair Patterson

Noa Randall

Garibaldi Swims

Marty Baum

Svante Thunberg

Cris Costello

Marten Thorslund

Leesa Souto

OwlTail

LEAD

Lenni Armstrong talks with Rob about two of her eco heroes, Clair Patterson, a geochemist, and Herb Needleman, a pediatrician. These two men shared a passion about the dangers of lead and devoted their lives to measuring lead in the environment, finding out where it was coming from and how it was making people sick. Both men were willing to go to battle to get lead out of the environment to protect public health. Clair Patterson measured the age of Earth and in the process, discovered that the environment was contaminated with lead. Herb Needleman showed the effects of lead on the health of children. Lenni tells of the complex process resulting in a ban on the use of lead in gas and paint, which involved scientists, industry, government and the legal system. She then contrasts this story with the story of today's pollutants, CO2 and the other greenhouse gases.

Eco heroes, Clair Patterson and Herb Needleman – getting the lead out