This action plan articulates the most significant ecosystem problems for the Great Lakes, and describes efforts to address them. The five areas are toxic substances, invasive species, health and pollution, wildlife and habitat preservation and restoration, and finally a component that covers accountability and evaluation.

This catalog provides information on training and certification opportunities for jobs and careers categorized as part of the "green economy." The catalog includes federal and state listings.

Interview with Rena Pederson, a former journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, her career with The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers, the books she has written, and her work in communications and public affairs.

This article is a short biography of journalist Nancy Lieberman, based on an oral history discussing her childhood, education, and career.

Interview with Nancy Lieberman, a sports broadcast journalist. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up in New York, her time on the first women's Olympic basketball team, and her career as a coach, author, and journalist on ESPN.

William Vacchiano (1912–2005) was principal trumpet with the New York Philharmonic from 1942 to 1973, and taught at Juilliard, the Manhattan School of Music, the Mannes College of Music, Queens College, and Columbia Teachers College. While at the Philharmonic, Vacchiano performed under the batons of Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and Leonard Bernstein and played in the world premieres of almost 200 pieces by such composers as Vaughan Williams, Copland, and Barber. Vacchiano was important not only for his performances, but also for his teaching. His students have held the principal chairs of many major orchestras and are prominent teachers themselves, and they have enriched non-classical music as well. Two of his better known students are Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis. Last Stop, Carnegie Hall features an overview of the life of this very private artist, based on several personal interviews conducted by Brian A. Shook and Vacchiano’s notes for his own unpublished memoir. Shook also interviewed many of his students and colleagues and includes a chapter containing their recollections. Other important topics include analyses of Vacchiano’s pedagogical methods and his interpretations of important trumpet pieces, his “rules of orchestral performance,” and his equipment. A discography, a bibliography of …

This article is a short biography of Janice Tomlin, a network television documentary producer, based on an oral history discussing her education and career.

Interview with Janice Tomlin, a network television documentary producer. The interview includes discussion of her youth, education, and career as a television producer in New York City, including an expose on Romanian orphanages for 20/20.

This article is a short biography of Cynthia Izaguirre, news anchor for the Channel 8 News, based on an oral history discussing her education and career.

Interview with Cynthia Izaguirre, news anchor for the Channel 8 News in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes discussion of her childhood, education, and career.

Lecture featuring Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. They discuss their history together and how the company first established itself and grew to what it is today. Covered are their original business plans, stumbling blocks they faced and their solutions to those problems, and how they redefined the idea of business as a force for change. At the end is a presentation video, speech, and pledge from their "Stamp Stampede" campaign against big corporations' involvement in politics.

Report on state laws regarding performance-enhancing drugs for show and race horses in California, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, Oklahoma, and Texas.

A book about the life of Vincent Charles "Bud" Perini, Jr., including brief biographical text and compiled photographs with captions.

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This creative nonfiction dissertation is a book of essays that explore the author's life and relationship to Upstate New York. The project also connects this experience to gender and trauma. Though the topics range from local history to cosmetic surgical procedures, the essays are collected by how they illuminate cultural tensions and universal truths. These essays are preceded by a critical preface that examines the differences between essays collections, books of essays, and argues for the recognition of narrative nonfiction as an artistic choice.

3D scanned models of a miniature copy of the book Arabian nights. Bound with a tanned flap cover with gold letter and embellishments.

This issue brief discusses pay secrecy policies that nearly half of workers nationally reported that they were either contractually forbidden or strongly discouraged from discussing their pay with their colleagues. Includes a listing of state laws that protect employees in discussing pay and compensation.

Fact sheet describing state-specific impacts that global warming will have on the people, ecosystems, and wildlife in New York.

Document outlining state-specific goals for carbon dioxide emissions and energy efficiency through 2030 for the state of New York.

Slides from a presentation about low-income solar initiatives in New York.

A report about the northeastern United States and its vulnerability to climate hazards, particularly to hurricanes.

Periodic factsheet reporting on the level of algae bloom in Lake Erie, particularl harmful Microcystis cyanobacteria. It Includes an overview and graphs comparing the levels to previous measures.

Consists of notes to use when teaching the case study entitled Expanding Musical Explorers at Carnegie Hall.

Consists of notes to be used when teaching the case study entitled Getting on Board with National Sawdust.