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Heres a program from our archives.Earth Day - The Green DecadeAmbience: Papua New Guinea Rainforest JM: In honor of Earth Day, we're featuring sounds from the rainforests of Papua, New Guinea and excerpts from an interview with Denis Hayes, chairman of Earthday 1990. I'm Jim Metzner and this is the Pulse of the Planet. Hayes: Earth Day 1990 is being constructed to launch the 1990's as the "green decade," the decade in which we overcome some of the major environmental problems now facing the planet. In order to do that, we need to vastly broaden the nature of the American environmental movement. We need to reach out and work with people in other countries to strengthen the international environmental movement. We will have people doing things in at least ninety percent of the countries around the world. They range from a green train that's going to be going all around Italy for a couple of months before Earth Day, building enthusiasm and educating people about the issues, even monitoring ambient air quality in major cities, to a country and western festival that's going to be done in Nashville in the United States, to beach clean ups in Rio de Janeiro. I think one of the more interesting ones is a commitment by the Texas agriculture commissioner, Jim Hightower, to getting seventeen million trees planted, under the slogan 'One Texan, one tree.'More on Earth Day in our next program. This archival program is part of our thirtieth anniversary celebration. If you want hear more, check out our podcast. Im Jim Metzner and this is the Pulse of the Planet.