Son of Adolf Berle and Beatrice B. Bishop Berle.
He was a Harvard University Air Force ROTC candidate and following graduation served three years in South East Asia as an Air Force intelligence officer and parachutis.
Peter was an environmentalist, public servant, lawyer and farmer who served the national, regional and local communities in a number of leadership capacities over the last 50 years.
He wrote and hosted environmental programming for public radio and television and he hosted the "Environment Show" on WAMC/ Northeast Public Radio.
He was a three-term New York state assemblyman, serving from 1968 to 1974, and was appointed commissioner of the conservation department in 1976 by then Gov. Hugh Carey during which time he was a champion for the rights of underprivileged constituents, and wrote the book "Does the Citizen Stand a Chance?" which continues to be used in political science classrooms today.
In 1971, he was a founder of Berle, Butzel, & Kass, the first law firm in the United States specializing exclusively in environmental law.
Appointed by former President William J. Clinton, he was one of the five U.S. members of the Joint Public Advisory Committee, a constituent part of the Commission on Environmental Cooperation under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
He was a Harvard University Air Force ROTC candidate and following graduation served three years in South East Asia as an Air Force intelligence officer and parachutis.
Peter was an environmentalist, public servant, lawyer and farmer who served the national, regional and local communities in a number of leadership capacities over the last 50 years.
He wrote and hosted environmental programming for public radio and television and he hosted the "Environment Show" on WAMC/ Northeast Public Radio.
He was a three-term New York state assemblyman, serving from 1968 to 1974, and was appointed commissioner of the conservation department in 1976 by then Gov. Hugh Carey during which time he was a champion for the rights of underprivileged constituents, and wrote the book "Does the Citizen Stand a Chance?" which continues to be used in political science classrooms today.
In 1971, he was a founder of Berle, Butzel, & Kass, the first law firm in the United States specializing exclusively in environmental law.
Appointed by former President William J. Clinton, he was one of the five U.S. members of the Joint Public Advisory Committee, a constituent part of the Commission on Environmental Cooperation under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Son of Adolf Berle and Beatrice B. Bishop Berle.
He was a Harvard University Air Force ROTC candidate and following graduation served three years in South East Asia as an Air Force intelligence officer and parachutis.
Peter was an environmentalist, public servant, lawyer and farmer who served the national, regional and local communities in a number of leadership capacities over the last 50 years.
He wrote and hosted environmental programming for public radio and television and he hosted the "Environment Show" on WAMC/ Northeast Public Radio.
He was a three-term New York state assemblyman, serving from 1968 to 1974, and was appointed commissioner of the conservation department in 1976 by then Gov. Hugh Carey during which time he was a champion for the rights of underprivileged constituents, and wrote the book "Does the Citizen Stand a Chance?" which continues to be used in political science classrooms today.
In 1971, he was a founder of Berle, Butzel, & Kass, the first law firm in the United States specializing exclusively in environmental law.
Appointed by former President William J. Clinton, he was one of the five U.S. members of the Joint Public Advisory Committee, a constituent part of the Commission on Environmental Cooperation under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
He was a Harvard University Air Force ROTC candidate and following graduation served three years in South East Asia as an Air Force intelligence officer and parachutis.
Peter was an environmentalist, public servant, lawyer and farmer who served the national, regional and local communities in a number of leadership capacities over the last 50 years.
He wrote and hosted environmental programming for public radio and television and he hosted the "Environment Show" on WAMC/ Northeast Public Radio.
He was a three-term New York state assemblyman, serving from 1968 to 1974, and was appointed commissioner of the conservation department in 1976 by then Gov. Hugh Carey during which time he was a champion for the rights of underprivileged constituents, and wrote the book "Does the Citizen Stand a Chance?" which continues to be used in political science classrooms today.
In 1971, he was a founder of Berle, Butzel, & Kass, the first law firm in the United States specializing exclusively in environmental law.
Appointed by former President William J. Clinton, he was one of the five U.S. members of the Joint Public Advisory Committee, a constituent part of the Commission on Environmental Cooperation under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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