Bus Rapid Transit Coming to Chicago
Chris Ziemann, project manager for Chicago BRT, explains how the Jeffery Jump is the first step in creating Bus Rapid Transit corridors in the Loop, along Western and Ashland Avenues and perhaps elsewhere in the City. Listen Here.

Making a case for life
Doug Tallamy talks about his book, Bringing Nature Home, How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens. A caller to the program conveniently illustrates the difficulty home owners have in identifying native plants, and Tallamy describes his project to identify which birds consume which insects. Listen here.

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Do males make you sneeze ?
Tom Ogren has been studying the effects of allergenic pollen on gardeners and the general population for twenty five years, writing numerous books on the subject, including Allergy-Free Gardening. Now he is in Canada, where he is performing an allergy audit. That is to say, he is tasked with examining the effects of planting too many male cloned trees and shrubs, where they can contribute to allergies and asthma. Listen here.

Nuclear Energy. Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down?

A Conversation with David A. Kraft of the Nuclear Energy Information Service. Listen Here.