Today we celebrate more successes on Chicago’s southeast side with Tom Shepherd of the Southeast Environmental Task Force, who says that even more progress needs to be made. Environmental Reporter Steve Horn makes his first appearance on the show to talk about his investigative reports about the #NoDAPL movement in North Dakota. The Food Tank Summit comes to Chicago on November 16 and this is the first of two segments devoted to their mission of worldwide food system change.

We talk about Green Living Expo at McHenry County College, where Peggy and I will be hanging out, we celebrate #BatWeek with Bruce D. Patterson, MacArthur Curator of Mammals at the Field Museum, and we recap our visit to Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie to look for bison…and whether we saw any.

Peggy Malecki and I welcome a couple of women who are working to protect out clean air and water from different vantage points. Kelly Nichols is on the activist side, serving as the Illinois Field Organizer for the national non-profit, Moms Clean Air Force. Debra Shore is a commissioner for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, whose job is to help maintain the quality of our water. Today she follows up on a pending Cook County ordinance that would regulate the the disposal of pharmaceuticals in our water.

This morning on The Mike Nowak Show, Peggy Malecki and I go from food to field in the course of a couple of hours, while welcoming some old friends of the program. We start with LaManda Joy, Breanne Heath and Christina Bello from the Peterson Garden Project, who are here to explain what their “30 Days of Doing” is all about. Then Benjamin Cox of Friends of the Forest Preserves stops by to sing the praises of “our awesome conservation corps programs,” just part of the way that the organization protects, restores and promotes the world’s first and now largest forest preserve district