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Learning to Love Bats with Joy O'Keefe
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Learning to Love Bats

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As we celebrate Bat Week, Indiana State University’s Joy O’Keefe tells us why this mammal is so important and so misunderstood. Kim Hankins previews the Green Living Expo at McHenry County College. Madison Hopkins from the Better Government Association follows up on her wave-making article about recycling in Chicago.

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Planting Fall Bulbs - Species tulip
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Planting Fall Bulbs…and Votes

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Horticulturist Dan Kosta from Vern Goers Greenhouse has advice on getting your spring blooming bulbs in the ground while there’s still time. P.J. Miller tells you why Happy Leaf LED grow lights are a great way to jump start your seedlings or keep plants healthy throughout the winter. Mike and Peggy report on the endorsements of environmental groups for the 2018 elections.

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Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
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Midewin: Where the Buffalo Roam

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Mike and Peggy broadcast live from Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, just southwest of Chicago near Wilmington, Illinois, and talk to range of guests about one of the great restoration projects in the history of the planet.

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Helianthus!

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The cast and crew of Green Scene’s play “Helianthus!” come to the WCGO studios to talk about this theatrical history of the plant we call a sunflower. Gary Oppenheimer of AmpleHarvest.org is back on the final day of Food Waste Weekend to promote the productive distribution of excess food in America.

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Chicken enthusiast Martha Boyd
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Chicken Enthusiasts and Monarch Supporters

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Members of the Chicago Chicken Enthusiasts promote the 2018 Windy City Coop & Eco-Yard Tour…and provide some musical entertainment. Mike test drives an electric vehicle in nine minutes. Doug Taron, PhD from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum reports on large numbers of migrating monarch butterflies.

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Roundup loses - "The Helping Hand" sculpture by Carrie Fischer
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Roundup Loses in Court; Talking Trees with Skeet

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Certified arborist M.D. Skeet from Bartlett Tree Experts returns to the show to talk summer tree issues. Carey Gillam, author of Whitewash: The Story of Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science, also returns to report on a huge court judgment against the Monsanto Company and its weedkiller Roundup.

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Live from Custer Fair in Evanston, IL
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Live from Custer Fair in Evanston

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Mike and Peggy are live from the Custer Fair in Evanston, Illinois, where they welcome Tom Klitzkie of Nature’s Perspective Landscaping, meteorologist Rick DiMaio and more.

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October 15, 2017 – When Plants Fight City Hall

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Nicole Virgil wants to grow vegetables in a backyard hoop house and Ron Cress wants to grow native plants on his lot, and they both find themselves fighting City Hall to make it happen. Michele Hoffman welcomes Dr. David Vaughan to the Science Desk to talk about his new growing technique that might give the world’s declining coral reefs a fighting chance.

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Mid-season form
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Mid-season Form at the Chicago Botanic Garden

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Mike and Peggy talk mid-season veggies with Lisa Hilgenberg from the Chicago Botanic Garden, follow up on the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipe which runs under the Straits of Mackinac, and learn about a new study that focuses on the tree canopies in the Chicago region.

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