Information from Past Shows

Guess who’s moving to a new station and a new day? After all these years, The Mike Nowak Show is about to land on Saturday mornings at 1590AM, WCGO Radio! It’s just in time for my 20th Anniversary on Chicago radio.

And guess who’s coming along with Peggy and me? Non other than Ron Cowgill and the team of Mighty House! The band is really getting back together!

Starting Saturday, January 7, we’ll both be part of WCGO’s “smart living” programming. Mighty House will air from 7 to 10 a.m, followed by still Chicago’s only long-form, deep-green gardening and environment radio program, The Mike Nowak Show, until noon.

So just why did 30,000 sandhill cranes decide to fly directly over the City of Chicago this week? We’ll explore that with ornithologist and avian biologist Steve Bailey from the Illinois Natural History Survey. Jean Bragdon from Lurvey Garden Center in Des Plaines has advice on keeping holiday plants happy and healthy. Then we tell the tale of “a great day” in court, as The Fourth District Appellate Court reverses criminal contempt charges against two Illinois factory farm activists–including friend of the show Karen Hudson.

On The Mike Nowak Show this week we try to connect the environmental dots–to see how the Future Energy Jobs Bill, which was passed by the Illinois General Assembly this week, ties in to contamination in Chicago’s recycling blue carts and the recently passed plastic bag fee in Chicago. Mel Nickerson from the Illinois Recycling Association and Melanie Eckner from the Chicago Sustainability Leaders Network join us to add some clarity to these issues. Then friend of the show Michele Hoffman Trotter explains why the microuniverse of our oceans holds the key to life on this planet and how she is creating a ninety-minute film to present this story to the world.