Information from Past Shows

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

We welcome Mark Wise from Greenwise Organic Lawn Care to talk about what you should–and shouldn’t–be doing at this time of year. Holly and Joey Baird from The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener help you get the most out of the remaining growing days. Then Pamela Todd and Arthur Smith introduce a new group called Chicago Living Corridors, which is engaging private landowners to restore wildlife habitat on their own property.

Rob Greenfield is in the middle of something he calls “Trash Me,” when he literally wears every piece of trash he creates for 30 days. Regina Hawkins and Marissa Manker teach at Southside Occupational Academy in the west Englewood community, where they work with students with disabilities to build vocational, social and work skills. And in 10:00 a.m. hour, we talk to the folks behind the Active by Design Summit on Tuesday, October 4 at the Chicago Botanic Garden, which will promote the safety, health, economic, environmental and social benefits of designing communities that promote physical activity.