gardening, the environment, green living and a lot of humor

Mike and co-host Peggy Malecki chat about Mike's semi-viral post for Chicagoland Gardening Magazine and the demise of the proposed George Lucas museum in Chicago. 

Kay MacNeil is the chair of the 2015-2016 Milkweed for Monarchs project of the Garden Clubs of Illinois. She talks about how that state organization is encouraging its members to plant milkweed whenever and wherever they can in an effort to help the monarch butterfly population rebound from record low numbers.

Lyman Welch, Legal Director for the Alliance for the Great Lakes, provides insight into the decision this week to allow Waukesha, Wisconsin to tap into Lake Michigan water, though technically it sits outside of the Great Lakes Water Basin.