Peggy Malecki and I are taking The Mike Nowak Show on the road for two on-location broadcasts. The first is from the Good Food Festival & Conference at the UIC Forum on Saturday, March 18. The second is a week later, March 25 from the Chicago Flower & Garden Show at Navy Pier
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Carol Niec and Kerrie Rosenthal from The Seed Keeper Company talk about their plans to introduce growing plants from seeds to schools all over the country. Then Mike and Peggy interview film directors from the 7th Annual One Earth Film Festival.
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Mike and Peggy welcome Chicago Alderman John Arena and Melissa Brice from Chicago 350 to see discuss whether the City of Chicago will divest funds from fossil fuel companies.
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Mike Nowak and Peggy Malecki are covering the February nature and sustainability conference circuit this week, featuring the Bioneers Speaker Series at McHenry County College and Wild Things Conference at UIC Forum.
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Mike and Peggy welcome farmer and activist Karen Hudson back to the program, as Illinois Citizens for Clean Air & Water (ICCAW) holds its annual meeting in Lewiston, Illinois. She, and fellow farmer Craig Porter report on the latest battles against inhumane and environmentally destructive factory farms in the state.
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Peggy and Mike welcome gardening expert, TV and radio host, author & columnist Melinda Myers, who has been on The Mike Nowak Show many times. Today she talks about winter pruning and what you need to keep in mind when hiring a landscape designer.
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Mike and Peggy talk to two experts–Allen Lawrance from Chicago’s Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Rich Hatfield from the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation–about the recent decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.
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It’s another abbreviated version of The Mike Nowak Show with Peggy Malecki today. However, The Man has informed us that we get to broadcast for a full two hours on Saturday, January 21. We’ll see. However, this morning we welcome Lisa Hilgenberg, who is the horticulturist at the Regenstein Fruit and Vegetable Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden, back to the program. Her mission: to teach us as much as she can in about twenty minutes about which seed catalogs to order and how to get those little guys started–and when!
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A new chapter of The Mike Nowak Show with Peggy Malecki starts today at 1590 WCGO, Chicago’s SmartTalk. Right out of the gate, we hope you’ll call us at 847-475-1590 and be a part of the program every week. This week’s show features Robert Nevel from KAM Isaiah Israel, which is hosting its 8th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Sustainability Food Justice and Sustainability Weekend from January 13 to 15. He is joined by one of the presenters at this weekend long series of presentations, Dr. V. Bala Chaudhary. We also chat with Carly Persson, who is the Winter Farmers Market Coordinator for an organization called Faith in Place. They’re promoting a market opening up in Glencoe on January 8. Last but never least, meteorologist Rick DiMaio stops by our new studios to talk about why there hasn’t been a “snowmageddon” this year after so many predictions.
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