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"Smart by Nature"-Sustainable Schools - Whole Green Catalog 11-17-09

Tue, Nov 17 Listen

Two author interviews on tonight's "Earthworms" - "Smart by Nature" author Michael Stone shares learning, food, building, parental and community involvement options and examples from the Center for Ecoliteracy -this Green stuff is FUN LEARNING, really! Check out www.ecoliteracy.org. "Whole Green Catalog" is a new super-reference of products AND practices. Yes, it's a tome of green stuff - it's also a guide to transforming our relationship with stuff: reusing, choosing durability, and...

Feast of Food Production Ideas - Fea$t of Fund-Raising for KDHX - 11-10-09

Tue, Nov 10 Listen

THANKS to everyone who contributed to KDHX during tonight's edition of "Earthworms" - through your generosity we exceeded our $$ goal and achieved our member goal. Listen to this FOOD PRODUCTION conversation with Darrin Nordahl, author of the new book "Public Produce - New Urban Agriculture" (www.islandpress.org) and Molly Rockamann of Earthdance Farm in Ferguson, MO (www.earthdancefarm.org). Can you imagine corner lots, boulevard medians and public parks rich with fruit and nut trees and...

Local Event and Issues Roundup - Bill McKibben: Climate Change Peril & Prom

Tue, Nov 3 Listen

"Earthworms" host Jean Ponzi reports on multiple enviro-events and issues from around the KDHX listening area: - The Mountaintop Removal Road Show - Thursday Nov 12 at CAMP 3026 Cherokee at Minnesota in South St. Louis - www.mountainnroadshow.com - Proposed Riverfront Casino in the Confluence area floodplain - zoning change currently under consideration by St. Louis County Council - MO Coalition for the Environment (www.moenviron.org) and Trailnet (www.trailnet.org) both urge opposition to...

Earthworms for October 27th 2009

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Local Energy, Legislative, 350 Climate Protection Initiatives! 10-20-09

Tue, Oct 20 Listen

Plenty of local activity promoting energy efficiency, renewable energy use, legislative enviro-protections - and the 350 International Day of Climate Action. Tonight's guests are Liz Forrestal, Exec. Dir of MO Votes Conservation (www.movotesconservation.org), Erin Noble, Energy Policy Coordinator for MO Coalition for the Environment (www.moenviron.org and www.renewmo.org), and Carol Braford, coordinator of St. Louis 350 Day activities and Eco Cities 2020 Initiative (www.stl350.com). Coming...

Annie Leonard:Stuff Can't Buy Love & Feminization of Science - 10-13-09

Tue, Oct 13 Listen

Two tonight from "Bioneers" presentations. Annie Leonard, writer and cartoonist whose "Story of Stuff" internet film sensation, makes her passionate case for real life, love, relations instead of filling our voids with STUFF. What's in your closet? Also - scientist and Rachel Carson protegee Charlotte Brody articulates the value of Carson's and other FEMALE perspective on systemic destruction of nature's resources. Learn more about Leonard at www.storyofstuff.com and about Brody's "Health...

Earthworms for October 6th 2009

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Joel Salatin-Eco Farming - Local Economies with Judy Wicks 9-28-09

Tue, Sep 29 Listen

Joel Salatin is a farmer who can eloquently TALK the how-why-wonder of farming that integrates meeting needs of the land, animals, farmers and customers in a win-win for ALL. His family's Polyface Farms in Virginia models and teaches principles that go way "beyond organic." Salatin will be speaking at Webster University Monday October 5 - see www.webster.edu for details and visit www.polyfacefarms.com to learn much more! Restauranteur Judy Wicks serves up love along with sustainably produced...

Fall Gardening from Bowood Farms, Missouri Botanical Garden 9-22-09

Tue, Sep 22 Listen

On this first day of Autumn, the nip may not yet be in the air but plants are aware of waning daylight - and beginning their turn toward the dormant season. But if you love gardening, it's not yet time to hang up your trowel. Horticulture Manager Ellen Barredo from Bowood Farms joins Missouri Botanical Garden's famed Horticulture Answer Man Chip Tynan to talk with host Jean Ponzi about pumpkins (and their relatives), cool season greens, edible delights, and ways of growing beauty in your...

Honoring Rainforest Rachel Crandell - A Lively Remembrance! 9-15-09

Tue, Sep 15 Listen

A favorite "Earthworms" guest has often been Rainforest Rachel Crandell - teacher, author, intrepid traveler, environmental champion, wife-mother-sister and great friend. Rachel passed away on September 7 - yet her luminous, loving energy lives on! Tonight's show is a tribute to Rachel, an archived interview originally broadcast August 21, 2007. That night host Jean Ponzi welcomed Rachel and young rainforest ambassadors Elaine Gorham and Ben Swank, who had all just returned from a learning...

Sustainable Agriculture Perspectives - Bioneers on Eco-Nomics 9-08-09

Tue, Sep 8 Listen

From the touchstone topic of antibiotics used in meat production, tonight's conversation with Fred Kirschenmann acknowledges how longtime public expectations of "fast and cheap" have shaped today's mega-polluting industrial agricultural systems. From his experience as Distinguished Fellow of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture (Iowa State University) and President (meaning head farmer) of Kirschenmann Family Farms in Medina, ND, Kirschenmann articulates the problems of cost,...

Enviro Cleanup: A Laundry List - NanoStuff: Enviro-Hazards? 9-1-09

Tue, Sep 1 Listen

Lawyer Alexander Lee has been "hangin' out" ideas for high-impact small conservation actions for over 15 years. He brings his "Clotheslines Across America" tour to St. Louis on Sept 12 as keynote speaker for the Gateway Green Alliance annual Great Green Pesto Feast. Air out the facts on benefits of cold-water washing, clothespin hangups, Right-To-Dry legislation and more at www.laundrylist.org and find Pesto Feast details at www.gateway-greens.org. Plus - Journalist Carole Bass relates...

Polycultures: Food Where We Live and Bioneers Fair Food - Ending Slavery 8-

Tue, Aug 25 Listen

Two food interviews tonight on "Earthworms." Film producer Tom Kondilas talks with host Jean Ponzi about the local food production innovations of northeast Ohio, spotlighted in his documentary "Polycultures - Food Where We Live." Kondilas and his co-producer David Pearl will screen then discuss their film this Sunday, August 30 at Washington University's Danforth Student Center (6545 Forsyth Blvd, room 276) 7:30-10 p.m. FREE. You'll see resourceful urban gardening, community subscription...

Living Building -Washington U's Tyson Research Center 8-18-09

Tue, Aug 18 Listen

This summer a modest new building multiplied the science study capabilities at Washington University's Tyson Research Institute - and challenged builders and building users everywhere to rethink how human habitat uses Earth's limited resources. The Living Learning Center is one of two U.S. facilities on track to become the first buildings certified by the Living Building Challenge. This protocol of requirements for resource conservation, material choices and daily operations has prompted WU...

Wild Bird Sanctuary-Summer Concerts! PVC Free School Supplies 8-11-09

Tue, Aug 11 Listen

As August turns the wheel of summer 'round, your friends and kin can still enjoy FREE outdoor concerts, at the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park MO. Roger Holloway, Operations Manager and longtime troubadour of Word Bird, joins host Jean Ponzi to talk about raptor rehabilitation and education services - and the Birds in Concert summer fun, Thursday nights 7 p.m. - bring your picnic, chairs and blanket, wine and candles and enjoy Javier Mendoza (8/13), kids' song favorite Babaloo (8/20) and...

Earthworms for August 4th 2009

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Earthworms for July 28th 2009

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Bioneers: Biomimicry and Climate Change - Green Collar Jobs 7-21-09

Tue, Jul 21 Listen

Two presentations from the LATEST batch of Bioneers conference recordings, featuring two of the COOLEST, GREENEST environmental action centers operating today, in the opinion of "Earthworms" host Jean Ponzi. Biomimicry - Biotechnology Appropriate to Climate Change - with Janine Benyus, David Orr, Stephen Dewar, Jay Harman. Learn more at www.biomimicryguild.com, www.asknature.org Green Collar Jobs - the movement to merge environmental and societal improvement with social justice, featuring...

Ozark Regional Land Trust - Science Comment on US Energy Policy Act 7-14-09

Tue, Jul 14 Listen

Conservation easements, preservation of beautiful and significant places, protection of lands harboring endangered species - these are outcomes of the work of the Ozark Regional Land Trust. Active in Missouri since 1984, the non-profit ORLT offers resources to landowners that have been conserving sensitive and treasured lands across the US since the land trust movement began in the 1800s. ORLT executive director Ted Heisel talks with "Earthworms" host Jean Ponzi about this quiet, diligent...

Bioneers: Women's Leadership - Youth Leadership - Transforming Culture 7-7-

Tue, Jul 7 Listen

Voices of transformation chorus each October from the Bioneers conference - and many of these voices speak to you periodically on KDHX "Earthworms." Tonight in "Heart of Hearts - Women's Leadership in Transforming Culture" we hear social justice activist Akiah Winwood moderating a discussion among Sophia Cantero (aka Black Artemis, novelist and Chica Luna Productions founder), grandmother of rainforest advocacy and deep ecology Joanna Macy, Sarah Crowell (dancer-director of Destiny Arts...

The Sharing Solution - Robert Fishbone: 1,000 Steps 6-30-09

Tue, Jun 30 Listen

Could you use some options to save money, simplify your life and build relationships - even community? Lawyers Janelle Orsi and Emily Doskow share ideas, tools, examples, key questions - even forms to formalize agreements - to share all kinds of tangible resources. Cars, caregiving, home improvement, food production, living quarters, jobs . . . SHARING? These individual-ownership things? Yep. Check out this great new book from Nolo Press, "The Sharing Solution," enjoy tonight's "Earthworms"...

Confluence Greenway: New Public Lands - MO Teachers in Costa Rica 6-23-09

Tue, Jun 23 Listen

Cora Island, a 1,470 acre slough-access tract of farmland in the Missouri River, today became the latest part of a 50-mile stretch of publicly-owned land in the Missouri-Illinois-Mississippi River Confluence region. Laura Cohen, Confluence Project Director for Trailnet, describes the process of acquiring sensitive land for restoration, preservation, and public enjoyment. Congratulations to the Cora Island partners for accomplishing this purchase! Learn more at www.confluencegreenway.org and...

Preserving Ozark National Scenic Riverways

Tue, Jun 16 Listen

Did you know that Missouri's Current and Jacks Fork Rivers were the first river system designated for federal protection? The Ozark National Scenic Riverways established a model for river corridor protection and management . . . that has been eroded by over-use over the years. Tonight's guests John Karel (Director of Tower Grove Park) and Greg Iffrig (L-A-D Foundation) - who are both on the Missouri Parks Association Board - tell the epic story of protection and creeping degradation of this...

Green Design Authors: Women in Green - Integrated Design: Mithun

Tue, May 12 Listen

Tonight's edition of "Earthworms" features topics beautifully and articulately covered by recent titles from Ecotone Publishing. Kira Gould and Lance Hosey present themes from over 200 conversations with female (and a few guy) leaders in the sustainable design and building industry, from their 2007 volume "Women In Green - Voices of Sustainable Design." And David Macaulay introduces the Pacific-northwest based firm Mithun and its work transforming human habitations to not only respect but...

Population and Audacious Aging - in Community! 5-5-09

Tue, May 5 Listen

Population is the elephant in the room among environmental issues. This topic's hot-button facets (immigration, abortion, birth control) typically derail thoughtful focus amid public dialogue. Environmental scientist and natural resources planner Leon Kolankiewicz shares perspectives on population issues with "Earthworms" host Jean Ponzi. And Co-Housing advocate Raines Cohen combines community-building know-how with advancing years, contributing to a new book of essays "Audacious Aging."...

Kevin Danaher: Military Bases Into Eco-Centers! - MO Legis. Update 4-28-09

Tue, Apr 28 Listen

Here's a idea to convert the function and resources of U.S. military bases into Green training, developmnt and resource Eco-Centers - proposed by Kevin Danaher, one of our country's most diversely, productively - and dynamically - active activists. Learn at: www.globalcitizencenter.org - www.globalexchange.org - www.greenfestivals.org. Thanks to the Mainstream Media Project (www.mmp.org) for this interview. Kat Logan Smith, executive director of the MO Coalition for the Environment, gives...

Prairie Chicken Restoration Project - Happy Earth Day to YOU! 4-21-09

Tue, Apr 21 Listen

Celebrating Earth Day 2009 with focus on a partnership of Missouri organizations working to restore habitat needed for prairie chickens to thrive once again in our state's remaining grasslands. With only about 150 of these birds remaining in MO, the effort calls forth cooperation between private landowners, public agencies, and nature herself. MO Conservation Dept. Media Specialist Dan Zerlenga and Grassland Biologist Steve Clubine join "Earthworms" host Jean Ponzi. Learn more about...

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