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Host Jean Ponzi presents information, education and conversation with activists and experts on environmental issues and all things "green." Produced in the studios of KDHX Community Media in St. Louis, MO.

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Doug Tallamy: The Nature of Oaks 34:47

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If you can only plant one tree, make that tree an Oak. Doug Tallamy, national advocate for restoring the LIFE in our places with the power of Native Plants, celebrates the mighty Quercus family of trees with this latest book, his third as definitive matchmakers for humans and plants. The Nature of Oaks: the Rich Ecology of our Most Essential Native Trees (Timber Press, 2021) is Tallamy's personal story, scientific observation chronicle and love song to the oak trees around his home. He connects tree lore to healthy soil, songbirds, and more caterpillars than even he (an expert entomologist) can count. Earthworms host Jean Ponzi welcomes Doug Tallamy back to KDHX, in a conversation part Eco-FanGirl idolizes Bug Guy , part Summit of Biodiversity Peers . Prepare to want to grow with an Oak! Connect to the real of native trees and plants through Parters for Native Landscaping , with 2025 webinar series and workshops beginning in March. THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer and Sierra Club national communicator, and to Andy Coco and Jon Valley, KDHX Production Guys. Related Earthworms Interviews: Nature's Best Hope? Ecologist Doug Tallamy Says WE ARE! (Feb 2020) In the Company of Trees: Forest Bathing with Andrea Serrubi Fareshteh (January 2019)…

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Illinois Clean Energy Policy - Andy Heaslet on the making of a model 47:51

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New Earth Farms Composting: Community Service Super-Charged 43:32

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"What's going on in that bucket," wrote the great enviro-spiritual guy Wendell Berry in The Work of Local Culture , "is the most momentous thing I know, the greatest miracle that I have ever heard of: it is making earth.” Here in St. Louis, New Earth Farm brings that moment right to you - as an affordable, convenient, sustainability service. John and Stacey Cline are growing New Earth Farm as a neighborhood-based enterprise serving the greater STL area. If you can't compost in your yard, your subscription to New Earth Farm will regularly collect your kitchen and garden waste and bring you, in spring and fall, a bucket of super-plant-food compost. Waste gets reduced and soil is nourished, in a system helping all parts flourish. For an even more modest fee, you can drop off your organic waste for New Earth Farm to compost. Options serve both homes and businesses - even special events! This kind of "valet service" composting is a vital niche in the spectrum of St. Louis Green practice. Let the New Earth Farm story inspire you to dig in and support sustainable decay! Thanks to Earthworms audio engineers, Andy Heaslet and Jon Valley. Related Earthworms Conversations: Fair Shares: Abundance, Innovation, Relationships, FOOD (July 2022) Urban Buds Blooms in St. Louis City (Nov 2021)…

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Earthworms On The Farm: Rosy Buck Grows in Circles 29:53

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Sustainable farming is both lifestyle and full-time job for Holly Evans, Randy Buck and their three children. Holly and Earthworms host Jean Ponzi "tour" this young family's 15+ acre Rosy Buck Farm on a hillside property in Leasburg, MO, where Randy digs circular vegetable beds! Third in Earthworms' series featuring local farmers certified by Known & Grown STL , our regional sustainable food brand, this conversation explores Rosy Buck's search for land, learning process, and joyful commitment to farming, overall. Rosy Buck Farm brings their bounty to Sol Market (Maplewood), Wednesdays 3:30-6:30, to Point Labadie Thursdays 4:30-7:30 (through Sept 26) and Wildwood Saturdays 8-noon (through Oct 6). Check the farm's websiite for 2025 CSA subscription info. They proudly hold Golden Beet Certification from Known & Grown STL. Thanks to Jon Valley, KDHX Production Stalward, and to Andy Heaslet, audio engineer for Earthworms On The Farm series. Related Earthworms Conversations: Nancy Lawson, the Humane Gardener (Feb 2019) Kate Estwing Grows, Arranges Loves . . . Slow Flowers (Jan 2018)…

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Remembering Jay Schober - from the Earthworms Archives 44:22

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Earthworms' late, dear, zany friend Jay Schober was one hemisphere - with he dearest friend Jim Findlay - of the St. Louis Brain Sandwich, in the early glory DAZE of KDHX. Honoring Jay, we serve up again this interview, recorded in January 2021, promoting Jay and Jim's memoir, We Never Got To Be Zombies (yet) - 55 Years of Friendship and Fiddling with Fate. Jay was a kind, gentle, big-hearted bear-hug BIG guy. Missed and beloved by many who knew him, and MANY more who heard him and Jim carry on, on-air, while snacking on braunschweiger and cheeseballs. Rest in Love and Laughter, Jay.…

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City Sewing Room: Stitching, Teaching, Sharing GREEN 29:59

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Would you like to learn to: Sew from a pattern? Customize a thrift-store find? Replace a busted zipper? You can do all this and more in a lively, well-stocked compound on St. Louis' near-south side. Welcome to City Sewing Room! Creative Director Rita Hunt shares the what-why-how of this non-profit community sewing center, where adults and kids can take classes and create in professional-grade studios, and you can score great deals on fabric, notions and sewing machines donated to their Makers' Mart. A new Quilting Studio features a state-of-the-art longarm quilting machine and skilled quilter volunteers ready to help you craft your vision in fabric. Many hands give an ancient art a DIY revival at City Sewing Room and sister locations, like Sew Hope in Florissant, MO . Well-lit parking and day, evening and weekend hours make fun at City Sewing Room accessible for walk-in and class-registered sewists at all skill and interest levels. Earthworms host Jean Ponzi discovered this maker-culture gem through the Missouri Recycling Association. We bet you'll take a notion to check it out yourself - and pin it to your activity faves. Thanks to St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste District for grants augmenting members' support for City Sewing Room. THANKS to Jon Valley, Earthworms valued Production Pal. Related Earthworms Conversations: St. Louis Story Stitchers: Artists' Collective Stands Strong (May 2023) Experienced Goods: Beneficially Circulating GREAT STUFF (November 2022) Reclaiming Gaia: Artist Jenny Kettler Tangles With ... Plastic (October 2020)…

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Advocating for Night Sky Darkness 41:09

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ALAN - Artificial Light At Night - is surging. Light pollution disrupts health for humans and wildlife, wastes energy and money, and blocks out awe-some Universe views. How to flip the switch on this issue? Dark knights arose in 1988 to challenge and turn this offense to Quality of Earth Life. Today the International Dark Sky Association mobilizes over 193,000 members and supporters through 70+ chapters in 24 countries, who educate and advocate for protecting and restoring nighttime darkness. Dark Sky Missouri is the IDA chapter formed in 2018. Earthworms welcomes chapter founder and former chair Don Ficken, a retired business person, amateur astronomer and ardent nocturnal darkness champion. Dark Sky MO operates state-wide to measure and report night sky light levels, build awareness, and grow support for light pollution controls, with the public and policy-makers. Lights Out Heartland, one key initiative specific to our region, works to protect migrating birds in ecologically critical months of May and September. Why should we care about night-light issues? How can we have outdoor lighting that's responsible, healthy, functional and beautiful? You tell it, Don Ficken! THANKS to Sasha Hay, Earthworms audio engineer and to KDHX Production Pro, Jon Valley. Related Earthworms Conversations: I llinois Clean Energy Policy - Andy Heaslet on making of a legislative model (January 2022)…

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Hamilton Native Outpost: Growing Native Grazing Abundance 30:32

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To champion grassland soil health in Missouri, where conventional grazing practice is practically enshrined in state law, Amy Hamilton's family enterprise has dug in as deep as roots of the native plant species whose seeds they sell. Hamilton Native Outpost has been led since 1981 by Amy and her husband Rex. They are passionate, expert advocates for the Diverse Native Grassland species and practices that sustained human to microbial communities across the vast mid-continent region for centuries. They support native landscaping in general, though this Earthworms conversation is focused on their grazing-grassland work. Plenty of color blazes through this tale, from vibrant summer-prairie blooms to seed mix names (Wildlife Chuckwagon, Firebreak, Buck's Hangout) to commentary on what it takes to change grazing practices and minds, even with bushels of data-backed experience ( "Double the hay with none of the fertilizer using native warm season grasses!" ). The 60-page Hamilton Native Outpost catalogue is packed with clear, specific guidance to upgrade land management with native plants. Their website is a storehouse of articles and videos ( "This Savannah restoration paid for itself" "Healing a small stream with native plants" ). Novel research the works, like deploying grazing bison for weed control, demonstrates this team's constant learning commitments. And their rural Sho-Me State site hosts Pasture Walks and other events so soil health wannabes and skeptics can see Outpost successes for themselves. You've heard about native plant benefits plenty of times in Earthworms interviews. This one steps a new hoof forward. THANKS to Sasha Hay, Earthworms audio engineer, and KDHX production stalwart, Jon Valley - and to Ed Spevak of the Saint Louis Zoo for introduction to Amy Hamilton. Related Earthworms Conversations: -------…

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St. Louis County Library: Worlds of Ways of Learning 38:42

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If you have a library card or not, St. Louis County Library welcomes you into their multi-verse of learning. Earthworms' Jean Ponzi has been hosted as a speaker many times by SLCL's Sarah Kunz Jones, Adult Programs Coordinator. This conversation returns the favor, spotlighting myriad SLCL offerings to all ages, from webinars to community garden beds, from author events to loans from SLCL's Library of Things, from free lunches for children to computer access for anyone - and much more from a public library system geared to educate, engage and serve, powered by the dedicated creativity of LIBRARIANS. St. Louis County Library is at your super-service, in branch locations around the area and online at www.slcl.org . THANKS to Sasha Hay and Jon Valley for audio tech expertise. Related Earthworms Conversations: Seed Bank with Meg Englehardt (March, 2022) Terrain Magazine (December 2020)…

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St. Louis Green Dining Alliance: Sustainable Credible Edibles 35:17

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Hungry for new dining thrills? Need a place to meet and eat in an area of STL you don't know well? Align your fork, dollars and values by heading to a restaurant certified by the Green Dining Alliance , a program of our town's EarthDay-365. As program manager, Ben Daugherty whisks his love of restaurant energy and culture into GDA audits that have helped over 80 restaurants, catering enterprises and food trucks earn 2-5 Star ratings for Green practices in seven categories of food service operations. Recommendations included in GDA evaluation reports advise participants with detailed options to improve. Three pre-requisites for certification are practicing recycling, eliminating Styrofoam, and having or phasing in LED lighting. Restaurants give GDA access to utility bills, purchasing records and other relevant documentation. GDA's work with restaurants in Maplewood, MO, established the nation's first Green Dining District (led then by Jenn DeRose); today the Grove and University City Loop are Green Dining Districts, with work underway in Webster Groves and the Cortex Innovation District to form two more. As theater companies know, more theater offerings generate more theater audiences. GDA proves the Abundance Principle! Next time you make plans to dine, check out www.GreenDiningAlliance.org - and tell your host, chef and server you chose their place because they are GDA Certified. Ben Daugherty spoke with Earthworms host Jean Ponzi on 2-3-24, and announced a career move shortly after. Visit www.EarthDay365.org if you'd like to apply for the GDA position! THANKS to Jon Valley, Production Pro for KDHX. Related Earthworms Conversations: Fair Shares: Abundance, Innovation, Relationships, FOOD (July 2022)…

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Nee Kee Nee: Urban Park Stream Revived! 32:54

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In a south St. Louis city park created in Victorian times, Indigenous culture, native plant ecology and 21st century engineering are newly united in a southwesterly flow. Tara Morton, Community Engagement Manager for this project's urban someplace, Tower Grove Park, shares the story of Nee Kee Nee, a riverine revival. Named Nee Kee Nee, or “revived water” in the language of the Osage People who once inhabited the land, the East Stream captures stormwater from 43 Park acres and provides a naturalized play area for many of kinds of nature relatives, including humans young-to-old. East Stream’s headwaters are fed by a user-activated potable water source. Stormwater from intakes on adjacent Arsenal Street rejoin the stream 300 feet below the headwaters and flow through a system of weirs and rain gardens. Shunted underground for more than 100 years, East Stream is now a biodiverse, living partner in the Park's nature stewardship: a waterway working with human needs, designed to divert stormwater - up to 3.8 million gallons annually - from overloading the urban sewer system. Nee Kee Nee is also reviving culture. Tower Grove Park staff worked with the Osage Nation’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office on design of the stream, the direction it flows and landscaping with pawpaw, arrowwood, and many other kinds of native plants. Physical and interpretive elements embody the Osage People's origin story and elements of Osage community life. Tower Grove Park is open daily, sunrise to sunset, in the City of St. Louis, Missouri. THANKS to Jon Valley, KDHX Audio Production Pro Related Earthworms Conversations: Artist Jayvn Solomon Envisions Loutopia (Dec. 2021) The Water Defenders with John Cavanaugh (Oct 2021)…

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Traditional Ecological Knowledge with Cat Techtmann 40:40

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Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) offers indigenous wisdom to "conventional" society, where responses to issues like climate change and biodiversity loss need all hands to work together. Cathy “Cat” Techtmann serves as a University of Wisconsin-Extension Environmental Outreach State Specialist. She weaves together indigenous science, place-based knowledge, and academic science to “decolonize” climate education. Cat coordinates the UW- Extension Climate Leadership Team and is a member of the UW-Extension Native American Task Force. She lives and works in the homeland of the Lake Superior Ojibwe people and works out of the Iron County UW-Extension Office in Hurley, WI. Cathy “Cat” Techtmann, University of Wisconsin-Extension Environmental Outreach State Specialist. She weaves together indigenous science, place-based knowledge, and academic science to “decolonize” climate education. Cat coordinates the UW- Extension Climate Leadership Team and is a member of the UW-Extension Native American Task Force. She lives and works in the homeland of the Lake Superior Ojibwe people and works out of the Iron County UW-Extension Office in Hurley, WI. Links to: Daniel Wildcat Heather Navarro - MCC…

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Nature OF and FOR Healthy Human Culture with Jo Pang 41:45

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From his personal relationships with the organizations we know as Forests (where C ollaboration AND Competition thrive), Jo Pang helps good health flourish in human orgs, specifically those focused on "social good." The work of Culture Wise, Jo's enterprise, supports organizations who envision a more compassionate and just world, to develop capacity for leadership in ways that can turn around society's dominant and colonizing modes. This work can take groups out of doors in activity at once super-purposeful and playful. When Earthworms host Jean Ponzi joined one of these experiences, she felt wake-up-genuinely inspired by Jo's approach to "consulting and facilitating" - and wanted to share Jo's perspective with you. Around the grounds of Kindred Forest, the nature retreat Jo Pang and family are cultivating (near Bourbon, MO, about an hour from St. Louis), individuals and groups can experience Forest Bathing, with Jo as your certified Forest Therapy Guide. With a Doctorate in Strategic Management in the works from University of Missouri St. Louis, look for lively leadership to continue to evolve from among the circles of trees and humans who inspire and teach Jo Pang. From TEDx Gateway Arch, hear Jo Pang share How Mindfulness Transforms Us THANKS to Andy Heaslet for audio-engineering this edition of Earthworms, and to Jon Valley, KDHX production Wiz Related Earthworms Conversations: In the Company of Trees with Andrea Sarubbi Fareshteh (Jan. 2019)…

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Nature, Design and Health with David Kamp 46:01

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Road Kill - yes, not kidding folks, sez Don Corrigan 37:53

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St. Louis journalist Don Corrigan storms the American Popular Culture Association with his books exploring way more than journalistic topics - like ROAD KILL. Corrigan's book American Roadkill: Animal Victims of our Busy Highways is in the great animal rights tradition of Joseph Grinnell of the 1920s, who was alarmed at the animal carnage on America's new highways. Corrigan tells the squashed sad tales, and shares some positives: • The Saint Louis Zoo enlisting “citizen scientists” to identify high casualty frog and turtle crossings. • St. Louis Kinship Circle raising awareness of road accidents with pets and how to avoid such heartbreaking meet-ups with cars. • Sierra Clubs of the southeast, championing endangered pumas. • Possum Pouch Pickers, down south, rescuing baby possums from marsupial mothers mashed on roadways. Don Corrigan is Editor Emeritus of the Webster-Kirkwood Times, a weekly newspaper for St. Louis suburban communities. THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, and to KDHX production pundit Jon Valley. Related Earthworms Conversations: Richard Louv: Our Wild Calling (Dec 2019) Don Corrigent on SQUIRRELS (July 2019)…

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Lawns Into Meadows: Owen Wormser, Landscape Regenerator 36:07

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This idea seeks not to uproot every shred of living carpet - "just" the (humongous, sterile, resource-intensive) areas we don't use. Owen Wormser is an ecological landscape designer who sees restorative potential in our acres of compulsive turf. His Nautilus Award-winning book's practical and visionary approach to ecological restoration can bring your place to life! Converting areas of lawn to meadows gives us back precious time and money while super-charging food webs and vital pollinator supports. Here in the KDHX listening area, the very tidy suburb of Webster Groves made it through No Mow April with reputation intact. Look for other local communities to adapt Webster's process in the early growing season of 2024. In May you can mow some paths through those plantings, and sow more life in the areas spared from tortuous trims. Related Earthworms Conversations: Legacy Circle Farms Strong Soil, Specialty Crops (May 2021)) Biodiversity for Corporations? Where Business Works WITH Nature (May 2020) THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, to KDHX Production chief Jon Valley.…

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Milkweed's Murderous Other Bugs 25:24

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The wild world of Milkweed plants is populated by aphids who suck the plant's life, beetles who suck the aphids dry, ant lion babies who will eat each other - and sometimes the Monarch butterflies whose caterpillars gotta eat Milkweed or starve. APHIDS! Native gardening specialist Besa Schweitzer guides this conversational tour through the realm of Milkweeds - and the bugs to bug them! Her Wildflower Garden Planner is a book everyone can use to welcome Nature's Wild Child plants into your place. Congratulations, Besa, on this summer's recognition of your work from the native plant advocate botanists of Missouri Native Plant Society! Honor well deserved. Earthworms listeners: read Besa's take on this topic in The Healthy Planet July 2023 edition . Thanks to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms engineer and Green colleague in Sierra Club - and to KDHX production ace, Jon Valley…

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Mosquito Alert STL: Community Science Bug-Off Power 38:23

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St. Louis is the first U.S. city using the app Mosquito Alert, developed in Barcelona, Spain, and in use across Europe. This Citizen Science project combines support for our Public Health pros with rich opportunities for eco-logical messaging: We CAN Control the Pests AND Protect our Pollinators! The Mosquito Alert STL project team is promoting use of this smartphone app around our community - and taking the work an important academic step further: researching the power of Citizen Science to boost the capacity of our Public Health agencies, as they work to track and control the kinds of mosquitos that carry serious diseases like West Nile and Zika virus. MASTL team members Jeanine Arrighi (St. Louis Academic Health), Alexis Bingham (SLU Masters candidate and MASTL student partner), and Dr. Ricardo Wray (Saint Louis University School of Health Communications and Social Justice) talk with Earthworms host (and fellow MASTL team partner) Jean Ponzi about this exciting, locally evolving work. Find Mosquito Alert STL resources online and r ead more about this project. Download the Mosquito Alert app and join the SWAT Team! Learn more about the global value of Citizen Science in dealing with mosquito-born disease from the Wilson Center for Science (and in Earthworms' archived edition). Thanks to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, and to KDHX Production Pro Jon Valley. Related Earthworms Conversations: One Health: People, Animals, Earth with Dr. Sharon Deem Global Mosquito Alert with Dr. Anne Bowser, Wilson Center for Science (August 2019) Fight The Bite with the 4-Ds - Mosquito Squad, City of St. Louis (July, 2016) (where we WERE with mosquito education before Mosquito Alert STL)…

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I Want a Better Catastrophe - Climate Activist Andrew Boyd 34:20

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"Aside from all that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the Play?" In his new book I Want a Better Catastrophe, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd navigates the Climate Crisis with grief, hope and gallows humor. Earthworms host Jean Ponzi chimes in (leaving Boyd the best lines, as a gracious host would do). Boyd's leadership of the global CLIMATE CLOCK campaign blended art, science and grassroots organizing. His writings ask eight diverse climate thinkers "Is it really the end of the world? If so, now what?" From his own broken-open heart, he walks with our climate angst toward living with climate reality - and staying open-hearted. Related Earthworms Conversations: Midwest Climate Collaborative with Heather Navarro (May 2022) Diversifying Power: Jennie C. Stephens Advocates Energy Democracy (Sept 2020) Facing the Climate Emergency with Margaret Cline Solomon (June 2020) THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms steadfast friend and audio engineer, and to KDHX production powerhouse, Jon Valley. Thanks to New Society Publishing! www.newsociety.com…

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STL Story Stitchers: Artist Collective Stands Strong 49:29

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Creating from The Center in midtown St. Louis, youth artist Story Stitchers collect stories, reframe and retell them through art, writing and performance to promote understanding, civic pride, intergenerational relationships and literacy. Story Stitchers Branden Lewis and Chris BlueBeatz Pendleton are both artists and staff. Their collaborative crew mainly targets ending gun violence as content focus, not surprising for urban youth in the U.S. today. Time experiencing Prairie environments surprised them: growing deep-rooted perspective and creative expression that connected KDHX Earthworms host Jean Ponzi to these vibrant humans. Nature is a bond we share, expressed in Peace in the Prairie , a big body of award-winning Story Stitchers work. This conversation grew from a meetup this spring at the Midwest Climate Summit. Jean gets to guest this summer at Stitch Cast Studio Live on June 6, for another Nature-inclusive exchange. Pick up Story Stitchers podcasts! Related Earthworms Conversations: Midwest Climate Collaborative with Heather Navarro (May 2022) St. Louis Environmental Racism Report with Leah Clyburn (October 2019) THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio wiz, and to KDHX Production Power, Jon Valley.…

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ShutterBee: Catch the Community Science Buzz 42:54

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As flowers bloom, bees rev up their pollinating rounds, and a host of Community Scientists are helping local pros explore key bee-health questions: what promotes bee diversity and bee-plant interactions in residential and community gardens? This is Shutterbee! Backyard bee photography to improve conservation practices. Nina Fogel, Ph.D. co-leads this multi-year project from the Billiken Bee Lab at Saint Louis University with founder and Webster U professor Dr. Nicole Miller-Struttmann, and a team of fellow academics, students and community partners. Shutterbee is a "standardized survey." Volunteers observe strict protocols - as they strive to photograph bees on the move! Participants commit to taking their smartphone in the same hours on the same day of every month for the same walk around their gardens, and uploading photos of bees they observe into the Shutterbee project on the app iNaturalist. Project leaders identify bees and plants in these photos to evaluate how bees behave in urban, suburban, and rural environments. Next time you're out in your yard, try it. Happily - and essentially - training is provided. Shutterbee enrollment is filled for 2023, but you can tap into studying bees using the project's vivid resources, pollinator info and bee identification guides. Congratulations Nina! Achieving her Doctorate this spring with her study of the patterns of bee diversity in home gardens enrolled in Bring Conservation Home, the native plant program of St. Louis Audubon - and for finding, through her work in 2022, a native bee so rare it had only been documented once before in Missouri. THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, and to KDHX production potentate, Jon Valley. Related Earthworms Conversations: Wires Over Wildlife: power lines as biodiversity connectors (August 2020) VR Botany: Dr. Kyra Krakos brings the outdoors waaaaay in (April 2020) Naturalist: graphic novel updates Rockstar Biologist memoir (November 2020…

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Green Schools Quest: Growing Young Champions 40:19

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Missouri Green Schools enriches learning and lives! Work through three pillars of a Green School - Environmental Impact, Health and Wellness and Sustainability Education - is drawing on the strengths of two terrific partners and their organizations: Hope Gribble, Green Schools Manager for Missouri Gateway Green Building Council; and Lesli Moylan, Executive Director of Missouri Environmental Education Association. These two leaders and friends have grown a statewide program from St. Louis roots in the Green Schools Quest - with national recognition through U.S. Dept. of Education's Green Ribbon Schools. This May, teams of students, teachers and professional volunteer mentors are presenting accomplishments in school gardening, gardening, energy efficiency - and more. Their story is a learning experience listeners will love. www.MissouriGreenSchools.org Thanks to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms' audio engineer, and to Jon Valley, KDHX production wiz.…

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Beetcoin: Non-Crypto, Non-Currency with Woody Tasch 38:27

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Woody Tasch thinks like a root vegetable grows: slow, sure, mostly underground, deeply nourishing. From this perspective, in collaboration with a rainbow circle of fellow evolutionists, comes the investment structure Tasch and friends call Beetcoin: small local donations generating Zero interest, locally-made loans supporting local sustainable food systems and the community economics they feed to flourish - aiming to work on a global scale. A mission-focused investment strategist since the 1990s, Tasch keeps FUN in focus, in his serious business of transforming systems: food, funding, social values. Since 2010, the Slow Money movement he has fronted has channeled $80 million to over 800 organic farms and local food enterprises via volunteer-led efforts in dozens of communities. Beetcoin taps the Internet, grounding your way to chip in, no matter where you live. Dig into this idea! www.Beetcoin.org Thanks to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, and to Jon Valley, KDHX Production Wiz! Related Earthworms conversations: Slow Money's Woody Tasch on Culture, Poetry, Imagination, SOIL (July 2018) Heru Urban Farming - January 2021…

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Piasa Palisades Sierra Club Rocks South-Central Illinois 26:37

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In Illinois communities along the mighty Mississippi, Sierra Club members are advancing enviro-policy and awareness. The club's Piasa Palisades Group, named for a fierce bird in lore of the Illiniwek people and the stone bluffs towering over river and towns,is active locally and in their state. Chris Krusa, the group's Program Chair, and Outings Chair Craig Heaton share purpose, projects and some big river paddling upcoming program highlights. Check out this south-central Illinois group of fierce protectors and lovers of Nature! Thanks to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer and a national Sierra Club staffer - and to Jon Valley, production wiz on the KDHX staff. Related Earthworms Conversations: Making of Illinois Clean Energy Policy with Andy Heaslet (Jan 2022) Sierra Club St. Louis Environmental Racism Report with Leah Cluburn (Oct 2019) Carl Pope, former Sierra Club national president: Creating a Climate of Hope (April 2018)…

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Gen Z and Nature: Relations Worth Growing 32:13

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Charmin Dahl, conservation educator and nature-loving mom, shares her experience and perspective relating to Nature with her digital native kin. Explore with her - and head on out-of-doors, with your young friends. More from Dahl in The Healthy Planet Magazine and in her blog for Villa Montessori School. Find nature connection resources from MEEA , the Missouri Environmental Education Association. Related Earthworms Conversations: Forest Bathing with Andrea Sarubbi Fareshteh (January 2019) The Big Book of Nature Activities (June 2016) Thanks to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, and to Jon Valley, KDHX production team.…

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Experienced Goods: Beneficially Circulating GREAT STUFF 34:10

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Thrift stores, tag sales, rummage piles. They may be everywhere, but some rise above the jumbled fray with grace, circulating our castoff human-made stuff as beacons of beneficial reuse. One of these is Experienced Goods , supporting free Community Hospice care in Brattleboro, Vermont. Gemma Champoli is a force at the heart of this experience - and lifetime kindred spirit with Earthworms host Jean Ponzi. Jean and Gemma share deep Love of Stuff, and talking about it. As resale geared for profit proliferates online, the story of Experienced Goods affirms the power of in-person, local exchange - deeply appreciated, presented with flair. In the legacy (and pandemic era) chapter of this tale, Gemma builds EG a new home that honors character of the goods and ensures ongoing benefits for all those this her enterprise delights and serves. A must-visit when you are in Vermont. Happy listening, happy shopping from two bosom friends. THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, and to Jon Valley of KDHX Production team. Related Earthworms Conversations: Watch a Brattleboro Community TV interview with Gemma Champoli of Experienced Goods (November 2018) Reduce, Prevent and Transform Waste with Kelley Demmings (Feb 2019) Journey to Wellbeing with Jeanne Carbone (Oct 2018)…

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Great Rivers Environmental Law Center - Celebrating 20 Years 38:35

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Great Rivers Environmental Law Center defends and protects Nature: places, creatures, plants and US. Celebrating two decades of this worthy work, GREC President Bruce Morrison recalls triumphs, challenges and how collaboration with community is changing they way his team practices enviro law. Preview: the recent WIN for children's health thanks to Madeline Semanisin's work to secure passage of Get Lead Out of Drinking Water Act, through the MO Legislature, on July 1, 2022. October 23, 2022 - join the celebration at World's Fair Pavilion in Forest Park, featuring presentation of the Lewis C. Green Award for outstanding environmental work to Dan and Connie Burkhardt, founders of Magnificent Missouri. Click here for details. THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, and to Jon Valley, potentate of production at KDHX. Related Earthworms Conversations: Illinois Clean Energy Policy: Andy Heaslet on making of a legislative model (January 2022) The Rule of Five: Supreme Court Climate History (July 2020) When the US Supreme Court defined CO2 as an air pollutant, climate regulations took a huge and critical turn. Lawyer, author and scholar Richard Lazarus told this landmark story, in another era for national rule-making.…

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Green Burial with Elizabeth Fournier, the Green Reaper 38:53

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Elizabeth Fournier always wanted to work in funeral service. She was drawn to the service in this profession, and fascinated by its technical skills. Today she works "for a better living" - with Nature's tech - and she's proudly known far and wide as The Green Reaper. Fournier is a national advocate for Green Burial, practices that are changing her profession's enviro impacts, and helping her fellow humans better connect Life to our Earthly nature, at Life's end. She compares the importance of ecological funerals to our society's everyday efforts to decrease human impacts - by supporting renewable energy, by driving hybrid or electric cars, by eating healthy foods, by promoting sustainable agriculture, by using their own cloth bags at the grocery store, and so on. Fournier celebrates how the ideas of a green lifestyle are carrying over to how we handle the dead. Fournier's Cornerstone Funeral Services, outside Portland OR, makes her the Undertaker of Boring (OR), her tiny rural town. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Green Burial Council, and lives on a farm with her husband, daughter, and many rescue goats. Her 2018 Green Burial Guidebook details the practical changes she champions. THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, and to Jon Valley of KDHX Production. Related Earthworms Conversations: Greenwood Cemetery: History, Community, Profound Restoration ( Jan 2018, - update April 2022) Walking Sacred Ground with Robert Fishbone, artist of Labyrinths (Sept 2019) In the Company of Tree s with Forest Bathing advocate Andrea Sarubbi Fareshteh (Jan 2018) Earthworms Host Note: After years of learning and talking about these sustainable options, I attended a Green Burial this summer. Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum, a venerable St. Louis historic site, is a national leader in advancing Green Burial. Their service for a dear friend's sister, Mary Ann, was simple and moving. Her body was wrapped in a linen shroud, so her physical form was right there with us. She was a tall woman. Gracie, one of Bellefontaine's staff I know through Green work, led her crew in bringing Mary Ann's body to the grave site, drawn on a wooden cart with big metal wheels. A wreath of flowers lay over her heart. The open grave was shallow, maybe only three feet deep, lined with a profusion of plant matter! In the center of the mass of pine boughs, prairie grasses and all kinds of flowers was a circle of sunflower blooms. After the simple service, Bellefontaine staff lowered Mary Ann's body into the grave with long fabric straps. No machinery, no concrete, no elaborate box. Simply a human body, laid gently into Earth. Three huge urns of flowers and leafy branches were waiting by the grave. Everyone joined in covering Mary Ann with these beautiful plants, and then we could take turns adding shovels from the pile of soil removed from the grave. The stuff of Earth will energize Earth's processes of decomposition, over time. No chemicals, nothing toxic. Everything formerly living, returning to Earth. I noted the trees around the gravesite Mary Ann had chosen. Oaks, the mightiest hosts of insect life, supporting and restoring bonds in the Web of Life our species works so hard to break. Elements of Body, Mind, Feeling and Spirit - all there, in a quiet and simple way. What a gift to be there on that summer day. - Jean Ponzi Links: Greeenwood, Forest Bathing, previous Green Burial?…

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Fair Shares: Abundance, Innovation, Relationships, Food! 42:03

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It's a sister-rooted family scene at Fair Shares. The resourceful twist of this CCSA - Combined Community Supported Agriculture - nourishes St. Louis with produce and value-added products, a plateful of action for over 15 years. As founding sister Sara Choler Hale prepares to set sail (literally) on her next life adventure, she and sibling Jamie Choler share the main course and many sides of their story with Earthworms host Jean Ponzi, with relish. From dedicated subscribing to local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farms, this thoughtful startup started asking all the local farmers if they'd be able and willing to contribute to a Combined CSA (CCSA), where subscriber-member fees are shared among many farmers and food producers. Answer: YES! In 2008, Fair Shares boxes started sending out Veg And: eggs, jams, honey, fresh and cured meats, cheeses, sweets. Each farmer could focus on what they do best. Today, over 400 members enjoy fantastic diversity of food from over 30 local farmers and producers. Little risk and strong support, serving healthy, varied weekly shares, year-round from this Local Food hub. Fair Shares staff spans two generations, Family And. And while the crew will dearly miss Sara and volunteer/husband Stephen, the bonds of family and food will surely weather this year's changes. THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, and to Jon Valley, KDHX Production maven. Thanks for the tip for this show to FOFS-FOEW, Tom Flood. Earthworms On The Farm Related Conversations: Heru Urban Farming (Jan 2021) Crystal Stevens, Flourish (Dec 2020) Rosy Buck Farm Grows in Circles (April 2021) Rustic Roots Sanctuary (June 2021) Urban Buds City Grown Flowers (Nov 2021) And more!…

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Midwest Climate Collaborative: Heather Navarro's Leadership Challenge 34:52

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