Learn about WHOOF USA, an organization providing hands-on mentoring at organic farms across the nation. Visit an aquaponic greenhouse in the heart of the inner city growing Tilapia fish and fresh produce while combatting urban food insecurity. And a high-tech start up in the heart of the bread basket using robots for chemical-free large scale farming.
Visit a company turning tons of commercial food waste back into healthy compost for gardening, keeping organic matter out of the landfill. Immigrant refugee families from Asia are mentored in the U.S. to start family-run small farms to sell produce in the local farmer’s markets. In Moab, Utah, meet a team of people building sustainable homes out of straw.
Explore an herbal apothecary in Boulder, Colorado using techiques nearly two centuries old. A state university is using the earth as their classroom for local growers eager to learn farm to market organic practices. AY Young, a global leader on sustainability with the UN, powers his Battery Tour music and his global mission with solar energy.
Meet a midwest couple that built their dream home mostly from free materials on Craig’s List and discarded timber. Visit a mill that specializes in urban lumber from trees damaged by storms or cut down for expansion in the city. Take in the beauty and aroma of a world-class lavender farm in western Colorado.
Meet makers and creators that bring a new life to old materials from fashion design to microscopes. A family seed company in the Missouri Ozarks is collecting, saving and selling seed varieties from all across the globe.
Imagine a store dedicated to the hobby and business of beekeeping and all things honey. We visit the regenerative farm of Hank Wills, editor at large for Mother Earth News, where he practices what he preaches. Learn how and why a major US city provides free fares for all city buses and street car system.
Learn how to plan a home that is efficient as it is beautiful nestled on the front range of the Rockies. Visit a company that turns yard waste and tree debris into garden mulch for the retail market. Learn how a company keeps literally millions of glass bottles out of the landfill and makes new glass with less energy to make more bottles.
Visit an architecture firm with an emphasis on sustainable design, building for a better future in a time of climate change and limited carbon resources. Next, an entire neighborhood of tiny homes dedicated to helping homeless US veterans.
With the electric vehicle revolution upon us, we learn what it will take to keep our cars charged up and on the road. Then in the heart of America, there is an organization that handles the fruits and vegetables that are usually discarded and distributes them to food banks.
Nick Schmitz talk with two scientists using NASA satellite technology to determine how much fresh water there is on Earth. Then we visit a local coffee roaster to learn fair trade coffee.
Whitney Manney talks to a creative re-use thrift store that is doing it’s part to keep things out of the landfill. Ashlee Skinner visits a local farmers market to learn more. Then we learn the latest on residential solar power.
Mike Wunsch talks with Mark Byrd about his mission to create community sustainability by bringing jobs to the inner city. Then we learn about new developments in wind power and national renewable energy goals.
Whitney Manney visits a woodshed that is taking a farm to table approach to furniture. Then, AY Young gives us an update on the battery tour.
Nick Schmitz learns the difference between heirloom, hybrid, and GMO seeds. Michael Wunsch talks to an organization working to mitigate the health effects of air pollution in the inner city.
We visit a farmer in Kansas who is trying to save the crops grown by his indigenous ancestors. Then, we meet with Bill Moore in Omaha, Nebraska to discuss the electric vehicle revolution. We learn about electric bikes at Day 6 Bikes.
We visit a sustainable community in northeast Missouri and learn about life in a planned community.
A visit to Green Dot Bioplastics to learn how they create biodegradable and compostable plastics. Then we talk with Mike Rollen at Ophelia’s Blue Vine Farm all about farming and innovation in the urban core.
In this episode we talk with the folks at Boulevard Brewing Company about their Zero-waste sustainability efforts at the brewery. Then we go out in the field to learn about the importance of protecting our watersheds by talking to the Kansas Alliance for Watersheds and Streams (KAWS).
We head out to western Kansas to talk to The Land Institute and find out about perennial grains and how important they are to the future of agriculture. Next we talk to The Heartland Tree Alliance about the importance of canopy cover in the urban core and nature’s help in cooling down the city.
We visit a 100 acre nature preserve in the heart of Lawrence KS to experience a “natural classroom” to help promote an appreciation for nature. HCI Energy is a company that is developing easily deployed, sustainable, off-grid energy systems for a variety of critical uses.