Bus Rapid Transit Coming to Chicago Chris Ziemann, project manager for Chicago BRT, explains how the Jeffery Jump is the first step in creating Bus Rapid Transit corridors in the Loop, along Western and Ashland Avenues and perhaps elsewhere in the City.
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What's the Big Deal about Native Plants? Charlotte Adelman, co-author of The Midwestern Native Garden, goes beyond and cliches and oversimplifications and explains just why native plants make for a better, more life-filled garden. Listen Here.
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Do males make you sneeze ?
Tom Ogren has been studying the effects of allergenic pollen on gardeners and the general population for twenty five years, writing numerous books on the subject, including Allergy-Free Gardening. Now he is in Canada, where he is performing an allergy audit. That is to say, he is tasked with examining the effects of planting too many male cloned trees and shrubs, where they can contribute to allergies and asthma. Listen here.
Nuclear Energy. Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down?
A Conversation with David A. Kraft of the Nuclear Energy Information Service. Listen Here.
Marissa and Raquel doing a little square-foot gardening
at Green on McLean. The rain barrels in the background
were installed by Mighty House's Ron Cowgill with a little help
from Mike Sanders and our own Mike.
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Mike and the crew talk to Billy Goodnick, the very funny and knowledgeable author of Yards:Turn Any Outdoor Space into the Garden of Your Dreams. Then Liz Houtz and Jenny Schlueter talk about "Cats at Work," a project of Chicago's Tree House, designed to create feral cat communities as rodent control units. In the second hour, Shawn Kingzette answers all your tree questions in a new segment sponsored by The Davey Tree Expert Company's The Care of Trees.
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