Green Sense Radio

Margaret Frisbie - Green Sense Minute

Margaret Frisbie, executive director of Friends of the Chicago River, talks about how clean the water is after billions of dollars have been invested in the infrastructure.

Margaret Frisbie: Friends of the Chicago River

The executive director of Friends of the Chicago River, Margaret Frisbie, is back on the Green Sense show to talk about collaborating with the Greater Chicago Watershed Alliance. She says the river system is drastically healthier, and billions of dollars have been invested in clean water infrastructure. She also discusses a free natural solutions tool that helps organizations obtain data centered on equity, public health, biodiversity, resilience, and watersheds. And she talks about the importance of keeping the water free of litter and garbage.

Clean Energy Manufacturing - Green Sense Minute

Dan McCarthy, news editor at Canary Media, discusses what is causing a clean energy manufacturing boom in the U.S.

Dan McCarthy: Clean Energy

The Inflation Reduction Act has many incentives available to homeowners to promote clean energy. Dan McCarthy, news editor at Canary Media, shares his perspective on what is causing a clean energy manufacturing boom in the U.S. and how more than one million new jobs will be created.

Pink Floyd and Eclipses - Green Sense Minute

An update from Michelle Nichols, director of Public Observing at Chicago's Adler Planetarium, about the immersive experience of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" and viewing eclipses.

Adler Planetarium: Pink Floyd and Eclipses

Michelle Nichols, director of Public Observing at Chicago's Adler Planetarium, is back on the show to discuss the immersive full-dome planetarium show with audio from Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album. She also offers tips for viewing upcoming eclipses and talks about the challenges of navigating in space.

Earthships - Green Sense Minute

Earthships help make the planet a better place for the future.

Deborah Binder: Earthships

Earthship is a movement! Deborah Binder, Executive Director of Biotecture Planet Earth, is from the Canary Islands in Spain and has worked on six continents, speaks three languages fluently, and has managed more than 25 Earthship construction projects. She talks about how a home can be a self-contained vessel, built to be sustainable. Deborah discusses the unique features and design of the Earthship: it uses the earth to for heating and cooling, wind and solar as renewable energy, and is built out of recycled materials. She describes the construction and incredible design, and how Earthships help make the planet a better place for the future.

Creating Resilient Cities - Green Sense Minute

Alison Sant is the author of From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities (Island Press) and talks about how to create climate-resilient cities while addressing structural inequality.

Alison Sant: Urban Solutions

What went wrong in our big cities? Alison Sant is author of From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities (Island Press) and a partner and co-founder of the Studio for Urban Projects, an interdisciplinary design collaborative based in San Francisco that works at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, art, and social activism. She has a solution for improving the quality of life in cities and making them more resilient.