Green Sense Radio

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.

Climate Action Museum - Green Sense Minute

The Climate Action Museum is opening this month in Chicago. Architect Doug Farr talks about conservation, natural resources, energy, and sustainability.

Doug Farr: Climate Action Museum

Opening this year on the summer solstice near Union Station in downtown Chicago, the Climate Action Museum offers visitors the chance to take part in climate action, as they learn about conservation, natural resources, energy, and sustainability. Doug Farr, a nationally recognized architect, urbanist and author, returns to the Green Sense show to talk about sustainable architecture and how the museum will help people learn about how our actions affect the environment. The museum at 300 South Riverside Plaza is free and individuals or groups can visit Monday through Friday 10 to 6 and Saturday 10 to 2.

Anthony Tindall: Sustainable Recycling

When you want to get rid of old computers, furniture, home entertainment devices, mobile electronics, and other items, there is now a permanent recycling drop-off facility in Chicagoland. Anthony Tindall manages the Cook County Department of Environment and Sustainability's Solid Waste Division and talks about the new partnership with South Suburban College and the creation of the Center for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM). The center will repurpose, reuse, or recycle the items instead of putting them in a landfill. He also talks about what items can not be recycled.

Innovative Recycling - Green Sense Minute

The Center for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM) is a new permanent recycling drop-off facility in Chicagoland. Anthony Tindall manages the Cook County Department of Environment and Sustainability's Solid Waste Division and gives an overview.

Yang Yang: Agrovoltaics

As lead scientist at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Professor Yang Yang describes how his team's transparent solar panel experiment can revolutionize indoor farming. Using organic materials to produce clear PVs, they want to scale up the experiment to grow vegetables more sustainably, while maintaining the same efficiency.