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Buying a New Car: EV, Hybrid, Gas? - Green Sense Minute

Tom Appel, publisher of Consumer Guide Automotive, says if you're deciding between a regular gasoline powered car and a hybrid, go with the hybrid.

Tom Appel: tips for buying a new car

EVs, hybrids, or gas? Tom Appel, publisher of Consumer Guide Automotive, gives practical advice for buying a new car. He discusses alternatives to electric vehicles such as hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and high mileage gas cars, and challenges in finding charging stations. He also says some car manufactures are done developing gas engines. Share your thoughts: do you think this is the beginning of the end for gas engines?

Josina Morita: Cook County Commissioner

When Josina Morita was previously on the Green Sense Show, she was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of greater Chicago. Now she has been elected as Cook County Commissioner in the 13th District. She joined us on World Water Day to talk about water conservation, water responsibility, and the little changes we can make in our daily life to save water.

World Water Day - Green Sense Minute

Cook County Commissioner Josina Morita talks about water conservation, water responsibility, and the little changes we can make in our daily life to save water. 

How can drinking beer help clean Chicago’s water?

Josh Deth, founder of Revolution Brewing, talks about the basics of beer brewing and how it can be sustainable. In addition to using solar energy, recycled packaging, and rooftop beehives, Josh discusses what they do with the byproducts of the brewing process. He says spent grain is the number one byproduct, and the protein-rich hops can be used to feed cattle. Josh also explains how his brewery's byproducts help clean the city's wastewater and how the spent yeast and hops become part of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District's treatment program. 

 

Sustainable beer brewing - Green Sense Minute

Josh Deth, founder of Revolution Brewing in Chicago, talks about the basics of beer brewing and how byproducts are used for treating wastewater and feeding cattle.

Global Seed Bank - Green Sense Minute

Lise Lykke Steffensen, CEO of NordGen, talks about the Svalbard Seed Bank in Norway, where more than one million seeds are stored in an arctic mountain to preserve the world's crop diversity.

Lise Lykke Steffensen runs the most important bank in the world

Known as the Doomsday Vault, the Svalbard Seed Bank is located hundreds of miles beyond the Arctic Circle in Norway. You need high security clearance to enter this facility built in a mountain that contains duplicates of more than one million seed samples from almost every country in the world. Lise Lykke Steffensen, CEO of NordGen, shares the facts and clears up misinformation about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It is owned by Norway and operated in a partnership between the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the Crop Trust and NordGen (a regional genebank of the five Nordic countries - Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and Norway).

Quilen Blackwell: Solar Power in the Hood

How can we help the inner city's economy? Quilen Blackwell, president and founder of the Chicago Eco House, discusses how his non-profit uses sustainability to alleviate poverty. Quilen talks about his grandfather, who was a sharecropper, and his parents, who moved to Wisconsin from the South. After doing Peace Corps in Thailand, Quilen volunteered in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, where he got the idea for Chicago Eco House. He and his wife, Hannah, started Southside Blooms, a solar-powered flower farm on a vacant lot on Chicago's Southwest Side, and have expanded to Detroit, Milwaukee, and Gary, Indiana. Blooms is hyper-local; they grow and deliver their own flowers in communities without using any herbicides, pesticides, or chemical or synthetic fertilizers. Quilen says he is blending community organizing and a sustainable environmental business while exposing young people to opportunities in areas of crime and trauma.

The Green Sense Show is sponsored by CEA Technology, providing a sustainable modular indoor growing system. To sponsor this program, go to www.greensenseshow.com

Ben Kravitz: Climate Engineering: A New Approach to an Old Problem

This week on Green Sense Show, we spoke with Ben Kravitz, Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Indiana University. Ben discusses the history of climate change and explores how political influences can sometimes muddy the waters of scientific fact. Kravitz also shares with us the concept of climate engineering, which proposes new ways to address the ongoing challenge of climate change. As we learn, not all solutions require costly and time-consuming experiments to be validated. Discover how climate engineering could pave the way for a brighter, more sustainable future.