219 GreenConnect

This show is a rebroadcast of an August 1, 2011 interview. Socially Speaking hosts, Tracy Traut and Kathy Sipple, speak with Sandy Rodriguez.

Sandy's local food experience includes managing the Miller Beach Farmer's Market for several years, serving as the Community and Economic Development Intern (Local Food Focus) at Porter County Purdue Extension and project managing Stewart House Urban Farm and Gardens in Gary.

This show is a rebroadcast from July 25, 2011. 219 GreenConnect host Kathy Sipple was interviewed by host Tracy Traut. 

In this episode Tracy and Kathy discuss the power of social connections in the new "relationship economy". Sipple urges listeners to connect with intention and invest in relationships, rather than "network" for the sake of networking.

Successful connectors plant seeds of connection and nruture their relationships the way a gardener tends to their garden. Learn tips for more enjoyable social connection, online and offline.

Social media tools like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter make it easier than ever to find like-minded people. 

219 GreenConnect was created to foster more intentional connecting between ecoconscious people in Northwest Indiana.

Have you been "219 green connected"?

Host Kathy Sipple speaks with Elizabeth Gingerich, a Business Law Associate Professor at Valparaiso University and Editor of The Journal of Values Based Leadership.

The JVBL defines values-based leadership to include topics involving ethics in leadership, moral considerations in business decision-making, stewardship of our natural environment, and spirituality as a source of motivation.

Gingerich is a passionate advocate for sustainability--at home and in business. She has installed solar and geothermal systems in buildings she owns. She has worked with sustainable business leader, Ray Anderson of Interface and continues to be an Organizational Stakeholder with the Global Reporting Initiative.

219 GreenConnect host Kathy Sipple speaks with Toni Snearly, founder of NWI Food Swap.

According to Food Swap Network, a food swap is a recurring event where members of a community share homemade, homegrown, or foraged foods with each other. Swaps allow direct trades to take place between attendees, e.g., a loaf of bread for a jar of pickles or a half-dozen backyard eggs. These events are a delicious way to diversify the homemade foods in your own pantry while getting to know members of your local food community.

This particular NWI Food Swap will take place throughout the counties of Starke, Porter, LaPorte and Marshall, located in northwest Indiana (surrounding areas may be included.) Locations will depend on availability of venues. You don’t have to live in a particular county to be involved. It just depends on how far you are willing to drive.

Toni promises, "Once you attend one food swap, you’re going to want to attend them all…they are just THAT fun."

Innovators needed! The challenge: build a vehicle that will run 5 miles on alternate power.

219 GreenConnect host Kathy Sipple speaks with Bill Halliar of The Alternate Power Initiative, the organizer of Race for the Future.

This annual event is sponsored by the city of Whiting, Indiana and British Petroleum. They are looking for independent inventors interested in building vehicles powered by alternate energy sources to compete in a race in August 2013. All are invited to compete, independent American inventors are particularly encouraged to enter.

The purpose is not only to discover new sources of energy and means to store energy but also to give encouragement to inventors.

Whatever your interest—protecting natural places, adding native plants to your garden, photographing wildflowers, or lending expertise to our community of native plant enthusiasts—there’s a place for you at the Indiana Native Plant & Wildflower Society (INPAWS).

INPAWS members are working to create healthy ecosystems and save the wild beauty of Indiana. Host Kathy Sipple Speaks to INPAWS member Tacy Fletcher about the group and its activities.

Indiana Native Plant & Wildflower Society

The Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network (IBMN) is a citizen scientist program monitoring the health of butterfly populations throughout northeastern and central Illinois, with several monitoring sites in northwest Indiana.

The Network serves to engage citizen scientists in the process of collecting quantitative data on butterfly populations. The goal is to provide data collected with a standardized protocol that allows land managers to evaluate long-term trends in a changing landscape and to document the presence of rare, threatened and endangered species. The Network also provides opportunities for fellowship, information sharing, mentorship, and continuing education between citizen scientists and professional biologists through various field trips and workshops.

More information is available at www.bfly.org.

Host Kathy Sipple speaks with Presented by John Henry Drake, regional coordinator for northwest Indiana about this program and the upcoming workshops the group is hosting for potential monitors.Saturday February 9th

Gibson Woods Nature Preserve, Hammond

930 AM-12 PM.Saturday February 16th

Crown Point Community Library, Crown Point

10 AM-12 PM.Saturday February 23rd

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Visitor Center, Porter, IN

930 AM-12 PM.The workshops are designed for potential and beginning monitors, and no previous experience is required. Learn about butterfly biology, ecology and behavior and what it takes to identify the butterflies of northwest Indiana while participating in this important citizen science program.

Paul Quinlan, Stewardship Director for Shirley Heinze Land Trust, speaks with host Kathy Sipple about the organization’s Little Calumet Wetlands project area and the opportunities it provides for recreation, environmental education, and watershed management.

Host Kathy Sipple speaks with Michael Boos, Executive Director at the Association for the Wolf Lake Initiative (AWLI) in Hammond, Indiana.

AWLI holds an annual winter festival, celebrating the many outdoor recreation opportunities available in our region.   This year's event will be held on Saturday, January 19th and will feature a variety of speakers, demonstrations and tours. See an indoor trout stream Learn about Native American artifactsEcology of Wolf Lake lecture Amphibians & Reptiles of the Calumet Region Global Warming’s Effect on Trees Tree identification tour Ice skating and cross country skiing Pizza by the bonfire

And much more! Click here for full schedule.

Guest host, Emily Russell, of Russell Health & Wellness and Shaklee Distributor, will be speaking with Renee Kimberling, ND, board certified naturopath, and director of Healing Arts Center in Valparaiso.  The Healing Arts Center offers many services such as NAET allergy elimination, chiropractic, reflexology, clinical massage, stress management, reiki and craniosacral therapies, the Rossiter system for fast pain relief, acupuncture, and several others.  Learn more about this collaborative clinic for alternative health care and how Renee can help to relieve your allergies permanently with a system called NAET.