In 2013, Joseph Israel came to the Carver Center for Public Radio and talked with Antoinette Grajeda and Christina Karnatz. We remember him with his word and music from that visit.

Domestic electricity consumers seeking clean energy can now contract with third-party vendors to purchase renewable energy certificates or credits through home utility account premiums. Arcadia Power is among the first digital platform to provide wind RECs directly to more than 80,000 residential electricity customers across the nation including several thousand members in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Ajay Malshe is a distinguished professor at the University of Arkansas, a founder of NanoMech in Springdale and a recently elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. He recently came to the studio to discuss his work in nanomanufacturing and much more. He also explains why nature is a constant influence on his work.

The first meeting of the Bentonville chapter of Moms Demand Action for Guns Sense in America was last week. At that meeting, Bentonville High School senior Sadie Bell spoke about how mass shootings have changed the way students go to school and how student activists from Parkland, Fla. have inspired her to organize a March for Our Lives rally in Bentonville. She says she organized the local march in solidarity with the national rally planned for March 24 in Washington, D.C..

Michael Tilley, with Talk Business and Politics, joins us to discuss increased state revenue, new development in Springdale, and the ballot that has emerged with a few peculiarities in Fort Smith and Sebastian County.

A Monday roundup includes a new state commission on school safety, Arkansas trade with Canada and Mexico, and all kinds of basketball.

In this morning's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report, we hear from Colby Beland of logistics firm CaseStack about new guidelines related to Walmart's "on-time, in-full" shipping mandate for suppliers.

Austinite Ali Holder has had a busy year so far. She participated in a recent retreat at House of Songs Austin, made a trip to Folk Alliance International in Kansas City, then embarked on a tour of Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, and more. She also stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio prior to a recent show in Fayetteville.

Katy Henriksen, host of Of Note on 91.3, tells us about Saturday night's live Trillium Salon Series event with the Shadow Ensemble. They'll provide a live score to the silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc. The performance and screening takes place at 7 p.m. Saturday at Artist's Laboratory Theater in Fayetteville.

Clarksville School District Superintendent David Hopkins decided to arm a small portion of his faculty and staff after a gunman shot and killed 26 children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.. That was five years ago, and Hopkins had to change state law to make the armed faculty and staff permanent. Hopkins discusses the kind of training staff and faculty have to go through, the emotional factors that come into play when concealed carrying around students and potentially