The Weather Channel is producing a series of online climate impact reports from all 50 states titled the “United States of Climate Change.” So far, 33 states have submitted stories, including Arkansas . We learn how award-winning documentary producer Dale Carpenter collaborated with noted cartoonist Nate Powell on “Awaiting a Wave,” which profiles the beginnings of a Marshallese climate refugee crisis.

Pete Hartman, the operations director at 91.3, comes to the studio to preview this week's Sunday Special. We'll hear how Bill Nye has shifted his attention from educating children to educating adults.

Trout Fishing in America's new CD, The Strangest Times, will be available Thursday night at Sunrise Stage in Fayetteville. The duo, Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet, played a couple of new songs for us recently and discussed their 41-year partnership.

Becca Martin Brown, with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, says we can't do everything this weekend. But she says if you embrace holiday fare, you're covered...and if you'd rather pass on the seasonal events, you're covered as well.

Katy Henriksen, host of Of Note with Katy Henriksen on 91.3, says a UK-based ensemble is releasing a song a day during Advent. She also gets us ready for a somber symphony on Sunday night's program. Of Note with Katy Henriksen can be heard Sunday through Thursday nights at 8:00 p.m .on 91.3 and Sunday through Thursday mornings at 9:00 on KUAF 2.

Last year's Wampus Wonderland launched in short time and provided scores of local makers and creators a chance to show off their work. This year's Wonderland is Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Fayetteville Town Center. Two organizers of the show explain why they don't charge a fee to shoppers to come in and what's different about the second edition.

We conclude our conversation with Michael Vandenbergh , co-director of the Vanderbilt Energy, Environment and Land Use Program, about the environment and the future. He was a keynote speaker at a symposium on the University of Arkansas this fall dedicated to the environment and private governance. Vandenbergh and Jonathan Gilligan have written the new book Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change.

Michael Tilley, with our partner Talk Business and Politics , discusses the newest wrinkle for the Fort Smith mayor's race and speculates about what could happen if Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton leaves the Senate to lead the CIA.

This week's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report includes a conversation with Karen Armstrong, director of talent management at Arvest Bank, about creating positive relationships between employers and employees.

Robert Ginsburg, the host of KUAF's Shades of Jazz every Friday at 10 p.m., delivers some good news about area jazz and bad: two great concerts are on the horizon...but they're sold out.