The Mike Nowak Show

By Mike Nowak

Mike and Peggy cover ever a little bit of everything green under the sun—the environment, gardening, local food, sustainable living and more—in a style that is casual, accessible, entertaining, inform... more

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March 16, 2015 March 12, 2015
Dave Coulter appeared on the program in 2014 to extoll the virtues of what he calls the post modern hedgerow ahead of a confererence of the Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration, where this issue will be discussed. Raya Carr is part of the family-run Mint Creek Farm, which is produces humane, sustainable meat products, and which will be participating in the o The Good Food Festival and Conference this weekend at the UIC Forum.
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59min
March 16, 2015 Mint Creek Farm and the Ethics of Sustainable Meat
Raya Carr is sales manager for Mint Creek Farm, a family-run business that raises premium, grassfed meats for the Chicago area on Certified Organic central Illinois pasture. They are also part of the FamilyFarmed Good Food Business Accelerator and are participating in the Good Food Festival and Conference this week at the UIC Forum. She talks about having grown up on the farm and what separates it from so-called conventional meat operations.
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24min
March 12, 2015 March 12, 2015
Dave Coulter appeared on the program in 2014 to extoll the virtues of what he calls the post modern hedgerow ahead of a confererence of the Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration, where this issue will be discussed. Raya Carr is part of the family-run Mint Creek Farm, which is produces humane, sustainable meat products, and which will be participating in the o The Good Food Festival and Conference this weekend at the UIC Forum.
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March 10, 2015 March 5, 2015
Mike travels to Big Jones Restaurant in Andersonville to sit down with Chef Paul Fehribach, who is receiving the Good Food Chef of the Year Award at the Good Food Festival and Conference. They talk southern cooking, sustainability and heirloom sourcing. Dennis Dreher of Geosyntech Consultants will be speaking at the Midwest Ecological Landscape Alliance (MELA) conference on March 12 at College of DuPage and he discusses storm water management with Mike.
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March 09, 2015 Brenda Haas and The Yarden Talk Twitter
Brenda Haas of BGgarden blog and LaManda Joy of The Yarden, preview the Twitter Garden Party in Chicago in anticipation of the Independent Garden Center Show at Navy Pier.
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March 05, 2015 March 5, 2015
Mike travels to Big Jones Restaurant in Andersonville to sit down with Chef Paul Fehribach, who is receiving the Good Food Chef of the Year Award at the Good Food Festival and Conference. They talk southern cooking, sustainability and heirloom sourcing. Dennis Dreher of Geosyntech Consultants will be speaking at the Midwest Ecological Landscape Alliance (MELA) conference on March 12 at College of DuPage and he discusses storm water management with Mike.
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March 03, 2015 Angel Azul...or Can Art on the Bottom of the Sea Save our Coral Reefs?
Marcy Cravat is the producer-director of Angel Azul, a documentary about visionary and environmentally-minded artist Jason deCaires Taylor, who is causing people to look at the world's endangered coral reefs in a new way by creating sculptures that are displayed on the bottom of the ocean.
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0min
March 03, 2015 Cook County Steps Up to Keep Demolition Debris Out of Landfills
Bryant Williams is Manager of Engineering Services for the Cook County Department of Environmental Control. He is promoting a webinar on March 5 about the county's Demolition Debris Diversion Ordinance, which, since 2012, has kept more than 500,000 tons of material away from landfills.
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17min
March 03, 2015 The One Earth Film Festival Is Back
The Fourth Annual One Earth Film Festival runs from March 6 to 8 and features more than 35 films in 30 venues in and around Chicago. Mike sits down with three of the people behind this self-identified deep roots event--Cassandra West, Gina Robbins and David Holmquist--to discover how they choose the green films that are presented. In the middle of this conversation, Mike talks to filmmaker Marcy Cravat, who directed and produced the stunning and thought-provoking documentary Angel Azul.
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58min
March 03, 2015 Angel Azul...or Can Art on the Bottom of the Sea Save our Coral Reefs?
Marcy Cravat is the producer-director of Angel Azul, a documentary about visionary and environmentally-minded artist Jason deCaires Taylor, who is causing people to look at the world's endangered coral reefs in a new way by creating sculptures that are displayed on the bottom of the ocean.
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29min

FAQs about The Mike Nowak Show:

How many episodes does The Mike Nowak Show have?

The podcast currently has 1,410 episodes available.