Host: GM of WPKN Steve di Costanzo

On today’s GM REPORT TO THE LISTENERS I will review several WPKN upcoming events and talk with PKN’s Carl J. Frano about his upcoming event for WPKN at Lyric Hall in New Haven; in the studio I will welcome Mr. Roger Longman, a co-founder of Indivisible Connecticut 4 (ICT4 for short -https://www.facebook.com/IndivisibleCT4); in the studio will be COLORBLENDS (www.colorblends.com) co-founder Tim Schippers and Hanneke Hollander. Colorblends is a third generation bulb wholesaling business in Bridgeport; we also will speak with recent UB graduate and entrepreneur Michael Asmeron, an Ethiopian immigrant who came to the US when he was eight with his mother and has written a short memoir about growing up in Ethiopia, coming to America and becoming Americanized called: 'African Booty Scratcher.'

Mr. Roger Longman, a co-founder of Indivisible Connecticut 4 (ICT4 for short)interviewed by Steve di Costanzo, GM of community nonprofit radio WPKN 89.5-FM (Bridgeport)

Coaching others involves empathy and emotional awareness. Joanie wants her friend to make a rational change. She learns that change involves emotional understanding and she changes her plan.

Recently I started Vermicomposting in my basement. That's right, I have 1000 worms (soon to be 6000), reducing our kitchen waste and the New York times into "Black Gold", WORM CRAP! Join me on "Digging in the Dirt" to hear my conversation with my guest Rhonda Sherman. Rhonda is a solid waste specialist in the Department of Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University. She is considered one of the leading authorities on vermicomposting. She was formerly a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Composting Council and a contributing editor to BioCycle Journal of Composting and Organics Recycling.

Rhonda has a two‐acre Compost Learning Lab at The Lake Wheeler Road Field Laboratory. The Compost Learning Lab has, among other things, a 40‐ft by 30‐ft building called the Worm Barn. To say Rhonda knows a lot about worm poop, would be an understatement.

Our urine as fertilizer? Kim Nace, director of the Rich Earth Institute (www.richearthinstitute.org) describes her project to collect and recycle human urine as a way to conserve water and enrich our farm land.

Panel: Guy Beardsley, Bill Duesing, & Gregory Wresilo

Host: Richard Hill

We are an automotive discussion program which also includes other modes of transportation info and we try to assist listeners with their automotive questions and concerns.

2017- Leah Penniman- CT NOFA Keynote by WPKN Community Radio

Some Great Conversation on the Current Automotive Industry!

Join us for the Mayday edition of the "New Haven Mavens Radio Hour", Monday, May 1st at noon. The Mavens, Todd Lyon and Nancy Shea are hitting *Spring Cleaning* this time around, bringing you earth-friendly options for reuse of the items you no longer need. Whether you're remodeling, redecorating or just de-cluttering, think twice about your cast-offs ending up in the landfill. Others view your trash as treasure! Joe DeRisi will be our in-studio guest, talking about sustainability and his deconstruction and architectural salvage company Urbanminers. We will also be chatting with call-in guests Sherill Baldwin, co-founder of Ecoworks - Creative Reuse, Carol Orr, owner of EBM Vintage New Haven and Patti Todd, owner of Consign & Design. Be sure to tune in to WPKN Radio 89.5-FM, or live stream at WPKN.org May at 1st at 12:00. Or, you can also download a podcast of the show, and listen whenever and wherever you please.

We want where we live to be ours. We want our homes to reflect us, There are over 70 million free-standing homes, but very few of them were built by those who live in them, and no apartment, condo or co-op was built with anyone in mind. So we Decorate: color, furniture, lighting, carpet our stuff- us.

But there is an ethic in design, one where the making is itself an art experience: where the way of creating, building, experiencing a home is richly evolved. It’s ornament, it’s craft, it’s architecture: Its origin, it’s meaning and it’s design is not to create a surface of frozen time – here, design is used and has beauty in its essential utility in use and function.

Three of the most accomplished, skillful and engaging design/architecture/artist creators in the world are with HOME PAGE this week. In studios is Yale-trained architect Louis Mackall (http://www.louismackall.com) – for 50 years his unbridled creativity was in everything he did – but he managed to also create Breakfast Woodworks (http://www.breakfastwoodworks.com) with Ken Field about 40 years ago. Although Breakfast has new owners the founders still work on site. The work is incredible, award winning in every environment and in many regions.

A special treat this week will be an interview with sculptor, artist, craftsman Kent Bloomer (http://bloomerstudio.com) - he trained at Yale and never left the area: teaching at the school for two generations. He may be the greatest definer and builder of architectural ornament in the world: In fact, he is. Bloomer’s book with co-author Charlie Moore, “Body, Memory, Architecture” is required reading (https://www.amazon.com/Body-Memory-Architecture-Yale-Paperbound/dp/0300021429). His insights into why we decorate, why ornament is an extreme leap to the universal, the intimate, the alive is both compelling and fascinating.

Lastly, architect Barry Svigals (http://www.svigals.com), is also Yale trained in architecture school. He started his own firm a generation ago and his work exploded to have a huge impact on everyone who uses them. His work can be seen in schools, apartment buildings, institutions, but completely in his art: the exquisite, evocative personal expression they embody goes beyond embellishment to inspire the entire building composed under Barry’s hand. His most famed project is the just-completed Newtown Elementary School, where healing and hope found their essential beauty in Svigals' ethic.