July 2017

Dock Dogs, Bees, Indigenous Iowa

Originally broadcast 07/07/2017
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Gateway Dockdogs, an aquatic sporting event for dogs, comes to Ames for the first time on Independence Day. Hear the sounds of joyful dogs and their owners, as well as interviews with organizers.

Amy Toth, Associate Professor of Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology (EEOB) at ISU, talks about her research on bees and the causes of decline in bee populations.

Christine Nobis, founder of Indigenous Iowa, together with Lakosha, talk about the organization and about the demonstration they organized in Des Moines against the Bakken pipeline.

The Future of Farming and Church Basement Ladies

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We brought together three visionary farmers to discuss the issues that will face farmers in the decades to come. Fred Kirschenmann, former director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture talked about the two cultures of agriculture – the model based on dominance of the landscape compared with that of treating land and water as sacred, and working with nature to provide a self-regulating system. Aaron Lehman, president of the Iowa Farmers Union, announced the opening of their membership drive; for each new membership an anonymous donor will provide matching funds for the farm experiments conducted by the Leopold Center. Then Aaron explained the history and philosophy of this organization that fosters cooperative action among farmers. Aaron has been working joint experiment with David Weisberger, a graduate student in the Sustainable Agriculture Program at Iowa State University.

Turning to entertainment, we spoke with Wil Groves, director of the musical comedy Church Basement Ladies, which is being produced by the Webster City Community Theatre. It is opening this weekend.

Birds, Medicine, Ames City Council

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Jennifer Knox from the ISU Department of English and founder of Iowa Bird of Mouth, the crowd-sourcing poetry site that celebrates Iowa birds, introduces the meadowlark. She also reads some of June's poems about the bluebird, last month's featured bird.

Jason Karimi, executive director of Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana, explains the new medical marijuana laws that went into effect on July first, sat down with Local Talk reporter Greta Anderson on Saturday, to talk about recent developments, which opens up the use of medical marijuana to Iowa patients suffering from 9 different conditions. Conditions include Parkinson's disease, cancer, multiple sclerosis, seizures, AIDS or HIV, and Crohn's disease, as well as most terminal illnesses that involve a life expectancy of less than one year and non-treatable pain.

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