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Originally broadcast 05/17/2017
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Judi Eyles was onhand to tell us about the work of the Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship and introduce a recent graduate of their CYStarters program, Steven Brockshus, whose website Terva.ag went online this week. Tim Dwight, former football star turned advocate for solar energy, told reporter Greta Anderson how experiences with troops in Iraq led him to become an advocate for Solar Power. We ended the day with a road trip to see the irises on display at the Iowa Arboretum for the American Iris Society Convention followed by a visit to Sheri Taha at the "Nasty Women" show at Expressions Gallery in Slater.

Originally broadcast 05/12/2017
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Kelly Diekmann, Ames Planning & Housing Director, describes the City of Ames' Lincoln Corridor Plan for future development of areas along Lincoln Way, including transportation, housing, land use, urban development, economic development, and infrastructure. The plan responds to a shift in priorities expressed by Ames residents away from being oriented towards car transportation, to "road diets" making way for a more walkable and cycling city with public transportation playing a larger role.

Merry Rankin, Director of Sustainability for ISU and Ames Sustainability Coordinator, and Joshua Thompson, Ames Parks & Recreation Superintendent, describe how park maintenance workers focus on sustainability while caring for Ames parks.

Pat Schlarbaum describes peregrine falcon (now hatching) and their return to Iowa after extinction.

Originally broadcast 05/10/2017
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We began this Wednesday's program with a robin song to introduce Jennifer Knox and Tyler Harms, collaborators in the crowd-sourced poetry project Iowa Bird of Mouth. They reported on their live crowd-sourced poetry created by childen's classes. After listening to a few of the outstanding poems submitted for the robin, (the bird for May), we went up to Hamilton county for a celebration quite different from those we previewed last week in Story and Boone counties. Little Wall Lake Park near Jewell held its ribbon cutting as the first county park in Iowa to have a 100 percent offset of its electricity by producing its own power through a solar array. Brian Lammers, Hamilton County Conservation director, described the origins and development of the $300,000 project through partnerships with the Hamilton County Supervisors, Eagle Point Solar, Hamilton County Conservation Board and Alliant Energy. Larry Steffen, vice president of sales for Eagle Point Solar, the Dubuque-based company that financed, designed and built the array, was in our studio to clarify some of the technical details. We closed out the program by previewing the crowded calendar of this week's events in Nevada, capped off with a Mother's Day brunch at Gatherings, an event venue which occupies a large storefront on Main Street. We spoke with Stephanie Badger, Gatherings' General Manager.