Episodes 285
Avg. Duration 37m
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Since Feb 2015
Latest Episode Jan 2025

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Host Jean Ponzi presents information, education and conversation with activists and experts on environmental issues and all things "green." Produced in the studios of KDHX Community Media in St. Louis, MO.

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Doug Tallamy: The Nature of Oaks

Jan 12, 2025 34m

If you can only plant one tree, make that tree an Oak. Doug Tallamy, national advocate for restoring the LIFE in our places with the power of Native Plants, celebrates the mighty Quercus family of…

Illinois Clean Energy Policy - Andy Heaslet on the making of a model

Nov 27, 2024 47m

Renewable energy Return On Investment is booming, across the U.S. and worldwide. With uber-real concerns about this trajectory on environmental minds, Earthworms reviews how a powerful coalition of…

New Earth Farms Composting: Community Service Super-Charged

Nov 11, 2024 43m

"What's going on in that bucket," wrote the great enviro-spiritual guy Wendell Berry in The Work of Local Culture, "is the most momentous thing I know, the greatest miracle that I have ever heard of:…

Earthworms On The Farm: Rosy Buck Grows in Circles

Sep 11, 2024 29m

Sustainable farming is both lifestyle and full-time job for Holly Evans, Randy Buck and their three children. Holly and Earthworms host Jean Ponzi "tour" this young family's 15+ acre Rosy Buck Farm…

Remembering Jay Schober - from the Earthworms Archives

Aug 14, 2024 44m

Earthworms' late, dear, zany friend Jay Schober was one hemisphere - with he dearest friend Jim Findlay - of the St. Louis Brain Sandwich, in the early glory DAZE of KDHX. Honoring Jay, we serve up…

City Sewing Room: Stitching, Teaching, Sharing GREEN

Jul 09, 2024 29m

Would you like to learn to: Sew from a pattern? Customize a thrift-store find? Replace a busted zipper? You can do all this and more in a lively, well-stocked compound on St. Louis' near-south side.…

Advocating for Night Sky Darkness

Jun 11, 2024 41m

ALAN - Artificial Light At Night - is surging. Light pollution disrupts health for humans and wildlife, wastes energy and money, and blocks out awe-some Universe views. How to flip the switch on this…

Hamilton Native Outpost: Growing Native Grazing Abundance

May 08, 2024 30m

To champion grassland soil health in Missouri, where conventional grazing practice is practically enshrined in state law, Amy Hamilton's family enterprise has dug in as deep as roots of the native…

St. Louis County Library: Worlds of Ways of Learning

Apr 30, 2024 38m

If you have a library card or not, St. Louis County Library welcomes you into their multi-verse of learning. Earthworms' Jean Ponzi has been hosted as a speaker many times by SLCL's Sarah Kunz…

St. Louis Green Dining Alliance: Sustainable Credible Edibles

Feb 16, 2024 35m

Hungry for new dining thrills? Need a place to meet and eat in an area of STL you don't know well? Align your fork, dollars and values by heading to a restaurant certified by the Green Dining…

Nee Kee Nee: Urban Park Stream Revived!

Feb 16, 2024 32m

In a south St. Louis city park created in Victorian times, Indigenous culture, native plant ecology and 21st century engineering are newly united in a southwesterly flow. Tara Morton, Community…

Traditional Ecological Knowledge with Cat Techtmann

Jan 05, 2024 40m

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) offers indigenous wisdom to "conventional" society, where responses to issues like climate change and biodiversity loss need all hands to work together. Cathy…

Nature OF and FOR Healthy Human Culture with Jo Pang

Dec 01, 2023 41m

From his personal relationships with the organizations we know as Forests (where Collaboration AND Competition thrive), Jo Pang helps good health flourish in human orgs, specifically those focused on…

Nature, Design and Health with David Kamp

Nov 01, 2023 46m

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Road Kill - yes, not kidding folks, sez Don Corrigan

Oct 12, 2023 37m

St. Louis journalist Don Corrigan storms the American Popular Culture Association with his books exploring way more than journalistic topics - like ROAD KILL. Corrigan's book American Roadkill:…

Lawns Into Meadows: Owen Wormser, Landscape Regenerator

Aug 23, 2023 36m

This idea seeks not to uproot every shred of living carpet - "just" the (humongous, sterile, resource-intensive) areas we don't use. Owen Wormser is an ecological landscape designer who sees…

Milkweed's Murderous Other Bugs

Aug 09, 2023 25m

The wild world of Milkweed plants is populated by aphids who suck the plant's life, beetles who suck the aphids dry, ant lion babies who will eat each other - and sometimes the Monarch butterflies…

Mosquito Alert STL: Community Science Bug-Off Power

Jul 17, 2023 38m

St. Louis is the first U.S. city using the app Mosquito Alert, developed in Barcelona, Spain, and in use across Europe. This Citizen Science project combines support for our Public Health pros with…

I Want a Better Catastrophe - Climate Activist Andrew Boyd

Jun 21, 2023 34m

"Aside from all that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the Play?" In his new book I Want a Better Catastrophe, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd navigates the Climate Crisis with grief, hope and gallows humor.…

STL Story Stitchers: Artist Collective Stands Strong

May 31, 2023 49m

Creating from The Center in midtown St. Louis, youth artist Story Stitchers collect stories, reframe and retell them through art, writing and performance to promote understanding, civic pride,…

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