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Host Nan Franzblau and reading interventionist from San Lorenzo Elementary, Pat Ross, talk with seven 4th and 5th graders from Mimbres about the gardens and greenhouse on their school grounds.  The kids share plans for maintaining an aquaponic system they are currently building before delving into the importance of native species, decomposers, photosynthesis, and plant anatomy.  Their enthusiasm is contagious as they share the many benefits of growing their own […]

Host Nan Franzblau and New Earth Project founder Carol Ann Fugagli are joined by five 9th grade Environmental Science students from Aldo Leopold High School.  The students discuss and evaluate the United Nations' Sustainability Development Goals and how they are meeting many of these goals through their restoration project at the Waterworks.  They also explore the implications of climate change in their own lives and our need to go beyond […]

Host Nan Franzblau and Youth Conservation Corps Eco-monitoring crew supervisor Mike Fugagli talk with nine high school students about their roles in the Eco-monitoring Program at Aldo Leopold High School.  The students describe many community projects they have worked on, including replacing non-native plant species with natives along San Vicente Creek, filling Johnson-Su bioreactors with the New Earth Project, and visiting the tar spill in the Gila National Forest.  They […]

In Tilantongo – Conversations from Indigenous Mexico; Conversaciones desde el México indigena, Phil and Kathy Dahl-Bredine bring perspectives and insights from Oaxaca, where they have lived with and learned from indigenous Mixtec people since 2001. This bilingual program features interviews with villagers, educators, environmental advocates, historians, and more. In Program 2, For the Love of the Earth and of the Community of Respect, a young Mixtec couple explain why they returned from the […]