219 Greenconnect

Host Kathy Sipple of 219 GreenConnect speaks with Donna Stuckert from the Recycling and Waste Reduction District of Porter County, organizers of the 8th Annual Northwest Indiana Earth Day to be held Saturday, April 20th 9am-4pm at the Porter County Expo Center in Valparaiso.

Host Kathy Sipple speaks with Kassie Meeks, about Ujjayi Pranayma breathing (sometimes called ocean breath), a  balancing and calming breath technique. This style of breathing keeps the vital life force, prana, circulating throughout the body rather than escaping from it. Kassie Meeks is owner of Yoga Suka Shala in Valparaiso, where she provides group and private yoga and QiGong instruction. Kassie also provides individualized coaching on creativity, well-being, and all-around-living-your best-life to clients worldwide.

Host Kathy Sipple speaks with Oriana Tiell from www.NeighborhoodFruit.com about their twist on urban foraging. Neighborhood Fruit is a service that helps people find and share the fruits, nuts and vegetables growing within their communities. The site features interactive maps of backyard bounty and abundance growing on public land. Search no more - Neighborhood Fruit is your one-stop-shop for your urban harvest needs! Share the fruit from your yard. Add a tree on public land to the map. Find abundance in your neighborhood. Learn more about unusual fruit. Find Fruit, the iPhone app companion to the site, lets you take your search mobile.

Host Kathy Sipple speaks with Rich Ferlazzo from the Valparaiso Shrimp Company, a wholesale and retail supplier of high quality fresh salt water shrimp. Kathy met Rich a few weeks ago at Sawgrass Marketplace in Chesterton where he makes his shrimp available for sale.  Their facility is one of 9 privately owned indoor re-circulation salt water systems in the United Sates and the only operational clear water system. The shrimp are raised on a high protein diet with no hormones, chemicals or antibiotics.

Host Kathy Sipple speaks with Neil Davey from Figure Eight Brewery in Valparaiso about the brewery's recent expansion and their part in the local food web.   

Join guest host, Emily Russell, of Russell Health & Wellness for a discussion with board certified pediatrician, Biljana Uzelac, MD, about healthy eating and how it directly affects your health.    Dr. Uzelac will share her passion for organic cooking and provide tips to help you create a healthy lifestyle for your family.  Learn how good nutrition can help prevent disease in your children and your family.

219 GreenConnect host Kathy Sipple speaks with A Greener Indiana's Founder, Eric Stallsmith, live from the Quiet Sports Expo in Indianapolis. Human-powered quiet sports are among the fastest-growing outdoor recreational activities.  Activities like, hiking, paddling, mountain biking, rock-climbing and fly fishing leave a small ecological footprint, but are as hard-core as the enthusiasts who practice them.   The Quiet Sports and Outdoor Living Pavilion is the only event of its kind in the central U.S., and boasts nearly 100 exhibitors and unique features and attractions you won’t find in any other single location.  Need a dose of how-to?  Daily seminars are on tap from interesting experts who have been there and done that – from climbing Kilimanjaro to floating Southern Indiana’s Sugar Creek. Eric and his wife also operate Indiana Outfitters, Indiana's premier outdoor information website. It is a rich resource for planning trips to Indiana's State Parks, complete with outfitter information, maps, weather,

This show is a rebroadcast of an August 8, 2011 Socially Speaking show. Co-hosts Tracy Traut & Kathy Sipple speak with Lauren Riga, Assistant Director at Environment, Law & Economics Institute, and an instructor for Valparaiso University's new graduate level Sustainability Certificate. Sustainability is the new buzzword, rapidly replacing "green." Find out what it means to businesses, consumers and our planet.

Host Kathy Sipple speaks with photographer Pete Doherty owner of Doherty Images, LLC.   Pete specializes in Chicago lakefront and Indiana Dunes photography. He enjoys sharing Northwest Indiana's natural beauty through his photographs.    Pete's work has been exhibited at South Shore Arts in Munster, Gallery One in Chesterton, Galaxy Arts in Munster, Towle Theatre in Hammond, as well as in many area hospitals, libraries and retail establishments.

This show is a rebroadcast from an August 15, 2011 interview. Socially Speaking hosts, Tracy Traut and Kathy Sipple, speak with Mark Zaranski of East Wind Acupuncture in Chesterton. Learn why Traditional Chinese Medicine is a natural and healthy alternative.

This show is a rebroadcast of an August 1, 2011 interview. Socially Speaking hosts, Tracy Traut and Kathy Sipple, speak with Sandy Rodriguez. Sandy's local food experience includes managing the Miller Beach Farmer's Market for several years, serving as the Community and Economic Development Intern (Local Food Focus) at Porter County Purdue Extension and project managing Stewart House Urban Farm and Gardens in Gary.

This show is a rebroadcast from July 25, 2011. 219 GreenConnect host Kathy Sipple was interviewed by host Tracy Traut.  In this episode Tracy and Kathy discuss the power of social connections in the new "relationship economy". Sipple urges listeners to connect with intention and invest in relationships, rather than "network" for the sake of networking. Successful connectors plant seeds of connection and nruture their relationships the way a gardener tends to their garden. Learn tips for more enjoyable social connection, online and offline. Social media tools like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter make it easier than ever to find like-minded people.  219 GreenConnect was created to foster more intentional connecting between ecoconscious people in Northwest Indiana. Have you been "219 green connected"?

Host Kathy Sipple speaks with Elizabeth Gingerich, a Business Law Associate Professor at Valparaiso University and Editor of The Journal of Values Based Leadership. The JVBL defines values-based leadership to include topics involving ethics in leadership, moral considerations in business decision-making, stewardship of our natural environment, and spirituality as a source of motivation. Gingerich is a passionate advocate for sustainability--at home and in business. She has installed solar and geothermal systems in buildings she owns. She has worked with sustainable business leader, Ray Anderson of Interface and continues to be an Organizational Stakeholder with the Global Reporting Initiative.

219 GreenConnect host Kathy Sipple speaks with Toni Snearly, founder of NWI Food Swap. According to Food Swap Network, a food swap is a recurring event where members of a community share homemade, homegrown, or foraged foods with each other. Swaps allow direct trades to take place between attendees, e.g., a loaf of bread for a jar of pickles or a half-dozen backyard eggs. These events are a delicious way to diversify the homemade foods in your own pantry while getting to know members of your local food community. This particular NWI Food Swap will take place throughout the counties of Starke, Porter, LaPorte and Marshall, located in northwest Indiana (surrounding areas may be included.) Locations will depend on availability of venues. You don’t have to live in a particular county to be involved. It just depends on how far you are willing to drive. Toni promises, "Once you attend one food swap, you’re going to want to attend them all…they are just THAT fun."

Innovators needed! The challenge: build a vehicle that will run 5 miles on alternate power. 219 GreenConnect host Kathy Sipple speaks with Bill Halliar of The Alternate Power Initiative, the organizer of Race for the Future. This annual event is sponsored by the city of Whiting, Indiana and British Petroleum. They are looking for independent inventors interested in building vehicles powered by alternate energy sources to compete in a race in August 2013. All are invited to compete, independent American inventors are particularly encouraged to enter. The purpose is not only to discover new sources of energy and means to store energy but also to give encouragement to inventors.

Whatever your interest—protecting natural places, adding native plants to your garden, photographing wildflowers, or lending expertise to our community of native plant enthusiasts—there’s a place for you at the Indiana Native Plant & Wildflower Society (INPAWS). INPAWS members are working to create healthy ecosystems and save the wild beauty of Indiana. Host Kathy Sipple Speaks to INPAWS member Tacy Fletcher about the group and its activities. Indiana Native Plant & Wildflower Society  

The Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network (IBMN) is a citizen scientist program monitoring the health of butterfly populations throughout northeastern and central Illinois, with several monitoring sites in northwest Indiana. The Network serves to engage citizen scientists in the process of collecting quantitative data on butterfly populations. The goal is to provide data collected with a standardized protocol that allows land managers to evaluate long-term trends in a changing landscape and to document the presence of rare, threatened and endangered species. The Network also provides opportunities for fellowship, information sharing, mentorship, and continuing education between citizen scientists and professional biologists through various field trips and workshops. More information is available at www.bfly.org. Host Kathy Sipple speaks with Presented by John Henry Drake, regional coordinator for northwest Indiana about this program and the upcoming workshops the group is hosting for potential monitors.Saturd

Paul Quinlan, Stewardship Director for Shirley Heinze Land Trust, speaks with host Kathy Sipple about the organization’s Little Calumet Wetlands project area and the opportunities it provides for recreation, environmental education, and watershed management.

Host Kathy Sipple speaks with Michael Boos, Executive Director at the Association for the Wolf Lake Initiative (AWLI) in Hammond, Indiana. AWLI holds an annual winter festival, celebrating the many outdoor recreation opportunities available in our region.   This year's event will be held on Saturday, January 19th and will feature a variety of speakers, demonstrations and tours. See an indoor trout stream Learn about Native American artifactsEcology of Wolf Lake lecture Amphibians & Reptiles of the Calumet Region Global Warming’s Effect on Trees Tree identification tour Ice skating and cross country skiing Pizza by the bonfire And much more! Click here for full schedule.  

Guest host, Emily Russell, of Russell Health & Wellness and Shaklee Distributor, will be speaking with Renee Kimberling, ND, board certified naturopath, and director of Healing Arts Center in Valparaiso.  The Healing Arts Center offers many services such as NAET allergy elimination, chiropractic, reflexology, clinical massage, stress management, reiki and craniosacral therapies, the Rossiter system for fast pain relief, acupuncture, and several others.  Learn more about this collaborative clinic for alternative health care and how Renee can help to relieve your allergies permanently with a system called NAET.