This week on GreenSense Radio we're talking about sustainability, a word often used and more often clearly misunderstood, eliciting nodding heads and blank stares. So this week, we're going to explore sustainability, from its origin to learning what you can do in your business and personal life that makes green sense. Join Host Robert Colangelo as he interviews our guests.

Doug Farr, CEO of Farr Associates, an award-wining architecture and urban planning firm and Author of Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature. Doug will talk about what sustainability means, where the idea came from and why it's so important today. Doug will also share his ideas about designing "sustainable human environments" at the urban neighborhood level.

Alderman Manuel "Manny" Flores represents the 1st Ward in the City of Chicago. During his two terms, Flores has initiated sustainable development measures to address environmental protection and economic development in his ward and in the city. He'll talk about some of the Green initiatives in his community and give his thoughts on the future of sustainability in Chicago.

Andrew Winston, Winston Eco-Strategies and co-author of Green to Gold, the best-selling guide to what works - and what doesn't - when companies go Green. Andrew will reveal which five areas in business are ripe for quick paybacks from green thinking and how to use environmental thinking to survive the economic downturn.

Tim Taylor, CEO of Light Emitting Designs, LLC. He'll explain what a LED light is, what its benefits are and how his company is playing a part in the Retrofit Revolution.

In the limelight, William Walsh is the inventor of GreenBox - the sustainable Swiss Army Knife of pizza boxes. William will tell us how he came up with the idea and how his pizza box will radically change the way we consume pizza.

The Romans first used hot springs to feed public baths. Today, Geothermal energy is used for more than just taking a bath. It’s used to heat and cool buildings and to generate electricity to run industrial operations. According to the National Renewal Energy Laboratory (ENRL), the US has a 30,000 year supply of geothermal energy at our current usage rate. That’s a lot of years!

Find out why Geothermal power is cost effective, reliable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly as Robert Colangelo interviews Bob Feliszak from Air-Ease Geothermal Heating & Cooling, Dawn Stone of Sherman Health Hospital, Brian Hayden, co-founder of Heatspring Learning Institute, and John Kelly, Executive Director of the Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium.

In 1900, Chicago successfully completed a massive and highly innovative engineering project – reversing the flow of the Chicago River so that it emptied into the Mississippi River instead of Lake Michigan. For over 50 years, the Chicago River has been dyed green to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Now Green takes on a whole new meaning for Chicago as the City has taken the lead on a number of sustainable initiatives from Climate Action Plans, to Green Roofs, to the Green Commodity Exchange. This week we take a look at the people that make Chicago a "Green City".

Join Robert Colangelo as he interviews guests Sadhu Johnston and Kimberly Worthington, City of Chicago, Kelly Reiss, The Center for Green Technology, Luca Serra, Soldier Field, Mark Minor, RTA and Alderman Manny Flores to show you how the Second City is first in many new green initiatives.

T’is the Season for giving, helping people and the planet! That’s why this week on GreenSense Radio we’re talking about Green/Sustainable Non-for Profits and Charitable Organizations. It’s also the end of the year, so if you want to make a donation to a Green/ Sustainable organization, you’ll get a chance to hear about the wonderful work these organizations are doing to help our fellow man and our planet. You’ll also learn about IRS designation, how to make sure your contribution is tax deductable and ways to verify where your contributions are being spent within the organization.

Join Robert Colangelo as he interviews CPA, Barbara Charal, Josh Mogerman of Natural Resource Defense Council, Ray White of Heifer International, and Peter Nicholson of Foresight Design Initiative. We’ll also talk to Molly Flanagan of The Joyce Foundation and Suzanne Connor from Chicago Community Trust—two foundations that grant money to Sustainable organizations throughout the year.

The US Green Building Council (USGBC) estimates that the green building market will grow to $140 billion by 2013, with green build products and materials projected to account for $30-$40 billion per year. Green buildings are everywhere, from New York to Las Vegas, as the mass media has made the public aware of this growing trend. Why are they being built, are they good for the environment, and do they make economic sense? You will hear about the history of green buildings, which organizations certify green buildings, and what practical sustainable solutions make green sense when you listen to this Saturday's Green$ense Radio show.

We have a diverse group of green build experts who will explore the green build issue from the ground floor up so that you can make informed decisions. Join Green$ense host Robert Colangelo as he interviews attorney Amy Edwards from Holland & Knight; David Baum from the Baum Realty Group and the Green Exchange; Doug Farr from Farr Associates: sustainable urbanism and architecture; Doug Widener, Executive Director of the Chicago Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council; and John DeWald, the developer for Serosun Farms.

This week on GreenSense Radio we're talking about wind energy. Wind is a clean source of energy, readily available and quiet. The wind energy model is also simple -- install a windmill, catch the wind and turn it into electricity that feeds the grid. The first US commercial wind mills used to generate electricity were built in Cleveland in 1888. The US wind energy industry shattered all previous records in 2008 by installing over 8,500 megawatts (MW) of new generating capacity, enough to serve over two million homes.

Join Robert Colangelo as he interviews Kevin Borgia, Executive Director of the Illinois Wind Energy Association, Noel Thelander of Monarch Renewable Energy, Paul Curran, Senior VP of Apex Wind, Brad Baumgarten of Lee Lumber in Chicago and Steve Wegman from Wind for Schools.

This week on GreenSense Radio we will focus on waste to energy, or as host Robert Colangelo calls it, "Trash to Cash". This is clearly a growth sector that offers both career potential and possible investment opportunities.

The show will go beyond the concepts of mainstream recyclables to feature some the unique ideas that are being implemented to create energy and fertilizers out of waste streams.

Join Robert as he interviews Ed Gildea from Converted Organics, Kathy Radosevich from Polymer Energy, Kimberly Worthington from the Chicago Department of Environment, Tom Casten from Recycled Energy Development, and Adam Zellner from Bayshore Recycling Corporation.

This week on GreenSense Radio we're talking about the greening of football stadiums. Overall attendance at NFL games in 2007 exceeded 17 million fans. And from looking at the individual team stats there are a few conclusions about what it takes to have top attendance in the NFL. First, you have to build a large stadium. The Cowboys new three million square-foot stadium is the NFL's largest with more than 20,000 standing-room tickets and 82,000+ seats. With all the bells and whistles, this stadium cost $1.15 billion and it could've been built for $850 million. This is not just a stadium, but a palace that raises the bar for future stadiums. Is this the model for how the nation's most popular sports league might try to persuade fans to continue flocking to stadiums? How green is this stadium and other NFL stadiums? Find out when you listen to this week's edition of Green$ense Radio.

Hear which stadiums have gone green, programs that have been put in place to control waste, conserve water, recycle and encourage ticketholders to use public transportation. Join Robert Colangelo for an entertaining and informative show as he interviews Luka Serra of Soldier Field, Chicago, Leonard Bonacci of Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, John Senn of Meadowlands, New Jersey and Scott Jones of Populus Design.

People

Scott Jones is a Senior Architect at Populous, a leading global sports stadium design firm. Scott will talk about LEED designations and how design plays a part in the Greening of stadiums.

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Leonard Bonacci is Director of Event Operations at Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philly Eagles. Leonard will discuss the Eagles’ Go Green initiative, structural Green features at The Linc and other innovative sustainable initiatives.

Luca Serra is event manager for Soldier Field. Luca will discuss all the exciting, new Green initiatives at Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears.

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John Senn is an officer in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's New York City office. John will be talking about why the New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, home of the NY Jets and NY Giants, is going to be the Greenest football stadium in the U.S. and how the EPA gets involved in the planning process.

This week on GreenSense Radio, we’re talking about Brownfield Redevelopment. Hundreds of thousands of brownfields - environmentally impaired properties - dot the urban landscape. Like perspiration stains from our industrial past, you can see these properties sitting vacant, abandoned, or underutilized because people are afraid of the unknown cost of environmental cleanup and liability. Many of these sites also have buildings that are functionally obsolete, and are in bad locations with little economic or market value.

Brownfields left idle create social, environmental, and economic decay. An entire industry has formed to put these properties back into productive use, recycling land and infrastructure, making it one of the more tangible forms of sustainable development - creating jobs, improving the local property tax rolls, and cleaning up polluted sites.

Join Robert Colangelo as he interviews guests from the USEPA Brownfield Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana as they offer their perspective on what it takes to clean up and green-up these sites. Meet entrepreneurial developers who are taking the risk to buy these sites, policy makers and staff from local governments who are making sure that these sites are cleaned to protect human health and the environment, and technical experts who are helping buyers and sellers make transactions. Hear how a contracting real estate market affects brownfield redevelopment, why more government funding isn’t invested into brownfields, how you turn a brownfield site green, and much more.

This week on GreenSense Radio we're talking about sustainability, a word often used and more often clearly misunderstood, eliciting nodding heads and blank stares.

So this week, we're going to explore sustainability, from its origin to learning what you can do in your business and personal life that makes green sense.

This edition of Green$ense will focus on urban agriculture - from gardening to farming - as Robert Colangelo interviews guests that include non-profits, visionaries, and entrepreneurs that are reducing the carbon footprint by bringing food to the people.

Mass Transit fares are increasing while service becomes more unreliable and the schedule inconsistent. It makes you want to jump in your car and drive, and that makes it kind of tough to be green. Imagine reliable mass transit, getting to your destination on time, and saving money in the process!

Tune in Saturday from 4:00 - 5:00 pm CDT with your host Robert Colangelo to explore what's happening with mass transit in the Illinois region and nationwide. We’ll explore modes of transportation, planning to green-up existing transit systems and how these plans will affect you.

This week on Green$ense Radio, we'll be talking about alternative vehicles.

Corners everywhere are dotted with gas stations that store fuel for pumping into our cars. Will these stations become extinct like the dinosaurs and be replaced by other sources of energy? Are we moving into a new stage of fuel evolution?

Tune in Saturday from 4:00-5:00pm CDT with your host Robert Colangelo to explore the different types of alternative fuels - Natural Gas, Hydrogen, Bio Fuels and Electricity to find out which ones may wind up being the fuel of the future.

What is the only constant in life? Change.

The economy changes, fashions change, and in Chicago, we all know about how the weather changes. But there’s another kind of change that’s been causing controversy lately. This week on GREEN$ENSE, we’re talking about Climate Change.

Join your host, Robert Colangelo, and our guests as we focus on the Climate Change debate. We’ll have the national and state leading experts lined up to drill into the climate change issue. Whether you believe Climate Change is a real threat or not, this topic affects us all.

Coal is dirty, the price of gas keeps going up and nuclear power is unsafe. So what other energy source can we turn to? If it looks like there’s no readily available source for clean energy…it’s time to look on the bright side! This week on GREEN$ENSE, we cover all things Solar. Find out what Solar Power is, how it works and how you can benefit from using Solar Power. Call in with all your Solar Power questions, we’d love to hear from you!

There’s lots of buzz everywhere about the New Green Economy and Green jobs. But do you know what that really means and how it can affect you? Maybe you just need some basic questions answered, like: What’s a Green Collar job? How can I get a Green job? Is the New Green Economy just a fad or a long-term trend? Listen to Green$ense and get answers to those questions and more!