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An environmental program with the Sangamon Valley Sierra Club discussing what is going on across Sangamon County and the greater Central Illinois area, hosted by Trent R. Nelson.

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease." "Wellness is the active process of becoming aware and of making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life [...] a dynamic process of change and growth." -World Health Organization. The Southland Health and Wellness Hour podcast meets at the intersection of health and wellness to discuss healthcare with an eye uniquely focused on South Chicago and its southern suburbs. Together with community members and healthcare experts, we're re-thinking, re-framing, and re-making important ...

Housing alone will not end homelessness, but community will. You can partner with Mission Waco to help provide low-cost permanent supportive housing to the homeless in McLennan County.

Conversations on Community and Leadership is a project from the doctoral program of Leadership Studies at North Carolina A&T led by Dr. Karen T. Jackson. Each podcast features interviews from community work by students engaged in the course Leadership for Community and Civic Engagement. Together they discuss various community projects the impacts they are having on people. Interviewers probe into the effectiveness of leaders and their work.

Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" appeared out of nowhere to hawk billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the Florida dream: a graded homesite that would be waiting for them in a planned community when they were ready to build.

All spring, Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn watched as her family fruit farm of many years became increasingly diminished, suffering from a lack of bees. The plentiful wildlife, so abundant just weeks before, was gone. Everything was still, silent. As an environmental scientist trained to investigate disease outbreaks, she rose to the challenge. Despite facing headwinds from skeptical neighbors, environmental experts, and agricultural consultants, she'd assembled information.

Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the United States face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the industry that are resistant to change. How do you change a system that was never designed to be equitable? How do you change a system that continues to divide communities? In Inclusive Transportation, expert Veronica O. Davis shines a light on the inequitable and often destructive practice of transportation planning and engineering.

In Food from the Radical Center, Gary Nabhan tells the stories of diverse communities who are getting their hands dirty and bringing back North America's unique fare: bison, sturgeon, camas lilies, ancient grains, turkeys, and more. These efforts have united people from the left and right, rural and urban, faith-based and science-based, in game-changing collaborations. Their successes are extraordinary by any measure, whether economic, ecological, or social.

Within a decade, nearly half of all American farmland will change hands as an older generation of farmers steps aside. In their place, a groundswell of new growers will face numerous challenges, including soil degradation, insufficient income, and investors devouring farmland at a staggering pace.

This book is perfect for anyone who eats and wants to understand what it takes to produce healthy food. Through new ideas and a different perspective, Marty shares a winning formula for success in modern family farming. Written by the owner of the Spence Farm featured in the documentary, Sustainable, this book provides listeners with the necessary steps an owner-operator must take to set up their family farm for long-term success.