First hour: Winners of the Seneca Park Zoo Society's Environmental Innovation Awards
Second hour: The impact of climate change on parents and potential parents-to-be
The Seneca Park Zoo Society set out to find local businesses and organizations that are doing things differently to limit climate change. This is more than just changing the light bulbs or driving a Prius to work. The Zoo Society recently held its inaugural Environmental Innovation Awards, and some of the winners are very visible (at least for those driving along route 104, where they'll find a massive windmill). Others are doing things quietly. We'll meet them:
- Bob Bechtold, president of Harbec
- Kimie Romeo, local activist
- Jacob LaDue, member of the Harley School's HuMANGROVE team
- Jim Howe, director of the Central and Western New York Chapter of the Nature Conservancy
- Mike and Wendy Nolan, owners of I-Square
- Pamela Reed Sanchez, executive director of the Seneca Park Zoo Society
Then in our second hour, writing for The Intelligencer, journalist David Wallace Wells poses some questions for parents and prospective parents: whether it’s moral to reproduce in this climate; whether it’s responsible to have children; whether it is fair to the planet or, perhaps more important, to the children. He's talking about the impact of climate change on the psyche of parents, and whether a growing number of couples is deciding not to have children at all based on the direction of our civilization. It's a heavy subject, and our guests will weigh in:
- Larkin Podsiedlik, mother and executive director for food and nutrition of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Steuben County
- Neely Kelley, mother and member of Mothers Out Front
- Wendy Low, mother and member of Mothers Out Front