Your Community Spirit 2012 May 25

News includes Occupy Updates Daily; Women On Wheels; High School Seniors Suspended For Biking To School; Climate Change Is Frying Our Cities; Swap-O-Matic Vending Machine Lets You Trade Not Buy; Los Angeles Becomes Largest U.S. City To Ban Plastic Bags; Congress Raises Middle Finger To Young Bicyclists. Happenings include Puerto Rican at Rice and Spice; Salsa Dancing; Friday Night Fair; Habitat for Humanity; Campfire Programs at Crab Orchard; Household Hazardous Waste Collection.

Your Community Spirit 2012 May 18

News includes Occupy Updates Daily; Test Your Mettle By Giving Up Shopping; Sun Solar Light Is Both Lifesaver And Work Of Art; Solar Powered Implants Could Help Blind People See; Sugar Sabotages Learning And Memory; Walkscore Measures Walkability. Happenings include Open Mic Night; Best of Rice and Spice; Friday Night Fair; Habitat for Humanity; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Downtown Art & Wine Fair; Invasive Species Program At Giant City; Bike To Work Day.

Your Community Spirit 2012 May 11

News includes Occupy Updates Daily; Think Tanks Attack Wind Power; Pacific Garbage Patch Has Gotten 100 Times Worse In 40 Years; Last 12 Months Hottest On Record; U.S. Coal Lobbies Frantically To Save Coal Industry; Brammo Empulse Electric Motorcycle Unveiled. Happenings include International Coffee Hour; Open Mic Night at Gaia House; Award-Winning Bengal Tigers at Rice and Spice; Friday Night Fair; Habitat for Humanity; 11 Days for Compassion; Sustainable Film Series.

Your Community Spirit 2012 May 04

News includes Occupy Updates Daily; Biking Tips; Cloud Computers and the Environment; How To Dry Your Hands. Happenings include International Coffee Hour; Cinco de Mayo, Salsa Dancing, and Open Mic at Rice and Spice; Howard Zinn film at Sustainable Living Film Series; Friday Night Fair; Art for Families of Prisoners; Intro to Non-Violent Communication; Originary Compassion, Art, Labyrinths, and Matrixial Aesthetics; Sale to Fight World Hunger.

Your Community Spirit 2012 April 27

News includes Occupy Updates Daily; High Gas Prices Affecting U.S. Drivers Differently This Time; Burger King Pledges Cage-Free Pork; Yet Another GMO Resistant To An Herbicide; 10 Green Topics Worth Losing Sleep Over. Happenings include Unite Against War on Women; International Coffee Hour; Local Foods Dinner; Open Mic; Salsa Dancing; Habitat for Humanity; AIDS Memorial Service; 11 Days of Compassion; Interfaith Dialog on Compassion in Religious and Public Space; Lunchtime Yoga Basics; Landscaping with Native Wildflowers at Giant City; Sale to Fight World Hunger in honor of Margie Parker. NOTE: Six minutes into the recording, there was a technical difficulty. About 4 minutes of audio were lost. This gap was edited down to about three seconds in post-production.

Your Community Spirit 2012 April 20

News includes Occupy Updates Daily; Earth Day; 2 Year Anniversary of BP Oil Spil; Snake Migration in Southern Illinois. Happenings include Sexual Assault Awareness Month; International Coffee Hour; Earth Day With Eco-Dawgs at Rice and Spice; Friday Night Salsa; Habitat for Humanity; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Carbondale Spring Clean-Up; St. Louis Earth Day; World Book Night; Green Earth Work Day; SIUC Earth Day.

Your Community Spirit 2012 April 13

News includes Occupy Updates Daily; A Villa Built Out Of Trash; Gonzo Urban Bike Racing; Hottest U.S. Winter On Record. Happenings include Sexual Assault Awareness Month; International Coffee Hour; Bengali New Year and Water Festival at Rice and Spice; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Earth Day; Saluki Powwow; Women’s Center 40th Anniversary Tribute Garden; Cardboard City; Neighborhood Co-op’s Annual 5K and Kid’s K; Iron Chef.

Your Community Spirit 2012 March 09

News includes Occupy Updates Daily; Fourth-Warmest Winter On Record; Environmentalism isn’t Socialism or Capitalism; FEMA pushes for disaster-proof green buildings. Happenings include International Coffee Hour; Holi Festival at Rice and Spice; Vigil for Peace; Gaia House Open Mic; Survival 101; The Curse of Climate presentation at Science Cafe; Soles for Souls Shoe Drive.

Your Community Spirit 2012 March 02

Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, we were unable to record our show on March 2, 2012. We are looking into more reliable ways to record and upload the show when Treesong isn’t in the studio. In the meantime, hopefully you caught that episode live!

News includes Occupy Updates Daily; Surviving Winter Eating Local; Cars versus Phones in Hard Times; Beetlemania is a Billion Dollar Problem. Happenings include International Coffee Hour; Israeli Purim Party at Rice and Spice; Vigil for Peace; Gaia Cafe; Gaia House Open Mic; Interveg Potluck; Vanishing of the Bees at Longbranch Coffeehouse; It Gets Better; Occupy Carbondale Social Forum; Green Earth Volunteer Day.

Your Community Spirit 2012 February 10

News includes Occupy Updates Daily; Wall Street Journal’s Willful Climate Lies; States Require Insurers to Plan for Climate Change; Newly Discovered Fungus Eats Plastic. Happenings include International Coffee Hour; Native American Midwinter Feast and Observance at Rice and Spice; Love at the Glove; Occupy Carbondale Movie Night; Vigil for Peace; Southern Illinois Roller Girls; Transpoetic Playground; Gaia House Stakeholder’s Retreat; WDBX Valentine’s Ball.

Your Community Spirit 2012 January 27

Today’s song is Brighid’s Kiss by Triniti. News includes Occupy Updates Daily; Land Swap on Shawnee National Forest Received Negatively; Schoolkids Want Lorax To Be More Tree-Huggy; McDonald’s Discovers Social Media Can Backfire When People Hate You; Agriculture Gets Climate Pass. Happenings include Raw Foods at Rice and Spice; Winter Folkstravaganza at Cousin Andy’s Coffeehouse; The People vs. Monsanto; Vigil for Peace; Music Showcase at Big Muddy IMC; Presentation by Two Regional Anarchists.

Your Community Spirit 2012 January 20

Today’s song was End of the World by Danny Dolinger. News includes Occupy Updates Daily; Land Swap on the Shawnee National Forest; Pedestrians Get Blamed For Getting Killed While Wearing Headphones; Keystone XL a Win For Now. Happenings include International Coffee Hour; Chinese New Year at Rice and Spice; Vigil for Peace; Environmental Policy Workshop; Teach-In in Honor of Margie Parker.