Connecting Communities: Kalamazoo Earth Day
Connecting Communities, is a podcast for stories of individuals and groups who are taking action on environmental issues. We will to show you how you can begin urban gardening, native planting, and exploring sustainable energy. Connecting Communities is a part of the Kalamazoo Earth Day Festival.
You can watch the video recording of the show on one of PMN’s cable outlets or on-demand at publicmedianet.org.
Opinions shared in the show may not reflect the opinions or beliefs of the Kalamazoo Earth Day Committee as a whole or each individual involved.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 79
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
K College Outdoor Programs Adventure Opportunities for Students and Community Members
Join this episode of Connecting Communities to hear about how wild adventure can be more accessible that you might think. K College has become a resource for students and community members to learn a…
Feed Me Kzoo Helping You Find Good Local Food
EB Precopia shares about her passion for food and how it led to her building her blog and food tours in Kalamazoo.
A Young Climate Activist: Connected, Engaged, and Won't Still Until There is Change
Mia Breznau is a young climate activist in Kalamazoo. She has been participating and planning service projects, advocating for legislation, and organizing other young people for public demonstrations…
Starlite Collective - Erica Bradshaw and Val Birch
Starlite Collective is an artist community led by Erica and Val to support and promote artists in Southwest Michigan. The way they have designed the collective to remove all barriers for their artist…
City-Wide Sustainability Programs for all of us this Summer
The city of Kalamazoo has a calendar full of programs for residents that will help them get out and enjoy nature safely. Destiny Stetina joins us to talk about the programs and the impact such progra…
Exploring the Night Sky with the Kalamazoo Valley Museum Planetarium - Steve Crawford
Only a few hundred years ago, our ancestors were just as familiar with the night sky as they were with the daytime sky. Now we are quite separated from it. Steven Crawford, the Planetarium Technician…
June 2025 TrashLove KZoo King Hwy Clean Up
Patrick Hershberger visited the June TrashLoveKzoo clean up to document their progress. The volunteers journeyed into the woods near where the Sprinkle Road road crosses over the Kalamazoo River. The…
Naturalizing the Kalamazoo River - Battle Creek Unlimited, Kris Martin
Battle Creek Unlimited is an economic development non-profit that has aquired 10 acres along the Kalamazoo River that runs through downtown. For decades, this area has been a highly industrial one, w…
Monoform Cinema at the Dormouse: The Church of Cinema
Monoform Cinema is a group that is bringing a curated, non-commercial film experience to Kalamazoo. The team (Gabe Ybarra, Jaycie McGruder, Steve Remenapp, and Carman Goodrich) remember the days when…
Supporting Youth, Improving Outcomes: How KYD Net Impacting Area Programs
Discover how Kalamazoo Youth Development Network is changing the landscape of youth services in our community. Unlike distant foundations, KYD Net provides hands-on support, valuable assessment tools…
2025 Earth Month Shorts: Reforest Vine
Reforest Vine can install a curb garden in one day. Mitch Lettow fills us in on the process and how these tiny gardens impact biodiversity and habitat availability for the smallest creatures.
2025 Earth Month Shorts: Kalamazoo Valley Museum Rain Garden Tours
Stop by the Kalamazoo Valley Museum for an early season tour of their rain gardens. These gardens help keep storm water drains clean, as well as help to keep flood-prone spaces from getting soggy.
2025 Earth Month Shorts: North Side Clean Ups
Every year, Charlie's P.L.A.C.E. and the Rotary conduct big clean ups in Kalamazoo's Douglass neighborhood and on the Kalamazoo River Valley Trail.
2025 Earth Month Shorts: Edison Neighborhood Clean Up and Tree Planting
The Edison neighborhood got together for Earth Day to tackle a large dumping site and to plant trees in the space.
2025 Earth Month Shorts - Signs of Spring Nature Walk
Audubon Society of Kalamazoo, Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy, and Wild Ones lead us on a Signs of Spring tour for Earth Day in Upjohn Park. Connecting Communities presents a pod short showcasing…
2025 Earth Month Shorts - Albert White Literacy Trail Clean Up
Connecting Communities pod short with Mike List, a representative of the Edison Resident Scholars group discussing the cleanup on Earth Day at the Literacy Lane and Albert White Literacy Trail.
2025 Earth Month Short: Fun Run
The first Fun Run hosted by the Winchell and Oakwood neighborhoods to celebrate Earth Day, and Connecting Communities was there to find out all about it!
2025 Earth Day Shorts: Edison and Vine Shorts
Edison neighborhood had a seed planting event and Vine did their annual clean up and celebration in the park.
2025 Earth Day Shorts: Children's Nature Playscape
Children's Nature Playscape has a really fun and engaging Family Fun Day each year to celebrate Earth Day! Meet Nature Nate and Daphne Len Ben (author of Queenie Saves the World).