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Host Don Marsh talks to our partners at Sauce Magazine about their top restaurant picks for the month of February. 

Host Don Marsh talks to St. Louis Public Radio digital reporter Kae Petrin and Washington University dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences William Tate about the income gap between white and black residents in St. Louis. 

Plastic has overtaken our pantries, our shopping carts, our personal-care product cabinets - and our planet's waterways all the way to the oceans! Is there any hope for turning this plastic tide?

Jay Sinha and Chantal Plamondon, Canadian sustainable product entrepreneurs, offer their own experience to encourage fellow humans to break free plastic's hold on our lives. Their new book is Life Without Plastic - the Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Avoiding Plastic to Keep your Family and the Planet Healthy (Page Street Publishing, 2017).

Their book - and their online store, established in 2003 - packs facts about plastic pollution that Jay says is as pressing as Climate Change. But they are not polypropyl-whiners, by any stretch. Jay and Earthworms host Jean Ponzi pick through piles of plastic issues - with encouraging focus on options he and his family continue to test out, that can be useful to you.

What are the problems plastic is causing, for us and around our environment? What are alternatives to some of plastic's most pernicious influences in our lives?

Bring on the glass, wood, fabric and stainless steel! And PLEASE RECYCLE the plastics you do increasingly choose to use.

Music: Infernal Piano Plot, performed live at KDHX by The Claudettes

Thanks to Anna Holland, Earthworms Engineer

Host Don Marsh talks with St. Louis members of the grassroots organization 500 Women Scientists about local activities taking place that will introduce more women and people of color to the science fields.

Host Don Marsh talks with citizen negotiators during the 1972 City Jail sit-in protest and compared the experience with the protests of today.

Host Don Marsh talks to ArchCity Defenders new executive director Blake Strode and the legal advocacy organization's continued efforts to help under-served citizens.

Host Don Marsh talks to conductor Stéphane Denève about his music career and upcoming role at the St. Louis Symphony and Orchestra. 

On the latest edition of the Politically Speaking podcast, St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Jo Mannies welcome House Minority Leader Gail McCann Beatty to the program.

The Kansas City Democrat has been the leader of Missouri House Democrats since 2017. She’s often the public face for a 46-member caucus that regularly faces an uphill battle to outflank the Republican supermajority on key issues.

Most of the attention in Jefferson City these days is over the uncertainty around Gov. Eric Greitens. He addressed reporters last Monday for the first time since admitting to an extramarital affair before he became governor. Greitens has denied allegations he blackmailed a woman into keeping the infidelity secret and repeatedly said he won’t resign from office.

Host Don Marsh talks about the issue of child sexual abuse raised by the trial of sports physician Larry Nassar and how to spot, treat and prevent it. 

Host Don Marsh discusses St. Louis Theater Circle' award nominations of 2018.

Host Don Marsh talks about how users will experience new changes on Facebook and how media organizations such as St. Louis Public Radio and NPR are dealing with the changes.

Host Don Marsh talks about the role and future of organ playing in churches. 

Host Don Marsh talks to our monthly Legal Roundtable panelists about recent issues pertaining to the law. 

In the rural outskirts of St. Louis, in 1874, Greenwood Cemetery was formed to serve the African-American population growing here after the Civil War. This rolling, 32 acre site became this community's first non-sectarian commercial cemetery open to African Americans.

Until Greenwood closed to burials in 1993, more than 50,000 people were laid to rest here: Buffalo Soldiers and domestic workers, musicians and civil rights leaders, whole families both named and undocumented. This history, still being researched and written, remembers the persistence, hardships and gifts of black individuals' human lives - a remembrance now being restored.  

    
Greenwood shares a fate with other cemeteries with no church or other stewarding relationships, that hold the folk of poor and marginalized people. Human neglect dumped trash on the property - and nature's forces took over. But friends arose to reclaim the history and natural grace of this place. Descendants of those interred and academic professionals formed Friends of Greenwood Cemetery in 1999. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. With much more work to do, this circle of support is growing.

The Greenwood Cemetery Preservation Association brings this story to Earthworms. Guests are Shelley Morris and Rafael Morris, Secretary and President of the GCPA board; Becky McMahon of DJM Ecological Services; and Ann Eftimoff of World Wide Technology.

Music: Slide Blues, performed live at KDHX by Brian Curran.

THANKS to Anna Holland, audio engineering ace.

Related Earthworms Conversations: Green Burial (January 2017)

Producer Lara Hamdan talks to international journalist Robin Wright about her career, including what it's like covering the front lines with ISIS and interviewing former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. 

Host Don Marsh discusses the case of Alex Garcia, an undocumented Honduran immigrant facing deportation, and a local church providing him sanctuary. 

Host Don Marsh talked with the playwright and the director of "Faceless." The play is now showing at The Rep.

Host Don Marsh discussed why the flu is so prevalent in St. Louis and what can be done to prevent and treat it.

On the latest edition of the Politically Speaking podcast, St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Jo Mannies welcome state Rep. Marsha Haefner to the program.

Haefner made news last week when she and state Rep. Kathie Conway, R-St. Charles, became the first Republican House members to call for Gov. Eric Greitens to resign. Greitens admitted earlier this month that he had an extramarital affair before he was governor, but denied allegations he took a photo of a woman to keep the infidelity a secret. He reiterated to the Associated Press this weekend that he will not be stepping down.

Producer Char Daston profiles Suleima and Rosa Rojas, police officers with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department