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Friday, November 5, 2010 GLT 5:00 - 6:30 pm - cocktail hour ($100 level only} Clearly Speaking Normal Peoria presents: 6:45 - 9:30 pm - Dinner and presentation (both ticket levels} Robert Krulwich is a correspondent for NPR's Science Desk, Doubletree Hotel & Conference Center Ballroom reporting on the intersections of science and technology with 10 Brickyard Drive Bloomington, Illinois culture, politics, and religion. His specialty is explaining complex news - economics, technology, science - in a style that is clear, compelling and entertaining. "I like talking about 'invisible ideas' and trying to find a way to explain what you've learned so people can grasp it," he said. The In-Depth Story Additionally, Krulwich co-hosts the scientific documentary series Radiolab $100 per person with Jad Abumrad (heard Saturdays at 4:00 am and 3:00 pm, and Sundays at Ticket includes an elegant cocktail hour with 11:00 pm on GLT HD3) and serves as substitute host on NPR news magazines hors d'oeuvres, open bar, and the opportunity and talk programs including Morning Edition®, All Things Considered®, to meet Robert Krulwich, fo llowed by a full and Talk of the Nation®. dinner with wine and the presentation. Krulwich first joined NPR in 1978 and served as economics reporter until 1985 when In The News he joined CBS News. Since 1994, Krulwich has been an ABC News correspondent, $65 per person appearing regularly on Nightline, World News Tonight and Good Morning America. Ticket includes a full dinner with Before his recent return to NPR, he was a regular contributor. wine and the presentation. With Ted Koppel, he co-hosted an eight-part primetime series "Brave New Please choose from the following entrees World", which probed the "eight biggest questions facing humankind." With Peter when placing your order: Jennings, he produced an animated history of Bosnia for a children's special. With Barbara Walters, he explored possible cures for cancer. Stuffed Atlantic Salmon A Center Cut Fillet of Salmon filled with Sun Dried Red Tomatoes, Baby Shallots, Artichoke Krulwich has been called "the man who makes the dismal science swing" by Wedges and Fried Spinach; finished with the Washington Journalism Review, and "the man who simplifies without being Sweet Bell Pepper and Onion Marmalade. simple" by New York magazine. Prime Rib of Porkloin He is also a regular correspondent on the PBS investigative series Frontline A Crown Roast of Pork seasoned and Tickets on sale now online at wglt.org where he won an Alfred I-duPont-Columbia University Award for his coverage of rubbed with White Wine Mustard, seared then or by calling (309) 438-2255. campaign finance in the 1992 presidential campaign, a national Emmy Award for roasted to perfection and finished with a his investigation of privacy on the Internet, and a George Polk Award for an hour Three Peppercorn Brandy Glaze. on the savings and loan scandal. His ABC special on Barbie, a cultural history of Italian Ratatouille Stuffed Portabella (vegetarian) This GLT event sponsored by: the world-famous doll, also won a national Emmy. A Portabella Mushroom stuffed with Caponata Style Vegetables, finished with Once a year, Krulwich hosts a semi-fictional year-in-review called "Backfire," with Rich Tomato Sauce and topped with Smoked friends Jane Curtin, Buck Henry, and Tony Hendra. In 1995, the group performed Provolone and Mozzarella on a bed of at the White House at the invitation of President and Mrs. Clinton. Basil Sunflower Angel Hair Pasta. FINANCIAL -2- -3- We like to think GLT has left its mark on this community by presenting free events GLT Goes GREEN like the annual GLT Summer Concert and through our commitment to quality public There was more green at Ewing Manor radio programming. Listeners tell us GLT than the lawn full of picnickers during makes the community a better place to live. our annual GLT Night at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival (ISF) with The If you're willing, we'd like to take "better Three Musketeers. There was swashbuck­ place to live" to the next level. GLT and ISU Sustainability's new community ling, and there was ... composting. project Good to Go can add money to your wallet, subtract inches from your We've been concerned over the amount waistline, reduce traffic congestion and improve our community's air quality. of non-recyclable material this evening generates; each year we're more mindful The primary objective of Good to Go is to promote the use of transportation about the type of containers in which alternatives to one person driving alone - to work, to school, to play, to run meals are served and how to encourage errands. You may have used the Good to Go/Friends of the Constitution Trail Missy Negard of Sustainability, ISU student Albert tlhe recyc ling O f a luminum, Pl astic, and Sparks, Mike O'Grady of Grounds secure bike parking at Sweet Com Blues Fest this August. We're committed to glass. So, when Enid Cardinal, Illinois encouraging additional projects for alternative transportation to help get you State University's Sustainability Director, and Mike O'Grady, Superintendent, out of the car or, at least, into carpooling. wanted GLT's event to be the pilot for a new community composting project, we jumped at the chance. The biggest Good to Go event is right around the comer. The Good to Go Commuter Challenge held on September 13ththrough the 17th is a community­ The project is intended to reduce landfill food waste by diverting it for use as wide, friendly competition between individuals, teams, and workplaces to see agricultural compost at the ISU Farm. ISU has installed a grinder that can process who can rack up the most trips using alternative transportation - anything alter­ all types of food waste, including meat, and paper that is then mixed with leaves, native to driving alone. During the week, participants track and report their wood chips, and manure. All non-residential food waste generators can partici­ commutes online. Public transit, walking, bicycling, car sharing, carpooling, pate in the program and the expectation is that the hauling fees will be equal to, vanpooling, and telecommuting all count as alternative means of transporta­ if not less than, what businesses and institutions are already paying to haul refuse. tion for the competition. At this year's Shakespeare Night, both the Garlic Press Market Cafe and Carl's Ice Cream packaged all of the food in paper containers that were 100% By driving less, you'll save money on gas and vehicle maintenance, you'll reduce compostable along with any food waste. ISF student workers helped our guests the vehicle emissions that cause air pollution, and you can bum calories (you'll be sort the recyclable beverage containers from the food/paper waste. We're proud able to track all three online as part of the Commuter Challenge). Walking and to announce that 200 pounds of compostables biking also are good exercise, and carpooling/vanpooling and riding the bus are and six very large bags of recyclables were diverted great ways to build community. If those aren't reasons enough to participate, you from our landfills. We transformed what would can win prizes and earn bragging rights! But you need to act quickly to get in on ordinarily be 60-100 bags of trash to less than this year's challenge. Go to www.wglt.org/goodtogo to register for the Commuter th half of one bag! Thanks to everyone in attendance Challenge before September 12 and begin thinking about how you'll spend who made a concerted effort to participate. your dollars that otherwise would have been pumped into the gas tank. To hear a GLT News interview with Enid Cardinal Good To Go Sponsor: and Mike O'Grady, go to: www.wglt.org/ TeleTrips We generated less than 1/2 a bag of landfill waste. newsroomaudio/ I 00720compostingqa. mp3 -4- -5- Harte Research Institute, Wes Tunnell proves to be an invaluable source. "He studied the Ixtoc Oil Spill, the last major contamination of the Gulf of Mexico thirty-one years ago," says Young. "Tunnell provided historical context to what is going on." Ron Kendall, Director of Texas Tech's globally-recognized Wildlife Toxicology program, has provided keen insight on damage to bird and animal habitats. "He took me out to look at bird communities that might be affected," Young says, "and how they're going to try to measure Ron Kendall the long-term ecological impacts of the spill." Living On Earth Covers the Gulf Oil Spill Young admits there are other notewor­ by GLT News Director Willis Kern thy environmental stories not being reported because of the Gulf spill. "We When GLT added Public Radio Intemational's have an hour to play with, plus we Living On Earth to the HD3 program line-up have the web to include additional earlier this year, no one predicted that less than content. At the outset, the majority of .