First hour: Why so much garbage coming in to the Finger Lakes?
Second hour: UR Design Day and Imagine RIT
Why does the Finger Lakes region have the three largest landfills in New York State, accepting roughly 12,000 tons per day of other people's trash? You might have heard that there is a proposal for a 20-year, $3 billion-dollar deal to bring garbage from New York City by rail to the Seneca Meadows Landfill in Seneca Falls. Now there's a local opposition movement building. One of our guests is a Hobart professor who now teaches a class called Geography of Garbage. It's time for a lesson in trash, money, and the impact on our environment. Our guests:
Darrin Magee, professor of environmental studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Doug Knipple, President of Finger Lakes Zero Waste
Vinny Aliperti, co-owner of Billsboro Winery
In our second hour: We highlight the annual celebrations held by the University of Rochester and RIT known as, respectively, UR Design Day and Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. For the University of Rochester, the event highlights the work of Hajim School engineering students: cooking stoves for Kenya, a tissue engineering project in Ghana, new computer and writing desks for our own American workspaces. RIT's festival features more than 400 exhibits, with 200 brand-new projects on display. Our guests from the University of Rochester:
Nikki Sroka, Burn Pot Skirt Team
Emily Kwan, Braille Reader Team
Chris Dawson, Robust Electrospinning of Natural Fibers Team
Chris Muir, professor of mechanical engineering
And our guests from RIT:
Barry Culhane, founder and chair of the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival
Jennifer Smith, a fifth-year Mechanical Engineering student
Crystal Mendoza Paulin, a fifth year undergraduate biomedical engineering student
Drew Walters, a third-year student
