New Report On Wisconsin’s Transition To Green Energy, Turning Health Care Workers’ Stories Into Art, Discovering Common Ground Around The Country

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We learn about the findings of a report on how Wisconsin can transition faster to renewable energy for power needs. Then a Milwaukee artists tells us about how she makes poignant art using face masks. And friends whose political views differ talk about a book-writing project that took them around the country in search of unified beliefs.

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  • Report Lays Out Recommendations For Transitioning Wisconsin's To Clean Energy

    A group of utility companies, environmentalists, and consumer advocates are out with a series of recommendations for modernizing Wisconsin’s electrical grid and transitioning the state to clean power. We find out about what it’s hoping to see.

  • Local Artist Documents The Experience Of COVID-19 Health Care Workers Through Art

    A Milwaukee-based artist is embroidering the anonymous statements from healthcare workers around the world onto face masks to document their experience and emotions related to COVID-19. We talk with the artist about the project and its meaning to her.

  • A Bipartisan Search For Common Ground In The US

    A pair of friends – a Republican and a Democrat – traveled the country in recent years to better understand each other’s political differences. We talk with them about their unlikely friendship, what they learned about America’s partisan divide, and how we can come together.

Episode Credits

  • Rob Ferrett Host
  • Dean Knetter Producer
  • Natalie Guyette Producer
  • Bill Martens Producer
  • Danielle Kaeding Guest
  • Nirmal Raja Guest
  • Jordan Blashek Guest
  • Christopher Haugh Guest

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