Podcasts about mississippi river cities

The Mississippi River is essential to global agriculture and trade, but it is increasingly vulnerable to climate impacts, including severe droughts and floods, resulting in significant economic and environmental challenges. Colin Wellenkamp, Executive Director of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative (MRCTI), discusses how the coalition is advancing nature-based solutions to build resilience along the river. One notable example is Horseshoe Lake in East St. Louis, a community historically impacted by recurrent flooding and economic disadvantage. Restoration efforts there aim to reduce flood risks by enhancing natural floodplains, providing critical protection for residents and supporting biodiversity. This initiative is part of MRCTI's broader push to implement projects across 100,000 acres in eight states by the end of the decade, creating sustainable landscapes that safeguard both people and ecosystems in the face of a changing climate.waterloop is a nonprofit news outlet. The Mississippi By Nature series is supported by the Walton Family Foundation and outfitted by Patagonia.

Communities along the Mississippi River face numerous challenges from natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes, and droughts. This episode explores how adopting nature-based solutions can bolster resilience against these impacts. Mayor Errick Simmons of Greenville, Mississippi, shares insights into his community's efforts and the collaborative initiatives of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative. Simmons discusses the environmental and economic benefits of implementing nature-based infrastructure, such as floodplain reconnections and marsh restoration. He also highlights the importance of equitable strategies that support the community and foster corporate responsibility. The conversation covers innovative funding models involving carbon credits and the reinsurance industry, emphasizing the need for sustainable and long-lasting solutions to protect communities along the river.waterloop is a nonprofit news outlet. The Mississippi By Nature series is supported by the Walton Family Foundation and outfitted by Patagonia.

Mayor Mitch Reynolds joined La Crosse Talk PM on Monday to discuss city's budget process and what looks to be cuts in regards to police, fire, libraries and pools. We also talked about how he's involved in protecting the Mississippi River from piping water to the west. Before we got into any of that, however, we did open with sports, including UW-La Crosse beating UW-Whitewater for the first time since 2005. In regards to the compact (10:50), Reynolds is co-chair of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative (MRCTI) and one of the talking points we hit on was this notion of a water pipeline to water-starved Arizona. After that, we talked about Monday's Board of Estimates meeting (21:00) and how the city will have to make some sacrifices, including possibly closing the South Branch Public Library, potentially closing a swimming pool down the road, and some cost-saving measures within the police and fire departments, including leaving open positions unfilled.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"Minute with Mayor Mike Wilson" News Director Greg Taylor talks with Red Wing Mayor Mike Wilson with a recap of the City Council meeting on Monday, Proclamation MSC SE Day September 29th in honor of 50th anniversary in Red Wing, presentation by Mayor on his attendance at the Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative mtg of fellow mayors in Bemidji, Public Comment several comments about the high levy proposal, introduced Martina Wagner, Red Wing Schools new Superintendent, and postponed voting on proposed ordinances regulating short-term rentals and new use permits.

Mayors of cities along the Mississippi River are expected to vote Thursday on whether to support an agreement to prevent water from being sent to other parts of the United States. Ten states are represented at the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative annual meeting in Bemidji.A young St. Paul man is the first person to buy a home using the city's Inheritance Fund. The goal of the new program is to rebuild intergenerational wealth for the descendants of people in the historically Black Rondo Neighborhood who lost their homes and businesses to Interstate 94 in the 1950s. This is an MPR News morning update, hosted by Cathy Wurzer. Music by Gary Meister.

Mayors from cities all along the Mississippi River's 10 states are meeting in Bemidji. It's the annual meeting of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative. And of course, a big focus is the 2,340 miles of flowing water that these cities share. But how it will be shared in the future is in the spotlight. Mayors from cities along the river are expected to vote on whether to support what is being called the “Mississippi River Compact.” The agreement could set the stage for who gets to use the water from the Mississippi in the U.S. and how it's used. Related Dry states taking Mississippi River water isn't a new idea. But some mayors want to kill it State Senator John Hoffman (DFL-Champlin) and Alexandra Campbell-Ferrari, the executive director of the Center for Water Security and Cooperation and an adjunct professor of Water Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and American University Washington College of Law join MPR News guest host Emily Bright. Both shared a presentation on the “Mississippi River Compact” at the conference. Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.Subscribe to the Minnesota Now podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.   We attempt to make transcripts for Minnesota Now available the next business day after a broadcast. When ready they will appear here.

"Minute with Mayor Mike Wilson" News Director Greg Taylor talks with Red Wing Mayor Mike Wilson with a recap of the City Council meeting on Monday, Proclaimed Monday, October 10th as Chief Red Wing Day, Fire Prevention Week and the Red Wing Fire Department Open House October 16th, School Referendum presentation by Ann Robertson, Frank Norton and Martina Wagner with the school district, Emily Foos and Nicky Buck gave a presentation on the Dakota Mural project, and the Mayor recapped his trip to St. Louis for the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative conference.

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Errick Simmons is the Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi, and the co-chair of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative. The Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative works to improve the river's water quality, restore its habitat, coordinate the state's efforts, create sustainable economies around the basin, and celebrate the river's culture and history. About one year ago, I was working on my session as a moderator at the UN Innovate for Cities conference. What you've maybe noticed from that work are the three interviews that were featured on that podcast around nature-based solutions. But what I haven't shared here are my next steps into the rabbit hole. Having explored how the city of Glasgow was preparing for COP 26 and had adopted nature-based solutions some years before, I had a curious eye over the part of COP 26 that revolved around these innovative ways to administer and manage a river's watershed. And I had noticed how a dynamic Mayor, part of the American governor's delegation, was brilliantly bridging the social topic, the economic one, through aquaculture and nature-based solutions at the river basin level. You would have guessed that Mayor was Errick Simmons. About one year down the line, I got to sit down with him on this microphone at the Rethinking Water conference in New York, thanks to Sciens Water's invitation. Time was short, but I hope you'll get a glimpse of that other American story, where one has to be clever in government and bring together private and public funds while securing grants to guarantee the long-term sustainability of river basins and the cities they host.  Social topics interlinked with Water. Intertwined with climate change and extreme weather events that regularly impact the region. And a water sector that needs to find a fix to overcome the silver wave. I'll leave the floor to Errick so that he shares the solutions and initiatives he contributes to roll out and the proposition he makes to bring Water to the place it should be in the public space: right in the center. Remember, if you like what you hear, please share this episode around you with your friends, colleagues, or LinkedIn Network.  And as always, if there's anything you don't like about this episode, pleach reach out to me and tell me what I should be doing better or differently. Come on, do it, and I'll meet you on the other side! How to Make Water more attractive than the Apple and Samsungs of this World

Creating wetlands in farm country can reduce the severity of flooding downstream. The Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative and Ducks Unlimited have partnered to create more wetlands in the Mississippi River basin.

We'll talk about hi-tech plastic cleanup on the Mississippi River this morning with  Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative excutive director Colin Wellenkamp and the Initiative's Plastic Waste Reduction Campaign Manager Jenny Wendt. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Charlie Brennan debates with Bill McClellan, Joe Holleman, Alvin Reid and Ray Hartmann. In the second half-hour on Donnybrook Next Up, the panel is joined by Colin Wellenkamp, Executive Director of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative. Topics this week include recapping the recent STL Mayoral Debate between Tishaura Jones and Cara Spencer, Greitens and Schmitt so far for Blunt's Senate seat, remembering Bobby Plager, and more.

Colin Wellenkamp is the Executive Director of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative. In this episode Colin discusses how mayors for more than 100 cities and towns on the main stem of the Mississippi River work together on common goals for clean water, sustainable economies, food security, climate resilience, and culture. He explains how climate change is delivering devastating impacts, ranging from extreme heat in the upper Mississippi, to historic flooding in the middle region, to frequent hurricanes in the lower area. Colin talks about approaches to reduce nutrient pollution, including supporting sustainable agriculture, increasing monitoring with sensors, and piloting environmental impact bonds in Memphis and New Orleans. The waterloop podcast is brought to you by High Sierra Showerheads, the smart and stylish way to save water, energy, and money while enjoying a powerful shower. Use promo code waterloop for 20 percent off at https://www.highsierrashowerheads.com/

What are the 17 different personality traits in a pandemic? Colin Wellenkamp is the executive director of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative. NASCAR legend Kenny Wallace shares another positive message in these difficult times.

The Trump administration’s formal withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change has members of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative concerned. The organization is worried that the withdrawal could lead to U.S. commodities producers being taxed or penalized by countries that signed on to the accord, something that the European Union has signaled they would like to pursue. In this interview, Sarah Fenske talks with the executive director of the Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative, Colin Wellenkamp, as well as Kimmswick, Missouri, Mayor Phil Stang, about what leaving the accord could do to the competitiveness of Midwest commodity exports.

Residents of towns along the Mississippi River are all too familiar with the effects of flooding on their communities. The disasters happen again and again, and people are eager for a path forward – and for solutions that look beyond levees. Guest host Ruth Ezell talka with Jo Anne Smiley, the mayor of Clarksville, Missouri, and Phil Stang, the mayor of Kimmswick, Missouri, about their goals moving ahead. Colin Wellenkamp, executive director of the Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative, also participates in the discussion.

Their motto: 124 Cities, 10 States, 1 River. Their most recent collaboration: a proposal to the Trump administration for investing in an infrastructure plan that restores ecology as well as built features along the Mississippi. They are the mayors of towns of all sizes bordering the river's "mainstem," forces joined in the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative. This group of local leaders jumped on the presidential campaign promise of infrastructure improvements, preparing a plan they presented in Washington on March 1, that calls for investing $7.93 billion in specific actions that will create 100,000 new jobs, sustain 1.5 million existing jobs, and generate $24 billion in economic return.       The mayors' plan is grounded in economics. It modestly calls for near-current levels of funding for valuable EPA, DOT, DOI, FEMA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers programs that clean our water and return taxpayer investments at the rate of at least 2 o 1. This group was FIRST to present a proposal to the White House, meeting with the President's senior infrastructure advisor and representatives from White House Intergovernmental Affairs and the National Security Council. This Earthworms conversation with Colin Wellenkamp, Executive Director of MRCTI, details foresight, cooperation, leadership, and common sense - applied to protect and restore the Triple Bottom Line of natural, human and capital resources - from elected officials of American towns. It's a proposal, not a done deal by any means, but . . . Kudos, mayors for GREAT work!  Stay tuned. Music: Butter II, performed live at KDHX by Ian Ethan Case THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms engineer. Related Earthworms Conversations: Leadership in a Global Way: Mississippi River Town Mayors (June, 2016)  

Mayors of large and small towns along the Mississippi's 2500 flowing miles are championing this region's economic, security and ecological interests on the world stage. Mayor members of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative presented this month at the U.S.-China Climate Leaders Summit. They participated in the COP-21 Paris Climate Talks last December, advocating for ecologically sound river basin management. MRCTI Mayors have been instrumental in hammering out and recruiting signatories to an "International River Basin Agreement to Mitigate Climate Risk by Achieving Food and Water Security." These are Mayors of towns like St. Paul, Minnesota, Dubuque, Iowa, Gretna, Louisiana. An MRCTI founder is St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay. Many of these individuals have "regular jobs" in addition to serving as Mayors. They are working together - and with leaders from towns and nations around the world - to safeguard water quality, advocate for sustainable development, and promote river economy in concert with environmental protection. Quite the gig! Colin Wellenkamp, MRCTI Executive Director, reports to Earthworms about this extraordinary, influential work: how it's evolving, and a bit about what it's like for individuals who have "run for Mayor" and are working, influentially, in a global way.  Music: Balkan Twirl - performed live at KDHX by Sandy Weltman and the Carolbeth Trio, June 2009 Related Earthworms Conversations: Mighty Mississippi Gets a Report Card - October 2015

With a river basin flowing through 31 states, the Mississippi drains Earth's fourth largest watershed, some say it's #3! A recent study of its revenue-generating power reported $405 billion bucks a year, supporting 1.3 million human jobs. It also supports phenomenal fish, plant and animal life - and millions of living creatures, including us, are drinking it every day. It should get our attention, therefore, that a recent river Report Card brought home just a D+ average grade. Some bright spots for sure, but plenty of room for improvement. Mayors all along the river are taking notice - and taking action! Colin Wellenkamp, this Earthworms podcast guest, is Executive Director of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative. He works with mayors of river towns from the Minnesota headwaters to the delta in New Orleans, and cities across the Mississippi Basin from the Rockies to the Alleghenies. Mayors are calling for a "River Basin" approach to understanding and addressing the issues behind that funky grade. They're speaking with one voice about the Mississippi's issues, and seeking cooperative ways to rebuild river infrastructure, protect river biodiversity and health - and promote enjoyment of a U.S. resource more popular with visitors from around the world than the Grand Canyon. In this podcast you'll hear stunning facts about the Mississippi River's value and power - and ways you can join a rising tide of appreciation and support for this planetary treasure. Music: Balkan Twirl