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We Celebrate Earth Day on Location at the Collaboratory

Mike Kiniry / WGCU

First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day marks the anniversary of the beginning of the modern environmental movement in 1970, when on April 22 an estimated 20-million Americans demonstrated for a healthy, sustainable environment in rallies across the country. We’re marking its 49th anniversary with a show on location in a building that’s been retrofitted to be as ‘green’ as possible. We’re in downtown Fort Myers at the Southwest Florida Community Foundation’s Collaboratory. We’re going to spend the hour with a panel of guests who are each on the front lines, fighting for Southwest Florida’s environment, and for the animals we share it with.We're joined by Dr. Heather Skaza Acosta, Director of Education at the  Conservancy of Southwest Florida, and an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Marine and Ecological Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University; John Cassani from Calusa Waterkeeper; Captain Daniel Andrews, founder of Captains for Clean Water; Paul Shahriari, founder and owner of Ecomedes, Inc.; and Dr. Heather Barron, Medical & Research Director at CROW on Sanibel.

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Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.