Conservation, Climate, Energy and Environment: Iowa's Natural Resource Priorities for the Future.

James Moore discusses these issues with Rep. Curt Hanson, ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, and Rep. Chuck Isenhart, ranking member on the House Environmental Protection Committee, and Patrick Bosold, conservation chair of the Leopold Group, southeast Iowa's Sierra Club chapter.

we go "Inside the Headlines' with award-winning journalist and filmmaker JP Sottile, the Newsvandal. This week topics include numbing numbers, sucking economy and blowback & forth. Links to headlines listed below.

Tom Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

His songs include modern standards such as "The Last Thing on My Mind", "Bottle of Wine", "Whose Garden Was This?", "The Marvelous Toy", and "Ramblin' Boy". Paxton's songs have been recorded by Pete Seeger and The Weavers, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Doc Watson, Harry Belafonte, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, The Chad Mitchell Trio, John Denver, Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner, Willie Nelson, Flatt & Scruggs, The Fireballs, and many others.

He has performed thousands of concerts around the world in such places as Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Scandinavia, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland, England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and all over the United States.

Catch Tom live in Cedar Rapids at the lovely CSPS this Saturday, January 26th at 8pm.

Fri 3:30pm, James Moore speaks with Executive Director/CEO Betty Andrews about an exciting 2-day event celebrating I"ll Make Me a World in Iowa as the first major festival of the year; the kickoff to Black History Month; the home of Iowa's newest official state song (titled I'll Make Me a World in Iowa's); with over 20,000 projected attendance.It's composed of three events: Education Day [Fri 9am-2pm]; Excellence Gala [Fri 7pm-9:30pm] and Saturday's Celebration Day Festival [10am-7pm] featuring Billy Dee Williams, Lady Tramaine Hawkins ("Oh Happy Day"), and many other stellar events including soul food, fun for the kids with inflatables, pony rides, and much, much more. For more info, the phone number is 515-288-7171.

Acting coach/director/producer Tom Todoroff talks with James Moore about his career and upcoming workshop in Fairfield on Saturday, January 26th at Morning Star Studio.

We have a very special segment planned for you. Newsvandal JP Sottile and James will highlight several emerging conspiracy angles and consider a few older ones as well. Zero Dark Thirty--a government propaganda coup? We'll share thoughts. Also, take a look at some good news and odds & ends. Click "Read more" below for link to sourced headlines.

Leah Bolger, president of the Veterans for Peace, shares her story and experiences of 20 years in the U.S. Navy and more recently as a peace activist. She travelled to Pakistan last year to take part in a convoy led by Imran Khan to protest the use of drones.

Singer/ songwriter Taylor Ross talks with PLANET ERSTWILD host James Moore about her first release 'Come on, the Comet' and her upcoming Beauty Shop concert on January 12th. She performs live in the studio and discusses her work helming the successful artists in residence program this past year.

Brando Piggue, president of the campus-based group NetImpact, talks with host James Moore about activities planned around this year's Martin Luther King Day. A Lord's Cupboard food drive gets underway January 14 at drop off points around the city, with a campus blitz January 18 and special entertainment in Dalby Hall at 7:30pm with keynote speaker Patti Miller. For more information the website is fairfieldvolunteercenter.org