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This week we highlight the work being done by the Idaho Walk Bike Alliance by speaking to board member Bruce Olenick.

Before rounding off their trails series, Jessa and Emma talk to Jim Anglesey, Pocatello City’s Long Range Senior Planner, about Comprehensive Plan 2040. Excitingly, this is the first comprehensive plan of its kind, where an entire team was allowed to focus solely on it and ensure it represents the value of the community. A public hearing will be held April 12, 2023, and in May 2023 the plan will be presented for approval to the City Council.

In this episode, Jodie Schwicht interviews four local business owners/vendors operating at the monthly Pocatello Art Walk on their thoughts on sustainability and how shopping small can reduce consumer impacts on the environment.

On today’s episode, Madison talks with Adam Novak, the board president of Idaho Interfaith Power and Light, about the Idaho affiliate of the national IPL. The non-profit organization works to put faith into action for a safe climate and environmental justice for all. If you want to get involved, explore their website www.idahoipl.org, sign up for their newsletter, attend events, and sign their open letter to our Idaho leaders asking for a public acknowledgment of greenhouse gas emissions. You can also contact idaho.ipl@gmail.com.

On today’s episode, Madison introduces Holly Wilson as our new co-host of Sustainable Idaho. Then, Madison and Holly interview Kim Stouse, the Community Risk Reduction Specialist for the Pocatello Fire Department, to share firework and fire safety tips for this 4th of July. To view the Pocatello Fire Department Wildland Urban Interface Map to see restricted firework usage zones, click here at, 2025-Pocatello-Chubbuck-Firework-Zones-Map-PDF. The Pocatello Fire Department website will also include any new press releases here, News Releases • Pocatello Fire Department Urges Safe and Sane. Additionally, if you see someone illegally using fireworks or using them in a prohibited area, call the non-emergency dispatch at, 208-234-6100. If you see a fire start, contact 911 immediately.

Voters will have a chance to vote on noncitizen voting in Idaho.

Meridian recently gained a new community space that is focused on uplifting Black-owned businesses and entrepreneurs in Idaho.

As places like Germany and China experience dangerous floods due to abnormally large rainstorms, places like the American West endure another year of drought. For this episode, we invited Roger Chase, former mayor of Pocatello and vice-chair of the Idaho Water Resources Board, and Jennifer Cornell, a water quality analyst with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, to talk with us about Idaho’s drought.

Walter L. Fitzgerald, Jr. serves as Dean of the College of Pharmacy, and Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences, at Idaho State University. He received the Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy in 1979 from Mercer University School of Pharmacy in Atlanta. In 1982 he received the Master of Science in Pharmacy Administration from the University of Tennessee, College of Graduate Health Sciences, in Memphis. And in 1983 he received the Juris Doctor degree from the University of Memphis, School of Law.

A federal judge recently ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to scale back its use of pesticides in all western states. Environmental groups say the ruling is a big step toward protecting rangeland wildlife.