Salt Lake City based educator and inventor Daniel Geery has a new novel out this Summer titled “ A Summer with Freeman.” It is a coming-of-age story about two teenage boys who flee to the nearby wilderness to live off the land in search of peace from the town bully. Today on the program, Geery joins us to talk about the book and the lessons within it that he hopes will benefit modern education.
At 9:30 Science Questions explores global population and environmental health. Our planet has reached a milestone: In 2011, the world population reached 7 billion people and by the end of the century, it will top 10 billion. Unsustainable human population growth and over consumption are driving species extinct, and destroying wildlife habitat.