Between now and the year 2025, Missouri's senior population is expected to rise from about one in every seven residents to about one of every five.  Panelists discuss new approaches to meeting the needs of seniors in mid-Missouri.  They also address what you can do to prepare for your own future.

Panelists
Jean Leonatti, executive director, Central Missouri Area Agency on Aging
Marilyn Rantz, professor of nursing, University of Missouri
Keith Knapp, CEO of Christian Care Communities, a not-for-profit organization based in Louisville, Kentucky (joining the program by phone)

What exactly is going on with the planet we live on?  What realistically can and should be done to protect it?  And why is it so difficult to reach consensus on some of these issues?  Our guests, who attended the global climate conference in Copenhagen in December, answer these questions and others.

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Panelists:
Mark Cowell, associate professor and director of graduate studies, MU geography department
Mike Urban, associate professor, MU geography department

Most people are affected in some way by the changing landscape of agriculture, food and fuel production in America.  Panelists discuss how dynamic changes to agriculture - and the impact of these changes - are playing out in Missouri and around the world.

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Panelists:
Scott Brown, research assistant professor and program director of livestock and dairy at MU's Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute.
Mary Hendrickson, associate professor of rural sociology at MU and a coordinator of the Food Circles Networking Project.
Domingo Martinez, director, Cambio Center for Research and Outreach on Latinos and Changing Communities.

Could Columbia become a national hotspot for new music composition?  A group of music supporters are working to make that happen.  Several of them join the program to discuss the challenges involved in bringing life to new music.

Alex Blanton, composer and adjunct faculty member, MU School of Music
Stefan Freund, associate professor of composition and music theory, MU School of Music
Jeanne Sinquefield, co-founder of the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation and performer with three local orchestras
Michael Strausbaugh, MU master's student in music composition and recipient of the 2010 Sinquefield Composition Prize