Knight Cities Challenge: Funding To Innovators With ideas for Making Cities More Sustainable

By Joseph Cooper,

Published September 24, 2015 at 1:00 PM EDT

09/24/15 - Thursday’s Topical Currents begins with news about the Knight Cities Challenge, which offers funding to innovators with ideas for making cities more sustainable.

Find out more about one of the Challenge winners: the unique Miami Science Barge. And more. Linda Gassenheimer’s Food & Dining. Her guest is Anne Willian, author of Secrets from the La Varenne Kitchen. That’s Topical Currents . . . Thursday at 1pm.

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