In 2008, Monroe County moved to build a new, expanded jail -framed as a “justice campus” using humanitarian rhetoric.  In response, a diverse group of local residents founded an organization called Decarcerate Monroe County (DMC). Judah Schept, who returns as our guest alongside Micol Seigel, was an organizer in the successful DMC campaign to block jail expansion here, as well …

He and his wife Barbara started Harmony School in a vacant, dilapidated house on Grant Street in 1974. The couple hoped to recreate for students the strong familial and community ties that Roc Bonchek recalled from his youth in Cleveland. Harmony now serves as a model for similar independent schools around the nation. Serving pre-schoolers through high schoolers, Harmony approaches …

HEADLINES The Indiana Environmental Reporter says solar energy has the potential to comprise up to 40% of the nation’s energy supply by 2035, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, but pushback from utilities and lawmakers could limit how much Hoosiers can contribute to the solarization effort. —Norm Holy The environmental news from Montana isn’t good: last month, the state’s …

For our episode this month, we spoke with Ken Asmus, the founder of Oikos Nursery.  From 1982 till earlier this year, Oikos was one of the most important sources of rare fruit trees and other non-commercial perennial food plants.  Ken recently retired from the nursery business in order to better pursue his research into food-bearing plants for an era of …

In this repeat from March 13, 2018, we’re joined by noted film scholar, Jim Naremore, author of Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge; Michael Martin, editor-in-chief of Black Camera: an International Film Journal, and professor in the Media School at Indiana University, who values Burnett as an artist who shows the banality of oppression; Jacqueline Stewart, author of Migrating …

We’re back in the studio live each week at 7am on WFHB! Hosts: Don Jordan, ‘Buddy Bill’ Moser, Rich Reardin, and D Alan Bronnenberg ‘Inside Outdoors’ engineer, host and Inside Outdoors executive producer is Rich Reardin WFHB executive producer is Kade Young

In 2008, Monroe County moved to build a new, expanded jail -framed as a “justice campus” using humanitarian rhetoric.  In response, a diverse group of local residents founded an organization called Decarcerate Monroe County (DMC).  Here is how they later summarized their activities: “DMC’s framework included embracing alternatives to punitive justice, promoting ways to decarcerate, and building a safer community. …

En el primer segmento escuchamos de nuestras locutoras, Minerva Sosa y Luz Lopez, mientras participaban y entrevistaban a miembros de la comunidad que fueron a la Fiesta del Otoño2021.  Nos dan un resumen de todo lo que se llevó acabo e invitan a que usted participe con nuestra comunidad! La segunda parte escuchamos de La Plaza una organización basada en …

When he was a teenager, Bloomingtonians might have happened upon him at any time of the day or night walking down the street and bursting into song. Jeremy Gotwals never stopped singing even after he grew up, moved to Cincinnati, and started his own publishing and marketing companies. A person of unlimited energy and immeasurable dreams, Gotwals taught himself how to …

When you think of drylands, what first comes to mind? A field of zebras galloping across the savannas of Africa. Or, perhaps, a rattlesnake slithering past cacti in the deserts of Arizona. Maybe you think of a herd of cattle, munching their way through the Great Plains of the United States. Dryland ecosystems make up around 40% of the land …