Home > Tag Archives: environment (page 3)

Tag Archives: environment

Eco Report – March 10, 2023

Eco

Coming up later in today’s feature report, Eco Report correspondent ZYRO ROZE sat down with Woodie BESSLER and Anne HEDIN, both members of the Center for Sustainable Living or C-S-L, to talk about their efforts to promote renewable energy alternatives and ways to make solar power more affordable and accessible for local low-income households. SIREN and Solar For All are …

Read More »

Eco Report – March 3, 2023

Eco

Coming up later in today’s feature report, Enrique Saenz with the Indiana Environmental Reporter, will discuss the Indiana legal effort to reduce the types of waterways that fall under federal protection. And now for your environmental reports: Every year there’s a great opportunity to see thousands of snow geese and sandhill cranes at Goose Pond, located on the south side …

Read More »

March 3, 2023: Knowledge is Power- The Stakes of “Cop City”

From March 4-11th, thousands of people will be converging in Atlanta’s  Weelaunee Forest, as part of the abolitionist and environmentalist struggle to stop “Cop City,” a police training facility set to be built over a vast urban forest. Reflecting this unprecedented mobilization, we are focusing on the history and current stakes of the struggle. For context, we start off with …

Read More »

February 24, 2023: Rolling Back Repression in Atlanta

Earlier this week, Keith LaMar went on hunger strike at the Ohio State Penitentiary.  He has faced escalating harassment from administrators and guards as his execution this fall looms and as solidarity momentum builds on the outside.  This harassment extends to new arbitrary rules preventing him from wearing spiritually-significant jewelry and systematic interruptions during visits.  Keith is on death row …

Read More »

WFHB Local News – December 14th, 2022

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, December 14th, 2022. Later in the program, we rebroadcast an interview related to the Buffalo Springs Restoration Project – an initiative that puts thousands of acres of pristine forest at risk. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have the latest edition of Better Beware …

Read More »

WFHB Local News – September 26, 2022

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, September 26th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks with Woodie Bessler of the Center for Sustainable Living about empowering local residents to “go solar.” More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have some recent prison-related news and announcements from the producers …

Read More »

New Compost Program in Downtown Bloomington

Compost Up, Downtown was brought to Bloomington in April to combat food waste. Restaurants are one of the largest sources of food waste, which lead the City of Bloomington to partner with a local composting company to create a new composting program, according to Andrea Conway, CEO and owner of EarthKeepers, a Bloomington Compost Corporation. “Helping restaurants reduce food waste …

Read More »

Climate Change in Indiana Part Three: Hoosier Farmers & the Changing Climate

By Nathaniel Weinzapfel Introduction: First held in 1970 and recently reaching its 50th year anniversary, Earth Day is an annual holiday held to demonstrate support for environmental protection and celebrate life on our planet, with over a billion people participating in related events worldwide. This holiday has recently been extended to encompass all of April, in what has been aptly …

Read More »

Climate Change in Indiana Part Two: Is Climate Change REALLY Occurring?

By Nathaniel Weinzapfel Introduction: First held in 1970 and recently reaching its 50th year anniversary, Earth Day is an annual holiday held to demonstrate support for environmental protection and celebrate life on our planet, with over a billion people participating in related events worldwide. This holiday has been extended to encompass all of April, in what has been aptly named …

Read More »

Rights for Ecosystems: Personhood of Nature

WFHB Correspondent Zyro Roze hosted a conversation with Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights. This interview was aired as a five-part series of Feature Reports as part of an ongoing collaboration between WFHB Local News and Eco Media Center of Monroe County. Roze and Linzey discuss the environmental attorney’s background, early career, legal …

Read More »