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Green Building with Eco Architect Bill Brown of Environmental Resilience Institute

[Part One: America’s first certified Energy Positive public library] In the first part of a four part series of feature segments aired by WFHB News and Public Affairs during our Local News and Eco Report programs, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks with local eco architect and sustainability pioneer Bill Brown of Griffy Creek Studio about the environmental considerations involved in …

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Eco Report – November 11, 2022

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HEADLINES All stories by Norm Holy IndyStar has written an extensive piece on coal ash pits – a topic many environmental groups have complained about for years and years. Yet the state legislature does nothing to change the picture. It’s part of the reason Indiana ranks 48th in air/water quality. With the end of net metering, which paid customers the …

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Eco Report – July 7, 2022

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HEADLINES Indiana’s state insect is a lightning bug.  In 2018, after years of campaigning by Hoosier elementary students, the Indiana legislature and Gov. Eric Holcomb proclaimed the Say’s firefly as the state’s bug. Not only is this species of firefly native to Indiana, it also is named after a Hoosier who discovered it: Thomas Say. —Norm Holy The Republic in …

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Eco Report – February 27, 2020

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The International Union for the Conservation of Nature carried out a detailed, multi-year study showing that climate collapse and environmental degradation are fueling violence against women and girls and that gender-based exploitation is hurting our ability to tackle the environmental crises. The global fossil fuel industry emits 25-40 percent more methane than previously thought, a study published in Nature found. This includes …

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Solar Energy Advocates Continue Criticism of Bill

Solar energy advocates continued their criticism of Senate Bill 309 today. The bill takes aim at net metering, a process in which solar energy customers sell extra power back to the grid. The bill was approved by the Senate Utilities Committee on Thursday. This morning, the Indiana Distributed Energy Alliance issued a press release criticizing the bill and its author, …

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Eco Report – February 16, 2017

Eco Report is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live. Each program features timely …

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