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This week on Eco Report, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze gets an update from Steven Stewart of Indiana Forest Alliance on positive and negative developments affecting climate, habitat, water and air quality in the region as windows of opportunity for public input draw to a close. And now for your environmental reports: The Grain Belt Express is a power line that …

[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 …

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 …

In today’s Eco Feature, Eco Report’s Norm Holy speaks with Madi Hirschland the founder of Solarize Indiana Project.

Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly, a Democrat, has announced his endorsement of Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court; A federal judge has blocked an Indiana law that would have required women to undergo an ultrasound at least 18 hours before an abortion; Monroe County has created a fund to facilitate the seizure of property through a controversial process called …

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 …

In today’s EcoReport feature, Norm Holy speaks with participants in a Martin Luther King , Jr. Day event, which is scheduled for January 15th at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.