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You’re listening Deep Dive: WFHB and Limestone Post Investigate where we look into issues regarding Health, Housing, and the Environment that directly impact residents of Monroe County. We are looking into Indiana’s power grid – how it works, how it’s outdated and renewable alternatives the state could explore to transition into more sustainable forms of energy. This week we talked …

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 …

HEADLINES The Indiana Environmental Reporter says a pair of Purdue University professors have been appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s newly reconstituted Scientific Advisory Board. —Norm Holy In a story originated by WFYI, city officials from Bloomington, Carmel, and West Lafayette — and other Indiana lawmakers — sent a letter to Duke Energy urging the utility to make a …

Today’s show is about understanding the need for a new social and political vision in the face of climate catastrophe, ecological collapse, and species extinction. New technologies must spring out of new ways to organize living if we’re not to repeat the same mistakes of humans devoted to the attempt at dominating and subduing all of nature. Imagination is key, …

Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has been hired as an energy lobbyist, in Indiana. Pruitt resigned from the EPA in July, 2018, amid reported ethical violations and mismanagement of funds. Pruitt registered last week as a lobbyist, in Indiana. He was hired by Denver-based Hallador Energy Company which maintains substantial coal mining interests throughout Indiana. Hallador owns Sunrise …

Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton gave his state of the city address on Thursday, February 21. Hamilton is a first-term incumbent Democrat, running for re-election this May, against Monroe County Commissioner Amanda Barge. Hamilton gave his third state of the city address, live from the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. On tonight’s Standing Room Only, Hamilton discusses his administration’s achievements and future challenges.

Middle Way House announces the shutdown of Food Works, a venture to employ victims of abuse; The Monroe County Domestic Violence Coalition invites the public to join its annual Spring Conference this Thursday; The Bloomington Plan Commission approves the city’s 2018 Comprehensive Plan;  The Bloomington Redevelopment Commission finalizes plans for Switchyard Park; The City of Bloomington Utilities Department reports a 50 percent …

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 …

Eco Report’s Norm Holy speaks with Jesse Kharbanda, Executive Director of the Hoosier Environmental Council. Kharbanda talks about the growing role and impact of alternative energy in this live broadcast Eco Report feature.

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 …