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Today we’ll revisit our interview with historian Nancy Isenberg about her book, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. But there’s a twist – I’ve re-edited the program to make use of a broader musical perspective, feeling like I had betrayed the spirit of the program in my original choices. Isenberg’s 2016 book dissects the stereotype “white …

Republican Senator Rick Niemeyer authored senate bill 248 for annual inspections of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFO’s. This bill would require state mandated, onsite, annual inspections by the Indiana environmental management agency. Inspections would be performed in large, medium and small CAFO facilities. The Senate Bill defines a large CAFO as “at which more than 1,000 head of beef …

In this segment Kalynn Huffman Brower shares how to replace the scourge of polystyrene with myco-foam, the compostable alternative packing material made from mushrooms.

The looming trade war between China and the United States is causing problems in the international recycling market. In Bloomington and Monroe County, uncertainty over global trade tariffs have caused government entities to consider charging residents for recycling for the first time. In response to the Trump administration’s proposed tariffs, which are set to take effect in early July, China …

Indiana Republicans approved a plank, during their party convention last weekend in Evansville, which aims to make abortion a constitutional issue.  Indiana University’s Board of Trustees is meeting in Gary today and tomorrow.  The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is predicting high ozone levels across our listening area tomorrow.  A new bike sharing program is being launched by the City of Bloomington and …

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 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 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 …

The citizens advisory committee to the Monroe County Solid Waste Management District discussed plans last week for supporting a new recycling facility. The District’s Board of Directors has been split on the issue of whether to build a materials recovery facility, or MRF, to process recyclables. But the advisory committee has supported the initiative, going so far as to form …