Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:59 — 7.7MB)Subscribe: RSSIndiana University Dance Marathon is one of the biggest student philanthropy events in the United States, raising more than $56 million for Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. For Mena Morcos it’s personal – he has family who have been treated at Riley. Mena did Dance Marathon all four …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday Greta Lind reads an excerpt from her new book Breakthough, a sequel to her first novel Split Open. Greta Lind is an actor and author. Her writing is very much informed by her acting background. She began writing as a way of grappling with the complexity …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 36:13 — 49.8MB)Subscribe: RSSAndy Mahler of Heartwood and Protect Our Woods on coming to terms with his Cancer diagnosis, the scope of life, consciousness and meaning, and centering on one’s own inner goodness and working to make things better. See the second audio player below for the songs. The play bar below …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOstensibly about home and garden repairs and an ensuing bet between the narrator and her husband Jim, this excerpt from Claire Arbogast’s memoir, Leave the Dogs at Home, reveals the dynamics about the relationship and serves as a reflection of larger issues: illness, death, loss. The memoir …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 20:18 — 10.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn July, President and CEO Michelle Gilchrist and COO Heather Robinson of the Bloomington Health Foundation joined LWV-BMC’s Civic Conversation to discuss their role in the Bloomington community and how the foundation works to address numerous health issues in the community. Bloomington Health Foundation started in the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 20.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES As the effects of the climate crisis ravage the West with severe drought and persistent wildfires, Indiana will become accustomed to more frequent bouts of severe weather. —Norm Holy The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is investigating reports of sick and dying songbirds in five Indiana …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:07 — 6.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA big reason for Indiana’s pollution is coal. Coal has shown to be a very dirty and detrimental fossil fuel for the environment, one of the main causes to climate change. Coal ash is the product of burning coal for electricity use. The waste product contains toxic …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:22 — 5.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe town of Spencer resisted being named a Superfund site by the EPA. According to EPA documents obtained by WFHB, Spencer officials pushed back on the EPA’s designation, due to fears that being named a Superfund site would negatively affect property values. The town’s aquifer was named …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:58 — 5.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe dry cleaning chemical tetrachloroethene, or PCE, has leached into the groundwater aquifer in Spencer over the years. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency added downtown Spencer to the Superfund National Priorities List. Dr. Diane Henshel, at IU’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs, is an environmental …
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