Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:54 — 5.4MB)Subscribe: RSSAn arctic blast struck Bloomington this past week, putting temperatures as low as -5 degrees Fahrenheit with wind chills below -10 degrees Fahrenheit. During this same time last year, the average temperature was 37 degrees Fahrenheit and the wind chill was around 30 degrees. Coming on the heels of …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, November 21st, 2023. In today’s feature report, WFHB 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. More in today’s feature …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:01:00 — 83.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode of Partisan Gardens, we explore the competing utopias at stake in the struggle to stop Cop City in Atlanta. Cop City is itself a grim utopia, a vision concocted by cops and politicians of a depopulated, fake city that will actually bend to their …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis month’s Partisan Gardens is all about the Farmer’s Almanac, specifically the 2022 Earthbound Farmer’s Almanac. Our listeners are probably familiar with the old farmer’s almanac, with its planting charts, weather forecasts and random tidbits of folksy wisdom and jokes. It’s an artifact of an earlier time, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:00 — 79.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | More The pawpaw is an incredible, temperate, semi-forgotten fruit. It’s existence is a real exception on many levels: it is the only member of a tropical genus to survive this far north in most of the continent; it is nutrient and protein rich beyond most fruit; and …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:22 — 5.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn Wednesday night, the ninth Democratic presidential debate took place in Las Vegas, Nevada with Democratic candidates for president: Sanders, Bloomberg, Klobuchar, Warren, and Buttigieg. The debate showed the varying relationships on the stage, especially between Bloomberg and his fellow candidates. The former New York City Mayor …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:08 — 2.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe local chapter of the international Extinction Rebellion organization is planning to take over the Bloomington City Hall on December 6 to demand immediate action in solving the climate change crisis, organizers said this week. Ellen Tamura, a member from Bloomington, Indiana’s Extinction Rebellion group, said the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:18 — 4.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreCorrespondent, Sydney Foreman joined the protesters that packed the streets on September 20th, 2019 for the, nationwide, climate strike. They gathered to demand climate justice and to recognize, not only the global crisis, but to recognize the local one as well. We hear the local protester’s opinions …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:39 — 19.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn today’s Feature, Eco Report correspondent Norm Holy continues his discussion with William Moomaw, climate scientist, environmental policy expert, and contributor to the International Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Prize in two-thousand seven.
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