Tag Archives: Climate Change

A Feature from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Beth Edwards on the implications of changes to snowfall amounts in Indiana as a result of climate change.

A local chapter of the environmental protest group, Extinction Rebellion, has three demands for lawmakers to ensure carbon emissions drop to net zero within the next six years. WFHB Correspondent Katrine Bruner discusses the Extinction Rebellion organization with the founding XR Bloomington members. The Bloomington chapter of the Extinction Rebellion Organization began in the early summer of 2019. The group …

The 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 event will take place at Bloomington City Hall Friday, December 6th beginning with …

Today in our feature IER reporter Beth Edwards speaks about Goshen, Indiana addressing climate change.

On today’s progam, The Sycamore Land Trust is renaming the hillside the Bob Klawitter Lake Lemon Woods as a dedication to the memory of Robert “Bob” Klawitter, a well-known grassroots environmental leader who died in a traffic accident on September tenth, nineteen ninety-six. In Segment 1 of Jessica Fitzpatrick’s Crysophere, important statistics of climate change and rising sea levels are …

Citizen Climate Lobby is a grassroots environmental group working to influence congressional leaders to create a bipartisan policy to slow climate change. WFHB Correspondent Sarah Vaughan spoke with two volunteer lobbyists from CCL’s local chapter, to learn about their efforts to pass legislation that would create a national carbon fee and dividend program. House Resolution 763, the 2019 Energy Innovation …

It’s Fall Fund Drive at WFHB when we invite you to become contributing members. This is very literally YOUR community radio station when you become a contributing or sustaining member. We’ll talk more about this throughout the show, but let’s get to it. Today we’ll highlight four previous programs which focus on Climate Change, or Climate Disruption. We’ll hear from …

On September 20th, hundreds of concerned citizens took to the streets of downtown Bloomington as part of a global Climate Strike. We’ll hear some of the strikers’ thoughts and fears in our weekly segment, Voices in the Street.

Correspondent, 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 on immediate steps people can take to help the city’s movement, what they …

On today’s segment we brought you news about Taiwanese delegation visited Indiana as part of a multi-state agricultural trade goodwill mission; The Richland-Bean Blossom Community School District will be holding their 2020 budget hearing September 16, 2019; This Friday, September 20th, students will be on strike, demanding action on climate change; The Bloomington Planning and Transportation Department will be holding …