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Hosts William Hosea and Beverly Calender-Anderson spend the hour with guests, Rev. Forrest Gilmore, Executive Director of Shalom Community Center, Ms. Amber Skoby, Executive Director of the Bloomington Housing Authority, and Nicole Johnson, a community activist living the Crestmont area of Bloomington, IN. They talk about Bloomington’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and how the city’s agencies and community leaders …

Morton Solar held a ribbon cutting July 15 after donating two solar energy systems to Community Action Program of Evansville for two homes located near downtown Evansville. Three Indiana environmental organizations—the Hoosier Environmental Council, Friends of Lake Monroe and Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter—collaborated to demand that the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, or DNR, review its policies after the July …

Let’s begin with what prompted me to contact today’s guest – the opening paragraph from an article from April 30th in The Nation magazine. In 1807, Heinrich von Kleist published a short story called “The Earthquake in Chile.” Its heroes are a man sitting in prison and a woman in a convent, each confined for the crime of conceiving their …

May fifteenth is National Endangered Species Day. It is celebrated to remind us of the importance of protecting endangered species and their habitats.  Legislation on endangered species was passed during the Nixon presidency. The Trump administration has weakened many parts of the act.  Suppressing the census count of frontline communities directly affected by climate disaster would further inequity, especially when …