Tag Archives: environment

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:58 — 4.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis post was edited on October 17, 2020 for accuracy. Some facts/pronunciations in the original recording may be incorrect and differ from the text. State of Nature: Picturing Indiana Biodiversity, was created and put together by the Director of Grunwald Gallery, Elizabeth “Betsy” Stirratt, along with the help …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:13 — 7.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | More  Hours after the lawsuit was filed, IPL announced their compliance with EPA’s allegations and said that they would reduce their emissions at the Petersburg plant. Following this, EPA announced that Morgan County’s air quality is officially within federal standards. The lawsuit has sparked interest on how …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:49 — 4.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreText in this post was edited for clarity on August 24th. I spoke with founder of Yellowwood Youth, Josie Sparks, who will be a high school senior this year and has spent the past year working endlessly to get to this point.  Yellowwood Youth was a result …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (11.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | More    This story was edited for clarity on August 10th. According to court documents from last year, the charge asked that the court “mandates the Huffs to immediately restore and stabilize the land and vegetation they disturbed or removed, or caused to be disturbed or removed from portions of …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:36 — 3.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn February 14th, the Houston South Vegetation Management and Restoration project was approved by the U.S. Forest Service to begin logging and burning in the Hoosier National Forest despite comments and heat from local officials and the City of Bloomington. On May 13th, The City of Bloomington …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:40 — 4.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | More  With the season of spring upon us, many citizens of Bloomington may be noticing the vibrant signs in nature, from blossoming trees to the sounds of the songbirds. As a fellow citizen stuck inside most of the day, I noticed that the birds seemed to stand …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:44 — 3.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBLOOMINGTON – In between rain, snow, and the increasingly less rare 65-degree weather days, it’s hard to imagine a place Bloomington locals and visitors alike have come to know and love on fire. We were always taught to prevent fires, but what happens when your city prescribes …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:52 — 4.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreJust one month into the year 2020, major steps have been taken in the Indiana Statehouse, with hundreds of bills filed and state legislative members introducing more to come. A majority of the new bills are to support the state’s environment and help encourage Hoosiers to improve …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:14 — 1.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBLOOMINGTON – Hoosier Energy announced last Tuesday their plans to close The Merom Generating Station in Sullivan County in 2023, affecting nearly 200 utility workers. Founded in 1949, Hoosier Energy is a non-profit generation and transmission cooperative. It serves 18 member electric cooperatives in central and southern …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:32 — 6.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | More Recycling has been growing exponentially for years, but it wasn’t until recently that cities have found issues with the abundance of recycling and contamination issues from it. Junior Correspondent Katrine Bruner reports on the impact that contaminated recycling has on the City of Bloomington and Monroe …