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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:13 — 41.6MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Monday, March 10th, 2025. In today’s broadcast, WFHB News hears from Nathan Ferreira, Executive Director of the Bloomington Housing Authority about impacts to local housing projects from federal job cuts and funding freezes. More in today’s feature report. WFHB speaks with Courtney Payne-Taylor …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:00 — 37.1MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Monday, April 15th, 2024. Later in the program, WFHB News Correspondent Kelsey Pease provides a roundup of the latest Monroe County Board of Commissioners meeting. More in today’s headlines. That’s Michelle Moss, Bloomington Volunteer Network Coordinator, here to announce the 2024 winners …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:15 — 27.8MB)Subscribe: RSS Hello and welcome to Eco-Report. For WFHB, I’m Julianna Dailey, and I’m Frank Marshalek. On today’s edition of Eco Report, eco-architect and place maker Mark Lakeman invites us to apply urban permaculture to rehumanize public spaces by tapping into the natural economy of the Universe as they have …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:59 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSS Hello and welcome to Eco Report. For WFHB, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Cynthia Roberts. In this edition of Eco Report, we will hear from Marcia Veldman, State Coordinator for the South Central Indiana chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby on the scope of their activities across the state working …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 33:01 — 45.4MB)Subscribe: RSSIn this week’s Eco Report EXTRA we hear from Marcia Veldman, State Coordinator for the South Central Indiana chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby on the scope of their activities across the state working to affect national policy and channel resources to local efforts to adress and adapt to Climate …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:08 — 73.0MB)Subscribe: RSS [Part One: America’s first certified Energy Positive public library] In the first part of a four part series of feature segments aired by WFHB News and Public Affairs during our Local News and Eco Report programs, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks with local eco architect and sustainability pioneer …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:32 — 42.0MB)Subscribe: RSS Hello and welcome to Eco-Report. For WFHB, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Cynthia Roberts. In this edition of Eco Report, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze delves into Bloomington’s designation as a Gold Level Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists. And now for your environmental reports: The following …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 54.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis month on Partisan Gardens, we are sharing a presentation by Kristin Ross, author of the landmark book “Communal Luxury: the Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune.” She delivered the lecture to the 2019 Antipode American Association of Geographers Lecture in Washington DC and gave another version …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:13 — 11.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreNote: A previous version of this story used the incorrect image. The story has since been updated with the correct image. The Bloomington Common Council continued its review of the revised Transportation Plan last week. Chapter Three of the plan proposes changing existing street uses to help develop …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:13 — 4.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe city of Bloomington is looking to consultants to help decide whether to rebuild or repair the aging, downtown Fourth Street garage. The Bloomington Redevelopment Commission last night approved contracting with CORE Planning Strategies to examine the question. Structural engineers from CE Solutions surveyed the Fourth Street …