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Indiana's Citizens Action Coalition is a vocal proponent of renewable energy, conservation, energy efficiency, and customer-owned electricity generation. Program director Kerwin Olson says investment in the coal industry is undermining our state's economy and driving up electricity prices as he exposes the politics of so-called "clean coal" technology. EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live. Each program features timely eco-related headline news, a feature interview or event recording, and a calendar of events of interest to the environmentally conscious.

CenterLink is a member-based coalition organized in 1994 to support the development of LGBT community centers, with more than 150 established across the country so far. National Manager of Membership & Development Guido Sanchez talks about the network's development within the backbone of the queer movement and CenterLink's new website launching at the end of this month. "LGBT Center Awareness Day" is on September 15. Director, filmmaker, writer and photographer Wendy Jo Carlton talks about the world premiere of her latest production “Hannah Free”, a lesbian love story that endures a generational life span of history, emotion and conviction. Starring longtime LGBT rights advocate Sharon Gless, "Hannah Free" was featured at the Frameline Film Festival and will make its world premiere on Pride Sunday (June 28) at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, with national distribution later this year.

We’ve seen almost three times the normal amount of rain for June and more is on the way; strong wind south of Worthington knocks over several empty train cars; an AFL-CIO rep discusses tomorrow's picket of the Bloomington Chamber of Commerce for its lobbying against the Employee Free Choice Act; a new GLBT rights organization in Bloomington will stage a sit-in at the marriage license counter in the Monroe County Justice Building; sixteen local agencies receive grants from the city of Bloomington's Jack Hopkins social services fund; 22 new cases of H1N1 in Indiana bring the state total up to 223; a downtown parking space along Grant Street is converted to on-street bicycle parking; the Indiana Department of Natural Resources will offer a public forum in Bloomington on the first comprehensive assessment of Indiana forests since the eighties; a local jail reform group will provide support to incarcerated dads this Father's Day.
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