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Edward Morris and Susannah Sayler from the Brooklyn-based Canary Project are in Bloomington to show global photographs that use art to communicate the stark reality of global warming and promote discussion of real change. They discuss their exhibition at the Indiana University School of Fine Arts Gallery and the reasons they have taken their show on the road. 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.

Indiana University and city officials are asking themselves what can be done to make Fee Lane safer after an IU student is killed by a car while crossing the street; Sprunica Elementary School in Brown County was on lockdown today while police search for two burglary suspects; Monroe County Republican Party chairman Gene Moncel lays out his priorities in the debate over health care reform; Bloomington will receive $745,000 in federal grants for energy efficiency retrofits of city buildings including City Hall; the law firm Keller & Keller donates a "BEAST" to the Bloomington Fire Department for cutting open cars to rescue crash victims; researchers at IU will lead a $15 million project to develop an experimental supercomputing network; Bloomington will commemorate 9/11 with a ceremony tomorrow at City Hall; county commissioner Mark Stoops says INDOT's threat to withhold funding for local construction projects over a local property in the I-69 right-of-way is pure blackmail.
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Former Bloomington trans activist Bree Hartlage is now chair of the board of directors for the International Foundation for Gender Education. She discusses the importance of education in achievement of trans acceptance and highlights some of the outreach and programming efforts provided by this country’s oldest trans organization founded in 1978. Actor, producer and director Doug Spearman makes a return visit to the show to talk about the needed financial support of the queer community in producing and promoting quality lesbian, gay and trans movies and TV shows . Co-founders of the Bloomington-based drag king troupe Gender Studs Katie Schweighofer and Jenna Basiliere talk about the art of drag king performance, the success of the troupe over the past year and upcoming local performances.