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Fritz Haeg discusses how to turn your lawn into a highly productive edible landscape by replacing grass with fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Haeg is creator of the Edible Estates project, based in Minneapolis. Haeg is in Bloomington to showcase his nationwide “attack” on front lawns Friday, September 18 at Indiana University's Fine Arts building Room 015 at 5:30pm. 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.

Bloomington North High School Counselor Greg Chaffin kicks off the new academic year’s series of "Youth in Peril" with an overview of the decade-long process of adding sexual orientation protections and domestic partnerships to the Monroe County School Corporation’s employee benefits package. He stresses the importance of such benefits in hiring excellent and effective teacher/role models for students and ensuring a sense of safety among school employees. Executive Director of the LGBT Resource Center of Michiana Tricia Wainscott calls in with organizational updates and provides information about their upcoming second annual Pride At The Park event to be held October 3 in Mishawaka, Indiana. Indiana University alum Khyla Barnes, owner of the Fishers, Indiana store G. Ingles, discusses her business, clothing line and community activism.

State Democratic Party chairman Dan Parker comments on today's court decision to declare Indiana's voter ID law unconstitutional; a local citizen group wants city government to do something about the increasing number of deer within city limits; Indiana University postpones the annual State of the University Address to avoid conflicts with memorials for Myles Brand and Mel Simon; Mark Kruzan and Mitch Daniels pay tribute to Brand; spots on the Section 8 waitlist in Spencer are quickly gobbled up; Mayor Mark Kruzan appears as a guest on the Fox Business Network; the first-ever triathlon on Lake Lemon this Saturday is expecting at least 200 participants; Nick’s English Hut will donate a portion of tonight's sales to the Hoosier Hills Food Bank.
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