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Indiana University students gather in front of the campus Central Heating Plant to launch a Sierra Club campaign to close IU’s coal plant and replace it with clean energy. For years, efforts to reduce pollution emissions from the plant have been stymied by funding issues. Recently two coal boilers were replaced with gas, and the remaining two coal boilers were fitted with filters to reduce emissions, but Sierra Club activists say that's not good enough as we go on-location to the Central Heating Plant. 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.

Nationally renowned Texas comedienne Vicki Shaw provides a humorous account of her coming out process and how that transition juxtaposed with her standup comedy career. She will regale the Lambda Legal crowd with her unique wit and lesbian perspective at their annual banquet in Indianapolis on September 25. University of Massachusetts Professor of Economics Lee Badgett talks about her new book “When Gay People Get Married”. The book is a culmination of her research based in the Netherlands and the United States asking questions like: will gay marriage change marriage? Will marriage change gay people? Are we moving too fast on the gay marriage legalization track? On a new edition of "It’s Only Sex" Larissa Niles-Carnes and Emily Brinegar continue the discussion of bisexuality, this time in the context of healthcare for partners.

Baron Hills criticizes FEMA for denying Indiana's request for disaster relief money to pay for August flood damage; State Road 54 is closed for hours after an overturned tanker truck spills 1,000 gallons of liquid asphalt; the Little Nashville Opry was operating without a permit when it was destroyed by fire Saturday; rain is in the forecast for Lotus Festival weekend; the Indiana Arts Commission will hand out more than $77,000 in grants to thirty local arts organizations; a ceremony tomorrow marks the official naming of the IU Maurer School of Law; Mayor Mark Kruzan returns to the Funny Bone for a stand-up routine marking the venue's first year in business; two events aimed at raising awareness of lesbian/gay youth take place tonight and tomorrow; local artist Joe LaMantia needs license plates to adorn a giant guitar he begins building tomorrow; tonight's opening show of the Bloomington Playwrights Project’s 30th season has been delayed due to an illness in the cast.
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