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Bloomington resident Marc Lame is Indiana University’s resident “bug guy”, an entomologist specializing in effective pest management. Lame says all pesticides are toxic, even the organic ones, and the greatest human risk is to our children. Lame says we need a paradigm shift, a fundamental change in behavior rather than relying on chemicals to rid us of uninvited creepy-crawly visitors. 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.

Author of "Out in the Country: Youth, Media and Queer Visibility in Rural America" Mary Gray joins us in the studio to talk about this newly-published book. Indiana Equality board member Randy Studt calls in with updates about IE’s summer Pride/outreach efforts and highlights their upcoming Key Advocate/Organizational Trainings initiative to begin across the state in September and October. Our featured musical act is the singing duo Beth Burden and Lisa Raymond, better known as Mother Jane, with two tracks from their latest album “This Time Tomorrow”. bloomingOUT also features the latest in national and international queer headline news and a community calendar highlighting local and regional events of interest to the queer community and our allies. Hosted by Helen Harrell and Sean Lemieux.

Traffic around Memorial Stadium is crazy as the Indiana University football team prepares for its first home game of the season, the first test of IU's new game day traffic plan; Bedford police arrest the lover of a man shot dead yesterday; Bloomington is a partner in the first electronic information network allowing doctors and hospital to share patient health data; the Bloomington City Council backs Mayor Mark Kruzan’s 2010 budget in a preliminary vote taken last night; the new Bloomington non-profit arts organization The Quarry Projects Limited seeks to create an arts center committed to promoting the use of clay in contemporary art-making and advancing visual arts in the region; Baron Hill will hold a forum on economic issues tomorrow in New Albany; Orange County Home Grown Arts hosts a storytelling and music event tonight in Paoli.
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