WFHB FireHouse Broadcasting

Alternative education expert Chris Mercogliano studies childhood from an ecological perspective and the importance of a child’s "inner wildness". As co-director of the Albany Free School, a learning center in New York much like Bloomington's Harmony School, Chris Mercogliano has had remarkable success in helping a diverse population of youngsters find their way in the world. He says we have "domesticated childhood", controlling kids and not giving them enough outdoor playtime, robbing our young people of that precious, irreplaceable period in their lives that nature has set aside for exploration and innocent discovery. 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.