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Ohio city of Oberlin debuts community-wide environmental dashboard

Environment

Environmentalists and educators in Oberlin, Ohio, have teamed up to give the community’s residents a detailed look at how they use energy and impact the environment. So far, an environmental studies instructor says, adoption has been strong.

Disputed art disappears from University of Wyoming campus

Arts, Culture & Media

The for-profit college swindle

Business, Economics and Jobs

After a Century of Suffrage, Women Still Can’t Get Elected in Iowa

The World

Historically black colleges aim for more non-black students

Conflict & Justice
The World

Number of Single Fathers on the Rise

Lifestyle & Belief

In honor of Father’s Day, we’re looking at a kind of father that doesn’t always get a lot of attention: single dads. We talk to Roberta Coles, chair of Social & Cultural Sciences at Marquette University and Alexi Peck, single father.

The World

A Plea For Tolerance Towards ‘Non-Native’ Plants

Environment

According to a panel of ecologists, climate change, urbanization and other changes in land use have largely invalidated the theory that foreign plants are inherently harmful to their newly adopted ecosystems. We talk to Mark Davis.

Days Numbered for Big Water?

Steve talks with Charles Wilkinson of the Western Environmental Law Center in Boulder, Colorado about the future of Western water projects. Wilkinson says the Colorado proposal may be the last stand for proponents of big water projects in the West, private or public.

A Living Learning Space

Host Steve Curwood visits with Oberlin College professor David Orr in the new environmental studies building. As Professor Orr explains, the building was created with careful consideration of its environmental impact, and it serves as an educational tool, too.

The World

Communicating by Touch

Health & Medicine

Researchers at DePauw University say we’re able to communicate a range of emotions through the simple act of touching. Tiffany Field, director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami, tells The Takeaway about this discovery.