WVIZ/PBS ideastream®: Environment

Recent Coverage

The President Comes To One of Ohio’s Hardest Hit Counties
Regional News Stories: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
We spoke with Lorain County residents to find out what they want to tell the president, when he visits, this Friday.

Ohio Taking On The Ash Borer Again
Regional News Stories: Thursday, January 14, 2010
State agriculture officials have decided to give up fighting it in some areas.

Ohio Companies Awarded Advanced Energy Stimulus Grants
Regional News Stories: Sunday, January 10, 2010
Seven Ohio companies are getting a total of 125 million dollars in federal tax credits to ramp up manufacturing of clean energy products.

Audit: Burns Stole from Toledo and Cleveland
Regional News Stories: Thursday, January 7, 2010
According to a state audit, former Cleveland Schools Chief Operating Officer Dan Burns was stealing money from Toledo public schools for years before

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Makes Cleveland Its Winter Home
NewsDepth: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Help arrived on Lake Erie just before Christmas and the long cold winter. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Penobscot Bay tied up at the Coast Guard's Cleveland moorings right on schedule, where it is temporarily assigned to the Great Lakes region. The cutter is a 140 foot long ice-breaking tug boat, and will join another Coast Guard cutter, the Neah Bay, in keeping the shipping lanes open when ice begins forming. The tug traveled nearly two thousand miles to get to Cleveland, from its home port of Bayonne, New Jersey, down the Saint Lawrence River, through Lakes Ontario and Erie, and on into Cleveland.

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Resources

The Return of the Cuyahoga On-Line Curriculum
The Return of the Cuyahoga On-Line Curriculum answers questions about how a river could burn and why it happened here. Included is an entire unit plan containing several cross-curricular lessons correlated to State of Ohio Science Standards in the areas of environmental history, environmental investigation, and eliciting social action.

The Life Depends on Water web site was created in cooperation with Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District to inform and inspire students and the general public into environmental conservation action.

Making Connections to the Natural World
You've recently moved to Northeast Ohio or else you're a longtime resident. Either way, you're someone who wants to know more about the world around you and how we interact with it. Here are some quick links to help you get involved in making the region a better place to live, work and raise a family.

Funding

Funding for the coverage of environment topics comes from The Cleveland Foundation, The Dominion Foundation; The George Gund Foundation; The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation; and The Stanley I. and Hope S. Environmental Fund.