Student DJs at WCBN created It’s Hot in Here in 2008 in order to provide environmental journalism with positive, infectiously pop culture and counter culture energy. Placing the wealth of knowledge at the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment in conversation with Ann Arbor and the world, It’s Hot in Here ushered in “a new era in envi­ron­men­tally themed college talk radio with a focus on soul and r&b.” Over one-hundred live shows later, a seed that started off as a joke at a party has grown—and is still growing—into a family of friends, colleagues, experts and artisans.