John Laumer
John Laumer is an independent consultant with recent service with a multinational chemical firm included environmental management systems development, training in product stewardship, product introduction management, scenario planning, and risk assessment.
Before coming to the Philadelphia area from Chicago, John was senior staff member of a regional planning agency, consultant to an EPA Regional Administrator, field biologist, videographer, and many other near-forgotten things.
As a young man, John studied environmental science and engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
John’s loves to cook/read/hunt/fish/build/think/talk, just like his ancestors did.
John’s last name is embedded in the Catholic tradition going back as far as the year 590, although he, early on, found himself alienated from its dominionist traditions, excommunicating himself near the end of his 6th grade year.
No blood relationship to Keith John Laumer, the well known SciFi writer.
John stopped writing for TreeHugger in spring 2012.
Latest Stories from John Laumer - Page 10
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Organic Butter Is Better - Tastier And Shapelier - Why?
There's nothing like fresh-baked bread with butter. Chocolate chip cookies made with sick amount of butter...are wonderful. Olive oil on my breakfast toast or popcorn? Not a
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Idaho Declares Wolf Disaster - Paranoid Fantasy Or Predators Competing?
It is a remarkable tale, described in the As The Lake Churns blog, that "Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has
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Pennsylvania Fracking Well Blows Out, Spewing Salt Water & Drilling Fluid
Pennsylvania is where the first commercial oil well was developed - using a log cabin-style rig housing (as pictured). There were some spills and fires but the industry matured technologically, moved to Texas, and the rest is
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The Seven Key Aspects Of Environmental Issues
Algal bloom in village river. Adapted from photo "Taken in a small village in mountains near Chengdu, Sichuan, China." Image credit:WIkipedia An earth day perspective. High-profile environmental issues resolve slowly, as changing perspectives dawn on
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Just In Time:- GE's Hybrid Halogen-CFL with Incandescent Shape
To every thing, there is a multi-purpose. GE's latest light bulb innovation is not only "customer-inspired," convenient, and efficient,
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One In Three US Citizens Live 50 Miles Or Less From A Nuclear Reactor
All manner of wonderful graphics are being created from the newly-available 2010 US Census data. A new sort of nuclear family, for example, is portrayed with this mouse-over map showing the population density
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Bonneville Power May Shut Down Wind Turbines To Protect Salmon
Just to be clear, this is not about protecting Boeing 'Salmon Thirty Salmons' from turbine blades (but don't let on to Fox News).
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Updated:- 'China's Worsening Coal Addiction May Doom All Other Carbon Reduction Efforts'
Suppose those reports about China's beating the USA at the renewable energy game are just so much *Happy Talk* by pundits in denial. Ever consider that possibility?
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As Goes Iowa, So Goes The Future Of US Wind Power
The Fifteen Percent Factor: Who knew that Iowa led the nation in percent of electrical generation capacity from wind? The State's 15% reliance on
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Who Put Frogicide On My Peanuts, Tomatoes, & Potatoes?
Syngenta, Swiss manufacturer of the herbicide Atrazine (very popular with US farmers but banned in Europe) and the widely-used fungicides Bravo and Daconil (formulations of chlorothalonil, a molecule similar to other
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Growing Amtrak Ridership On A Collision Course With Political Surrealism
"The Last Spike" which originally linked the nation in commerce. Image credit:National Park Service The Hill reports that "Amtrak had more riders in March than it has had in any March in its 40 years of existence, the company said Thursday. There were
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Updated: More Citizen Involvement For US Nuclear Power Plant Siting, Design, & Upgrades
It's been about 35 years since large numbers of US citizens immersed themselves in nuclear power plant design and location issues. (Most
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Do Tea Party, Heritage Foundation Oppose Hunting?
It would seem so, given that these groups want to cut the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) by almost 90%.
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Updated: Corn Price Bubble Could Bring Troubles
Corn is such a cultural cornerstone in America. Lend an ear to John Fahey playing "Give Me Corn Bread When I'm Hungry."
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Are We Done Fracking Around In The Dark Yet?
Dangerous chicken wire chemicals you need to know about. Image credit:Wikipedia Into the daylight. The fracking industry has declared it's ready to totally change direction from the course set by former VP Dick Cheney (which was to hide from the public,
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Proposed Arkansas Coal-Fired Utility Plant Expansion Opposed By Hunters
As it has become fashionable among young people to criticize hunting - while all of us who care about the environment, hunters included,
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Nuclear Power's Bad Rap: Coal Is Far More Deadly
Every nuclear power plant failure, regardless of resulting mortality, breathes new life into the dread the whole world shared during the Cold
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When Food Is High, Corn Gets Political & The Crazy Get Going
In what may be one of my favorite news stories of the year, Green Fields: Expected acreage of corn isn't enough, survey shows, published in the Des Moines
