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 11
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Japanese Government Asks Water Suppliers To Keep Rain Out, Treat For Radionuclide Removal
According to a report in the English version of Kyodo News, the Japanese government has asked ...treatment plants not take in rainwater, due to radiation
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Coming Intersection Of Global Trade Clashes, Food Cost Increases, And Climate Politics
Today's seminal Lester Brown post about China's escalating grain consumption and coming conflicts over trade and food prices - see Can the United States Feed China? - brought to mind related, climate-driven events in the US.
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Hydropower Improvement Act of 2011 - First Congressional Reaction To Nuclear Doubts?
The Hydropower Improvement Act of 2011, an update of a stalemated 2010
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The Nevada Paradox: How Atmospheric Bomb Tests Made Americans Paranoid About Nuclear Power
US citizens over age 50 (the Harry Reid demographic) had their childhoods shadowed by decades of
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More Nuclear Power, Not Less, Needed To Avert Acid Oceans, Climate Catastrophe
It seemed as if Republican Wisconsin State legislators had decided to do something practical about climate change with their pending vote to overturn a long-standing moratorium on new nucs in the State. With the news
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Sprouting Without Electricity - A Seed Gamble
My electricity billing rate went way up this year; and, it had become tiresome to set up fluorescent lights and heat tape in a hot box to raise my vegetables from seed.
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Will US West Coast Citizens Exceed Banana Equivalent Dose?
US citizens can hold off a bit on going internet shopping for potassium iodide to guard against radioactive iodine exposure, leaving the pills for those that might need them first (in Japan for example).
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Will US Presidential Candidates Walk Back Support For Corn-Based Ethanol?
As reported on Dow Jones Newswires, the Chairman of Tyson Foods, John H. Tyson, last week made a speech in which he stated ""there's no doubt" food costs are rising because
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Nuclear Blast From The Past: Tectonics of Science, Politics, War, & Climate Change
It's unclear to what extent radioactive materials have been released from the earthquake-ruined Japanese nuclear power plant(s). For background, see NYT story, Danger Posed by
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From Living The Gasoline Dream To SUV-wrecked In Suburbia: Change Is Coming
The small town I grew up in had a community freezer to rent for your half-cow, a garden in nearly every yard; and, hardware, grocery, and clothing stores. Homes came with 1-car
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CEO Of Excelon Corp. Says Congress Should Do "Nothing" About Climate
Masterfully drawing a target around a Republican spent arrow as he addressed our favorite think tank, Competitive Enterprise
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Updated: Williston Basin (Bakken Formation) Oil Might Be An Election Changer
With oil prices going up faster than the cheers in Tahrir Square and the 2012 US election campaign underway, I was sure we'd soon hear Republicans pushing their
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World Wide Sugar High Caused By Extreme Weather
Reuters has a food price analysis which mentions in passing that "Sugar also surged to three-decade highs on a squeeze in supplies as a result of crop damage in cyclone-hit Australia
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Vegetarians Have A Slight Cost-Of-Living Edge This Summer; Locavores Perhaps Moreso
Everyone already knows that this summer food prices will increase by several percent. China is eating itself out of house and home. Floods in Australia and drought in Russia reduced world
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Wisconsin, Home Of The "Sewer Socialists," Redefining Future Of Environmental Regulation?
Looking over comments on my recent post, Are Wisconsin
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Are Wisconsin Voters Willing To Take Their Chances At The Tap?
When money gets tight and voters feel especially uncertain about the future, legislators, wanting to look like they are doing something to help, may be tempted to halt the normal environmental rule-making steps. Here's
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Chinese Fake Organic Grain Certifications...And Worse.
A Chinese food exporter was recently caught using fake organic certifications, peddling to US buyers on both coasts "organic" grains produced on Chinese
