Tag: Illinois - Page 2
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Zoo Sells Jewelry Made From Reindeer Droppings
There's no more enchanting sight during the snowy weeks leading up to Christmas than that of the majestic reindeer--delighting the fancy of children who long for a just a peek at one of the creatures that make up Santa's fabled team. Perhaps you've
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Mercury Rising: Temperature Will Soar in Some U.S. States Within the Century
The heat is on. We all know climate change is a very real and very dangerous fact of life, and many
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U Illinois Urbana Saves $5 Million From Energy Efficiency
Here's a good story about how the University of Illinois, Urbana campus upgraded old systems and ended up not only reaching its energy efficiency goals ahead of schedule but also how it saved the school about $5 million in
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Wind-Powered Drive-in Movie Theater - World's First?
Image credit: Angel Wind Energy Wind-Powered Movies at the Drive-In The movie industry has finally caught on to climate change and sustainability- from The Age of Stupid to An Inconvenient Truth, we are now not short of movies that set out the dire
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What Jumps In Peoria Today Is In The Human Food Chain Tomorrow
In the long view of imports, Asia has sent North America far more hazardous things than lead painted toys and melamine tainted pet food and
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Western Great Lakes States On "Green Power Express" By 2020: Transmission Lines Approved
Greenwire reports, via the New York Times, on a favorable decision by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, (FERC) for construction of high-power transmission lines from wind farms
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Worst Culprits From Nine States Contributing to Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Mapped by USGS
TreeHugger has covered the issue of
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Ground Zero For CO2's First "Big Sink" Located In Obama's Homeland
CO2 for the first "Big Sink" project in the USA apparently comes from one of ADM's grain-to-ethanol facilities, located on the
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Chicago Parking Meters Up To A Buck An Hour: Equivalent Of Congestion Tax?
In a budget balancing move, Chicago is upping the parking meter rate from a quarter per hour to at least a dollar an hour, starting next year. Done by privatizing. Rates for most city parking meters will increase to $1 an hour in the coming months as
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5 U.S. Local & State Government Officials Putting the Environment First
While the federal government has been asleep at the wheel for most of the last decade, local and state government officials have been a driving force in many green initiatives. Through the U.S. Conference of Mayors and regional alliances such as the
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Bass Fishing Now a High School Sport
You may think it sounds crazy, but Illinois recently became the first state to decree that bass fishing is now a high school sport. And I'm wondering how high school coaches and athletic directors feel about it, because I can say with certainty that
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Romantic & Green: Illinois Couple Buys Solar Power System Using Wedding Registry
I do... Want Solar Power Our friends at the Daily Green have a nice heart-warming story about Sarah and Kiril Lozanov, a young couple who decided to use their wedding registry to go solar. They couldn't afford the 1.7kw solar system needed to power
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Second Siemens Wind Turbine Plant to Open in Illinois
Two weeks ago we wrote about the knock-on effects of the expanding wind industry on US manufacturing. Here's the latest concrete example of that:
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Millions Of Acres Of Corn Won't Be Knee-High By Fourth Of July: But Meat Prices Will
The knock-on effects of the June of 2008 Upper Mississippi River basin floods will include meat prices being driven up much farther than could have been accomplished only by government incentives for corn-based ethanol. It's too late to replant
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The Recyclery: A Tale of Two Cities and Two Wheels
Great minds think alike ... Here we have two organisations, almost on different sides of a country, doing much the same thing, with the same name.
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Teacher, Students Work to Make Prescription Drug Disposal Sustainable
When ecology teacher Paul Ritter at the Pontiac Township High School in Pontiac, Illinois realized the U.S. is beginning to experience increasing amounts of unused or pharmaceuticals in the water supply he swung into action by working with his students
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"Synthetic Natural Gas" - How's That For A Name Change?
Coal industry-hired PR agencies must have come to the realization that the "Clean Coal" mantra isn't working out as they'd planned.
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Most Huggable: Wind Power Rising, Ecolabels Rated, Bye-Bye, Bottled Water + More
Last week, the American Wind Energy Association reported record growth in wind power generation during 2007.
