Tag: Milwaukee

  • Cheap Great Lakes Water Offered In Exchange For Jobs: Sustainable Or FAIL?

    It's quite common for US state and local officials to entice businesses to build factories by offering to defer or cut taxes, give

  • 8 College-Town Breweries Producing Great, Green Beer

    Savvy, environmentally conscious (and of age!) beer enthusiasts know that even when you're in college, there's more to beer than dollar Pabst at the neighborhood dive. Microbreweries are leading the way when it comes to

  • Kromer Blizzard Cap: No Longer Just For Real Men

    Kromer: The Original Working Man's Winter Hat I've had an original navy blue wool "Kromer Blizzard Cap" since I bought it in a used clothing store back in the 1970's. It's the perfect winter hat: made of natural materials - principally wool and cotton

  • Backyard Aquaponics: Bringing Food Production Back Home

    The concept of aquaponics certainly seems to be capturing folks’ imaginations right now. Only

  • Growing Power: Urban Aquaponics, Vermiculture and Sustainable Agriculture

    When we reported on the proposed Urban Aquaculture Center (UAC) last week, commenter Luke informed us of a video featuring UAC affiliates Growing Power — a collective of urban community farms experimenting with aquaponics, vermiculture, greenhouse

  • The Urban Aquaculture Center: Aquaponics Goes Big

    While traditional aquaculture comes with both benefits and drawbacks, many folks believe it may play an increasingly important role in feeding a hungry world. And with urbanization continuing apace world-wide, anything that can bring food production

  • Milwaukee Brews Drug Free Tap Water: With Ozone

    We mentioned earlier this week that trace amounts of prescription drug residues in some drinking water supplies are no reason to go for the bottled water, and that off-the-shelf technologies are capable of removing most unwanted drug residues from

  • What If Drought Forces Cooling Towers? How Much Will It Cost Power Consumers

    Sometimes it takes a row to elicit information that is useful outside of the orginal context. Take the example of Wisconsin Energy Corp.'s ongoing construction of a $2.3 billion coal-fired power plant in Oak Creek, on the shore of Lake Michigan, just

  • Providing Clients A Fifty Percent Return On Conservation Investment: Orion Energy Systems

    Here's the tale of Orion, high efficiency lighting provider, and then some. Orion Energy Systems was founded in 1996, a startup focused on delivering high-efficiency lighting. According to founder Neal Verfuerth "his first challenge was to counter the

  • How Toxic is Your City?

    In a slide show by BusinessWeek, America's most toxic cities are placed front and center. Contaminated sites are plagued by calamities-in-the-making such as man-made chemicals seeping into the soil, rupturing underground petroleum-storage tanks,

  • Murphy Oil Seeking Nearly 700% Wisconsin Refinery Capacity Expansion - The Coming Texification Of The Upper Midwest

    Who could forget the BP Lake Michigan discharge controversy. Looks like Alberta Tar Sands extracted crude oil will be refined in the Lake Superior watershed as well.

  • Getting Students to Walk It Out

    Want a sure sign of our growing auto dependency over the last 30 years? Look at how many kids now walk to school. A 2003 study by the Surface Transportation Policy Project showed that although 71 percent of parents with school-aged children walked to

  • Big Steps in Building: Ban Demolition

    Walnut Hall, Toronto TreeHugger defends the little steps that we all have to take to address the problems that face us, but we have to consider the big steps too, the initiatives that have to be legislated. Buildings consume 76% of electricity

  • United Great Lakes City Mayors Vow 15% Water Consumption Cutback

    "A coalition of U.S. and Canadian cities along the Great Lakes and St Lawrence River, including Toronto and Chicago, vowed on Thursday to cut water consumption 15 percent by 2015. The 20 Canadian and nine U.S. communities, members of Great Lakes St.

  • Eco-Running: First Step of a Long Journey

    One day a year Australians turn out in droves to pick up rubbish in waterways, tracks, parks and gardens, beaches and so forth. It’s an event known simply as Clean Up Australia. Years ago it spawned an international version, Clean Up The World, which

  • How to Go Green: Gardening

    Hey green fingers, how green does your garden really grow? If you suspect that your pastoral idyll is breeding more toxic chemicals than prize hybrid-tea-rose bushes, then read on, my earth-moving friend. We'll have you footloose and pesticide-free

  • Try The Simple Things First

    When I was a kid my father taught me to trouble-shoot the simple stuff first: like when the TV would not turn on, to look behind to see if it is plugged in. Can't count the number of times that principal has panned out. With water shortages looming

  • "All Aboard" - Two New Invasive Species Per Year Entering US/Canadian Great Lakes

    Somehow this posting was rejected by one of Lloyd's favorite sources, CuteOverload. Via Milwaukee Journal Sentinal: - "Frustrated by the mounting number of invasive species arriving in the bellies of overseas freighters, some conservationists are

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