published February 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Baby bottle nipple. Image credit: TipTopHealthShop Direct from the Stevens Point WI Journal : " A bill banning the manufacture or sale of plastic baby bottles and cups in Wisconsin that contain the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) has passed both houses of the state legislature...The bill passed the Assembly 95-2 Tuesday [yesterday]. It passed the Senate 33-0... Read the full ...
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published February 8, 2010 and has No Comments
Pedestrian braves the street, avoiding the un-shoveled sidewalk. Image credit: The Hook, photo by Hawes Spencer Having grown up where snow up to the windows was normal, it is with amazement that I view my fellow Southeastern Pennsylvanians dealing with serious snow. Two honest-feet fell Friday night; and, another two feet are predicted starting tomorrow night. Pretty crazy. Unless ...
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published February 7, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit:Concord, North Carolina North Carolina now bans the landfilling of plastic bottles of all types - more information here - and this has become a practical issue in rural towns where curbside recycling is not offered. Winston-Salem Journal reports on how the problem was solved in one County. The president of Rural Garbage Services Inc. offered to pick ...
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published February 6, 2010 and has No Comments
From the cover of the EWITS. Scientists and engineers at the National Renewable Energy Lab are out of the huddle with a preliminary analysis of just how far Easterners can go with the wind. Per the recently completed Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study (EWITS) [a pdf file], the eastern half of America, it is projected, can satisfy around ...
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published February 3, 2010 and has No Comments
Marian Hopkins of Business Roundtable is author of this guest opinion post. In his State of the Union address this week, President Obama re-emphasized his Administration's commitment to addressing energy and climate change issues. Experts agree there's no one path to tackling these challenges - it's going to take a combination of traditional and alternative sources. That's why the ...
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published February 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Fall hunt along a Minnesota logging road. Image credit: Little Moran I grew up amidst the commercial poplar stands of God's Country. Sure, there were clear cuts; but, in June we got to pick blueberries in last year's openings; and, in summer, wild raspberries enveloped the logging roads. As the bracken turned brown in fall, we hunted roughed grouse ...
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published January 30, 2010 and has No Comments
"Pimp my FEMA trailer." Image credit: SwampPlot.com FEMA has put the notorious Katrina Trailers, some 100,000 of them, up for auction; and the bidding has apparently driven down prices for the new models. Hence, lobbyists for the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association have suggested sending empty Katrina trailers to Haiti as a 'humanitarian gesture.' The Haitian government, as stressed and ...
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published January 30, 2010 and has No Comments
Subsurface injection of biosolids, aka "sludge." Image credit :CCUA.info This strange tale is a synopsis of a lengthy story related by the Chicago Tribune . Dozens of municipalities in northeastern Illinois, including such Chicago suburbs as Joliet, Bartlett, and Batavia, are required to remove radium before distributing the water to customers. These communities get their water from deep wells ...
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published January 30, 2010 and has No Comments
Beef cattle feedlot. Image credit: WhyFiles, via USDA I was surprised to read in Business Week, via Bloomberg , that " the U.S. cattle herd may have shrunk to the smallest size since 1958,... " Farmers are culling herds because demand for red meat is down in this Great Recession (thanks Wall Street), while corn prices are way up ...
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published January 30, 2010 and has No Comments
Beef cattle feedlot. Image credit: WhyFiles, via USDA I was surprised to read in Business Week, via Bloomberg , that " the U.S. cattle herd may have shrunk to the smallest size since 1958, ... " Farmers are culling herds because demand for red meat is down in this Great Recession (thanks Wall Street), while corn prices are way ...
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