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Another Week: Number 27
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Here is a list of content tagged “environment” on MarkCz.com.
We Energies coal ash spills into Lake Michigan
Wisconsin news made The Rachel Maddow Show again last night. That's because on Monday, coal ash from the grounds of We Energies' Oak Creek Power Plant was swept into Lake Michigan when a shoreline bluff collapsed during construction — ironically, for an air quality...
Leaf collection? Mulch leaves into lawn, garden beds
Fall leaf collection is very peculiar here in Racine, Wisconsin. People rake or blow their leaves into rough piles in the street which sit there for days or weeks. At some point, a front-end loader may or may not come by to scoop the leaves into a garbage truck....
BP Gulf oil spill solution: Wool fabric from Janesville, Wisconsin
I heard this in a WUWM news story and had to see the YouTube video. Janesville, Wisconsin textile manufacturer Monterey Mills makes a dense wool fabric that its president, Daniel Sinykin, is convinced could absorb enough of BP's Gulf oil spill to save 20 miles of...
Oil spills absorbed by donated hair booms: MatterOfTrust.org
Sitting down to work this morning, Amy read me a Facebook post from her friend Dana Boyle, who is looking for a way to spread the word that hair soaks up oil spills, and that hair can be donated to help cleanup efforts in the massive Gulf oil spill off Louisiana:...
‘The Story of Stuff’ with Annie Leonard
Update, 3/9/2010: Annie Leonard's project has just been published in book form. It is called: The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change (Free Press, 352 pages). Here's an infectious...
‘An Inconvenient Truth’: Al Gore’s global warming, climate change slide show
The day before Earth Day, the movie that created such a stir last year — An Inconvenient Truth — finally made it through our Netflix gauntlet and onto our TV. The film is a documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's "slide...