Posted by Thom Cmar
Door County, Wisconsin is famous for their fish boils. We are talking about massive kettles of Lake Michigan white fish with potatoes, onions and the perfect spices boiling in giant bonfires on the beach. Yum, it's a great tradition...continued→
Posted by Henry Henderson in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably
We have been awash with an array of unhappy water stories in this region of late. On the surface they are unrelated ... scary fish ... E. coli contamination ... improperly regulated pesticides ... intentionally poisoned waterways .... But if...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Earlier this month I began a series of posts about Indianapolis's Smart Growth Redevelopment District, which I have had the honor of advising. The area in question is a distressed part of the city, two miles northeast of...continued→
Posted by Anthony Clark in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Monday's "Trash" Generated at the Office With the first weekday of this experiment nearly complete I can say (and show above) that my impact has been small. Other than that napkin I used out of habit during lunch I...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil
Tomorrow night I have the honor of introducing Bobby Kennedy Jr. at a free event open to the public in New York City. Bobby will be talking about "Our Environmental Future," and I invite you to join us for an...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
While the oil lobby continues its gas attack on climate legislation, a recent government study suggests that accelerating CAFE standards under the Waxman-Markey climate bill would actually lower our gas bills by more than 10% over the next two decades...continued→
Posted by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
In Wednesday's Washington Post, Lyndsey Layton reported on a recent study examining the impact of the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA), on the reproductive systems of human males (as the story notes, previous studies have been of mice and rats). The...continued→
Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Ever wonder why some buildings in New York have a plume of black smoke coming out of their smokestacks? That soot comes from #2 heating oil, a close cousin of diesel fuel. It's similar to the diesel fuel in New York's...continued→
Posted by Eric Goldstein in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
You'd have thought that Derek Jeter and Andy Pettitte were right there, distributing autographed World Series photos. But no -- the big crowd outside of Stuyvesant High School Tuesday night was there for less glamorous but more weighty reasons. They...continued→
Posted by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Poison has been used to repel invading armies throughout history. And it's just about to happen again outside Chicago. In this case, the invading army doesn't come in the form of armed troops... actually, they are fish. But their threat...continued→
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