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Flood 2008: The Sponge That Saved Gurnee

July 3, 2008

Posted by Josh Mogerman

Tags:
CleanWaterRestorationAct, climatechange, flood, Gurnee, Illinois, wetlands

While reading coverage of the current Midwestern flood disaster, I was floored by this headline: 'Giant sponge' saved Gurnee from flooding.  Had the wise residents of this northern Illinois town erected a loofah levee? Or rigged a mound of porous kitchen...continued

Farmer Wants a Wife? Farmer Wants a Crop!

June 30, 2008

Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
climatechange, flood, globalwarming, realityTV, simplesteps

It is rare to find TV reality shows bumping heads with cutting edge science. But it happened last week with two unrelated releases… The CW network played the finale of its dating reality show, “Farmer Wants a Wife.” And The Climate Change...continued

Global Warming: it could look a lot like Iowa

June 17, 2008

Posted by Josh Mogerman in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
flood, Iowa, MississippiRiver

“Call back later---we are busy sandbagging.”That was all my worried sister-in-law heard from her former neighbors in Iowa City after calling to check up on them. The Iowa River runs through the leafy college town and after weeks of rain...continued

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