Growing food: learning what it takes, taking (and tasting) what is learned
With spring approaching in Wisconsin, I find myself looking forward to fresh, local produce—the ever-shifting offerings of the season, starting with tender young asparagus in the spring and ending with hearty squash in the late fall, and, of course, plenty of zucchini in between.
Although eating locally does not necessarily result in a net reduction of [...]
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Hummer Bummer? Might be Smarter than Dumber!
It was just announced that the “inked” deal for GM to sell its Hummer brand to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company, of China, has fallen through, most likely putting a final stake in the heart of the behemoth car brand.
Some are applauding this event, and others are bemoaning it, pointing out that by any [...]
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Citizen of the Week Special Contest
The Climate Community Citizen of the Week Awards program is featuring a special contest!
Based on the success of December’s Citizen of the Week contest with the Anderson School of Management, this week we’ll travel to the University of Chicago, where students in the joint undergraduate/graduate course in Environmental Economics (page 11) will have the opportunity to [...]
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Team Marine Update – Past Climate Community Winner
Last fall Team Marine from Santa Monica High School was honored by The Climate Community with their Climate Community Citizen of the Week Award.
Since then they have been going full force raising awareness about global marine debris, energy solutions to our climate crisis by attending lectures, environmental film screenings, teaching in local middle schools, hosting [...]
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Climate Community Citizen of the Week – Victoria Bogdan
Congratulations to Victoria Bogdan this weeks Climate Community Citizen of the Week!
Victoria is a life long environmentalist – with a deep love of the out doors and an interest in learning how to make life on our planet sustainable both for humans and the other animals that we share the earth with. The following is [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Green products, green energy
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
Ed. note: This week’s Mulch is pint-sized and will run on Monday rather than Friday. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week.
Some people live off the grid, eat local food, and have an energy footprint so minuscule that even the canniest hunter couldn’t track them down. But the [...]
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Greetings from the 4-H Million Trees Project
The following is an update of our 4-H Million Tree Project…
*I. Project Progress*
- As of Valentine’s Day, *over 26,700 4-H youth have planted over 84,700
trees!* Thanks to everyone involved in this service-learning project.
*- All U.S. and Canada 4-H youth are invited to join the 4-H Million Trees
Project*, plant some trees, and together do something big [...]
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Climate Change: a matter of national security.
The Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonpartisan research institute, has dedicated an initiative to discovering the links between our security, our energy, and our environment. The Pew Project on National Security, Energy, and Climate just released the below video. It contains interviews from military experts that include an Admiral, Captain, and a former US Senator all [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Nuclear Plants will go up in Georgia
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
If you were to look out to the horizon of the clean energy field right now, you would see the hazy outlines of nuclear reactors. President Barack Obama announced this week that two new nuclear plants will go up in Georgia, built on the promise that the federal government will [...]
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