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Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
I decided that today's SJR story on the Arbor Day's reassessment of central Illinois' hardiness zone needed a snappier headline, so I came up with the one above. Chris Young skirts around the edge of climate change, and leads with the pleasant idea that "...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Two great recent pieces about the struggle to make a market for local food in our increasingly processed foodscape. First, the always reliable Michael Pollan looks again at the relationship between our food choices and obesity, this time through the lens ...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Well, not really, of course. But since everyone else is talking about Dave Bakke's column about the city's website, I figured I'd chime in. In particular, I like Marie's comments about the website's failings in terms of web design, content, and structure....
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
I wish I could promise that this will be the most boring post you're ever going to read on this blog. Sadly, however, my capacity to be boring has as-yet unplumbed depths. This post's sole saving grace is that I'm going to talk about $30 million. At last ...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
SustainLane has put together a list of the top 10 cities (sadly, only out of the 50 largest cities in the US) based on the proportion of their electricity coming from renewables. Surprisingly, Oakland, CA, clocks in at the top with 17%, and Chicago comes ...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
And, of course, the day wouldn't be complete without me remonstrating you to go out and vote. So go do it. Of course, maybe you're a saint, like me, and you would've voted without my stern order. So go read about why voting isn't enough for a strong civil...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
One of the issues that's always lurking around the topic of environmentalism is: What does it mean for jobs At the Step It Up panel discussion the other night, we got some tough questioning from someone currently unemployed, who's living on the streets. ...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Charlyn Fargo, who is, I guess, the SJR's agribusiness editor (according to her bylines on the State Fair and rodeo stories that come up on a google search for her), has a column up today advocating the re-election of Mayor Davlin. I'm trying not wade int...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
There's been a lot going on this week, so I'm behind in stuff, but let me put out a call: Drop by the Step It Up! rally today at noon at the corner of 6th and Monroe. Step It Up is a national effort to urge Congress to reduce greenhouse gases by 80% by 20...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Architect and planner Daniel Burnham instructed us to think big, but bigness is a surprisingly tricky business. A single vision, applied across many acres, is usually deadening, and recent attempts to dress up single buildings with multiple facades (and M...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
I try not to feed the global warming trolls at the SJR too much, but some people are still swayed by them, so it's important to not ignore them completely. One point that repeatedly comes up is the fact that Mars is warming. (Because, if Mars is warming, ...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Two movies you ought to come see. Tonight is Power Shift, which I've talked about before, followed by a panel discussion with myself, Tih-Fen Teng, associate professor of environmental studies at UIS, and architect Jim Johnston of Sustainable Springfield....
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Governors Blagojevich and Doyle (Wisconsin) issued a joint statement on the latest IPCC report and the Supreme Court ruling against the EPA. Nothing groundbreaking here: global warming urgent and real, state action viable, wind + biofuels == the future. I...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
It's often said that environmentalists only know bad news. So let us take a moment to savor another bit of good news: bald eagles are found in Sangamon County. This is long-time example of the good work that national conservation efforts can do.Habitat pr...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
I could make up something about how pace of life and community and art are environmental issues, but mostly I want to share this article with you: the Washington Post invited violin virtuoso Joshua Bell to be a busker for one morning at a Metro station in...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
The SJR editorializes in favor of voting today, upholding the noble journalistic tradition of hectoring citizens to not be so lazy. I'm a structures kind of guy, so I'm always more curious about how people's choices--such as whether to vote or not to vote...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
I was hoping that my absence would give Illinois and Midwest newspapers the opportunity to make the latest news from the IPCC a little more close to home. Andrew Revkin of the New York Times got a scoop on the key news, which is that poor nations are, ine...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
That's right. Earth Day is no more. We have Earth Week now! In fact, there's so much going on that its more like Earth Month for all of April. I'm listing all the events I know about so far. Tell me if you know of any events I missed.Showing of the movie ...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
When he testified before Congress the other day, Al Gore talked, in part, about creating a smart energy infrastructure to really leverage the potential for distributed generation. Don't know what that means Me neither. So go read about it.
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
David Roberts at Gristmill has some carbon tax updates--apparently, it's catching on with everyone who doesn't make the decision! One thing to add is that, since a lot of the aversion to a carbon tax is simply based on an aversion to any tax increase, a g...
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