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Posted by CES Blog 5 years ago.
I can be magnanimous--really. So I don't begrudge the coal industry this nifty little story: a 15 square mile section of prehistoric rainforest has been found fossilized in a Illinois coal mine.
Posted by CES Blog 5 years ago.
Via Richard Layman, the University of Minnesota has a broadscale study of accessibility in the Twin Cities region. For those not up on the latest transportation lingo, accessibility is contrasted with mobility as a way of judging the efficiency of a trans...
Posted by CES Blog 5 years ago.
CES does a lot on those little individual actions that you, Dear Reader, can take to lessen your carbon burden. And when the clean energy plan was in city council, we tried to get the word out to supporters to contact their aldermen. Other than that, thou...
Posted by CES Blog 5 years ago.
I can't complain too much about the SJR's "In My View" columns, since they were kind enough to run mine. But today's is a doozy. I don't want to grapple with it to much, for fear of granting it legitimacy it doesn't deserve. So let me say this: Mr. Watt's...
Posted by CES Blog 5 years ago.
There are a few articles of note in today's SJR. Gas prices are always good for an active and amusing comment board, and the buffalo gnat story has, for me anyway, the ring of what's to come from global warming (even if it's not the case that our own infe...
Posted by CES Blog 5 years ago.
Obviously, the first thing to say about the pipeline explosion is: Thank goodness no one got hurt. And further: thank goodness that the many utilities running variously toxic and explosive fuels and chemicals around the country are staffed with engineers ...
Posted by CES Blog 5 years ago.
The SJR editorializes against the punditry class that's making a cottage industry out of global warming debunkery, eloquently invoking Carl Sagan's gift for bridging the scientific community and the public at-large.And it's true: we need more people can b...
Posted by CES Blog 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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...
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