Blogs & Ecology

You may think it sounds crazy, but Illinois recently became the first state to decree that bass fishing is now a high school sport. And I’m wondering how high school coaches and athletic directors feel about it, because I can say with certainty that it’s going to raise more than a few eyebrows among some of those I know....

I do... Want Solar Power
Our friends at the Daily Green have a nice heart-warming story about Sarah and Kiril Lozanov, a young couple who decided to use their wedding registry to go solar. They couldn't afford the 1.7kw solar system needed to power their 800 sq. ft. condo by themselves.

photo by Kyle Eertmoed

Two weeks ago we wrote about the knock-on effects of the expanding wind industry on US manufacturing. Here’s the latest concrete example of that:

When ecology teacher Paul Ritter at the Pontiac Township High School in Pontiac, Illinois realized the U.S. is beginning to experience increasing amounts of unused or pharmaceuticals in the water supply he swung into action by working with his students to organize a local program to keep drugs out of the environment that may well serve as a model for others across the country.

People are filling up our "You Can't Make Up Stuff Like This" file far too quickly; but this one just has to be posted.

Coal industry-hired PR agencies must have come to the realization that the "Clean Coal" mantra isn't working out as they'd planned. How else to explain advocates referring to a billion dollar coal gasification project as making "synthetic natural gas?" Reminds us of an old George Carlin routine from Saturday Night Live.

"The term Jumbo Shrimp has always amazed me. What is a Jumbo Shrimp? I mean, it's like Military Intelligence - ...

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Source: TreeHugger