To win the Solar Decathlon, you don’t have to run faster or throw a javelin farther than your competitors. The winner of Solar Decathlon
Category: Environment
Maybe progressives just don’t know how responsible conservatives are
Conservatives breathe the same air as progressives; they drink the same water. They fly the same planes and they eat the same food. It
Alberta Tar Sands, Keystone XL Pipeline: Game over for climate change
The proposed Keystone XL Pipeline extension would transport crude oil from the Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada to refineries in Illinois and Oklahoma,
Confessions of a ReUseIt junkie
I have too much stuff. My suburban home houses only two people, but we’re both pack-rats who (confession) buy way too much stuff and
Family farm: A photojournalist’s archive
The 160-acre family farm is a thing of the past. While just 40 years ago, many square miles of the Iowa landscape were divided
Info overload: 10 newsy bits too good to miss
Filed under TMI: Every week, there’s just too much information on the web, and a lot of stuff just gets lost in the shuffle.
Decorating one levee, blowing up another
The Monarch-Chesterfield levee, in suburban St. Louis, is about to get beautified by a creative, fun community project that could be a good starting
U.S. military leads climate-change initiatives, and deniers know it
The U.S. military not only accepts the notion of climate change, its leaders see climate change as a national-security priority. But Congressional climate-change-deniers continue
“Clean” coal ad wars
Coal is clean, right? That’s what the media-savvy American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy [ACCE] tried to get us to believe in an ad
Making the case for e-readers
When e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook hit the market, I have to admit to being less than thrilled. An avid