Environmental News BitsBrowsing environmental news sources so you don't have to. Contact Laura Barnes (lbarnes@istc.illinois.edu) with questions, comments, and suggestions.ClimatePULSE: Fertilizing Climate Change One Farm at a Time- September 15, 2008 Read the full post at Triple Pundit. Fertilizer use and climate change. Unfortunately, choice words you rarely hear used in the same sentence. With so much focus given to emissions from transportation and industry, lesser known, but equally important factors like fertilizer use are often overlooked. To place things in perspective, the overuse of fertilizers releases ...http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/09/15/climatepulse-fertilizing-climate-change-one-farm-a... Want to Rent Green Good Luck. Unless- September 15, 2008 Read the full post at Triple Pundit. It seems these days that green building is everywhere you look. It&8217;s hard to not find a media outlet throwing in a story with a green building angle. Hurrah for those who want to build or remodel green, you&8217;ve got plenty of resources now. But what if you&8217;re not ...http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/09/15/want-to-rent-green-good-luck-unless/ Appreciate Those Bottom Feeders for More Sustainable Fisheries- September 15, 2008 Read the full post at Triple Pundit. We don&8217;t eat lions, tigers or bears for protein, so we shouldn&8217;t eat shark, tuna or swordfish either. We need to be eating further down the ocean food chain if we want an ocean food chain from which to eat in the future. Those are statements from Paul Johnson made ...http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/09/15/appreciate-those-bottom-feeders-for-more-sustainab... Recycled vegetable oil: Key to the Highway- September 15, 2008 Read the full post at Triple Pundit. Theres much talk, high-level debate and lobbying over sustainability and biofuels these days, despite their miniscule market share and debate concerning what sustainable actually means. How all this well-intentioned theorizing, research and debate translates into real progress and positive change on the ground in agricultural communities and among biofuel ...http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/09/15/recycled-vegetable-oil-key-to-the-highway/ What did you or your school do to be greener this year- September 15, 2008 Ever wanted to tell EPA what you thought on an environmental topic Each week, you have your chance in the EPA blog, Greenversations. Each question is an open-ended blog entry; please share your thoughts as comments. This week&8217;s question: What did you or your school do to be greener this year Classroom supplies, school buses, building maintenance, indoor ...http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/09/15/what-did-you-or-your-school-do-to-be-greener-this-... National Middle School Sustainability Challenge Launches Today- September 15, 2008 Read the press release. Starting today, middle school students across the United States are being encouraged to &8220;go green&8221; and team up for the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge, the first and only national K-12 sustainability education initiative aligned to education standards and uniquely tailored to match students&8217; growing comprehension abilities throughout their school-aged ...http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/09/15/national-middle-school-sustainability-challenge-la... The latest issue of GreenBuzz- September 15, 2008 For a full-color, graphic version of this newsletter, go to http:greenbiz.comenewsletter. How to Cash In on the Green Economy By Tilde Herrera http:www.greenbiz.compodcast20080911how-cash-in-green-economy Glenn Croston, author of &8220;75 Green Businesses You Can Start to Make Money and Make a Difference,&8221; joins GreenBiz Radio to talk about the opportunities and pitfalls posed by eco-entrepreneurship. Fortune 50 Lacks Transparency in Web-Based Environmental...http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/09/15/the-latest-issue-of-greenbuzz-87/ In Digital Age, Federal Files Blip Into Oblivion- September 15, 2008 Read the full story in the New York Times. Countless government records are being lost to posterity because workers do not regularly preserve documents.http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/09/15/in-digital-age-federal-files-blip-into-oblivion/ Wind-Power Politics- September 15, 2008 Read the full story from the New York Times. For years, wind-farm projects had stalled in the face of local political opposition. Then an entrepreneur named Peter Mandelstam came up with a new and energizing approach.http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/09/15/wind-power-politics/ Book Review: Dry Storeroom No. 1- September 15, 2008 Read the full review in the New York Times. A behind-the-scenes memoir of London&8217;s Natural History Museum &8212; home to about 80 million specimens and a collection of extremely eccentric scholars.http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/09/15/book-review-dry-storeroom-no-1/ |