Corn farmers are expected to grow less of their crop but sell more to foreign customers, pushing price forecasts higher, the Agricultural Department said today...
Source: Captial Times | Author: | Date: 4/10/06
Starting this month, Madison-based Ancora Coffee Roasters is donating $1 for every pound sold of its Rwanda A1 Gikongoro Bufcafe coffee toward the funding of self-powered Freeplay Lifeline radios and educational programming for the Coffee Lifeline project. Prior to the 1994 Rwanda genocide, Rwandan farmers exported 45,000 tons of coffee per year -- three times as much as today...
Source: Captial Times | Author: | Date: 4/8/06
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...Before a smattering of spectators on Tuesday, the DeForest craftsman and a small crew of helpers began putting up his latest project -- a timber-framed barn that will house offices and community rooms at Schumacher Farm Park as well as host a few barn dances...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Doug Erickson | Date: 4/7/06
Upscale grocery chain Trader Joe's confirmed Tuesday that it will open a store in Madison...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: James Edward Mills | Date: 4/12/06
Starting this month, Madison-based Ancora Coffee Roasters is donating $1 for every pound sold of its Rwanda A1 Gikongoro Bufcafe coffee toward the funding of self-powered Freeplay Lifeline radios and educational programming for the Coffee Lifeline project. Prior to the 1994 Rwanda genocide, Rwandan farmers exported 45,000 tons of coffee per year -- three times as much as today...
Source: Captial Times | Author: | Date: 4/8/06
Another Home is not just another used furniture store. Leave your garage sale mindset behind and prepare for a selection of beautifully preserved second-hand tables, chairs, sofas, cabinets, lamps and an array of household accessories...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: James Edward Mills | Date: 4/7/06
The Madison Public Library has a new edition of "Sustaining Our World, Our Communities, Ourselves..."
Source: Captial Times | Author: | Date: 4/8/06
Awnings give homes an old-fashioned cozy look while keeping out sun when it's not wanted. But how many think of them as an energy conservation measure? An awning can reduce air conditioning costs by as much as 25 percent...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Pamela Cotant | Date: 4/9/06
State buildings will have to conform to stricter energy efficiency standards under an executive order Gov. Jim Doyle issued Tuesday...
Source: Captial Times | Author: | Date: 4/12/06
Gov. Jim Doyle signed a bill Wednesday that will make about $3 million in state money available annually to help Wisconsin communities that are denied federal natural disaster aid...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Journal Staff Writers | Date: 4/7/06
The Day Without Latinos march for immigration rights at the Capitol Square drew not only an estimated 10,000 protesters, but onlookers sizing up the scene and a smattering of counter-demonstrators...
Source: Captial Times | Author: Pat Schneider | Date: 4/11/06
A steadily growing community, especially in Dane County, hits the streets to debate immigration issues. Madison police estimate that at least 10,000 people took part in a march to the Capitol, calling it a fight for dignity...
Source: WKOW--ABC | Author: | Date: 4/11/06
Pump prices for gasoline are rising with the temperature, and likely will average about a 25 cents a gallon more than last summer, but not enough to keep people home...
Source: Captial Times | Author: H. Josef Hebert Associated Press | Date: 4/11/06
Middleton could get expanded bus service by this fall, but it won't include a large transfer point. Instead, the city of about 16,500 residents will announce today that it would use three smaller transfer points, expand service to the Airport Road business park and provide hourly service to the city's neighborhoods already served by Metro Transit...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Barry Adams | Date: 4/7/06
The demise of the internal combustion engine allowed the major multilane thoroughfares through the Isthmus and UW campus areas to be gradually converted into pedestrian malls and city parks. Primary transportation spines for light rail and personal transportation pods run below ground. In fact, the underground transit system passes directly below Capitol Square where passengers may disembark at the Capitol Transit Hub and proceed by elevator directly to the Square, 75 feet above.
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Journal Staff Writers | Date: 4/7/06
Outdoor enthusiasts at annual conservation hearings split on whether the state should outlaw the baiting of white-tailed deer, though they strongly supported restricting the practice before and during the fall hunt...
Source: Captial Times | Author: Robert Imrie Associated Press | Date: 4/12/06
State lawmakers have ordered an audit of the state's effort to control a fatal disease in the deer herd, saying the public is skeptical that current techniques are working...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Ryan J. Foley | Date: 4/9/06
Should the state ban the baiting and feeding of deer year-round? That's the issue to be posed to hunters and anglers this Monday. After six, Joy Cardin talks with guests on both sides of the issue.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio | Author: Joy Cardin | Date: 4/7/06
An environmental advocate who The Washington Post has called "one of the world's most influential thinkers" will give a free public lecture on Thursday, April 20, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Source: University of Wisconsin News | Author: Tom Sinclair | Date: 4/12/06
A University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist who studies the behavior of complex global environmental systems and their interactions with human societies has been named the university's first Gaylord Nelson Distinguished Professor...
Source: UW-News | Author: Tom Sinclair | Date: 4/13/06
Food is central to our lives. Without food, we don’t live. But how much do we pay attention to our food? With this month’s column, I’m going to start a series of columns on food and how what we eat affects us and our environment...
Source: | Author: Sarah Streed | Date: 4/15/06
"Doesn't anybody care about sprawl anymore?" That's the lament from attorney and land conservation consultant Peter McKeever over a proposed 188-lot unsewered subdivision in the town of Windsor within the fragile Token Creek watershed north of Madison...
Source: Capital Times | Author: Mike Ivey | Date: 4/4/06
Events inspired by Earth Day (April 22) may be scattered far and wide across southern Wisconsin, but now there's a single Web site that seeks to list them all in one place...
Source: University of Wisconsin | Author: Tom Sinclair | Date: 4/5/06
Madison's annual spring leaf and brush collection officially kicks off Monday and will run through April 28...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Amanda Becker | Date: 4/2/06
Near east side residents and staff and board members of the Atwood Community Center got a peek Tuesday at plans for the transformation of a former metal casting factory into their new center...
Source: Capital Times | Author: Pat Schneider | Date: 4/5/06
For the second time in two months, Madison Gas and Electric has asked regulators to approve a small electricity rate reduction...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Staff Journal Writers | Date: 4/4/06
After eleven-forty five, Larry Meiller and his guests focus on the drive to wean ourselves from a petroleum-based-transportation economy. Larry's guests are Sean Michael Dargan and Amelia Royko Maurer of the Prairie Fires Biofuels Cooperative, recently organized in Madison.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio | Author: Larry Meiller | Date: 4/4/06
Risky sources of foreign oil, rising costs, and instability caused by Asia's growing demand as well as our own storm-ravaged infrastructure have created national security challenges that require bold leadership by policymakers. Unfortunately, the state Senate vote in March to delay action on the ethanol bill is a missed opportunity for Wisconsin...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: John Imes | Date: 4/1/06
Q. During the recent votes on ethanol there was a lot of smoke and little light. Does it take more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than you get out of it? And does ethanol produce more pollution than gasoline?
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Jason Stein | Date: 4/4/06
"Doesn't anybody care about sprawl anymore?" That's the lament from attorney and land conservation consultant Peter McKeever over a proposed 188-lot unsewered subdivision in the town of Windsor within the fragile Token Creek watershed north of Madison...
Source: Capital Times | Author: Mike Ivey | Date: 4/4/06
Driven by development pressures, the town of Middleton is looking at building a new road next to a Superfund landfill site...
Source: WISCTV--Channel 3000 | Author: | Date: 4/1/06
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said it will conduct controlled burns on several state-owned parcels of land in April and May...
Source: WISCTV--Channel 3000 | Author: | Date: 3/31/06
On Saturday, gas taxes went up for the last time under automatic indexing. After six, Joy Cardin’s guest discusses the future of transportation in Wisconsin.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio | Author: Joy Cardin | Date: 4/3/06
Faced with fierce criticism after he indicated possible willingness to sign a bill that would have exempted the rent-to-own industry from some provisions of the Wisconsin Consumer Act, the governor vetoed the bill Thursday...
Source: Capital Times | Author: Anita Weier | Date: 3/31/06
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said it will conduct controlled burns on several state-owned parcels of land in April and May...
Source: WISCTV--Channel 3000 | Author: | Date: 3/31/06
After eleven-forty five, Larry Meiller and his guests focus on the drive to wean ourselves from a petroleum-based-transportation economy. Larry's guests are Sean Michael Dargan and Amelia Royko Maurer of the Prairie Fires Biofuels Cooperative, recently organized in Madison.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio | Author: Larry Meiller | Date: 4/4/06
On Saturday, gas taxes went up for the last time under automatic indexing. After six, Joy Cardin’s guest discusses the future of transportation in Wisconsin.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio | Author: Joy Cardin | Date: 4/3/06
Wisconsin corn farmers plagued by marauding sandhill cranes will have a new weapon this spring to keep the birds from eating their seedlings. The federal Environmental Protection Agency has approved the use of a non-lethal bird repellent called Avitec for use on newly planted corn crops in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Ron Seely | Date: 4/1/06
Wisconsin legislators Wednesday ordered an audit of the state's efforts to control chronic wasting disease...
Source: WISCTV--Channel 3000 | Author: | Date: 4/5/06
Requiring some deer hunters next fall to shoot an antlerless deer before they could kill a coveted buck would be scrapped under a bill presented to state wildlife groups Monday...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: | Date: 4/4/06
On Garden Talk, after eleven, Larry Meiller discusses the fight to rid the state of invasive plants with DNR experts Kelly Kearns and Darcy Kind.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio | Author: Larry Meiller | Date: 3/31/06
Events inspired by Earth Day (April 22) may be scattered far and wide across southern Wisconsin, but now there's a single Web site that seeks to list them all in one place...
Source: University of Wisconsin | Author: Tom Sinclair | Date: 4/5/06
Headlines: Governor Doyle Signs New Energy Policy; Recycling Video Available – “Too Valuable To Waste”; 20th Annual Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards Celebrated in Milwaukee; Travel Green Wisconsin Update; New Federal Bill Seeks Extended Clean Energy Tax Credits; E-Waste Legislation Update; "Investing in Wind Energy”: A growth trend; Healthy School Day: An Earth Day Focus Opportunity; Healthy Schools Assessment Software Available from US-EPA; Regulatory Updates and News; Events, Training, Workshop and Tour Opportunities
Source: Solid and Hazardous Waste Education Center | Author: | Date: 4/5/06
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The Spring arrival of Sandhill Cranes in Wisconsin is welcomed by many, but hated by farmers. After eleven, Larry Meiller talks with Jeb Barzen and Alisa (Ali-sah) Rod from the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo about the annual Crane Count, and a new bird deterrant now available to farmers.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio | Author: Larry Meiller | Date: 3/22/06
...Troy Gardens, the first nonprofit housing project approved under Madison's inclusionary zoning ordinance, also is the most ambitious project to date of the Madison Area Community Land Trust...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Wisconsin State Journal Staff Writers | Date: 3/21/06
The Common Sense Coalition has its own twist on "buy local." The nonpartisan group made up of business, labor and community leaders wants to mandate that local government support small business through its purchase of goods and services...
Source: Capital Times | Author: Mike Ivey | Date: 3/17/06
Two proposals have come forward for a "buy local" initiative that would require the city of Madison to look to area businesses first when buying goods and services...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: | Date: 3/17/06
The Federal Aviation Administration is on record opposing placement of 87 of the 133 turbines for a wind farm near the Horicon Marsh...
Source: WISCTV--Channel 3000 | Author: | Date: 3/22/06
Alternative energy advocates want to see manufacturing money stay in state...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Ben Fischer | Date: 3/20/06
They may be the little guys in the volatile Dane County transmission line debate, but the members of the newly formed group Preserve Our Rural Landscape have a message for the American Transmission Co.: If you think for a moment that routing your proposed 345-kilovolt line through southern rural Dane County is the path of least resistance, you're in for a rude awakening...
Source: Captial Times | Author: Rob Zaleski | Date: 3/20/06
Gov. Jim Doyle signed the state's renewable energy bill on Friday in Green Bay. His signature means 10 percent of Wisconsin's electricity must come from wind turbines, solar power and other renewable sources by 2015...
Source: WISCTV--Channel 3000 | Author: | Date: 3/17/06
The byproduct of a Wisconsin staple has potential as an alternative fuel. The state Agriculture Department said that whey from cheese-making can be converted to sugar and then used to make ethanol...
Source: WISCTV--Channel 3000 | Author: | Date: 3/17/06
High steel costs and a tight supply of wind turbines have driven up the cost of a huge wind farm in Fond du Lac county by $100 million to $346 million, We Energies said. But, because the cost of natural gas used to generate power has tripled in recent years, the utility said the high price of the Blue Sky Green Earth wind project is worth it...
Source: Captial Times | Author: | Date: 3/17/06
Customers of Alliant Energy will see their electricity and natural gas bills go up at the beginning of 2007 if state regulators approve a rate-increase request filed by the utility on Friday...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: State Journal Staff Writers | Date: 3/17/06
They may be the little guys in the volatile Dane County transmission line debate, but the members of the newly formed group Preserve Our Rural Landscape have a message for the American Transmission Co.: If you think for a moment that routing your proposed 345-kilovolt line through southern rural Dane County is the path of least resistance, you're in for a rude awakening...
Source: Captial Times | Author: Rob Zaleski | Date: 3/20/06
Madison-based Alliant Energy's Wisconsin Power & Light Co. unit is asking state regulators for permission to increase its base electricity rates by 8.6 percent and its base natural gas rates by 2.9 percent in 2007...
Source: Capital Times | Author: Jeff Richgels | Date: 3/20/06
The state's energy conservation program for homes and businesses will be fully funded next year -- after years of raids by Gov. Jim Doyle and lawmakers -- under legislation Doyle signed Friday...
Source: Capital Times | Author: Ryan J. Foley | Date: 3/18/06
The Environmental Protection Agency cleared the way Friday for regulations to limit pollution from lawn mowers, jet skis and similar small machines...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Erica Werner | Date: 3/18/06
The Common Sense Coalition has its own twist on "buy local." The nonpartisan group made up of business, labor and community leaders wants to mandate that local government support small business through its purchase of goods and services...
Source: Capital Times | Author: Mike Ivey | Date: 3/17/06
Gov. Jim Doyle signed the state's renewable energy bill on Friday in Green Bay. His signature means 10 percent of Wisconsin's electricity must come from wind turbines, solar power and other renewable sources by 2015...
Source: WISCTV--Channel 3000 | Author: | Date: 3/17/06
Customers of Alliant Energy will see their electricity and natural gas bills go up at the beginning of 2007 if state regulators approve a rate-increase request filed by the utility on Friday...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: State Journal Staff Writers | Date: 3/17/06
Two proposals have come forward for a "buy local" initiative that would require the city of Madison to look to area businesses first when buying goods and services...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: | Date: 3/17/06
While environmental pollutants constantly swirl around children in all walks of life, past research has shown that children in poor, minority populations are disproportionately likely to be exposed to harmful toxins such as lead and agricultural pesticides...
Source: University of Wisconsin | Author: Paroma Basu | Date: 3/22/06
From education to employment to incarceration, new studies show that black men nationwide have it worse than any other social group. Peter Donalds and his guest, after seven, discuss why, and what it’s like for black men in Wisconsin.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio | Author: Peter Donalds | Date: 3/21/06
Several Women Say The University's School Has Not Done Enough To Promote Female Leaders On Campus...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Karen Rivedal | Date: 3/19/06
A multimillion-dollar improvement project that could possibly turn Stoughton Road into a freeway, with construction starting in 2012 at the earliest, will be put before the public at informational meetings later this month...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Brenda Ingersoll | Date: 3/17/06
Get involved in Sustain Dane's Rain Barrel Project. By installing one rain barrel, the typical homeowner can save more than 1,000 gallons of water each year -- water that would otherwise be taken from our aquifer. That's also 1,000 gallons of water that would otherwise run off into our lakes and rivers and carrying with it pesticides, fertilizers, trash, oil and other contaminants...
Source: Wisconsin State Journal | Author: Chris Martell | Date: 3/18/06
The Spring arrival of Sandhill Cranes in Wisconsin is welcomed by many, but hated by farmers. After eleven, Larry Meiller talks with Jeb Barzen and Alisa (Ali-sah) Rod from the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo about the annual Crane Count, and a new bird deterrant now available to farmers.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio | Author: Larry Meiller | Date: 3/22/06
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