A Personal Forest
The Great Change - 1/20/2013. By Albert Bates - When I was a young boy my parents moved from the Chicago suburbs to a hardwood forested area of Connecticut, which is where I grew up. My back yard was those woods, and I used to have play forts, many different camping or hiding areas, and a succession of tree houses. I liked to overnight on a mattress of pine needles in a small grove of pines, and sometimes even did that in a foot of fresh, powdered snow. |
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Rootworms resistant to Monsanto corn found in two states
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 1/19/2013. By Jack Kaskey, Bloomberg News - The Environmental Protection Agency said rootworms in Illinois and Iowa have become resistant to an insecticide produced by Monsanto Co. corn, and four more states likely have resistant worms. |
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Warnings From a Flabby Mouse
New York Times - 1/19/2013. By Nicholas D. Kristof - One of the puzzles of the modern world is why we humans are growing so tubby. Maybe these two mice offer a clue. They’re genetically the same, raised in the same lab and given the same food and chance to exercise. The only difference is that the top one was exposed at birth to just one part per billion of an endocrine-disrupting chemical. |
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'Cow power' turns manure, food waste into mighty electricity source
Kennebec Journal - 1/19/2013. By Ben McCanna - Exeter: Every day in rural Penobscot County, a large dairy farm harnesses clean-burning gas from cow manure and food waste, and generates enough electricity to power 800 homes continuously. The process has the potential to earn the facility $800,000 a year. It also creates byproducts - animal bedding and a less-odorous fertilizer - that save the farm about $100,000 a year. |
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