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Chef Rick Bayless to keynote Isthmus Green Day 2010
on Thursday 03/11/2010 7:00 am, (1) Like
Rick Bayless -- award-winning chef-restaurateur, author and television personality -- is the keynote presenter at the 2010 Isthmus Green Day on Saturday, April 17 at Monona Terrace. >More

Save the date for the Isthmus Green Day Wedding: Saturday, April 17
on Thursday 03/04/2010 2:00 pm
Get ready to celebrate when Kelly Starr-King and Mike Drake declare their love for each other -- and Mother Earth -- in a "sustainable" wedding ceremony at Isthmus Green Day, Saturday, April 17. >More

Schenk-Atwood's green machine
Denied funding, neighbors launch their own sustainability initiative
Nick Penzenstadler on Thursday 02/18/2010
Twink Jan-McMahon calls it "a blessing in disguise." Steve Steinhoff says, "It's the most successful unsuccessful grant I've ever written." >More

Madison green charter school plan advances
Lynn Welch on Thursday 01/07/2010 1:23 pm
The idea to start Madison's first green charter school is getting a favorable early reception from the Madison Board of Education. Says board member Ed Hughes, "You'd have to be brain dead not to be excited about this project." >More

Green charter school for Madison seeks green light
Backers are buoyed by trends, but will school board go along?
Lynn Welch on Thursday 12/03/2009
It's an idea that's been brewing in David Wasserman's mind since the 2001-02 school year, when he did his student teaching at a green school in Portland, Ore. Now, he hopes the time is right to launch an environmental charter school in Madison. >More

A tree falls in Madison
Livable cities need healthy trees. Are we doing enough to protect ours?
Katherine Esposito on Friday 10/02/2009
I imagine a sniper in the sky, picking them off, one by one. Ping! There goes a tree on Waubesa Street, chopped down without warning during construction. Boom! Down comes a maple on Talmadge, felled due to a neighbor's wish to build a new driveway. Bam! There goes an oak in Olin Park, victim of a fungal disease known as oak wilt. >More

Cool tin roofs: Metal roofing will last for centuries
Aluminum shingles are a good -- and green -- bet to cut overhead costs
Josh Wimmer on Thursday 09/17/2009
As eco-friendly materials go, aluminum is generally not what first springs to mind. But if your home's roof needs repair, and you want to do it in an earth-healthy way, metal may well be the way to go. >More

Recycling, not banning plastic bags
Bill Lueders on Thursday 09/10/2009
George Dreckmann, the city of Madison's recycling conquistador, concedes that the bag program will likely "not pay for itself" either through money from revenues from bags or savings in landfill tipping fees. But he argues that the environmental gains make the program worthwhile. >More

A review of Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm, by Steven Apfelbaum
Linda Falkenstein on Wednesday 09/02/2009 3:30 pm, (1) Like
Although Steven Apfelbaum is today a professional ecological restoration consultant who owns and operates Applied Ecological Services in Brodhead, Nature's Second Chance is not a tech-y treatise or a step-by-step guide to prairie restoration. It's a memoir of how he rehabbed his farmland and how that process helped him to step away from his more scientific obsessions and learn to live. >More

The fight against factory farms in Wisconsin
Large-scale operations become focal points of community opposition
Roger Bybee on Friday 08/14/2009, (3) Likes
John Peck, only half-joking, suggests Wisconsin's longtime slogan, "America's Dairyland," may need to be updated. The new slogan: "The Land of 10,000 Animal-Waste Lagoons." He also offers this nightmare scenario: "Can you imagine tourists driving up to Door County," asks Peck, executive director of Family Farm Defenders, a national organization based in Madison, "and having to endure the stench from manure lagoons produced by factory farms?" >More

Where are the buses in the northeast Madison 'car-light' neighborhood plan?
Joe Tarr on Thursday 08/13/2009
Some fear Mayor Dave Cieslewicz's plan for a model green Northeast Neighborhood is too car-dependent, lacking concrete provisions for transit from the start. >More

Car-light gemutlichkeit (audio slideshow)
Rick Berg on Sunday 07/26/2009, (1) Comment
Rick Berg took a lot of photos while he visited Freiburg, Madison's German sister city, particularly of the car-light Vauban neighborhood. >More

Dane County officials gushing over new manure digester
Going from brown to green
Jessica Slicer on Thursday 07/16/2009, (1) Comment, (4) Likes
Moo-ve over, polluting energy sources of the past, there's a new powerhouse in town. Cow power. Environmentalists and scientists have searched high (wind power) and low (hydropower) for alternative sources of energy, but in Wisconsin, the answer may be lying in the fields. >More

Proposed waterfront rules for Dane County draw fire
Some fear new standards will prove onerous to homeowners
Joe Tarr on Thursday 07/02/2009, (1) Like
Dane County is scaring people. Its Lakes and Watershed Commission has been developing the Dane County Waterbody Classification Project, which some fear will bring draconian regulations. >More

Back to nature at the UW Arboretum
For 75 years, it has pursued an audacious agenda of ecological restoration
Curt Meine on Friday 05/29/2009, (6) Likes
My port of entry to Madison was a frozen field of tallgrass, an echelon of dark pines and a patch of oak woods. As my brother and I drove into town along the south Beltline, searching for the Seminole Highway exit, I looked around and marveled: Hey, this is all right.... There's a forest in the middle of the city! >More

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