Measuring Your Ecological Footprint
Several groups are encouraging you to use the Internet to
see how much you pollute. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s
Lester Graham has more:
Revealing the relationship between the natural world and the everyday lives of people
The Bush Administration is proposing to lower the
efficiency standards of air conditioners. The manufacturers say
more people will be able to afford new units if they don’t have to
meet higher standards. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s
Lester Graham reports:
Now that spring is finally here, it’s easy to forget the long,
cold winter that we’ve only recently survived. Great Lakes Radio
Consortium commentator Suzanne Elston says maybe we should
hang onto those chilling thoughts just a little while longer:
You probably have a computer in your car, on your desk and
maybe even in your stove. It seems like there are computers everywhere
these days helping with everything from our checking accounts to our
turkey roasts. Now researchers want to install computers in another
place, where most of us would least expect it – in Old MacDonald’s
tractor. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Daniel Grossman has
this story:
When an oil spill happens on the Great Lakes, who do you call?
Federal law says spills must be reported to the National Response
Center. But when spills are discovered, often no one knows where
they came from. That’s when the detective work begins. The Great
Lakes Radio Consortium’s Michelle Corum attended a conference on
oil spills. She learned how the ”fingerprint” of an oil spill can help
determine ”who dunnit”:
The current flooding in the Upper Midwest may be damaging
water quality in areas as far away as the Gulf of Mexico. The Great
Lakes Radio Consortium’s Jonathan Ahl reports:
Environmental groups are running an ad campaign criticizing
President Bush’s environmental policies. The Great Lakes Radio
Consortium’s Jonathan Ahl has more:
Walking is the oldest and cheapest form of transportation
known to man. But as Great Lakes Radio Consortium commentator
Tom Springer explains, in many new communities, walking can be a
difficult and dangerous activity:
Modern logging techniques that rely on heavy machinery to
pull – or skid – logs out of the woods have long been criticized as too
destructive. However, throughout the Midwest, there is a resurgence
of interest in a proven method of logging that is considerably lighter
on the land. Today, as in the past, teams of giant
workhorses and men are dragging out one log at a time and making it
pay… for themselves, for the forest’s owners, and possibly for the
long-term health of our forests. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s
Ed Janus has more: