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Meat Wagon: Waste makes haste
Canada says no to ethanol waste as cow feed, and more |
Tom Philpott |
26 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: agriculture, Arkansas, Big Ag, ethanol, food, health, industrial ag (all these topics) |
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Our Jaw: Still Dropped
Wal-Mart's eco-initiatives turning Arkansas into sustainability hotspot |
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07 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 9:14 AM on 07 Sep 2007 Attention shoppers: we bring you news of the latest sustainability hotspot, none other than Fayetteville, Ark. Green start-ups are flocking to town, the University of Arkansas has established an Applied Sustainability Center, and the mayor rides an electric bike to work. Why? Because of a certain retail giant whose headquarters lies half an hour away. Say it with us no ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, business, green living, greenish companies, news, placemaking, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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RPS, as viewed from the states of the Old Confederacy
Their reasons aren't all that unreasonable |
Sean Casten |
27 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Arkansas, Congress, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Invasion of the Foody Snatchers
Some farmers' markets aren't as local as you think |
Suzi Parker |
21 Sep 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Kathy Webb stands in front of a group of 20 people in the dining room of her Asian restaurant, talking about locally grown food. As she describes how nearly all the ingredients in the five-course dinner she's about to serve -- from the tomatoes and herbs in the salad to the berries in the dessert -- are from Arkansas, she educates her listeners while whetting their appetites. Webb, a ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, food and agriculture (all these topics) |
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A Ploy Named Sue
With feds asleep at the wheel, states sue to protect air and water |
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28 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| A Ploy Named Sue With feds asleep at the wheel, states sue to protect air and water Frustrated by federal inaction, states and localities are increasingly suing companies and even each other in attempts to curb air and water pollution. Oklahoma, for instance, has filed suit against eight companies that operate chicken farms in neighboring Arkansas, cha ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Arkansas, environmental justice, Kentucky, news, Oklahoma, politics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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How Much Wood Would a Woodpecker Peck If a Woodpecker Existed?
Judge halts irrigation project that could harm ivory-billed's habitat |
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21 Jul 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| How Much Wood Would a Woodpecker Peck If a Woodpecker Existed? Judge halts irrigation project that could harm ivory-billed's habitat A federal judge has temporarily halted a $319 million Army Corps of Engineers irrigation project in Arkansas, pending further study of potential impact to the habitat of the ivory-billed woodpecker -- which may or may not be extinct. The last c ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, Army Corps of Engineers, National Wildlife Federation, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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It's Déjà Ew All Over Again, Again
Sighting of ivory-billed woodpecker questioned by new batch of experts |
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17 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| It's Déjà Ew All Over Again, Again Sighting of ivory-billed woodpecker questioned by new batch of experts Ivory-billed woodpecker, we hardly knew ye. And then ye came back and we acted like we'd known ye all along. But now it turns out there may be no ye to know after all: In today's issue of the journal Science, leading North American birder David Sibley and three ornithologists say that last year's seeming rediscovery of the bir ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Finger-Lickin' Bad
How poultry producers are ravaging the rural South |
Suzi Parker |
21 Feb 2006 |
Main Dish |
| A person driving through the South might notice the chicken houses dotting the hills and flatlands. He might marvel at the larger ones, as long as a football field. He might react to their gagging stench for a moment, and then forget as he travels on. But those who live near the structures -- stuffed with as many as 25,000 chickens each -- combat the odor and health hazards daily. Not yer pappy's chi ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, air pollution, Alabama, Arkansas, environmental justice, health, Oklahoma, Poverty and the Environment, state politics (all these topics) |
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Agony and Ivory
Activists sue to stop water project near ivory-billed woodpecker habitat |
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09 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Agony and Ivory Activists sue to stop water project near ivory-billed woodpecker habitat Bird lovers rejoiced when the ivory-billed woodpecker was rediscovered, but now the fun really begins. Eco-advocates are aiming to block two planned federal water projects that threaten the eastern Arkansas bottomland hardwood forest area where the bird resides. Two conservation groups filed suit in federal court yesterday to stop one of them, ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Flipping (over) the bird
My favorite side effects of the ivory-bill discovery |
Katharine Wroth |
23 May 2005 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Arkansas, endangered species, fashion, wildlife (all these topics) |
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There Is a Lord God
Woodpecker thought extinct rediscovered; birders weep like babies |
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29 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| There Is a Lord God Woodpecker thought extinct rediscovered; birders weep like babies It was spotted several times -- once even filmed -- over the past year and a half. Now, ornithologists writing in the journal Science have officially confirmed the existence of at least one ivory-billed woodpecker, a miraculously tangible token of a species long thought extinct. The discovery -- referred to variously a ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi
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12 Feb 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi Six states whose waters feed the lower Mississippi River agreed this week to work together to reduce the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Fertilizers, sewage, and other nutrient-rich pollutio ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, food and agriculture, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, marine life, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, oceans, rivers and watersheds, solid waste treatment and disposal ... (all these topics) |
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Arkansas of the Covenant
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29 Oct 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Arkansas of the Covenant Arkansas is poised to consider an innovative plan to create an "alternative fuels" tax on electricity and gas users in the state. Under the plan, which state Rep. Herschel Cleveland (D) said yesterday that he would introduce to the state assembly early next year, residents would be charged a 25-cent tax on each of their monthly electric and gas bills, while commercial and i ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, business, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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