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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Along the Mississippi: Ponyshoe edition $5 could be yours	Katharine Wroth	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: food, Mississippi River, Missouri, placemaking (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: So long, Dubuque ... ... we're off to St. Louis	Katharine Wroth	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: placemaking, Iowa, Mississippi River (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: Driving Miss Doris Exploring Dubuque by boat	Sarah van Schagen	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Iowa, Mississippi River, placemaking (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: Quote of the day Granted, it's early yet	Katharine Wroth	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Mississippi River, Iowa, placemaking, quotables (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: We're not in Seattle anymore ... or Kansas, for that matter	Katharine Wroth	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: green living, Iowa, Mississippi River, placemaking (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: America's river Exploring Dubuque's riverwalk, tourist-style	Sarah van Schagen	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Iowa, Mississippi River, placemaking (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: SDAT thing you do A meeting of the minds in the Masterpiece on the Mississippi	Katharine Wroth	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: placemaking, Iowa, Mississippi River (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: Buol market A morning meeting with the mayor of Dubuque	Sarah van Schagen	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Iowa, Mississippi River, placemaking (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: Rollin' on the river Grist pulls a Huck Finn	Katharine Wroth	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: green living, Mississippi River, placemaking (all these topics)

Clean water jacked While industrial agriculture fouls the Mississippi, the EPA cowers in the corner	Tom Philpott	18 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, legislation, Mississippi River, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Huck Finis Report says EPA not doing enough to protect Mississippi River		16 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:51 PM on 16 Oct 2007 The longest river in the United States has been abandoned by the very agency that should be protecting it, says a new report from the National Research Council. A 13-member panel assessed the Mississippi River's health and evaluated efforts to implement the federal Clean Water Act along the waterway's 2,300 miles. Conclusion? The U.S. EPA has made the river an "orphan," leaving th ...
Topics: Mississippi River, news, water pollution (all these topics)

From Bad to Thirst How the nation's breadbasket is poisoning its own water supply	Elizabeth Royte	16 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
In late September, the corn and soybean fields of the lower Missouri River floodplain are a lovely dull brown, nearly ready for harvest. The row crops sprawl as far as the eye can see, their regimental march broken only by levees, gravel roads, the occasional band of cottonwoods, and the endless tracks of the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe. The scenery is pastoral and soothing. But ...
Topics: agriculture, food, health, industrial ag, Mississippi River (all these topics)

Engineer Miss Army Corps must halt work on destructive Missouri river project		17 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:30 PM on 17 Sep 2007 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was ordered this weekend to cease work on a Mississippi River flood-control project in Missouri that would have cut the river off from its last remaining floodplain, devastated tens of thousands of acres of wetlands, and, um, not controlled flooding. Ordering the Corps to remove any part of the project built so far and restore the area to its historic c ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River, Missouri, news, wetlands (all these topics)

The Best Defense Is a Good ... Marsh Two years after Katrina, New Orleans is still succumbing to water	Wayne Curtis	29 Aug 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance writer who's written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Preservation, and American Heritage, and is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. He recently traded Maine winters for New Orleans summers. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Wednesday, 29 Aug 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La. Katrina left these boats high and dry -- b ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Death Wish Why the Gulf dead zone won't go away any time soon	Wayne Curtis	07 Aug 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance writer who's written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Preservation, and American Heritage, and is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. He recently traded Maine winters for New Orleans summers. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Tuesday, 07 Aug 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La. It's summertime in New Orleans. Time slows. Backyard gardens demand to be weeded near ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Deader Than Ever Biofuels could contribute to historically big Gulf of Mexico dead zone		18 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Deader Than Ever Biofuels could contribute to historically big Gulf of Mexico dead zone Still think corn-based biofuels will save the world? Here's another piece of the no-they-won't puzzle: Researchers say more intensive farming of more land in the Midwestern U.S. -- in part a result of the push for more corn production -- could contribute to the largest-ever "dead zone" in the Gulf of Me ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, energy, Mississippi River, news (all these topics)

Drink Me A New Orleans transplant traces the source of his tap water	Wayne Curtis	26 Jun 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance writer who's written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Preservation, and American Heritage, and is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. He recently traded Maine winters for New Orleans summers. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Tuesday, 26 Jun 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La. I was hiding out from New Orleans' early summer heat in a Magazine Street bar ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Phosphorus Is Bad Phor Us Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' still large and in charge		12 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Phosphorus Is Bad Phor Us Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" still large and in charge As happens every spring, billions of pounds of nitrogen and phosphorus from agricultural fertilizer have made their way down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, invigorating massive algae blooms that suck up oxygen and create a massive "dead zone." In 2001, a task force appoint ...
Topics: agriculture, industrial ag, Mississippi River, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Postcard From the New Atlantis On moving to New Orleans, a city defined by water	Wayne Curtis	24 May 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance writer who's written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Preservation, and American Heritage, and is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. He recently traded Maine winters for New Orleans summers. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Thursday, 24 May 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La Someone once wrote that eating a tomato grown on a fire escape dem ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Let My River Go Unleashing Mississippi River could be key to restoring Louisiana wetlands		01 May 2007	Daily Grist
Let My River Go Unleashing Mississippi River could be key to restoring Louisiana wetlands Painfully aware that their state is sinking, Louisiana politicians are pushing a $50 billion plan to fight wetlands erosion by unleashing the Mississippi River. The river built much of the southeastern part of the state over time, through sediment deposits. But levees and other restraints have kept it on an ...
Topics: Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi River, news, wetlands (all these topics)

Try Me a River Mississippi River may be redirected to build Louisiana wetlands		20 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Try Me a River Mississippi River may be redirected to build Louisiana wetlands How to protect and restore the Louisiana coast? A group of researchers has a crazy idea that just might work: shift the course of the Mississippi River. Every half hour or so, the Mississippi steals a football-field-sized chunk of soil from Louisiana's coastal wetlands; it dumps 120 million tons of would-be hurrican ...
Topics: Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi River, news, wetlands (all these topics)

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi		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 ...
Topics: Arkansas, food and agriculture, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, marine life, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, oceans, rivers and watersheds, solid waste treatment and disposal, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Old MacDonald Had an Idea Altering the market to promote sustainable farming	Elizabeth Sawin	07 Oct 2002	Global Citizen
The Aug. 16 issue of Science magazine features an ominous headline: "Dead Zone Grows." To the right of the headline is a map of the Gulf of Mexico with an irregular green stripe hugging the shoreline. This is the Dead Zone, an area of the gulf where oxygen levels are so low that most marine organisms -- including crab and shrimp -- cannot survive. A primary cause of the problem i ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Gulf of Mexico, marine life, Mississippi River, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Summer Buggin'		05 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Summer Buggin' Think of it as good news in bad packaging: The swarms of mayflies that are coating Midwestern towns this summer are a sign that the region's waterways -- most notably the Mississippi River -- are healthier than they've been in decades. The flies don't bite or sting; they just mate and die, all in the course of one day, and they do so in such large vol ...
Topics: education, Midwest, Mississippi River, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

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