AltWeeklies Wire
Soil Test This Fallnew
Testing the soil in a vegetable garden is quickly done, and the benefits are long-term. University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator Richard Hentschel said that if the soil is right, gardeners should be able to produce fresh vegetables all season long.
Illinois Times |
Staff |
09-25-2012 |
Environment
Some Illinois Residents Push to Get State to Overturn a Mine Permitnew
Richard Fuller, who described himself as a "75-plus-year-old" farmer, suggested that Capital Resources Development Co.'s plan to strip-mine a 430.6-acre tract near Banner -- a village 25 miles southwest of Peoria in Fulton County -- would destroy the area's topsoil and make future planting nearly impossible.
Illinois Times |
Amanda Robert |
07-31-2008 |
Environment
The Chainsaw Resurrectionnew
How Friends of the Sangamon Valley bring forests
back to life.
Illinois Times |
Fletcher Farrar |
10-18-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Chasing ACESnew
Illinois incorporates first-ever energy standards into rate relief, but are they garbage?
Illinois Times |
R.L. Nave |
09-20-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Why Aren't More of Us Commuting on Two Wheels?new
A number of videos on YouTube and a recent article in the Wall Street Journal have featured a subject that obviously captivates Americans: People riding bicycles in Amsterdam.
Illinois Times |
Jeanne Townsend Handy |
08-30-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Illinois Scientsts Get the Poop on Pig Powernew
Using a technique he developed known as thermochemical conversion, Yuanhui Zhang thought he could turn something that smells awful into products that have no smell -- he was thinking about something like odorless fertilizer, but he may have stumbled on something much more valuable.
Illinois Times |
R.L. Nave |
08-23-2007 |
Environment
Tags: energy, environment
Environmentalists Skeptical of 'Clean' Coalnew
Although the debate over coal-burning power plants often begins at the smokestack, the Sierra Club finds that coal's path of destruction really begins in the mine and continues to wreak havoc until waste finds its way to a landfill, abandoned mine, or human lung.
Illinois Times |
R.L. Nave |
07-09-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Showdown at Lusk Creek Wildernessnew
Illinois Audubon acts to protect an ecological treasure, but there's much more to do.
Illinois Times |
C.D. Stelzer |
06-01-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The New Environmentalistsnew
The coalition to stop utility polluters broadens as outdoorsmen, pediatricians, and business developers join the fight.
Illinois Times |
Joan Villa |
04-13-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Springfield's Hottiesnew
Two locals are tapped to spread Al Gore's global warming message.
Illinois Times |
Dusty Rhodes |
01-26-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Opportunity's Risknew
Explosion of ethanol production could tax available water sources.
Illinois Times |
Joan Villa |
01-19-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Not in Their Front Yardsnew
Waverly, Ill., residents go to court to head off
proposed ethanol plant.
Illinois Times |
Manjula Batmanthan |
10-30-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Split at the Seamsnew
An Illinois county weighs the future of longwall mining.
Illinois Times |
Cindy Ladage |
10-30-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The New Wind Rushnew
With the onset of electricity deregulation, the market brightens for wind-power generation.
Illinois Times |
Joan Villa |
09-29-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Battered but Beautifulnew
Life goes on at a troubled oxbow lake of the Illinois River.
Illinois Times |
Jeanne Townsend Handy |
06-05-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
