Earth Talk | Wednesday, May 23,2007

Reuse peanuts

Minimize impact of polystyrene-foam packaging

Untitled Document Where can one find nonpolluting alternatives to foam “packaging peanuts” used for shipping fragile merchandise? Those little white polysty

Earth Talk | Wednesday, May 2,2007

The rap on rBGH

Why the demand for a ban is growing

By E/The Envrionmental Magazine

Untitled Document Why are some groups pressing to ban rBGH, the hormone given to cows that makes them produce more milk? Cows naturally produce bovine somatotropin in

Earth Talk | Wednesday, April 18,2007

For the birds

Wind turbines may chop ’em up, but pollution is a real killer

By E/The Envrionmental Magazine

Untitled Document Wind power turbines, some people say, pose a threat to birds, including migrating flocks. If this is true, what is being done about this? It is i

Earth Talk | Wednesday, October 11,2006

Unkindest Cut

Industrial processors have trimmed the ranks of grocery store butchers - and changed how we define "fresh" meat

By Amy Spies Karhliker

Unkindest Cut Two passions started me on an exploration: A couple of years ago I received my great-grandmother’s diaries, which date from 1928 to 1971. I read them and learned about . . . wel

Earth Talk | Wednesday, August 2,2006

Hot Flash

Serious about the environment? Say goodbye to air-conditioning

By Stan Cox

When it’s hot and humid out and the air conditioner’s not running, America suffers. Babies break out in rashes, couples bicker, and computers go haywire. In much of the nation, an August p

Earth Talk | Thursday, January 27,2005

prairie notes 1-27-05

By Dave Bishop

Harry was my close neighbor. “Close” in rural lingo generally refers to an adjacent landowner, as opposed to folks living several miles away who are still considered neighbors. T

Earth Talk | Thursday, January 6,2005

prairie notes 1-6-05

By Dave Bishop

It's hard to find a food with a longer history than milk, a staple of the human diet. For at least 10,000 years, milk and foods made from milk have nourished children and adults in nearly every cultu

Earth Talk | Thursday, December 16,2004

prairie notes

By Dave Bishop

This past year, the Illinois Department of Agriculture and local health departments offered financial incentives to assist in the sealing of abandoned wells. It's a worthwhile cause that I some

Earth Talk | Wednesday, November 24,2004

prairie notes 11-25-04

By Dave Bishop

In November, the last autumn colors vanish into piles of dry leaves and the prairie hardens itself for the coming winter. Here at Prairierth Farm, the crops are at last all gathered and the cat

Earth Talk | Thursday, October 7,2004

prairie notes 10-7-04

By Dave Bishop

The big bluestem, dressed in its fall red-wine colors, glows in the late-afternoon sun among the bright-blue New England asters and a scattering of yellow goldenrod. From the center of this acr