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Better Environmental and Working Family Protections via Elections

2:19 pm in Business & Politics, green jobs, News, oil, renewable energy, wisconsin by TreeHugger

vote.jpg Photo credit: Theresa Thompson/Creative Commons With the recent fight over the debt ceiling in Congress, Wisconsin's upcoming recall elections have not been national news much like the state's heated politics were earlier this year. Yet many Wisconsin residents are working hundreds of volunteer hours knocking on doors and calling their fellow voters to make sure people vote in Read the full story on TreeHugger

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DNA Trail Maps Cougar’s Dead-End Journey Across South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin & Connecticut

7:05 pm in animals rights, Business & Politics, connecticut, minnesota, usa, wisconsin by TreeHugger

Hyundai Tucson photo Crash-Tested 2010 Hyundai Tucson GLS IIHS Image credit:Wikipedia DNA testing of cougar crap left along a 1,055-mile trail has established that a young male Puma walked all the way from South Dakota to New England in search of a mate. The poor cat's epic journey (9 lives for 9 states?) ended when he was run over by a car in Milford Connecticut. The impetus for his journey, it is reported, most likely was his mom driving him out of her territory in the Black Hills of Sout...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Live In A Small US City? Get Ready To Train, Plane, Bus, Boat, Walk & Do It All Over Again

8:01 pm in air travel. fuel efficiency, Business & Politics, Cars & Transportation, iron mountain, trains, usa, wisconsin by TreeHugger

paul bunyan budget cutter photoCutting the budget with a Paul Bunyan-style axe. Image credit:Wikipedia, Akeley MN Paul Bunyan sculpture. DELTA Airlines has announced it will stop serving twenty four (24) small US cities. With fuel costs so high, these small, rural airports with passenger "load factors" between 12% and 63% will be waving goodbye to Delta. Some of the small airports Delta will stop serving currently receive hundreds of thousands per year in "Essential Air Service" subsidies from the Federal government. It's ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Free Market Takes That Incandescent Bulb And Shoves It (Aside)

5:20 pm in Business & Politics, energy industry, government policy, usa, wisconsin by TreeHugger

light bulb photo "A light bulb in black and white." Image credit:Flickr, PlastAnka Democrats and their anti-green Republican foils are far too late to control the market for incandescent light. Both the law to help slowly phase out the incandescent bulb or the recent lobbying effort by Republican cow-tippers and pundits to repeal that law matter little, as the free market demands increased energy efficiency in commercial, industrial, or institutional buildings - residential will follow. With electricity prices projected to rise even more, and building managers and owners wanting to reduce th...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Invasive Wasps Released to Battle Invasive Beetles

11:51 pm in insects, Travel & Nature, wisconsin by TreeHugger

wasp borer photo Photos: David Cappaert - Michigan State University, guano / cc To the untrained eye, all may appear tranquil and calm in Wisconsin's forests, but the truth is that a war of sorts is underway -- between two foreign species on U.S. soil. For the last several years, a particularly nasty invasive beetle has been ravaging ash trees, and in the latest bid to combat the destructive pests, entomologists have enlisted the beetle-killing prowess of other non-native insects -- tiny parasitic wasps recruited from China. Experts are hoping the wasps will fight the...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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