Tuesday, January 25, 2005

[Great Lakes] Drain in Great Lakes is open, report says A conservation group released a study Monday that claims a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredging project has punched an expanding "hole" in the upper Great Lakes that has plunged Lake Michigan's long-term average water level by about a foot. [Source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel -- need a login/pw?] 2:42:15 PM Google It!    [Recycling] Literacy the Bottom Line Notre Dame grads begin 'social venture' to put old books to good use. [Source: South Bend Tribune] 2:39:55 PM Google It!    [Grants] New Voices New Voices is a pioneering program to seed innovative community news ventures in the United States. Over the next two years, New Voices will help fund the start-up of 20 micro-local, news projects with $12,000 grants; support them with an educational Web site, and help foster their sustainability through $5,000 second-year, matching grants. New Voices is administered by J-Lab at the University of Maryland and supported by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.   Proposal Deadline: March 17, 2005. 2:37:59 PM Google It!    [Confined animal feeding operations] A Big To-Doo-Doo On Friday, in the shadow of the splashy presidential inauguration jamboree, the Bush EPA offered factory farms a tempting tradeoff: more than two years of immunity from the Clean Air Act and certain toxic-discharge standards in exchange for participating in a data-collection program that would monitor air emissions from their facilities. [Source: Grist Magazine] 2:35:55 PM Google It!    [Sustainable product design] Better, By Design 2002 review of Cradle to Cradle by Grist Magazine's Hal Clifford. 2:32:03 PM Google It!    [Sustainable product design] Deleting Hazardous Waste Environmental rules and the proliferation of discarded devices push firms to design gadgets that are easier to recycle and safer to dispose of. [Source: Los Angeles Times -- need a login/pw?] 2:30:14 PM Google It!

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