Iowa schools offer alternatives to bottled water | Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune | wisconsinrapidstribune.com
Everyday more schools are ditching single serving plastic bottles and replacing them with reusable tumblers. Another example in an Iowa school.
I think there is great potential in bio-fuels. Michigan’s heavy hand in agriculture provides access to huge quantities of farm waste.
(via Renewable energy advocate sees growth opportunity | Detroit Free Press | freep.com)
Fountains . . . of the future
Another campus adopts the EZH20 Hydration station.
Another bites the dustaaaa.
Sandra Steingraber: Cancer in the Ransom Note
One of the best articles I have read recently.
A great description of how hydraulic fracking is contaminating our drinking water with carcinogens that exacerbate the frequency of cancer in our population.
Hydraulic fracking wastes millions of gallons of water, turning it into a poisonous cocktail of radium, bromide, and other dangerous flavors.
Props to the Green Club at Johnsburg Junior High School in Illinois and Joe Huemann, president of Huemann Water Conditioning, for donating the labor for removing and installing the new fountain.
(via Northwest Herald | New water fountain saves more than 2,600 plastic bottles at school)
