Freecycle-The beautiful red-headed stepchild of Recycle

So there’s this thing that people do in various cities around the country, and it’s called Freecycle.  Carbondale does it.  You join the group on Yahoo then you post things you want to give away, are looking to receive, saw on a corner and thought someone might want, etc.  Basically it’s a way to keep [...]

Update: Question for a subject

I take back the last post and add something that more in line with what I’m trying to look for. *
Smith

SIU animal scientist develops new pig feed

Apparently it’s cheaper to feed distiller’s grain to pigs than whatever they eat now (which is anything, including each other).
Claudette

Another project idea-WINE

I found this story idea on the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Web site, the one Roger posted.  This is wine country so it might be interesting to see if the local wineries do eco-packaging such as screw top corks or alternative bottle design.
JAMIE

Antibiotics enter crops via livestock

This is a story that could easily be localized.
The University Farms use waste from the dairy farm to fertilize corn and wheat crops. I’ve watched it done from start to finish. Cows poop, poop is moved to an open pit storage area (to become even more noxious), really smelly poop is shoveled into a tractor, [...]

Coal

For anyone interested in researching the effects of coal I just skimmed over an article of an event that happened recently, and is fairly local.
The town of Kingston, TN (5 hours south east of Carbondale) is home to the Kingston power plant owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
“Created in the Roosevelt years as a [...]