The Environment ReportBringing environmental news down to Earth.http://www.environmentreport.orgThu, 02 Sep 2010 20:02:50 -0400Show: Little Action After Lots of Green Talkhttp://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=463Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400
Check out the survey results

A related Environment Report story

]]>http://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=463Daily ShowShow: In Search of Quiet Placeshttp://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=462Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400
Gordon Hempton has been traveling to some of those last quiet places and he wants to protect them. He’s an Emmy-winning professional sound collector. He’s traveled the world to record everything from city streets to howler monkeys. He’s the author of One Square Inch of Silence: One Man’s Quest to Preserve Quiet. He’s joining me from Olympia National Park in Washington State.

You’ve said that you’ve found just 12 places so far in all of the U.S. where there’s an interval of at least 15 minutes without human noise. What do you think we’re missing out on if we lose those places?

AUDIO EXTRA: Hear more from Gordon Hempton

The Sound Tracker

Hempton on WBUR's On Point

Hempton in Newsweek

]]>http://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=462Daily ShowShow: Underground Diner Supports Local Farmershttp://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=461Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400
Selma Cafe

Underground Eats on Selma

Myra Klarman blogs about Selma Cafe

]]>http://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=461Daily ShowShow: Emotions Run High Over Dam Removal Questionshttp://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=460Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400
Map of Hydroelectric Dams in Michigan (pdf)

The Ann Arbor Chronicle on Argo Dam

The City of Ann Arbor on Argo Dam

More about Rowing on Argo Pond (pdf)

"Why remove Argo Dam?" from the HRWC

"The Ballad of Argo Dam" by Dave Barrett

]]>http://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=460Daily ShowShow: Invasive Species and Toxic Chemicalshttp://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=459Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400 This is The Environment Report. I’m Rebecca Williams.

There are these chemicals called PCBs or polychlorinated biphenyls. They were found to be toxic decades ago. The Environmental Protection Agency considers them to be probable human carcinogens. They were banned in the 1970s, but they’re still all around us. They’re buried in the sediment at the bottom of some of our rivers and lakes. Now researchers are finding invasive species are passing these old, toxic chemicals up the food web.

David Jude is a research scientist and a fish biologist at the University of Michigan.

So you found that zebra mussels and round gobies are driving this problem. How so?

]]>http://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=459Daily ShowShow: Selling Asian Carp to Chinahttp://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=458Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400 This is the Environment Report. I’m Rebecca Williams.

You probably know Illinois wants to stop Asian carp from getting into Lake Michigan. Biologists say one solution would be to fish the carp out of the Illinois River at a big, commercial scale. That way they won't expand their feeding range to Chicago, the Great Lakes and beyond - at least, they hope. Entrepreneurs in Illinois want to get rich off Asian carp.



A draft plan to control Asian carp
An Environment Report story about another Asian carp entrepreneur

More info about the new carp deal
]]>http://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=458Daily ShowShow: Oil Spill Creates Manufacturing Boomhttp://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=457Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400 This is the Environment Report. I’m Rebecca Williams.

When the BP oil spill started polluting the Gulf three months ago, a lot of unemployed workers in Michigan might not have guessed it would affect their daily lives.

But BP reached out to some Michigan companies to build oil boom for containment and cleanup efforts down in the Gulf.

Nikki Motson has more:

A related Environment Report story on the Kalamazoo River oil spill
An Environment Report story about seafood and the Gulf spill
]]>http://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=457Daily ShowNews Story: Growing Fruits and Veggies in the Cityhttp://www.environmentreport.org/story.php?story_id=5039Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400http://www.environmentreport.org/story.php?story_id=5039News StoryNews Story: New Air Pollution Ruleshttp://www.environmentreport.org/story.php?story_id=5038Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400http://www.environmentreport.org/story.php?story_id=5038News Story