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Bike Riders Angered by State Fair Parking Policy

by Brad Yost August 22, 2011

A Kentucky State Fair policy that forbids bike riders from bringing their bicycles onto fairgrounds parking areas has many local riders upset.  According to a memo from the Fair Board: “…bicycles are not to be admitted to the grounds but should be chained to the side fences or left at the gate (but not where [...]

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Green Roof, White Roof, Black Roof, Tiled Roof?

by kespeland October 19, 2009

Researchers at MIT have just announced that you can sort of have it all: they’ve developed roof tiles that change color depending on the temperature. Hot summer day? The tiles turn white. Cold, drizzly autumn day? Black, which absorbs as much as sun, they say, as the white reflects.

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Taking Your Environmental Aspirations to Work

by kespeland September 21, 2009

“Global revenues from climate-related businesses such as energy efficiency rose by 75 percent in 2008 to $530 billion and could exceed $2 trillion by 2020, HSBC Global Research estimated on Friday.”

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A Different Kind of Tour

by kespeland September 15, 2009

Several dozen Louisvillians boarded a bus this morning at St. William Church in West Louisville. They set off to view and learn about the kinds of sites you wouldn’t want on a sight-seeing tour: a garbage dump, a chemical factory, a sewage treatment plant. But these were no unusual tourists. These were participants in Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light’s Environmental Health and Justice Tour.

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Climate Change Could Cost Us

by kespeland September 14, 2009

Developing and developed nations could lose up to 12 percent of their GDP because of climate change. That’s the finding of a new report from consultancy McKinsey and Co., in cooperation with the European Union, nonprofit groups, and businesses. In other climate change news…Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed an order today establishing a department-wide approach to coordinating responses to climate change.

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No More Migration?

by kespeland September 11, 2009

Some bird species once commonly found in Kentucky and surrounding states are moving farther north each year, according to the Audubon Society. Take the Red-breasted Merganser, for example. This fish-eating duck, the society says, has moved its range northward over the past 40 years more than 300 miles. They’re apparently more abundant in Minnesota now than they once were here. The reason? Climate change.

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Does Coal Have Something to Hide?

by kespeland September 4, 2009

The latest in a series of high profile protests of mountaintop removal coal mining ended with the removal and arrest of 12 activists, a filmmaker, and a documentary photographer from a Massey Energy site in West Virginia. On Thursday, they went before a judge in Boone County. I’ve been alerted by a colleague of the filmmaker that during the arrest, Massey Energy company employees confiscated the photographers’ equipment.

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Big Climate Meetings Before End of '09

by kespeland September 2, 2009

This week, they’re meeting in Geneva, Switzerland for the World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3). The administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Jane Lubchenko, heads the U.S. delegation. At the conference, she and the other delegates will be learning more about how best to share climate information with those who need it to make decisions.

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Major Disaster Declared For Flood – Some Aid Available

by Gabe Bullard August 15, 2009

Here is the statement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency on President Barack Obama’s major disaster declaration.

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U of L Students: Signing Up for Skin Cancer 101?

by kespeland August 11, 2009

My colleague Gabe went to check out the University of Louisville’s new “luxury” student housing, The Province, today. He tells me that among the many amenities–such as a pool, a bar, and a private theater–are tanning beds. Perhaps having a relaxing, fun place to call home to after a long day of classes will be conducive to students’ mental health and, subsequently, their ability to focus and study. But the tanning beds? I’m not so sure.

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