by Tony Mancuso | Jul 28, 2019 | Born to be Wild
By April Wendling In an abandoned village in northern Ukraine, not far from the town of Pripyat, Mother Nature has taken back what was once hers. At the entrance, like many other empty villages in the area, a stone is painted with the town name and the number of...
by Tony Mancuso | Jul 23, 2019 | Energy Futures, Environmental Justice
We've Got the (Green) Power As I drive down Interstate 57 south from Chicago, a flash catches my eye: red lights. At first, a few. Then more in the distance. Click Here By Nidhi Shastri Looming in front of me is a massive field of wind power. Each light sits...
by Tony Mancuso | Jul 23, 2019 | The Human Footprint
By Jenna Kurtzweil Standing in the shadows of the Great Pyramids, a man named Herodotus set the Seven Wonders of the World in motion. If he could have predicted the modern calendar, he’d have dated his entry 440 BCE; if he could have...
by Tony Mancuso | Jul 22, 2019 | Energy Futures
Scrubbing the Skies Is clean coal fact or fantasy? Click Here By Zack Fishman For more than half of its 150-year history, the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois has relied heavily on Abbott Power Plant for on-site electricity and steam generation....
by Tony Mancuso | Jul 18, 2019 | Born to be Wild
By Amber Volmer I don’t remember the first time I heard the eerie, piercing yips of the coyote. Maybe it was when my father built a chicken coop at the end of our backyard near the wood line. I was charged with collecting eggs, their warm, hay-crusted surfaces...
