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Image ImageNEW YEAR’S DYNAMIC DUO GO GREEN IN 2016
By Don Corrigan
The Baby New Year and old Father Time were walking up North Grand Avenue right before New Year’s Eve. I caught up with them as they were checking things out by the Fox Theatre, across the street by Best Steak House.
A Thousand Miles For Climate Change
Photo from the back cover of Henry’s new book “David and the Giant Mailbox.”
David Henry walked 1,000 miles to talk with strangers about climate change. He braved rainy weather conditions, difficult roadways, and dodged texting drivers.
Henry talks with Don Corrigan about his journey across part of the U.S. on this edition of “Behind the Editor’s Curtain.”
EXCLUSIVE: SANTA CLAUS BLASTS GLOBAL WARMING
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By Don Corrigan
Just days before Santa Claus launches his sleigh for the 2015 worldwide, whirlwind Christmas gift tour, the less-than jolly fat man blasted man-made global warming. He said climate change threatens the future of his work at the holidays and he predicted that Christmas as we know it could end before 2020.
Inside The Historic U.N. Climate Conference In Paris
Dawn Reeves covering the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris. Photo provided by Dawn Reeves.
Environmental Reporter Dawn Reeves, based in Washington D.C. with the Inside EPA subscriber news service, reports back from the Paris Climate Change Summit. Reeves shares insights from the conference and explains elements of the agreement reached by countries attending the conference with Don Corrigan on this week’s edition of “Behind the Editor’s Curtain.”
A Mammoth Treat, Ozark Oranges
Hedge ball. Photos provided by Dan and Sharon Perry.
Excursion Notes by Don Corrigan…
After a great house tour in Elsah, Illinois, on Dec. 5, I took a bike ride on the river trail between Elsa, Grafton and Peres Marquette, I was almost thrown off my mount after riding over several “Ozark Oranges,” also known around these parts as hedge balls. Do you have any hedge ball stories? They can be dangerous.
Crude Oil Trains Spark Safety, Enviro-Concerns
In 2007, there were about 6,000 rail cars in the United States carrying crude oil. By 2013, the number of cars carrying crude oil jumped to 400,000. Photo by Ursula Ruhl, Webster-Kirkwood Times.
Tim Christian, from the St. Louis for Safe Trains organization, is the interview guest with Don Corrigan on this edition of “Behind the Editor’s Curtain.”
Local Scientist Talks Paris Climate Summit Importance
Jeff DePew (right) and Julia Gabbert, former Webster University student, are pictured above. Photo provided by Jeff DePew.
Jeff DePew, a wetland and climate change scientist, talks to Don Corrigan about his viewpoints, thoughts, and opinions on the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Paris on this week’s “Behind The Editor’s Curtain” podcast.
It Was A Packed House At The “Can You Dig This” Premiere
By Holly Shanks
The St. Louis screening of “Can You Dig This” was a packed house. The film followed several community members of an often violent, gang inhabited, and poverty stricken, South Central Los Angeles neighborhood. The common factor between the characters revolved around the often harsh daily realities they face, and the positive influence of urban gardens.
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