Photo by Holly Shanks
The Sustainable Backyard Tour is scheduled for Sunday, June 12, 2016.
“The tour showcases yards and gardens that demonstrate features of sustainability, urban homesteading, and organic gardening. The spaces featured on the tour show that from townhome lots to acre-sized plots, beautiful and sustainable yards can be created by anyone with the right guidance and motivation!”
For more information about the tour CLICK HERE.
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St. Louis faces issues right now, like Westlake Landfill, which deserves a little outrage from Missourians. My new column is out in the West End Word!
“By far, my favorite era of media history is the Age of Muckraking, when writers like Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair and Lincoln Steffens took on monopoly oil companies, noxious meat packers and gouging public utilities. Missouri could use some angry muckrakers to express a little outrage right now.”
Find the column link on Don’s Facebook page HERE.
Crowd attending at the STLCC-Wildwood symposium “The Atoms Next Door” held February 20.
By Holly Shanks
“I toured the situation yesterday and my hair nearly fell out,” Dr. Helen Caldicott said. “I’ve never seen anything so goddamn dangerous.”
The internationally renowned authority on the medical dangers of nuclear waste did not sugarcoat her thoughts after visiting several contamination points, like Westlake Landfill and Coldwater Creek in North St. Louis County.
Pictured: Jason Knouft. Photo provided by Jason Knouft.
Associate Professor of Biology at Saint Louis University, Jason Knouft, talks with Don Corrigan about possible issues from raw sewage being pumped into the Meramec River because of the damaged Fenton Sewage Treatment Plant.
The turf at Field 5 at The World Wide Technology Soccer Park in Fenton was a complete loss. photo by Diana Linsley, Webster-Kirkwood Times. To read the story about clean-up efforts at Fenton’s Soccer Park CLICK HERE.
I’m not an engineer, but I knew I-44 at Missouri Highway 141 was going swimming as soon as the rain gage on my deck in Pacific hit 7 inches. And it kept raining.
Cold Water Creek FUSRAP Oversight Committee public meeting held in Florissant, February 17, 2016.
By Holly Shanks
About 300 Northwest St. Louis County residents voiced concerns, often filled with emotion and anger, to government officials tasked with radioactive waste cleanup efforts around Cold Water Creek. The FUSRAP Oversight Committee hosted the update meeting on Feb. 17 in Florissant.
Pictured: Kim Visintine. All photos and graphics provided by Kim Visintine.
Kim Visintine, one of the founding members of the organization, “Cold Water Creek: Just the Facts Please,” is the guest on this edition of “Behind the Editor’s Curtain” with Don Corrigan.
Visintine shares the story of how radioactive waste from Cold Water Creek has been spread throughout North County over the decades. She and a group of childhood friends, who grew up in the Cold Water Creek area in the 1970s and 80s, reconnected years later through social media. After a short time, they discovered rare health issues plagued almost everyone they knew, including the passing on of some of those health issues genetically to their children.
For more about the group’s, February 17, upcoming public meeting and to hear the informative and stirring interview continue reading below.
Listed below are a few interesting articles we found and wanted to share with you this week. The information comes from a variety of organizations and media outlets, which provides topics for a wide range of interests. This means there is a little something for everyone that enjoys the great outdoors and follows issues relating to the environment.
Categories: Environment, Food, Outdoor and Nature, Climate, Outdoorsmen and Women, and just a good read on an interesting person or topic.
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The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) 2016 holiday closing schedule for their offices, nature centers, and staffed shooting ranges is available. “Trails and other outdoor offerings at MDC nature centers and interpretative centers are still available for public use on most days the facilities are closed.”
Continue reading below for more information and a list of dates from the MDC.
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