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  • Op-Ed: Embed information inspirational

    Recently, I put a dvd into my dvd player and before the previews could play, an environmental video started playing. It addressed the price of gasoline through a montage of videos from around the world. These videos showed massive flooding, starving people in the streets, and various other atrocities. All these images were flashed as the gas price rolled higher and higher. The video was written and directed by a 10-year-old boy. 

  • Focus: RHUBARB (Rheum Rabarbarum)

    Rhubarb is botanically a vegetable - not a fruit - and is a member of the buckwheat family.  To many cooks and gardeners, rhubarb stands for all that is homegrown and homemade.  It is welcome as one of the first fresh foods widely available after a long winter.  It is especially user-friendly since with just a little care and feeding a plant can be productive for a few decades or more. It is often used in old fashioned pies, crisps, cobblers, cakes and sauces - earning it a reputation as midwestern comfort food.

  • Recycle without the headache

    In the distant future, consumers conscious of the environment could simply throw all of their recyclable plastics, glass and paper into one bin and let some robotic genius sort it for them.

    Welcome to the future.

    The city of Winona now participates in no-sort curbside recycling, allowing residents to use purple bins from the city which are given to participants free of cost. The pickup is also at no charge.

  • WSU tackles carbon emissions

    Global climate change is a huge issue in the world today and Winona State University has big plans, such as developing environmentally friendly buildings to help reduce carbon outputs in the atmosphere.

    The CLASP lecture series hosted two presentations on Wednesday about global climate change, and what WSU is doing to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide it releases into the atmosphere.

  • Pollan brings "In Defense of Food" to WSU

    As a part of the 2009-2010 Lyceum Series, best-selling author Michael Pollan came to campus on Wednesday, Sept. 23, to speak.  The event was sold out, and with every seat in Somsen Auditorium filled, there was standing room only. The auditorium was not only full of students, whose tickets were free, but also with community members.

     Michael Pollan is a Journalism professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has been a contributing writer for New York Times Magazine, and has written five best-selling books.

  • pizza bump - it's not a dance

    I have dedicated a good part of my life to the cause of home cooking.  I find the daily preparation of a variety of good tasting and nutritious food quite rewarding.  Even fun.  And for sure interesting.  I have no illusions that I am a typical American when it comes to my kitchen activity level.   I know that a lot of fine people do not share my enthusiasm about cooking at home, let alone cooking from scratch with real food.

  • Spring brings concern over river

    Flooding is a constant worry in river towns such as Winona. Reggie McLeod, Editor/Publisher of Big River Magazine, points not only to weather conditions as influential over river levels, but also human activity. (By Lisa Ziegler)

  • World crafts fair in unfair economy

    The winter holidays usually welcome the sound of brass bells and crackling fires in the Midwest, but this year, Ten Thousand Villages gave the Winona community a chance to hear hand-made leather rattles and wooden instruments that croaked like frogs Nov. 19-21 in the Art Tye Lounge of Winona State University.

  • WSU Prof. Values Water
    Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 at 11:03 am
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  • Green leader assists Riverway

    After 23 years, Rochelle Jansen’s search led her to a compost bin in a small learning community in Minnesota City, Minn., and she couldn’t feel more at home.

    As of September, Riverway Learning Community has had an extra instructor on campus, of the green variety. The newcomer to the Minnesota City school, Jansen, doesn’t teach math or English. Her brand of lesson plans and quizzes involve a more natural technique.