Welcome to our ongoing project, LJWorld.com/Green. In this section, we'll be introducing you to people who live a green life. We'll be sharing anecdotes about how our journalists are making their lives more "green" and we'll be giving you tools to help make your own life "green."
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- Algae’s energy potential blooms
- KU researchers seeing green in alternative biofuel project
- November 9, 2009
- Kansas University researchers are working to turn microbes from treated sewage into a commercially viable biofuel, fluid that one day could be used to power the nation’s cars, trucks, airplanes and other modes of transportation.
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Eating Local in Lawrence
Green reader blogs
Want to share your Green thoughts and tips with other LJWorld.com readers? Go to our blog section and post to the "Green" blog group.
"Home and Away" and "River City Weekly"
Episodes of Free State Studio's "Home and Away" and "River City Weekly" programs that highlight environmentally friendly themes.
Kansas City's green efforts
Leaders from different aspects of the city discuss Kansas City's efforts to be environmentally friendly.
Meet the EcoHawks
Meet some of the KU engineering students, who recycled a 1974 Volkswagen Super Beetle, turning it into a hybrid that burns biodiesel, uses electricity and gets 54 miles per gallon.
Green Living
Special coverage
Green guide to moving
No one likes to move. But we shouldn’t make the earth suffer with us. On July 31, a good chunk of Lawrence residents will be in the midst of relocating. To help ease the pain on you and the environment, here are tips on keeping the move cheap, easy and green.
Green sites
- The Green Guide — National Geographic's guide to conservation and smart purchasing.
- The Environment at MIT — MIT's environmental guide includes tips for a more sustainable office.
- Environmental Living — A lifestyle site focused on the home and organic food.
- Big Green Purse — Diane MacEachern follows green news and gives environmentally friendly tips.
In depth
More Green
- Go Green: Tips for observing snowy owls and other wildlife
- February 6, 2012
- Lawrence has had some beautiful visitors from the North this brown winter. Though not unheard of, visits from snowy owls are definitely an exception to the rule in Kansas.
- Go Green: Burroughs Creek trail a biking superhighway in east Lawrence
- January 2, 2012
- My childhood bicycle path led nowhere. I was permitted to ride my purple banana seat around our driveway and, once I got their permission, the Muñoz’s driveway next door.
- Keep your tree green — recycle it
- December 25, 2011
- When your live-cut Christmas tree branches are no longer lovely, the city of Lawrence will recycle them.
- First Bell: District employees to receive bonuses during holiday season; Raintree Montessori student lands art in KDHE calendar; First Bell on winter break
- December 16, 2011
- Time for another edition of “First Bell,” a look at issues and items involving education in and around Lawrence.
- Go Green: Christmas bird count
- December 5, 2011
- By our first Christmas Bird Count, my partner Lisa and I could identify three species with confidence: robins, blue jays and cardinals. That was an improvement from the year before when, with great enthusiasm, I mistook a female cardinal on my new bird feeder for a pyrrhuloxia and proudly wrote it in my Audubon Handbook of Birds. I failed to read that the pyrrhuloxia is a desert species, resident from south-central Arizona, east to Texas.
- New book from University Press of Kansas documents birds in state
- July 18, 2011
- The bird population in Kansas is, well, flighty.
- Garden tour offers food for thought
- June 11, 2011
- Lawrence gardeners showcased their crops to the public for the third edition of the Lawrence Food Garden Tour on Saturday.
- Household Hazards: Are you disposing of them properly?
- May 28, 2011
- Tom Hogan is thankful every time someone makes an appointment to drop off items at the Lawrence Douglas County Household Hazardous Waste Facility, which is west of 23rd Street and Haskell Avenue.
- Wheel Genius for May 1, 2011
- April 30, 2011
- A portion of the Kansas River levee trail will be closed beginning this week for the construction of the Bowersock Mills & Power Co.’s new plant on the north bank of the Kansas River.
- Prairie Moon Waldorf School earns state award for being green
- April 9, 2011
- Prairie Moon Waldorf School was named a “Kansas Green School of the Year” by the Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education. It received its award April 1.
- Go Green: Envision a ‘Complete Streets’ Lawrence
- April 4, 2011
- A national organization called the National Complete Streets Coalition has laid the groundwork for communities all across the United States to address the needs of all commuters, not just drivers.
- KU building to showcase sustainable technology near Chamney dairy farm
- March 12, 2011
- Sandwiched in between an 80-year-old barn and farmhouse on KU’s West Campus is the new foundation for what will be the home of the Center for Design Research.
- Energy audits help find holes to plug
- March 11, 2011
- Lawrence energy auditor Robert Coffman hadn’t even reached the front door of Tony Schmidt’s house before he spotted trouble.
- KU students plugging into energy-saving contest against K-State
- March 11, 2011
- Since students living on Kansas University’s campus never have to see an outright electric bill, it can be a struggle to find an incentive to convince them to conserve energy.
- Go Green: E-readers not always the environmentally friendly choice
- March 7, 2011
- The relatively recent revolution of e-readers offers hope that reading books will continue in some form or another into the future.
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