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."
- 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.
- Go Green: Kaw Valley Seed Fair will teach about local food production
- February 7, 2011
- In February, gardeners depend on dirty thoughts to get them through. If the 300 in attendance at the first annual Kaw Valley Seed Fair is any indication, this year’s event will be a hot spot.
- Levi’s launches new ‘green’ jeans
- January 17, 2011
- Soft and dry? Levi’s introduces ‘waterless’ denim.
- Edible landscapes: Lawrence activists want orchards for private, public use
- January 17, 2011
- Skyler Adamson would love it for any resident in Lawrence to be able to walk down the path in a park, through school grounds or out their own front door and get a quick snack.
- Ask the Farmer’s Almanac
- 02:11 a.m., January 5, 2011 Updated 02:11 a.m.
- The Farmer’s Almanac offers the answers to such vexing questions as the best days to start logging, the best days to castrate livestock or the best days to make sauerkraut. All the while being “useful, with a pleasant degree of humor.”
- Energy-efficient upgrades at KU expected to save $2 million a year
- November 26, 2010
- The maze of ductwork and towering fans on top of Kansas University’s Malott and Haworth halls might not be the most glamorous example of going green. But the new equipment promises to bring some of the greatest energy savings to the school.
- Hutchinson plant produces first wind turbine part
- November 18, 2010
- A Hutchison plant that builds parts for wind turbines has reached an important milestone.
- Kansas First Lady Stacy Parkinson talks with young crowd at KU about importance of veggies
- November 15, 2010
- Maybe it’s because she’s packing up to leave Cedar Crest. The election’s done. Her husband won’t be compiling a budget, charting the state’s direction or looking to squeeze revenue from a struggling economy anymore.
- K-State sustainability intern program helps make Kansas businesses greener
- November 12, 2010
- Kansas State University has been helping make businesses a little greener through an internship program that just finished its fifth year.
- Westar launches website to help Lawrence residents with using smart meters
- SmartStar programs will allow customers to monitor energy usage, costs
- November 4, 2010
- Westar has launched a new website that’s intended to help guide Lawrence residents through the process of getting a smart meter and tapping into the information that meters will provide on hourly energy usage.
- Bowersock power plant signs major deal with Kansas City-based utility
- 11:18 a.m., November 4, 2010 Updated 06:34 p.m.
- Lawrence-based Bowersock Mills and Power Company has signed a new 25-year contract with a Kansas City utility that is expected to boost the prospects of Bowersock building a new hydroelectric power plant on the north side of the Kansas River.
- Bottled water? What a boondoggle
- November 1, 2010
- Want a tall, cool glass of one of the slickest boondoggles on the market? Have some bottled water. According to the National Resources Defense Council, Americans annually spend $4 billion on water they once would have drunk from the tap. How did the bottling companies transform our drinking habits? By convincing us that tap water wasn’t safe.
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