| Dissecting green people
Krista Durlas feels guilty about using a Toyota RAV-4 SUV to take her daughter to her mother's home for baby sitting. Jeff DePew wishes he could have a home that is "off-the-grid." Cheryl Hoard is saving for solar panels.Such concerns weigh on the conscience of people in the forefront of the sustainability movement. Durlas and DePew both have green jobs. DePew and Hoard operate businesses based on sustainable living.They try not only to encourage green living, but to live what they promote.All three have made choices in trying to live a more sustainable existence.To live simplyDurlas, who lives in the city's Southampton neighborhood, has held a series of green jobs throughout her adult life, including her current position acquiring local foods for Whole Foods Market to sell. She also is co-founder of a monthly sustainability forum called St.
15 Years of Memories
Tabloids ranged in rows over the dining room table to inspire our search. We needed the perfect box. Ideas were popping like corn, and we had no place to put them. Our tabloid collection was orderly; disorderly ideas raged through the house, ambushing us as we showered or slept. So we measured and compared newspapers, mostly alternative weeklies, from the Village Voice to Illinois Times to The Onion to the Bay Guardian. Eleven inches by 14, we decided, was the perfect size. Not too long, not too wide. Not quite the Golden Rectangle, but close enough for journalism. Ruled into columns, that box would hold all the good ideas we could imagine and borrow: Real Astrology and News of the Weird; Dock of the Bay, Bay Life and Bay Reflections; crosswords and Creature Features; feature stories that made reading fun, like this sample from Vol.
How do you figure out where the cougar's from?
An elusive cougar emerged from shadows of doubt into the public eye in Chicago, but experts still have many questions about the big cat. Was the animal shot and killed by Chicago police Monday in an alley of a crowded neighborhood the same one documented earlier this year in southern Wisconsin? Was it the same one observed in recent weeks by police and others in North Chicago and Round Lake Park? Wildlife officials in Illinois and Wisconsin were stymied in attempts to get information Tuesday. "I'm not even sure whose custody the animal is in," said Clay Nielsen, a cougar expert with the Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory at Southern Illinois University. Nielsen was involved in investigations of the only two confirmed cougar sightings in Illinois since the 1860s.
Bradenton Vet Has Sunscreen For Dogs
BRADENTON - A Bradenton veterinarian is launching the first pet sunscreen that is compliant with U.S. Food and Drug Administration standards. Michael C. Fleck plans to release Epi-Pet Sun Protector Spray later this month. The product, designed for dogs and horses, is one of several skin care products for pets that Fleck has developed and brought to market in the past two years. The sunscreen is not designed for cats, but Fleck is developing a feline-friendly sun protector. In addition to the Epi-Pet Sun Protector Spray, the Epi-Pet line includes a Cleansing Agent Shampoo, Multi-Functional Skin Enrichment Spray and an Electrolyte Replacement powder. All of the products, except for the sunscreen, may be used on dogs, cats or horses.
Obama gathering modest?
Packing the house to the rafters won't be the plan when presidential candidate Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, speaks in Harrison High School's gym this morning. The Illinois senator's campaign, which requires tickets to attend the free event, won't say how many tickets it issued at local campaign headquarters and via Obama's Web site, but Harrison Principal Janet Leistner said the number is 1,700. When Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared at Harrison on March 20, the gym was filled with more than 4,000 people for a raucous, ear-splitting rally that Clinton's Indiana chairman described as an old-fashioned "hootenanny." "Often we create smaller events to enable a more intimate setting with Michelle Obama," said Obama campaign spokeswoman Gannet Tseggai. .
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