Jon Bales is founder of a new Milwaukee organization, the Urban Aquaculture Center, dedicated to demonstrating how urban fish production can become a sustainable foodproducing industry. Milwaukee has an unprecedented opportunity to remove itself from its rustbelt city image and move in a purposeful direction using a new set of tools. It can do this by embracing the latest in green innovation and becoming recognized as a leader in urban agriculture.
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Posted inNeighborhood News
Pollinating Our Future: Changing the Urban Landscape
Try as we will to ignore them, there are some problems that just won’t go away. We’re running out of oil and our climate is changing. The way we produce our food in this country is becoming increasingly unsustainable. Change is going to happen. Our only choice in the matter is whether we choose to manage that change, or just let it happen to us.
Posted inAsk the Ecologist
Fluorescent Lightbulbs and Old Electronics
Q: You wrote about compact fluorescents previously, but what about the big, long fluorescent lightbulbs? Can we recycle those at our local hazardous waste drop off too?
Posted inUncategorized
Aldermanic candidates for Milwaukee’s 3rd District speak out
The Question:
What is your strategy to coordinate a plan for the Hometown development site at the east end of the North Avenue bridge?
There are three powerful stakeholders in this issue: Mandel, the developer; the East North Avenue BID; and the community groups gathered under the Milwaukee River Work Group who have a zoning proposal before the Council that impacts future development.
Posted inHarambee Connection
Cream City Medical Society: African Americans In Medicine 1895 – 2007
Cream City Medical Society has been around for eighty years, serving the health care needs of African Americans and advocating for their health rights.
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