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American auto companies have taken a beating in recent years, but TreeHugger.com reports some good news from Ford. According to the report, the company began centrally controlling the power settings on its computers last year, saving an estimated $1.

Paul Wozniak, author of Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise, co-written with Susan Campbell and Wisconsin’s late Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day, will be one of the speakers at the 2010 Door County Sustainability Fair to be held on Saturday, April 24 at Crossroads at Big Creek.

“The U.S. electricity grid today resembles the roads and highways of the mid-twentieth century before the interstate highway system was built. What is needed today is the electricity equivalent of the interstate highway system.

How can we attain economic prosperity without reverting to unsustainable practices? Do efforts at sustainability necessitate giving up the beauty of the natural landscape? What role does tourism play in sustainable economic development? These and other questions related to the relationship between economic prosperity and environmental preservation will be posed at the next gathering of Green Drinks, on Wednesday, March 24 from 4:30 – 6:00 pm at Glas, the green coffeehouse on Sturgeon Bay’s west side.

The lack of transmission capacity in the eastern United States is estimated to cost consumers $16 million annually.

Carmon Mabrey has been a gardener for many years, and for several seasons Carmon’s Gardens has been supplying Egg Harbor’s Greens N Grains Natural Food Store and an increasing number of restaurants in Door County with his fresh produce.

In September 2009 the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched its “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food” initiative. The initiative promotes local and regional food systems by stimulating community economic development and ensuring equitable access to affordable fresh and local food.

Dick Skare, co-owner of The Cookery in Fish Creek, is scheduled to give a presentation at the Wisconsin Restaurant Expo, outlining environmentally friendly aspects of the restaurant’s new building.

Last year the Village of Sister Bay, through the gracious help of several volunteers, created a community garden next to the wastewater plant. The village would like to continue the project; however, the garden is entirely managed and operated by volunteers, so if enough volunteers don’t come forward the garden will not be available this year.

“City dwellers protect the ecological balance of the countryside by staying away from it.

Plans are underway for the 2010 Farmer’s Market held at Lakeside Park in downtown Jacksonport. Letters will be going out mid-March to those who were vendors in 2009, and new participants are welcome.

General Motors shut down production of the Hummer line, the preeminent symbol of the company’s decade-long commitment to manufacturing gas-guzzlers that helped send the auto giant into a tailspin.

130 Million tons of toxic coal ash produced each year by coal-fired power plant 1 Million, the number of railroad cars that ash would fill 80 The percent of America’s coal-fired power plants that could be closed if all 49 states raised their energy-efficiency level to that of New York, the most efficient state Source: Plan B 4.

In September 2009 the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched its “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food” initiative. The initiative promotes local and regional food systems by stimulating community economic development and ensuring equitable access to affordable fresh and local food.

Sustain Door announced that the third annual Door County Sustainability Fair will take place on Saturday, April 24 at Crossroads at Big Creek. Businesses and organizations which practice and support sustainability are invited to exhibit.

“Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders’ spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Chris Olson, Door County Assistant Sanitarian, was awarded a Person of the Year award on Jan. 29, 2010, during the Wisconsin Onsite Water Recycling Association (WOWRA) and the Wis-consin Liquid Waste Carriers Association 2010 Joint Convention in Stevens Point, Wis.

The NEAT (Niagara Escarpment Awareness Team) team, consisting of six Door County students, from five Door County schools and UWGB, has created a 10-minute demonstration to create awareness of the plight of the Niagara Escarpment.

130 Number of chemicals the average person puts on, puts into, or breathes into their body every day 7 Million visits Americans make each year to health