Category: Green Page

Does thinking help one recover from a concussion? A study followed 335 children and young adults (8 to 23 years-old) as they recovered from concussions.

The Green Fund of the Door County Community Foundation recently awarded Crossroads at Big Creek a Sustainability Grant to support the acquisition of the Ida Bay Preserve.

Baileys Harbor just became a little more green, as two couples planted trees on their property. Loren and Annie Peil, owners of Orphan Annie’s Schoolhouse Inn, planted two- to four-inch caliper maple trees at their lodging property.

The Green Fund of the Door County Community Foundation recently awarded The Ridges Sanctuary a Sustainability Grant to support the “Door County Climate Change Forum” program.

At least 20 Wisconsin counties now harbor Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), the exotic insect that has decimated urban trees and forests in the eastern half of the nation.

The Forest Recovery Project’s Spring 2014 tree planting was a big success. Thirteen volunteers donated 42.5 hours of their time planting 600 native conifers at the Kangaroo Lake Preserve in Baileys Harbor.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA is seeking applications from rural small businesses and agricultural producers for funding to make energy efficiency improvements or to install renewable energy systems.

Scientists in New Zealand collected data contained in the death certificates of 14,000 people, ages 35 to 85. They found that individuals who grew up on livestock farms were 22 percent more likely to die of blood cancer (e.

The Spa at Sacred Grounds announces the addition of the Tree of Life Studio, opening June 1. The studio will be home to a variety of yoga classes, daily guided meditation and monthly workshops designed to enhance the spa’s focus on wellbeing.

The Settlement Shops Annual Plant Sale Farm Market takes place May 24 from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm. The early farm market features lots of plants ready to enhance gardens.

Kimberlee Wright, executive director of Midwest Environmental Advocates of Madison, will be the speaker at a free Door County Environmental Council (DCEC) seminar at Crossroads at Big Creek on May 21.

The preliminary 2014 Wisconsin late-winter wolf count indicates there is a minimum of 658 to 687 wolves distributed across the state, according to Department of Natural Resources officials.

NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’ةtudes Spatiales (CNES) have agreed to jointly build, launch, and operate a spacecraft to conduct the first-ever global survey of Earth’s surface water and to map ocean surface height with unprecedented detail.

A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California – Irvine finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with nothing to stop the glaciers in this area from melting into the sea.

A NASA spacecraft designed to make precise measurements of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere is at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to begin final preparations for launch.

Transportation is the second largest contributor in Wisconsin to the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that are causing climate change. We have done a lot, and can do much more, to lessen this unfortunate impact without inconvenience and save money at the same.

The soon-to-be star of the Open Door Bird Sanctuary is a ball of fluff Eurasian Eagle Owl that was hatched March 23 at a breeding operation in Oregon and arrived at its new home at the sanctuary in Jacksonport on April 24.

Why can we hold our breath for only so long before we gasp for air? Recent evidence suggests that the “break (gasp) point” is not due to carbon dioxide or oxygen sensors in the lungs or blood vessels, nor is it due to volume sensors in the lungs.

Join friends and neighbors at Otumba Park in Sturgeon Bay on May 11 at 3 pm as Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein and Marie Arnaq Meade lead a ceremony in drumming, dance, song and prayer intended to evoke a Healing of the Global Waters.