Millions spent to get kids to walk, bike to school

By   /  May 4, 2012  /  Environmental, Federal Government, Minnesota, News  /  No Comments

Little girls whispering next to bikes on bike rack

Not so long ago, kids walked and biked to their neighborhood school as a matter of course.

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California’s Cadiz creates water out of thin air

By   /  April 10, 2012  /  News  /  No Comments

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Call it “thin water.” A small private company called Cadiz Inc.in Los Angeles is in the process of creating water in California’s Mojave Desert — like a magician, literally out of thin air.

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Refunds ordered for utility customers gouged by unpopular Minnesota environmentalist energy plan

By   /  April 10, 2012  /  Energy, Featured, News, State Government  /  No Comments

By Tom Steward | MN State News

ST. PAUL — Thousands of CenterPoint Energy ratepayers will receive refunds after being overcharged on their heating bills under an experimental natural gas pricing system unveiled in 2010 by Minnesota environmental groups and state regulators.  The politically correct pricing program–designed to penalize ratepayers for using more than a pre-determined allotment of [...]

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Local Kansas planning initiative has federal strings, UN roots

By   /  April 4, 2012  /  Federal Government, News  /  No Comments

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The Sedgwick County Commission will decide Wednesday whether to give a consortium of South Central Kansas governments and organizations broad control over community planning funded by a federal grant and based on a United Nations agenda.

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Houston schools may borrow $39 million for energy efficiency

By   /  March 27, 2012  /  Education, Energy, Featured, News  /  No Comments

A proposal to cut the Houston schools’ energy costs will require the school district to borrow $39 million – an expense that some school board members said wasn’t part of the package when they began discussing it last summer.

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