Switzerland tops the global list of countries ranked by environmental performance according to the 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) produced by a team of environmental experts at Yale University and Columbia University.

A report released today by the Wisconsin-based Cornucopia Institute presents research indicating that new additives placed in infant formula are seriously endangering the health of some formula-fed newborns and toddlers.

Since early June last year, residents of Paoli have added a grocery store to their list of local businesses.
Ken and Sherrie Ruegsegger, owners of Ruegsegger Farms Natural Meats in Blanchardville, opened Paoli Local Foods in the same location where Sam and Florence Storm used to run the Paoli Grocery Store.
The Storms started their grocery business in 1960 and rebuilt it in 1966 after the building burned. The building housed the grocery store, a tavern, and a hotel.

It has been calculated that meat travels on average 1,500 miles before it reaches the American dinner plate. Vegetables travel between 1,300 and 2,000 miles, and some fruit even further. Studies done in the United Kingdom have revealed that 30 percent of all truck traffic is due to moving food products around. And those miles do not cover the transportation of animal feed, fertilizers and anything else necessary to produce the food in the first place.

A nicely illustrated introduction to coffeehouses in Wisconsin and neighboring states; a primer on hybrid neighborhoods and how they can help us use less gas; a guide to the more unusual traveling destinations in Wisconsin; a story about a pickle-farming community and the changes facing Midwestern farmers in the middle of the twentieth century; a gardening book on how to create bird habitats in our backyards; a collection of recipes from one of Madison’s better-known restaurants; a new look at the Wisconsin countryside and the people who live there: A wide variety of recent releases from loc

Organic Budweiser? Yes, it exists, albeit not under the name Budweiser. Anheuser-Busch, this most industrial of brewers who has been more successful in giving American beer a bad name than any temperance movements ever managed, this king of additives and adjuncts has suddenly discovered the virtues of natural, healthy and environmentally friendly?

According to a recent article in The New York Times, the Rochester Institute of Technology in September established the Golisano Institute for Sustainability in order to promote collaboration across scientific and other academic disciplines in studying the impact on the environment of production and consumption. As the name implies, the institute is largely privately funded by B. Thomas Golisano, founder of Paychex, an employee-administration outsourcing company.