A User-friendly EPA

The US Environmental Protection Agency has restructured their website. It’s oriented toward user groups…has redeveloped data sources toward practical uses…and thought innovatively about how to recast databases so that they might give meaningful environmental, political and economic insight (check out the zip code organized information on electricity generation, watershed conditions, etc.)
www.epa.gov

Iowa Farmland

As you might readily image, the life of an Iowa farmer has changed….expanded acreage, new high tech machines, the push to biofuel production, and the increasing cost of farmland.
The cost of farmland, and the competition for rental and purchase, is evidently changing the rural ethic…creating a new ‘pushiness’ in rural America.
The New York Times just [...]