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If 10,000 Chicago Biters opt for a pound of local squash rather than stuff grown elsewhere, we'll save enough diesel fuel to fill two and a half kiddie pools.
What's better than a frozen Thin Mint? Not much, but this hits the seasonal spot: sweet, creamy squash and pepper lasagna with a ginger kick - recipe, courtesy of the chef at organic-haven Sprout. No resource-intensive meat, no pasta - and we didn't miss a thing. Scout's honor.
Lasagna Legume
Serves 6
Ingredients:
(local and organic whenever possible)
- 2 yellow squash (peeled, seeded, and diced)
- 1/4 cup white wine
- 1/4 cup vegetable stock
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 1 Tb honey
- 1 tsp fresh ginger, grated
- 1 Tb extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 eggplant (thinly sliced)
- 2 zucchini (thinly sliced)
- 1 each: red, yellow, and orange pepper (julienne cut)
- 1 1/2 cup ricotta cheese (drain/press out excess liquid)
Directions:
Begin by creating a squash puree. Combine diced squash, white wine, vegetable stock, and half the garlic in a roasting dish. Roast 15-20 minutes at 350 degrees. Pour off and save excess liquid. Blend the remaining ingredients using a handheld mixer or food processor. Slowly add the excess liquid and continue mixing until it has reached a smooth consistency. Add the honey and ginger.
Next, heat a skillet over medium low and add the olive oil. Add the rest of the minced garlic and sauté until golden. Sauté the eggplant until lightly browned, and remove from pan. In the same pan, sauté the zucchini and peppers until just-cooked, and place on towels to absorb excess oil.
Begin by layering eggplant in a nonstick casserole dish. Next layer the vegetables. Then add a layer of the puree. Then add a layer of cheese. Repeat layers until you've used all ingredients. Bake at 350 degrees for 34-40 minutes.
Sprout, 1417 W. Fullerton Ave. (773-348-0706). Lasagna Legume, $22.
Yellow squash, available at Nichols Farm at the Green City Market, 2430 N. Cannon Dr. Market prices vary.
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Carp barrier maintenance not just Corps' problem, official says
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Lack of funds for carp barrier maintenance has the people who are fighting to keep the fish from invading the Great Lakes at wits' end. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (11/6)
Push for Lake Michigan water in Lake County nears
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Details of a plan to extend Lake Michigan water to eight communities in Illinois will hit the road next week. Source: Daily Herald (11/6)
Exhibit explores wonder of water
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Estuaries like the St. Lawrence are just one of five types of aquatic places - others are lakes, rivers, oceans and wetlands - explored in Canada's Waterscapes, a new exhibit opening at the Canadian Museum of Nature today. Source: metronews.ca (11/6)
COMMENTARY: Will ocean task force benefit Lake Erie and Northeast Ohio? Maybe
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The Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force public meeting held in Cleveland last week focused on the need for an ecosystem-based management policy. Source: The Plain Dealer (11/6)
Dow agrees to address pollution at Midwest site
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After three decades of promises by federal and state officials to force Dow to clean up their mess in mid-Michigan, the Obama administration is stepping in with a new plan intended to scour away decades of contamination that turned this area into one of the nation's most polluted sites. Source: Los Angeles Times (11/6)
There can be no Pure Michigan without pure water
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'Pure Michigan' is the catch phrase for a successful advertising campaign for attracting millions of visitors and dollars to Michigan. But as you read this, exploration and permit applications are being processed for a new and different sort of mining at the head-waters of the Great Lakes. Source: Marquette Monthly (11/6)
COMMENTARY: Retooling transportation is our 21st century challenge
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In the 20th century, the development of new infrastructure helped turn the U.S. into the greatest superpower the world has ever seen. Source: Duluth News Tribune (11/5)
Could water scarcity cause international conflict?
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Many argue that water must be viewed as a human right, not solely as a market commodity. Source: The Christian Science Monitor (10/26)
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Promise of Green Jobs Unites Labor and Environmentalists
Promise of Green Jobs Unites Labor and Environmentalists 
November 6, 2009
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The labor and environmental movements have found a reason to work together -- green jobs. The November/December 2009 issue of E - The Environmental Magazine (now posted at: www.emagazine.com) takes an inside look at what's being called the Blue Green Alliance. Despite a strained history, nonprofits like the Sierra Club and union groups like the United Steelworkers now realize that they share many of the same goals -- creating a new, well-paid American workforce, ensuring safe workplaces and advancing public health.
When the environmental movement was first gaining prominence in the 1960s and '70s, Teamsters and other union members worried that the regulations they were promoting had the potential to hurt jobs. Unions worried that, for instance, clean air standards would cost companies too much and spur layoffs. Today's Blue Green Alliance discounts this argument, countering that, in the long run, a society focused on building a clean and healthy environment will provide good jobs.
Teamsters President James P. Hoffa says: "We have been forced to make a false choice in the past -- good jobs or a clean environment. The pundits said that if we wanted clean air, the economy would suffer and jobs would be sent overseas. Well, look what happened -- we let the big corporations pollute and the jobs went overseas anyway. But today is a new day."
July of 2008 marked one sign of improved labor-environmental relations, when the Teamsters withdrew from the coalition to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). This was a dramatic switch on a key issue. "The solution to our nation's energy problems is not ANWR," explains Hoffa. "We cannot drill our way out. We must find a long-term approach by investing in alternative energy sources, which will create good union jobs."
Now the alliance between labor and environmentalists is at the political forefront. In February 2009, the Blue Green Alliance held the Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference that announced its power and scope on a national basis. Some 2,600 participants converged on Washington, D.C., to hear speeches by Senators Amy Klobuchar, Sherrod Brown and other members of Congress, as well as Hoffa, an array of governors, and national union and environmental leaders. Speakers called for a global green New Deal that would rebuild the middle class based on wind and solar power, a smart new electrical grid, environmental retrofitting and other innovations.
The Search for Good Green Jobs
Despite the excitement over the new green economy -- and the $30 billion being spent on the renewable energy sector by the federal economic stimulus bill -- the clean energy sector has yet to produce the promised crop of high-paying manufacturing jobs. As a report by Good Jobs First, "High Road or Low Road?" explains, most wind and solar companies in the U.S. are nonunion and many do not pay a living wage, directly contradicting the Blue Green Alliance's call for good green jobs. Given that a third of nonunion building jobs pay less than the federal poverty wage, unionization is crucial for green jobs to revitalize the middle class. Instead, explains the report, some wind and solar employers are running "aggressive anti-union campaigns," and are even off-shoring production to China and Mexico.
But, "a unionized workforce tends to have higher skills and more longevity," says Lee Smith, managing director of the National Photovoltaic Construction Project (NPCP), which uses Sharp Solar products exclusively (Sharp is one of the very few unionized U.S. alternative energy companies). "An experienced crew of unionized workers will outperform nonunion day laborers any day of the week." Smith adds that an order from Sharp Solar can be filled in a few weeks, while one from China "comes months later."
Smith also believes that people producing solar panels should be able to "afford to put them on their house," pointing out that, at the start of the automobile age, Henry Ford paid his workers decent wages knowing they'd be able to afford cars. "Pay people a decent wage," says Smith, "and they'll be able to buy your product."
What's more, Smith says, if environmentalists "don't support domestic production and fair wages, labor will turn elsewhere." To nuclear and coal, specifically, where the workforces are unionized.
Read MoreE - The Environmental Magazine distributes 50,000 copies six times per year to subscribers and bookstores. Its website, www.emagazine.com, enjoys 100,000 monthly visitors. E also publishes EarthTalk, a nationally syndicated environmental Q&A column distributed free to 1,800 newspapers, magazines and websites throughout the U.S. and Canada (www.emagazine.com/earthtalk/thisweek). Single copies of E's November/December 2009 issue are available for $5 postpaid from: E Magazine, P.O. Box 469111, Escondido, CA 92046. Subscriptions are $29.95 per year, available at the same address.
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