Beautifying Milwaukee Through Rain Gardens
Homeowners can help to reduce pollution, improve water quality
This spring, those who would like to make the environment a greener place need look no further than their yards. Thanks to a novel approach to reduce storm water, we can all become eco-friendly gardeners. Rain gardens were invented in 1990 as a means to reduce storm water in a cost-effective way. Bioretention, which is the holding and filtering of storm water in plant systems, was the solution Larry Coffman, head of environmental...
Looking Back at Frontier Radio
WMSE’s birthday party
Today, it’s hard to escape the constant allure of media buzz—24-hour news, e-mail, Twitter, Facebook—available at our fingertips and formatted to suit our individual preferences. But back in the late-’70s, it was a completely different era. A kid from Bay View would have been hard-pressed to find a...
Issue of the Week: The True Impact of Waukesha’s Water Request
Plus Hero and Jerk of the Week
Will Lake Michigan water allow Waukesha to develop at the expense of minority residents of Milwaukee and low-income workers? That’s likely, according to a new report by the ACLU of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Midwest Environmental Advocates, Sustainable Story Hill and the...
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Reinventing the Library
Tight budgets, technology and community propel libraries forward
In the age of Google, iPhones and Kindle, are brick-and-mortar libraries necessary? Absolutely. Now more than ever. In fact, libraries are enjoying a surge in attendance, despite the pervasiveness of instant-gratification multimedia options. Nationally, library use is up; according to a 2008 survey conducted by the American Library Association (ALA), 76% of Americans...
