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Prairie Writers

Green Power is Good, But Siting is Crucial

Posted Monday January 25, 2021
Even living as we are in the throes of the third industrial revolution, as the service sector outpaces manufacturing, and electronics and high tech displace heavy industry as the drivers of GDP, our economy has not outgrown its need for energy.
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Concerning the Administration’s proposed rewriting of the Clean Water Act

Posted Thursday April 4, 2019
In responding to the Administration’s proposed rewriting of the Clean Water Act, it is important to consider the original intention and language of the Clean Water Act as passed in 1972, together with the subsequent history of revisions and interpretations attempting to clarify the meaning of that language, and to supply language more precisely in accord with that original intent. ...
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Prairie Song: Seeking Harmony in Our Relation to the Land

Posted Thursday October 4, 2018
“To see and know a place, is a contemplative act. It means emptyingour minds and letting what is there, in all its multiplicity and endless variety, come in." - Gretel Ehrlich ...
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Thinking about “Nature”: Two Ways of Seeing the World and Our Place in It

Posted Thursday October 4, 2018
An attempt to provide a foundation in philosophic argument for the advocacy positions taken by Audubon of Kansas on issues ranging from the preservation of endangered species and the control of non-native invasive plants and animals, to the championing of clean air and water, saving our heritage of wetlands and prairies, and teaching and practicing ecologically sound farming and ranching practices.
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