Environmental Economics

AUGUST 25, 2014

Natural hazards: UTC time: Sunday, August 24, 2014 23:16 PM. Your time: Sunday, August 24 2014 7:16 PM. No tsunami statement issued. Magnitude Type: md. USGS page: M 2.4 - 4km NE of Blowing Rock, North Carolina. USGS status: Reviewed by a seismologist. Reports from the public: 17 people. via earthquaketrack.com. No one in my family believed me

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Environmental Economics

JUNE 9, 2015

Nitrate levels at a Columbus water treatment facility increased overnight, according to city officials, who said the no-drink advisory for pregnant women and infants younger than 6 months has been continued. In this case, we would expect the demand for bottled water to increase in reaction to the increased nitrate levels in Columbus drinking water. 

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JUNE 6, 2011

Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. Not necessarily on the forehead; I'm a reasonable man. Just something along their arm or across their chest so their grandchildren could say, ''Really? You were one of the ones who tried to stop the world doing something? And why exactly was that, granddad?'

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Environmental Economics

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Presenter: Dr. Tim Haab, Professor and Chair, Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA. IAGRI Workshop Announcement. Introduction to Valuation Methods and Willingness to Pay. Dates: October 12-13, 2016. Location: iAGRI building, Sokoine University of Agriculture campus.

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Environmental Economics

JUNE 2, 2017

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Environmental Economics

APRIL 7, 2014

Saw this while walking across campus on yet another rainy day in Columbus.    I'm sure there's a witty caption in here somewhere.    Submit yours in the comments

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Nature Conservancy - Science

AUGUST 11, 2014

Coincidentally, around the same along the northern coast of Haiti, underwater explorers reported the discovery of what may be the wreckage of Christopher Columbuss boat the Santa Maria , which sank in a storm there more than 500 years ago.

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Environmental Economics

OCTOBER 1, 2012

The purchase of clean, renewable wind energy capacity equates to approximately 25 percent of the entire Columbus campus electricity load, and is one of the single largest purchases of actual renewable energy by any university in the country. If anyone knows of outstanding high school students who are looking. to major in sustainability at a major land grant university, I happen to know of a new program that just might fit the bill. 

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Environmental Economics

AUGUST 27, 2012

We just can’t afford to keep him anymore,” said Hall, who works at Nationwide in Columbus. Danny Hall’s quarter horse, Flash, is more than just livestock. He’s a companion. But hay crops have not fared well during the dry, hot summer, and skyrocketing prices have compelled Hall to make a tough decision. The 50-year-old resident of Millersport, in Fairfield County, is searching for a new home for Flash, and will give the horse to anyone who is a good fit. “We

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Environmental Economics

AUGUST 23, 2012

  Sure, it reduces reliance on food from those other evil suburbs around Columbus, but it also makes my food more expensive, reduces my choices--where am I going to get my unsustainable seafood if I can't import from the Chesapeake Bay region--and makes me generally worse off.

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Environmental Economics

JUNE 3, 2014

While yesterday's Presidential/EPA announcement of 30% reductions in CO2 emission by 2030 sounds like a drastic reduction, the Columbus Dispatch notes that the baseline matters. 

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Conservancy Talk

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Nature doesn’t play favorites, but as luck would have it, this Columbus Day 2014 weekend’s weather forecast was shaping up to be a good one. Couchsachraga, that Columbus Day weekend 2014 for another try. I almost died.

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Environmental Economics

DECEMBER 5, 2013

' This afternoon, a colleague sent me this picture from the ivory tower in Columbus

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Environmental Economics

AUGUST 19, 2013

Columbus is spending $10 million to cut down the majority of an estimated 30,000 ash trees and replace them with a different species. The big logs came from Columbus trees.

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Environmental Economics

JUNE 10, 2011

The Columbus-based utility released its plan yesterday for complying with the proposal, while also asking for Congress to intervene. I know the title is an ill-formed question, but that's the essence of the question facing federal regulators right now: Proposed federal clean-air rules could have a profound impact on American Electric Power, leading to an increase in electricity bills, the closing or partial closing of 11 power plants and the loss of 600 jobs, the company said.

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Environmental Economics

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

SmartAsset, a personal-finance technology company, has named Columbus the fifth best city in the country for conferences. It noted that Columbus has an average hotel room rate of $123, and that the average cost of a restaurant meal is low, at $22. The group’s report looked at nine metrics, including hotels and their cost, the violent-crime rate and the distance from the airport to the city’s center.

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Eccorazzi

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

It happened a year and a half ago in the parking lot of a Lucky’s supermarket in Columbus, Ohio. Picture this: there’s a petting zoo in a parking lot on a cool fall day, with all the baby animals to snuggle a child could ever want.

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EcoFriend

MAY 20, 2012

But, things are about to change with Columbus Sport 130’ hybrid, an all new 40 meters super yacht that will fuse luxury with an eco friendly design. the columbus sport 130 hybrid superyacht. the columbus sport 130 hybrid superyacht. the columbus sport 130 hybrid superyacht.

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Nature Conservancy - Science

AUGUST 8, 2016

Over the next seven years, she expanded to working with dozens of pairs across a 60 acre area adjoining her home in Columbus, Ohio. “The land was defended and won by age-old ceremonies and fierce battle….

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Environmental Economics

JULY 2, 2014

The Columbus Dispatch reports that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources has released a new list of 10 species banned from being imported, exported, sold or possessed in Ohio. Here is the Columbus Dispatch article with the 10 banned species

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Nature Conservancy - Science

APRIL 11, 2016

A flamingo checks out it’s reflection at the Columbus Zoo. Nature is weird. But conservation is weirder. Really, really, really, weird.

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Environmental Economics

MAY 31, 2011

It was 93 in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday; 95 yesterday.    Columbus averages one 90 degree day in May and 16 for the year. From the inbox: "Year Without a Summer" Brings Cool, Wet Conditions Great Lakes / Ohio Valley / Midwest. The end of the La Nina pattern will threaten to make this area a region "without a summer." " Repeated intrusions of cool air from Canada along with showers and thunderstorms will keep temperatures below normal in many areas.

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Environmental Economics

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Here's the oddity: Average gas price in Columbus, Ohio: $3.26 I'm in College Station, Texas for a few days. Driving around town I noticed something odd (and it isn't the fact that somehow these people elected Rick Perry to office). Average gas price in College Station, Texas: $3.45.

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Nature Conservancy - Science

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As Christopher Columbus sailed through Caribbean waters, he described turtles “in such vast numbers that they covered the sea.” Imagine our oceans as a highway — a deep, long highway that wraps all the way around the world.

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Environmental Economics

APRIL 29, 2011

The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in Columbus hit $4.08 today for the city, according to auto club AAA. That's a jump of 17 cents from yesterday and beat the old record set in July 2008 by 3 cents. via www.dispatch.com.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Arriving in North America around the time of Columbus, they have become “one of the most successful invasive species on earth.”. Mark Gamin, a Cleveland lawyer, likes cats and birds both.

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Environmental Economics

AUGUST 14, 2013

From the Columbus Dispatch : Union County authorities raided a property last night belonging to Wayward Seed Farm — a significant player in central Ohio farmers’ markets and the organic farm-to-table movement — and confiscated more than a half-million dollars worth of marijuana plants.

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Environmental Economics

JANUARY 25, 2013

The seven finalists -- Columbus, Ohio; Oulu, Finland; Stratford, Canada; Taichung City, Taiwan; Tallinn, Estonia; Taoyuan County, Taiwan; and. Zacharilla says the perception of Columbus, Ohio, and the new reality are very different. "The Columbus has a net in-migration of new people for the first time in decades. "They I believe that as Ohio goes, so goes the nation, and the good news is that Columbus is going pretty well."

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Environmental Economics

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Your feedback is critical to helping us make the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus Marathon & 1/2 Marathon a great event each year - for participants, spectators and the general public. From the inbox: If you haven't had a chance to complete your athlete survey online, please take a moment to do so now before we close the survey on Nov.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

According to some sources, when the so-called Pilgrims settled in for the First Thanksgiving Dinner with the local Native Americans, in 1620, they dined on Turkey, and this Turkey came from the Old World, from stock that was originally brought to Spain by Columbus.

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Environmental Economics

APRIL 13, 2015

The Columbus Dispatch reports  that American Electric Power has a crew dedicated to cutting down dead and dying ash trees before they fall on power lines. The city of Columbus has spent about $4.5 John's Mark Trail post from earlier reminded me to post this update on the Ohio Emerald Ash Borer invasion from hell: Central Ohio has been especially hard hit by the ravages of a killer insect that has destroyed tens of thousands of majestic ash trees the last few years.

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Environmental Economics

MARCH 29, 2017

From the front page of the Columbus Dispatch : As President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday easing environmental regulations, he said to coal miners standing nearby: "You know what it says, right? You're going back to work. But it's not quite that simple. The announcement could have mixed effects in Ohio, where cheap natural gas, mechanization and competitive renewable technologies have contributed to an industry-wide move away from coal. "That's

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Environmental Economics

JULY 21, 2011

The Hilton Columbus Downtown hotel is more than a year from opening but already is booking rooms - at an average price higher than hotel officials had projected.  Still, the publicly financed $140million hotel - being built across High Street from the Greater Columbus Convention Center - is running 18 percent behind its goal for bookings, the Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority board was told at its meeting yesterday.

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Green Prophet

MAY 22, 2013

Head to the heart of any Middle Eastern city and find a vibrant commercial hub, usually in the shadow of a major mosque – the bazaar. An Iranian bazaar with incredible history (Marco Polo shopped there!) may now win the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

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Sierra Club Compass

MARCH 14, 2014

Kari Columbus, a nurse from Kansas City, Kansas, sees the impacts of tar sands daily on herself, her children and her patients. “We                  Senator Boxer, center, with the representatives of National Nurses United.

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Environmental Economics

DECEMBER 19, 2012

  Prices fall of course*: Gas Price in Columbus, OH 12/19/2012. What happens when supply increases outweigh any demand increases?  Gas prices have plummeted 46 cents a gallon over the past two months, according to a survey released Sunday.

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Eccorazzi

APRIL 1, 2011

Like this one : “Does anyone know if the Whole Foods in Columbus Circle sells organic mice?&#. Remember how the Bronx Zoo Cobra started a Twitter and some of his tweets were actually pretty great?

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Environmental Economics

MAY 8, 2012

sophomore varsity softball pitcher) threw a one-hitter in the Columbus area sectional tournament while helping herself at the plate with a solo homerun in the 6th.    With yesterday's win over the Columbus City League champion Briggs, goals 2 and 3 were accomplished.  With insincere apologies to those offended by off-topic, unrelated posts, yesterday the Official Oldest Daughter of Env-Econ's (a 15 y.o.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Columbus Day weekend thrills apple pickers and leaf peepers alike in this nation’s temperate zones. Keep your eyes to the skies for highly unexpected birds like Egyptian Vultures ! On our way into a long holiday weekend, we happy Americans can shutdown just like our government. The birding can be pretty hot too. By the way, can you name anyone else who has enjoyed such enduring fame for discovering something that was already known about and occupied?

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Environmental Economics

AUGUST 21, 2013

That seems to be the thinking among a growing number of Columbus’ business and social titans as they consider who would be a good replacement for retired Ohio State University President E. I will be getting a new boss sometime in the next year or so.here's a rumor: If you’re going to dream, you might as well dream big.

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