The cumulative impact of wind power facilities in killing migratory bats threatens to become an environmental crisis that cannot be ignored. By 2012, more than 600,000 bats were being killed annually. By 2014, this number had risen to 2.22 million annually, and the number is likely substantially...
Reuters Health, Lisa Rapaport The study included 24 participants who lived close to wind turbines, and a reference group of 26 individuals who didn’t live near wind turbines, who spent three consecutive nights in a sleep laboratory. The first night was for habituation, then participants were ra...
"I call it 'the little town that could.' Any time there's a crisis, big or small, the community always seems to chip in," she said. "People are just kind here. Everybody is checking on their neighb...
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The winery is housed within the original structure of a century-old board and beam dairy barn. Ocala’s orchards and vineyards overlook a sprawling valley which leads to the town of Port Perry on the shores of Lake Scugog. This winery has grown out of four generations of orchard farmers bas...
On a fall day in 2012, a drenching rainstorm swept down Lake Joseph, timing its arrival to the shores of Sherwood Inn just as Blake and I began our wedding vows. The guests, ill-prepared for the unexpected downpour were caught in surprise, hastily attempting to keep themselves dry. Through...
Is Noise Pollution the Next Big Public-Health Crisis? The New Yorker, David Owen Excerpt from an article recently published in the New Yorker magazine about a variety of human noise and the need to curb it. Why do people question the validity of rural communities’ concern about the encroachm...