Land & Environmental Section :: Page 25

• Green space funds waning

  By Megan BachmanMay 10, 2012

  A state program used to preserve area farmland for a decade has been halted, hindering a local land trust’s efforts to protect land from development.

• Pitstick land purchased for agricultural use

  By Lauren HeatonMay 3, 2012

  The 100 acres of farmland just north of the Center for Business and Education sold last month to the area farmers who had been farming it. While the local farm does not have a conservation easement on it, its use for agricultural purposes is likely to remain stable for now.

• Bounty of village Earth Day events

  By Megan BachmanApril 26, 2012

  To commemorate the 42nd annual Earth Day this weekend, a mix of fun and education are on hand as an environmentally conscious village steps up to raise awareness about the beauty, and fragility, of the global ecosystem.

• Oil and water— Drilling stirs new concerns

  By Megan BachmanApril 19, 2012

  

  In the late 1800s northwestern Ohio was at the center of an oil boom, and Ohio became the world’s largest oil producer. Soon drilling moved to eastern and central Ohio, which is today at the center of another fossil fuel boom

• Canadian David Suzuki speaks after film— Environmental icon comes to YS

  By Megan BachmanApril 12, 2012

  

  If you had one last lecture to give, what would you say? In the film Force of Nature, Dr. David Suzuki, known as the godfather of the environmental movement in Canada, delivers a legacy lecture indicting humanity for undermining the planet’s life support systems.

• Water pollution we all create— Catching up with runaway runoff

  By Lauren Heaton

  There is a gully in the Glen at the northeast edge of the village, not far from the Glen Helen Building. When it rains, water comes rushing into the Glen, carrying with it the runoff from the village, its street oils, its lawn chemicals, and its trash.

• Toxic sites are under control

  By Lauren HeatonApril 5, 2012

  Over the past two decades, Vernay, along with Morris Bean & Company, YSI, Inc. and the Village Water Reclamation plant, have all been point sources of pollution to local ground and surface water. But through their efforts and work with the U.S. and Ohio Environmental Protection Agencies, all four point sources of area water pollution have made strides to control and mitigate the damage they caused to the local watershed.

• Real watershed moments for area

  By Megan BachmanMarch 22, 2012

  

  Where Yellow Springs begins and ends is defined by clear political boundaries. But the village also exists within an ecosystem that has boundaries of its own. An important one is its watershed, an area of land that drains into a common waterway.

• Village water, from the ground up

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 15, 2012

  

  You could say the Yellow Springs water system began about 425 million years ago, when a large inland sea covered the area.

• Many issues of village water

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 8, 2012

  Water. We can’t live without it. But chances are, we don’t spend much time thinking about it. And questions regarding water quality are edging closer to Yellow Springs.