Land & Environmental Section :: Page 31

• Company seeks local oil, gas

  By Megan BachmanDecember 16, 2010

  Traffic was disrupted for several days last month just north of Yellow Springs as a large truck took seismic readings of rock formations thousands of feet below the roadways.

• Company seeks local oil, gas

  By Megan BachmanDecember 9, 2010

  Traffic was disrupted for several days last month on West Enon and North Fairfield Roads just north of Yellow Springs as a large truck took seismic readings of rock formations thousands of feet below the roadways.

• Yellow Springs could recycle more

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 2, 2010

  

  Yellow Springs has a relatively good recycling track record; Yellow Springers recycle about twice as much as residents of Germantown and about three times as much as Xenia residents.

• New firm aims big for local solar

  By Megan Bachman

  

  In October, a new local company, Yellow Springs Renewable Energy, held a public forum to educate the community on the renewable energy revolution taking place in the country and state their goal of leading that renewable energy revolution locally.

• Living green at Purple Moon Farm

  By Sehvilla Mann

  

  On a recent afternoon, the sheep and goats at Purple Moon Farm are dozing in their pens. A hen wanders by, two middle-sized chicks close behind her; other chickens rest in the shade of the raspberry bushes planted in parallel rows.

• Recycling grows at Rumpke

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 27, 2010

  

  Several Village Environmental Commission members paid a visit to several Rumpke sites last month, including the recycling center in Dayton, to get an update on what happens to the waste and recycling materials that get collected curbside in Yellow Springs. (photos by Lauren Heaton)

• Land trust garners praise

  By Megan BachmanNovember 25, 2010

  

  The director of the largest federal funding source for farmland preservation stopped in Yellow Springs last week to visit Ohio’s top recipient of federal funding, the Tecumseh Land Trust, which he praised as one of the nation’s top land trusts.

• TLT’s Magaw honored as Ambassador of Ohio Agriculture

  By Megan BachmanNovember 24, 2010

  

  At the Ohio Annual Farmland Preservation Summit last Thursday, Nov. 18, the Tecumseh Land Trust’s executive director Krista Magaw was named an Ambassador of Ohio Agriculture for her nearly 10 years as director of one of the state’s most successful land trusts.

• Vectren grants $25,000 to Glen Helen Ecology Institute

  By YS News StaffNovember 23, 2010

  

  Schoolchildren throughout the Miami Valley will have new opportunities to learn in Glen Helen, thanks to a partnership announced on Nov. 15 between Vectren and Antioch College.

• Invasion of the tall tree snatchers

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 20, 2010

  

  This month is the best time to get rid of the invasive honeysuckle throughout the village, when the shrub is at it’s most vulnerable period.