I'm interested. I'll send you a DM.

Yep, a lot of alternative energy had roots in that era. But there was also a lot of coal gasification and oil shale in that program.

No problem, there's always too much to read :) I have a chapter on the Reserve Mining pollution saga, though. Hope it's useful. Nancy Langston's _Sustaining Lake Superior_ has a more comprehensive environmental history of the lake if you haven't yet read it.

I'll always remember that my first election here had a ballot measure for modest regulations of puppy mills, which obviously passed. But then the legislature mysteriously overturned it after pressure from the state's powerful "puppy mill lobby." Only in Missouri.

Whoa! Wild that you remember the storm all these years later. Have you read John Bacon's new book, _The Gales of November_? Really enjoyable if you like Great Lakes history and lore.

Fascinating article. I've shared it with the fluvial geomorphologists in my life :) I appreciate the mention of the Gulf Dead Zone, which is one of the (many) ecological crises that deserve more widespread attention.

The faculty union here has started a poster campaign to identify these "ghost offices" where someone should be working, but isn't. Our understaffing crisis is especially acute among office support staff.

lol. Niche joke, but funny for those who know

Keystone XL has been in planning so long that, if built, it would now cross the Tallgrass CO2 pipeline in Nebraska, I think.

Solidarity. I spent the afternoon clarifying the difference between “meets” and “exceeds” in the graduate program summative assessment rubric.

I’ll vote for Elizabeth Rush’s _The Quickening_

Baller move is to ignore the required online training and when IT sends you reminder emails, report those as phishing attempts

There's a lot to be said about Illinois's public inventory systems, but "efficient" isn't one of them

The alt-country magazine is literally called "No Depression"—you can't untangle this music from the macroeconomy!

They built a big new Sav-On Liquors near me and the building looks kind of like a Cybertruck and the owner also drives a Cybertruck. I think about it every time I drive past.