The city’s blue-bag recycling program is bad news because it’s too easy? “We think the [City of Chicago] blue bag program is a step backward for recycling,” Rod Meshenberg of the Resource Center tells David Cohen in Compass (December), newsletter of the Chicago Audubon Society. “Source separation [instead would] let participants get in the habit of reusing instead of simply disposing recyclables. The city program lets people simply dispose instead of saving material. I don’t know if it’s really interested in recycling education.”
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“We have probably cornered the market on insect reestablishment,” Northeastern Illinois University biologist Ron Panzer tells the Conservator (Winter), newsletter of the Nature Conservancy’s Illinois chapter. Along with biologist George Derkovitz, Panzer spent more than 600 hours last summer capturing larvae of the extremely rare rattlesnake master moth, feeding them rotten carrots, watching them pupate, and then releasing about 75 newly emerged moths at Indian Boundary Prairies, just south of I-57 and the Tri-State in Markham.
You have a troubled school, according to veteran education writer John Merrow in Illinois School Board Journal (November-December, reprinted from the School Administrator), (1) when “most teachers can’t wait to get away” at the end of the school day, (2) when the principal is always hidden in the office (“an active, visible principal is basic to any good school”), or (3) when the school is too big for even an active principal to know every child.
