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Amazon, Wreal LLC Settle Fire TV, FyreTV Trademark Case

2 years 4 months ago
Writing as much as I do about trademark disputes and, more specifically, lawsuits, these are always the most frustrating ways for these disputes to end. I will spend some time examining a dispute, analyzing the merits on both sides, only to find that the suit is settled without any of the pertinent details of the […]
Dark Helmet

Lawns Into Meadows: Owen Wormser, Landscape Regenerator

2 years 4 months ago

This idea seeks not to uproot every shred of living carpet - "just" the (humongous, sterile, resource-intensive) areas we don't use.

         Owen Wormser is an ecological landscape designer who sees restorative potential in our acres of compulsive turf. His Nautilus Award-winning book's practical and visionary approach to ecological restoration can bring your place to life! Converting areas of lawn to meadows gives us back precious time and money while super-charging food webs and vital pollinator supports. 

      

Here in the KDHX listening area, the very tidy suburb of Webster Groves made it through No Mow April with reputation intact. Look for other local communities to adapt Webster's process in the early growing season of 2024. In May you can mow some paths through those plantings, and sow more life in the areas spared from tortuous trims. 

Related Earthworms Conversations:

Legacy Circle Farms Strong Soil, Specialty Crops (May 2021))

Biodiversity for Corporations? Where Business Works WITH Nature (May 2020)

THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, to KDHX Production chief Jon Valley.

County Council Approves Renovations at Family Arena

2 years 4 months ago
From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:  The St. Charles County Family Arena at 2002 Arena Parkway is showing its age. At 24, it has been heavily used and is in need of renovations to its seating, roof and parking lots. Those improvements will total $4.3 million but cost county taxpayers nothing. Seating in the arena includes a […]
Dede Hance

America’s Infrastructure in Dire Need of Repairs. Bring in the Robots.

2 years 4 months ago
From Wall Street Journal:  A growing cadre of tech companies are stepping up to address a massive problem hiding in plain sight: the aging of trillions of dollars’ worth of bridges, tunnels and factories across the U.S. Our nation’s most critical infrastructure—from pipelines and industrial plants to ships and suspension bridges—is slowly going to pieces, […]
Dede Hance

Advanced Manufacturing Center Set to Open in 2025 at STLCC

2 years 4 months ago
From St. Louis Business Journal:  Construction has begun on the $61 million Advanced Manufacturing Center on the Florissant Valley campus of St. Louis Community College that officials say will prepare students to excel in the high-tech skills required to make various products. Students will receive hands-on training in state-of-the-art labs, preparing them for careers in […]
Dede Hance

Preliminary Meridian Plaza Mixed-Use Development Plans OK’d

2 years 4 months ago
From Edwardsville Intelligencer:  Construction is the next step for two Meridian Plaza projects that received approval Aug. 15 at the village’s latest planning and zoning forum. Heartland Dental, the second known tenant in the mixed-use project after the Shuckin’ Shack Oyster Bar, and a pair of buildings that have no publicly known users, can soon […]
Dede Hance

Indoor Golf Recreation Facility Proposed Along Highway K

2 years 4 months ago
From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:  Nafees Rehmatullah from St. Charles proposed to create and operate an X-GOLF O’Fallon indoor golf franchise facility at 2 Crossroads Plaza, part of a strip-mall located along the east side of Highway K, north of the K and N intersection and south of Fallon Loop Road. X-GOLF provides “family-friendly indoor golf […]
Dede Hance

Special Escrow for Crestview Development Has Builder ‘Nervous’

2 years 4 months ago
From West Newsmagazine:  The public hearing for the Crestview project in Town Center brought out some supporters, along with the usual detractors. But it was the issue of a special escrow that was the most contentious issue. McBride Berra Land Company is proposing to build 91 detached single-family homes with full basements and two-car garages […]
Dede Hance