Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Tennis Center roof collapses | Twin Cities Daily Planet
The Metrodome wasn't the only bubble that deflated in Minneapolis due to last weekend's snowstorm. About 20 people were playing tennis at the Reed Sweatt Family Tennis Center in South Minneapolis on Saturday when the inflated bubbles began to collapse, according to General Manager Mike Vidmar, "The snow was so heavy it wasn't sliding off the roof fast enough."
Two men hurt, cattle killed as snow collapses 11 Eau Claire-area barns | Superior Telegram | Superior, Wisconsin
The Myren barn was one of at least 11 in Buffalo, Pepin and Dunn counties to have extensive damage from the snowfall, according to Carl Duley, UW-Extension agent for Buffalo County.
Inside Science: “Free” Parking Has Huge Environmental Cost | PubliCola - Seattle's News Elixir
Civil engineers at the University of California, Berkeley have completed a survey of the nation’s estimated 500 to 1 billion (!!) parking spaces and concluded what I (and experts like Donald Shoup) have been saying forever: “Free” parking carries a massive environmental cost.
Twitter / Bryan Walsh: You know environment repor ...
You know environment reporting isn't doing well when an interview subject notes multiple times how impressed they are you still have a job

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