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The owner of a Bloomington-Normal recycling company, Midwest Fiber, says he’s amazed with how technology is changing his business – even if other economic forces can make things challenging.
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The new state budget includes less money for a popular electric-vehicle rebate program, potentially hindering efforts to reach a stated goal of 1 million EVs on the road by 2030.
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The U.S. has the mineral resources and industrial capability to create a fully domestic battery EV supply chain, but it will take a massive “all of the above” mobilization of the federal government to make it happen, a Rivian official told Congress.
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Today on Food Trek, host Tory Dahlhoff searches out the real definition of farming's biggest buzzword of the last few years: regenerative agriculture. Where did the term come from, and what does it really mean?
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Today on Food Trek, host Tory Dahlhoff searches out the real definition of farming's biggest buzzword of the last few years: regenerative agriculture. Where did the term come from, and what does it really mean?
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Hospital food is not typically known for being local and organic, nor does it usually inspire the tastebuds. But a pilot project at OSF St. Francis Medical Center aims to change that, one breakfast meal at a time. Food Trek host Tory Dahlhoff has the story.
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Hospital food is not typically known for being local and organic, nor does it usually inspire the tastebuds. But a pilot project at OSF St. Francis Medical Center aims to change that, one breakfast meal at a time. Food Trek host Tory Dahlhoff has the story.
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Curt Meine will visit Illinois State University on Thursday to deliver a lecture on conservation in a time of rapid social and environmental change.
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Today on Food Trek: We're heading over to Ashkum, Illinois, to hear from Harold Wilken and Jill Brockman-Cummings about the origins of Janie's Farm and Mill, an organic flour powerhouse that has worked against the grain of the conventional farm and food system to bring a locally produced staple baking ingredient to restaurants, groceries and home pantries throughout Illinois.
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Today on Food Trek: We're heading over to Ashkum, Illinois, to hear from Harold Wilken and Jill Brockman-Cummings about the origins of Janie's Farm and Mill, an organic flour powerhouse that has worked against the grain of the conventional farm and food system to bring a locally produced staple baking ingredient to restaurants, groceries and home pantries throughout Illinois.
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The Village of Danvers was among the more-local municipalities who received notice from the state that the levels of manganese in its water supply was too high.
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Today on Food Trek: Host Tory Dahlhoff pulls the old food truck out of the garage, air up the tires, swap out the fryer grease, fire up the grill, and hits the road with Chef Ryan Smith to cook and chat with the owners of Sous Chef, a small grocery in downtown Peoria where they have written their own recipe for connecting local farmers to the community.