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After Years of Saying it Can’t be Done The American Cleaning Institute (ACI, formerly the Soap and Detergent Association), represents most of the soap-makers in the U.S., has announced a voluntary ban on phosphates in household dishwasher detergents. This follows the banning of phosphates in many US states (such as Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, [...]

The solar car team from the University of Michigan has pulled off yet another first place win in the American Solar Challenge, a 1,100 mile solar car race from Oklahoma to Illinois. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

Wood River Refinery, now connected directly to Alberta Yesterday the valve was turned, opening the Keystone Pipeline. The converted natural gas pipeline ships 435,000 barrels of Alberta tar sands crude each day to Conoco-Phillips’ refinery in Wood River, Illinois. Some have called it an “environmental Armageddon”; TransCanada Pipelines disagrees, saying in the Globe and Mail: [...]

CHICAGO, Illinois, June 23, 2010 (ENS) – One invasive bighead Asian carp has been found in Lake Calumet along the Chicago Area Waterway System – the first fish that has been found above the U.S. Army… Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.

From afar it looks like just another golden hued evening gown but up close it’s hundreds of M&M wrappers–yum! Image courtesy of EarthShare Illinois We’re no strangers to green fashion in Chicago; Designers Vaute Couture, Frei Designs, and Mountains of the Moon</a…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo: Flickr, CC But you can never find one when you need it… According to a new regional survey, the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin together have 1,260 square kilometers of paved parking lots, or 5% of urban land use. That’s about 2.5 parkings per car, but that’s not even counting street parking, [...]

Credit: Flickr via Ian Webb. You won’t find Lobster Boy in Hartford, Connecticut. Or Salt Lake City, Utah, or Denver, Colorado, for that matter. Those are the top three most “Suntelligent” big cities in the U.S., according to a survey by the American Academy of Dermatology. The most sun-dumb? Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois and Pittsburgh, [...]

Ever wanted to get up close and personal with a wind blade on a wind turbine? Scaling a turbine aside – which certainly isn’t good for your health if you get caught up in the giant turning blades – you are pretty limited to craning your neck upwards below a turbine to guess at how [...]

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 22, 2010 (ENS) – Chicago Mayor Richard Daley today marked the 40th anniversary of Earth Day by re-committing the city to protecting human health, the environment and the… Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.

Credit: Bill Rudden. It seems pretty likely that Asian carp are bound to make it into the Great Lakes, some day, some way. A six-week search for the monster fish recently failed to turn up any of the despised carp, despite DNA evidence of their presence. But the fish are already in Illinois rivers that [...]