WisBusiness: LocalGrown promotes new technology to buy and sell local in Wisconsin
By Melissa Doyle
For WisBusiness.com
The term “buy local” is appearing more and more every day. Consumers across the nation are searching for fresh and healthy local products, while American farmers are looking for ways to get more bang for their buck.
Connecting those consumers and farmers through web-based technology is the goal of LocalGrown.
Scheduled to launch...
Manufacturing First: Presents scholarship fund to support high school seniors pursuing manufacturing degrees at New North technical colleges
(APPLETON, WI) – December 6, 2011 – Manufacturing First announced today it will be presenting a check for $3,000 to support graduating high school seniors who are attending a technical college in the New North in a manufacturing–related degree program. The scholarship funds are sourced by the first annual Manufacturing First Expo and Conference, which was held Oct. 26,...
UW-Madison: Snow in the Rockies, dry summers in the Southwest?
CONTACT: Michael Notaro, (608) 261-1503, mnotaro@wisc.edu, (prefers email for first contact)
MADISON - New simulations of summer rains in the arid American Southwest show that they are influenced by the previous winter's snowpack in the Rocky Mountains.
Summer rains, called "monsoons," are the predominant source of rain in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico, says Michael Notaro, a climate scientist who...
