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More than the Bear Necessities

More than the Bear Necessities

www.stadiumjourney.com — Reviews and information about Hammons Field, Home of the Missouri State Bears. Author: Stephen Schmidt

The UCA way at Bear Stadium

The UCA way at Bear Stadium

www.stadiumjourney.com — Reviews and information about Bear Stadium, Home of the Central Arkansas Bears. Author: Stephen Schmidt

The House that Hogan Built

The House that Hogan Built

www.stadiumjourney.com — A review of Gary Hogan Field at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock.

The greenery among the granite

The greenery among the granite

The Green Apple (for WABC-TV) — They provide shade on a hot Sunday afternoon in May. They provide a horizontal splash of green amid a mostly subdued canvas. But for the exception of the "Survivor Tree" standing on the western side of the grounds of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the visitors who make their way through the temporary entryway don't pay much attention to the site's collection of trees and other greenery.

Onward and Upwards: Staples grad brings home feature film

Onward and Upwards: Staples grad brings home feature film

www.westport-news.com — Coming from the words of Jan Wein, the story never fails to generate laughs. Her son, Daryl, was spending time at their Westport home on a visit back from New York University. She mentioned how other mothers would buy clothes for their sons in college. Not her, though. Daryl would not allow it. "I said, `How come you don't let me go and buy you stuff?' He's just too independent, so he took me by the arms and he said, `Mom, listen. You did a good job but I'm big now and you're done,'" Jan Wein said. "I go `I'm done?! What do you mean I'm done?'" `"I'm a big boy I can take care of myself."'

Sporting a greener shade

Sporting a greener shade

The Green Apple (for WABC-TV) — The color green has always been synonymous with sports of all varieties. The freshly cut crass of a well-manicured outfield... or end zone or the more trampled kind heading into the final rounds of Wimbledon. Now, thanks to the efforts of the Natural Resources Defense Council, sports at the highest levels across the country are donning a deeper shade of green than they ever have before -- and are leaving quite the impressions on their surrounding communities as a result.

A look at TerraCycle

A look at TerraCycle

The Green Apple (for WABC-TV) — Albe Zakes will admit it. While in school at the University of Colorado, he was a "frustrated environmentalist." "I felt like too many environmental non-profits [organizations] refused to work with major companies," he said. “It was always petition, letter-write, protest, and picket instead of coming to the board room table and trying to work with them.”

A look at Ciao Water

A look at Ciao Water

The Green Apple (for WABC-TV) — Although Carolyn Koss lives near the Rocky Mountains, it was in the Hamptons where her company, Ciao Water, first took root. In the summer of 2007, Koss was staying with her niece in East Hampton when she took two mental notes while amongst of group of teenagers: how much bottled water they drank and how many of those bottles were being thrown away given a lack of summer recycling service at the time.

Design for thought

Design for thought

The Green Apple (for WABC-TV) — At approximately 2:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, two house-of-cards-like structures composed of pieces of colorful pieces of Styrofoam stood at about two-feet-high inside the BMW Guggenheim Lab at the corner of Houston Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan's East Village. Two hours later the creations were soaring close to eight feet, with each piece adorned with words and drawings composed from markers. "A place to... EXPRESS + EMBRACE a place for all people," read one. "Electronic Recycling," proclaimed another.