Madison Mentions: The Newspaper Report weekending January 27, 2008

Submitted by Jesse Russell on Mon, 2008-01-28 15:05. Current | Madison Mentions

Last week was another busy week one for Madison receiving mentions in newspapers throughout the country. Most of it is green related as we continue to carve out our position as a leading eco-friendly city. One of the most enjoyable parts about writing Madsion Mentions is learning how former Madisonians are applying what they learned living in Madison to their new homes.

For example, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported on former Madisonian Niki McGlathery who is part of a book club with members who are seeking to reduce carbon footprints. According to the article:

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McGlathery said after her fellow book clubbers raised their concerns, she introduced an EcoTeam workbook as a place to start.

She discovered the sustainable living program when she lived in Madison, Wis. and helped to start neighborhood teams.

Madison's Recycling Director George Dreckmann was quoted in a Hartford Courant article looking at ways other cities approach recycling. In the article he advocates for the single stream recycling program used in our city:

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"The technology is better than before, and the quality of the end product is so much better now," Dreckmann said. "A few years ago I toured a single-stream plant in Chicago, and it changed my whole attitude. I stood at the end of the paper [recycling] line and watched for stuff mixing with the newspaper, but what came off was every bit as good as what we were producing [with separated recyclables]."

Madison switched its 67,000 homes to single-stream recycling in mid-2005 and has seen big increases in the recycling rate, he said.

Hutchinson Leader columnist Eric Kraushar recently traveled to Madison to watch the Gophers-Badgers hockey match. He gives his top three highlights from the rip.

While not filmed in Madison, the Universal Pictures production Definitely, Maybe, starring Ryan Reynolds, partially takes part in Madison. Variety recently reviewed the film.

Rebecca Ryan, of Madison-based Next Generation Consulting, recently spoke at a conference in Topeka, Kansas on how communities can retain and attract young people. Her discussion was highlighted in the Topeka Capital-Journal:

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She said the next generation of youth are mobile (they will have nine jobs by the time they are 32), have a high level of entrepreneurship and are technically savvy but deep in debt. They tend to marry later than previous generations.

A well-paying job alone won't attract the next generation. A community must have a lifestyle to offer, including plenty of parks, biking trails and life after 5 p.m, Ryan said.

Oops...the Grand Forks Herald gets it wrong:

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In Madison, apartment owners must use compact fluorescent light bulbs instead of incandescent light.

Not quite yet, GF! We tried to pass such an ordinance, but it was struck down. The ordinance was recently reintroduced by the city council and is on the agenda for the February 6 housing committee meeting. Don't worry, GF, you aren't alone in needing to make a correction:

The Golden Gate XPress also gets one tiny fact wrong. In an article about San Francisco's Sundance Kabuki the paper writes:

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Officially unveiled as the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas in mid-December, the new theater, located in Japantown at Post and Fillmore streets, reopened by Robert Redford and business associates, is the second Sundance Cinema in the nation to open, the first being in Madison, Wis., in 2006.

“[Madison and San Francisco] have fantastic markets for art and indie film, have universities, and have historically done well with these types of films,” said Gribler, as to why Redford and his business partners chose San Francisco for the sustainable, independent movie theater.

That date is one year off. Sundance opened in May 2007.

TheStreet.com takes a look at winter adventures "that don't involve skis" and Madison's Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club makes the cut.

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Take a boat, make it like an ice skate, and you've got ice boating, where you can glide along the top of a frozen lake at speeds of 60 miles an hour or more.

"It's exhilarating, it's thrilling," says Deb Whitehorse, secretary of the Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club in Madison, Wis. "It's such a feeling of being alive."

But there's a catch -- it isn't the easiest thing to pull off. The ice boats aren't easy to find, so people generally have to find a friend who has an ice boat, or talk to a club about borrowing one.

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