The Brundtland Commission defines sustainability as “Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.” How do you do it? Harnessing processes, not consuming resources. (click here). In Making Sustainability Work, 2008. ISBN 9781906093051, Marc Epstein describes how to do it; the corporate structures needed. We’ll get [...]
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The [$34 million] the city wants to spend on [the Brooklyn House of Detention design] contract would be better used as a means to reduce class sizes and build more schools. – William Thompson November 19, 2009, Press Release, YouTube, Gotham Schools Part I. Bill Thompson: “Schools not Prisons” the full the company men movie [...]
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Ethics in the Workplace Improved During the Recession, “A national employee survey shows that like the Enron era, ethical conduct improves temporarily during periods of economic stress. “Arlington, VA – Do Americans in the workplace behave better in a down economy? Apparently yes, according to the Ethics Resource Center, which today announced the results of [...]
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Back in February, 2009, Business Week published my article, Green Energy: Our Future Depends on It. They even asked for a picture – which I was happy to provide. I just learned that it was picked up by other web-sites: As a News Pick by Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen‘s Energy Task Force, By Physics Today, [...]
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On The Media, aka OTM, WNYC’s award-winning journalism monitoring journal, reports that television’s coverage of “medical breakthroughs” is, alas, somewhat deficient. OTM’s awards include a Peabody and a Murrow; see OTM’s “About” page. Bob Garfield, in Prognosis Negative, reports that television coverage of “medical breakthroughs” is. alas, somewhat deficient. hi-def quality the kings speech download [...]
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According to Kevin Riddell, in the New York Times, (click here for article) the 20 MW carbon sequestration subsystem at the Mountaineer Plant in New Haven, West Virginia, will cost “well over $100 million.” Ridell says: American Electric Power is spending $73 million on the capture and storage effort, which includes half the cost of [...]
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At the risk of seeming insufficiently cynical, I’m not sure that I understand the change in accounts from the initial (female officer, wounded, shoots shooter) to later (both wounded officer and second officer shoot, second officer’s shots may have been what dropped him). Maybe Sgt. Munley didn’t know that Sgt. Todd arrived on the scene. [...]
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A poll in the Summit Daily News , Colorado website asks if we need more wilderness areas. The questions: the unstoppable movie online “Yes, we need more wilderness area protection.” movie stone “No, it’s too much land taken from other public use.” “Don’t really know too much about it.” “Need to know more about the [...]
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Via Inhabitat: NASA Unveils Chemical-Sniffing Device for the iPhone: NASA’s cheap, low-power device senses chemicals with help from a “sample jet” and a silicon-based sensing chip that has 16 nanosensors. Once detection data is confirmed, the phone can send it on to any other device — or the government — via Wi-Fi. There are a [...]
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According to Mortality Rates in Appalachian Coal Mining Counties: 24 Years Behind the Nation, by Michael Hendryx, of the Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV <pdf>, mortality is 10.21 % higher in Appalachia than elsewhere in the US, and 18.45 % higher in in coal mining counties where 4 million tons or [...]
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Via TheStandard.Net, By Loretta Park (Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau), (click here for article) South Davis Metro Fire Agency Deputy Chief Jeff Bassett said the explosion occurred because a pipe carrying hydrogen and diesel overfilled and sent some of the product onto the ground, where it pooled. It found an ignition source, a furnace, which caused the [...]
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Industry Week reports a prototype carbon sequestration plant at the American Electric Mountaineer facility in New Haven, W. Virginia (full Article here). Let’s look further, and let’s look at the numbers. The article states: “the pilot facility captures and stores around 20 megawatts of carbon dioxide from West Virginia’s Mountaineer plant. The unit can handle [...]
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“All this matters because economists thought, wrote, and prescribed as if nature did not.” J. R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun. “Global Warming is nonsense. Greenhouse gases mean growth, far as I can see. The Earth is one big resource, to exploit and consume, for the grand old party.” L. J. Furman, Sunbathing In [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.