On The Media, aka OTM, WNYC’s award-winning journalism monitoring journal, reports that television’s coverage of “medical breakthroughs” is, alas, somewhat deficient.
M&M candy in blue, green and other hues
OTM’s awards include a Peabody and a Murrow; see
Bob Garfield, in Prognosis Negative, reports that television coverage of “medical breakthroughs” is. alas, somewhat deficient.
Blue M&M’s may cure paralysis! That’s just one claim made recently in a health segment on network TV. For more than three years, HealthNewsReview.org editor Gary Schwitzer has been methodically reviewing TV health news claims for accuracy and responsibility. But no more; he’s found the vast majority of TV consumer health reports sickening.
Blue M&M’s may not cure paralysis, but they are Green
M&M (peanut type) in varied colors;
However, the environmental implications of M&M’s, at least with respect to M&M’s produced at the Mars company’s Hackettstown, NJ plant, are more encouraging. Inhabitat reports that M&Ms Factory Goes Green with New Solar Garden – they’ve unveiled a photovoltaic solar system which will produce 20% of the factory’s power needs.
The Mars Chocolate PV system is owned by PSEG Solar Source, which is also working on a number of other large solar installations around the country. PSEG Solar Source will be repaid for the system through a 30 percent federal tax credit, the sale of electricity to Mars and the sale of solar renewable energy credits to other power-generation companies. The Hackettstown factory, with its 28,000 panels, now has the largest solar system in NJ operated by a food manufacturer.
Yesterday’s flip-switching ceremony was attended by the famous trio of M&Ms, Victoria Mars (ombudsman for the company) and a crowd of 150 people. Engineering for the Solar Garden was performed by Juwi Solar Inc. and the panels were manufactured by First Solar. Emissions are expected to be reduced to the equivalent of removing 190 cars of the road annually.
Via NJ.com and Renewable Energy World.