| Free Speech Friday
However, I do wonder if more environmental activists wouldn't benefit from reading a column by Tom Friedman. “You try that approach on people without jobs who live in neighborhoods where they've got a lot better chance of getting killed by a passing shooter than a melting glacier, you're going to get nowhere." In no way am I criticizing WashPIRG's — nor any other environmental activists' — passion for the greener cause. I just believe, as does Friedman, that if they wish to really make people care — especially low-income folks, who, frankly, have better things to worry about than polar bears losing their habitat — then they need to really need to focus on the “So, why should I care?" crux of the issue. In his column, Friedman profiles nonprofit leader Van Jones, who works in Oakland to inform the predominantly black and low-income community about how they can specifically benefit from a greener United States. For example, Jones suggests that a greener United States could open the doorway to new solar industries, which could then lead to more jobs, which could help employ at-risk youth, which could bring the crime rate down, which could — well, you get the picture.
Boiling water spikes bisphenol A levels
Adding boiling water to polycarbonate plastic bottles causes a dramatic spike in the amount of bisphenol A, or BPA, leaching from containers into drinks, according to a U.S. research team. The finding suggests that parents sterilizing polycarbonate baby bottles by heating them in water or in a microwave may be inadvertently increasing the amount of the estrogen-mimicking chemical leaching from the containers. It also indicates hikers who use the bottles as a thermos to store hot tea or liquids may be doing the same. The addition of boiling water increased BPA migration rates by up to 55-fold compared with water at room temperature, according to experiments run at the University of Cincinnati. A paper outlining the findings is being released today in Toxicology Letters, a peer-reviewed journal.
Mass. Company's Advanced Diesel Filters To Cut Pollution at Bronx ...
Rypos Inc. developed the advanced filters for wide use that includes large earth moving equipment, stationary generators, locomotives, mining equipment and marine engines. The filters, developed by the Holliston, Massachusetts company, to automatically clean themselves or regenerate and do not depend on engine heat to burn off accumulated soot. They will be used during construction of the $1 billion Croton Water Treatment Plant in the Bronx. New York, NY (PRWEB) March 14, 2006 -- Rypos Inc. has been selected to install its newly developed active diesel particulate filters on heavy-duty construction vehicles operating at the $1 billion Croton Water Treatment Plant in The Bronx, NY. Rypos' advanced technology enables the filters to automatically clean themselves or regenerate irrespective of engine temperatures.
Tribe banking on grant money to save chinook run
Chris Gregoire recently awarded, most of it tagged for habitat restoration in the Puget Sound region. The Stillaguamish River effort is expected to get $3.7 million, to be spent over two years, including $1.3 million for the south fork alone. The money comes from the state's Salmon Recovery Funding Board and an appropriation from the Legislature. So far, Snohomish County has received nearly $326,000 in grant money to build shelters made of giant stumps and logs to help the fish survive what can be a tough journey to sea. The county will use an additional $200,000 grant to figure out what more can be done to preserve chinook. Key needs include reducing the amount of sediment that flows into the river, which robs it of oxygen that the salmon and eggs need to survive.
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