Pollution

With all the millions and millions of cars on the road we should thank your lucky stars that there is such a thing called a catalytic converter. For without catalytic converters our city's is would be virtually unlivable. Today's catalytic converters do their jobs very well which is to virtually eliminate carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrous oxide., and this is in direct correlation with the amount of platinum group metals that are within the catalytic converter itself. Platinum... Read Full Story

December 15th, 2009 | Author: contributor Yes, I'll have a grande iced half-caf with soy latte with two extra shots of espresso and a dash of cinnamon please. Posted in Pics | Tags: Funnies , real , weird Read Full Story

Highway spam! Litter on a stick! Sky trash! Whatever we call them, billboards are ugly, intrusive, and sometimes pointless. Is billboard blight a problem? I think so, but what do other people think? Recent polls commissioned by various states and universities reveal the same definitive fact--People do not like billboards. They favor moratoriums on new construction of boards, if not outright bans. In Houston, 81% of the citizens strongly support the city’s ordinance which will remove all... Read Full Story

My recent trip to San Francisco was life-changing. I went touristing around the City by the Bay, walked to the Golden Gate Bridge, took a cable car, visited Chinatown and Golden Gate Park, went to the opera, and just marveled at the sights and smells of the City. I was composing a long blog about my experiences, but I feel I must wait a bit because that beautiful bay I walked along was marred when a container ship was damaged in the bay and dumped 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel into its water... Read Full Story

Buy anything on the highstreet and you will automatically gain recompense if the item is broken or faulty.  For it is well understood and appreciated that small businesses or agencies are obliged by law to operate decent complaint procedures and policies for satisfaction guarantee related to any product bought.  At this level of most kinds of consumer markets affairs work pretty well. But then if we look at  how the matter of business ethics functions abroad, personal presumptions about all... Read Full Story

Love Canal is a working class community in Niagara Falls, New York. 30 years ago this summer the community came to world wide attention because it was built on top of a chemical waste dump . The elementary school was located just 3 blocks from the chemical dump. A couple now in their 40’s who attended the school remember playing with ooze bubbling up on the playground. That ooze was Phosphorous rocks that would exploded like a firecracker when the children threw them on the sidewalk. In... Read Full Story

In Hawaii elevated levels of arsenic have been found in Garden soil near sugar fields on the Big Island. The arsenic is thought too have come from the use of herbicides in the sugar fields back in the 1920’s until the 1940’s. A recent study has concluded that vegetables grown in the arsenic laden garden soil are safe to eat. How sad is it too think that even in a tropical paradise such as Hawaii pollution is harming the environment and putting peoples health at possible risk. Read Full Story

HANOI, Vietnam: More than three decades after the Vietnam War, the United States and Vietnam have just completed temporary steps to contain dioxin contamination at a former U.S. air base in Danang.The Associated Press Published: February 1, 2008 But the U.S. government, as well as U.S. foundations and corporations, should contribute more money to clean up the site permanently, members of a joint U.S.-Vietnamese working group on Agent Orange said Friday. It will cost at least US$14... Read Full Story

In indigenous communities, babies that should be born boys are being born girls . Research released this month of only girls being born in the villages of northern Greenland has brought to light earlier studies that found indigenous mothers living in the northern most reaches of the Arctic Circle are having girls – but not boys. The studies linked the skewed sex ratios with human exposures to PCBs and other persistent organic chemicals. By Terri C. Hansen, Environment and Science Reporter... Read Full Story

When the air is thick with pollution, "sick building" complaints become more common. Smog caused by ground-level ozone isn't just an outdoor air problem. A new study shows that when the irritant's level rises outside, the number of people inside suffering from so-called "sick building syndrome" also increases. By David Biello "We found that outdoor air pollution, ozone, is associated with symptoms of lower-respiratory and upper-respiratory stress that occur in buildings to workers... Read Full Story