"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that a rubbish dump being created would, in the space of a century, become a protected area. Yet that is exactly what happened to what has come to be known as
Glass Beach, just outside Fort Bragg in California."
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posted by codacorolla
on Sep 1, 2011 -
20 comments
Waterlife — No matter where we live, the Great Lakes affect us all. And as species of fish disappear and rates of birth defects and cancer rise, it seems one thing is clear: the Great Lakes are changing and something's not quite right with the water. An interactive documentary film from the
National Film Board of Canada.
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posted by netbros
on Feb 26, 2011 -
20 comments
"
Places like Picher are why Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980—better known as the Superfund bill." - Wired Magazine on the most toxic town in America,
Picher, OK , and
the people who still live there
posted by The Whelk
on Sep 5, 2010 -
21 comments
Jani, a hindu man in western India, claims not to have taken in any food or water for 70 years. He has been under 24 hour surveillance since April 22 by a hospital team.
This video goes into a little more detail.
posted by mdn
on Apr 29, 2010 -
82 comments
So you want to own a dog, but without all the hassles of dog ownership? Well, there's always doggy
daycare, dog walkers and even bakeries that cater to Cujo. But in the end, you're still stuck with the
worst chore of all - picking up all the yard mines that Poopsy has left for you.
Not anymore.
posted by itchylick
on Oct 3, 2007 -
32 comments
25 y.o. whistle-blower. Last Fall, a 24 y.o. by the name of Justen Deal,
blew the whistle on what he perceived to be profligate waste by his employers. As an IT guy at Kaiser-Permanente, he'd seen a $442 million database project scrapped by the new CEO and replaced by a sweetheart deal for one of the CEO's former contractors. Internal estimates placed Kaiser's losses on this new contract at $1.2 billion dollars
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posted by vhsiv
on Apr 25, 2007 -
74 comments
Mr Fusion - coming soon. Startech Environmental Corporation's "Plasma Converter" works like "the big bang in reverse," creating nothing out of something. With the ability to break down any type of material (other than nuclear waste) into component molecules and and actually
generate energy in the process, we may be at the twilight of the landfill industry.
Via.
posted by jonson
on Feb 17, 2007 -
54 comments
THEL (Tactical High Energy Laser) is an anti-missile weapon jointly developed by the US and Israel (at great expense) to track and destroy incoming
Katyusha rockets. It had even been recently suggested to deploy it in
Iraq. Unfortunately, it seems that the program was shelved in September 'cause
it doesn't work. You know
the rest
posted by Skeptic
on Aug 1, 2006 -
30 comments
The WEEE Man is a huge 3 ton figure standing 7 metres high and is composed entirely of WEEE (
Waste
Electronic and
Electrical
Equipment)--from washing machines to mobile phones and electronic toys.
The WEEE Man represents the amount of waste a single person in the UK is likely to produce in a lifetime. Measure your own footprint
here.
posted by fandango_matt
on Apr 28, 2005 -
13 comments
A Blivet. More nuclear waste than the planned repository at Yucca Mountain can hold will pile up at reactor sites as the government continues to approve license extensions for power plants, an environmental research organization claimed in a study to be released today.
If a repository is built by 2010 in the mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, its 77,000-ton capacity will be filled by existing spent fuel awaiting shipment. That's not counting another 9,900 tons that will have accumulated in the meantime from license extensions, according to the study by the Environmental Working Group.
posted by kablam
on Oct 23, 2004 -
10 comments
Earthstation 5 is a new p2p application purportadly based in Palestine issue
a challenge to the MPAA/RIAA.
Sounds kind of fishy to me.. I'll stick to
Waste with my mates (sharing legal items, of course) for a bit..
posted by Mossy
on Aug 22, 2003 -
17 comments
Grinding Nemo. The JWC company, maker of sewage equipment, wishes to issue a press release informing small children everywhere that contrary to scenes in the hit Disney movie, flushing fish down a toilet drain will not set them free in the ocean, but rather melt them with chlorine disinfectant before shredding them into particles with processing machinery. Have a great weekend.
posted by XQUZYPHYR
on Jun 6, 2003 -
22 comments
Jaw-drop-inducing link of the day The federal government spent $62 million on a building to store and treat low-level radioactive waste at a California nuclear weapons laboratory, then decided the structure wasn't secure enough. So where is the waste kept now?
... Right outside the new building, under tents.
posted by magullo
on Jun 10, 2002 -
11 comments
Let's stop wasting US$ 78 billion a year. Is software development really this inefficient? Aside from the main theme, there is also an interesting statement from a CIO towards the end of the article. "Those folks [involved in the open-source movement] are very knowledgeable, very good at what they do, and they're producing really great code," [...]
posted by HeikoH
on Oct 20, 2001 -
5 comments
Government waste. While the report had very
libertarian leanings, John Stossel's special on how royally inept our government is at accomplishing
anything is an indictment of the entrenched ways of doing things. There
must be some sort of crossroad where liberal social policies can meet with real accountability without bureaucracy.
posted by owillis
on Jan 29, 2001 -
21 comments
