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Off-Shore Drilling - Who will buy the licenses? - China is the bet.

Posted Wed, 04/14/2010 - 12:37pm by Doug Butdorf

An offshore oil drilling platform off the coast of California is seen in May 2009 (AP) hosted at onpointraido.org

Climate Bill is the new Health Care

Posted Sun, 03/28/2010 - 9:55am by Doug Butdorf

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"People gather on the steps of New York City Hall protesting the state's plan for shale oil drilling in the city's watershed in New York - Jan 4, 2010. - Reuters / Shannon Stapleton."

Trash Island - new fuel source? Exxon will surely be on board, now.

Posted Tue, 03/23/2010 - 9:26am by Doug Butdorf

A year or so ago my friend, Sonal Patel, recommended I search for "garbage island" on you tube and take the time to watch the video that showed up in search... I did so and WOW it was freaky!

Road Rules and Hydraulics - the roads are changing, Plattsburgh.

Posted Mon, 03/22/2010 - 10:51am by Doug Butdorf

 

My friend recently copied me on a news item that was very interesting... It seems that the federal department of transportation has made a sea change in how they view the rights of different vehicle / motility.  

Why can't our service sort our recycling for us?

Posted Wed, 03/03/2010 - 10:21am by Doug Butdorf

So,  I've lived in a number of communities around the country that have provided curb-side recycling.  The best of which is the city, Wooster, OH, which allows one bag no-sort recycling.  One of the biggest gating items I've hear people express regarding their own recycling habits is the need to sort and the strange rules our local recyclers have about different types of plastic that, really, seem the same to me. 

TSCA? Time to make some improvements in toxic chemical policy

Posted Fri, 10/16/2009 - 11:21am by Doug Butdorf

Lead, BPA, PCBs, etc...

Amazing Youth!

Posted Thu, 10/15/2009 - 9:27am by Doug Butdorf

As a facebook user, I sometimes get behind in my invitations and ignores (I ignore a lot of stuff).  Today I was revising invitations and was very impressed with the work of the Adirondack Youth Climate Summit group.  If you're a facebook user, you should join, follow and support this group.

From their page: 

Freecycle - Plattsburgh

Posted Mon, 10/05/2009 - 10:56am by Doug Butdorf

Recently, I was able to keep my gently used, now wrong sized entertainment center out of a landfill by offering it on Freecycle Plattsburgh.  Freecycle Plattsburgh is a network of over 1,000 people in the local area that agree to receive one email a day (digest) with listings of things people want, have to give, have given or have taken.  The Freecycle "movement" has been around for quite some time and I've never used the solution, but after my recent experience of being able to keep something big out of a landfill, I'm hooked.

Facts about the Fish - Toward a Sustainable Plan

Posted Fri, 10/02/2009 - 8:37pm by Doug Butdorf

So, you may have read one or the other of my posts about the fish dying after being caught and brought to Plattsburgh for the Tournaments.  Since I didn't know much about the subject, I thought it best to reach out to some people and try to figure out what kind of factual information is known about the Bass (small and large mouth) populations of Lake Champlain, especially the Cumberland Bay  -  around Plattsburgh.  To my surprise, there really isn't a lot know about them. 

HMMM...  I said. 

Climate and Energy Security Bill enters fray in Senate

Posted Mon, 09/28/2009 - 1:00pm by Doug Butdorf

Photo by David Pierpont - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalwildlife/2547802327/

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