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Getting Rid of Junk, Staying Green: “Boulder’s Center for Hard-to-Recycle Materials (CHaRM) opens its doors to one new material each year. The center takes in a variety of items, including porcelain sinks and toilets, home audio equipment and cooking oil.” Related postings on e-waste and recycling
By James R. Hagerty, From The Wall Street Journal Online: “Foreclosures are occurring at the highest rate in decades — and as a result, lenders are acquiring homes faster than they can sell them off. Last year, sales of foreclosed homes rose just 4.4%, while the supply more than doubled, according to First American CoreLogic. …
Hudson Institute Economic Report (updated bi-weekly and the first Friday of every month), March 14, 2008. “Americans received surprisingly favorable data on inflation this week with news that consumer prices were flat in February. Nevertheless, markets fell due to the financial difficulties of Bear Stearns, the ongoing credit crunch, and the declining dollar, which is …
Food & Water Watch – a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food: More Foul Fowl – An Updated Analysis of Salmonella Contamination in Broiler Chickens, March 2008: “The bacteria Salmonella is the leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States with nearly a million cases of salmonellosis attributed …
Related to this posting today, Social Security Trustees Release 2008 Annual Report, a new report, Social Security’s Financial Outlook: The 2008 Update in Perspective, by Alicia H. Munnell, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. “The Trustees of the Social Security system have just issued the 2008 projections for the system over the next 75 …
UK Times Online: “A one-year investigation and analysis of 235 countries by Jane’s Information Services has put the UK joint seventh in the premier league of nations with the US at 22nd and Switzerland, normally associated with wealth and untouchable stability, is rated 17th. Here is the full list…”
“With a shift towards providing long-term services and supports (LTSS) in the community, policy interest in Medicaid consumer direction of personal assistance services (CD-PAS) has grown. Although overall enrollment in these programs is small, 42 states offered consumer direction in Medicaid in 2006. These programs allow Medicaid beneficiaries control over hiring, scheduling, training and paying …
James Randerson, science correspondent, The Guardian, Monday March 24 2008: “Soot produced by burning coal, diesel, wood and dung causes significantly more damage to the environment than previously thought, according to research published today. So-called “black carbon” could cause up to 60% of the current warming effect of carbon dioxide, according to the US researchers, …
News release: “China sold over $55 million worth of small arms to Sudan as the violence escalated in Darfur, a new report…finds. While other countries were decreasing their arms sales to Khartoum, China stepped in to fill the void by providing Sudan with some 90 percent of its small arms during 2004-2006. This makes China …
Iran, Terrorism, Transnational Security Threats, Nuclear Weapons, Weapons of Mass Destruction, March 2008. Daniel L. Byman, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. “Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has been one of the worlds most active sponsors of terrorism. Tehran has armed, trained, financed, inspired, …
Workshop 8 Monitoring & Current Awareness: Mining Blogs & RSS for Research, 9:00 AM 12:00 PM, Sunday April 6, 2008 – Sabrina I. Pacifici, Law Librarian, Founder/Editor/Publisher, LLRX.com and Author, beSpacific.com. This workshop focuses on identifying and leveraging the best of free and low-fee web sites as well as web-related services to support …
Follow up to March 20, 2008 posting, Energy Efficient Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Require Proper Disposal Procedures – this interesting news: The lightbulb of the future? Luxim’s plasma lightbulb – “Silicon Valley’s Luxim has developed a lightbulb the size of a Tic Tac that gives off as much light as a streetlight. News.com’s Michael Kanellos talks …
