Citizen Action Cleveland area program director lilg [at] ohiocitizen [dot] org was at a meeting with me and a few Mittal-area residents to discuss litigation to reduce pollution at MIllat with an attorney from Detroit - he said the Cleveland EPA stands out in the entire country for its failure to manage our environemnt well - as is reflected by our state of pollution here.

Interesting the Cleveland EPA appears to be in a strip mall in Westlake - wonder who is their landlord... wonder what is their nearest pollution point source - wonder what they think about sprawl... mobile source pollution - lead poisoning 20 miles away in CLEVELAND/ Wonder where their employees ... our employees... live... they work here:

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 Most, if not every, hospital facility is licensed to release toxins...kind of ironic...isn't it?

But, hospitals are also expected to provide service in light of national emergencies.  Hence, they are equipped with their own power plants. 

It should not be a surprise to anyone that hospitals run power plants and incinerators to dispose of medical waste.

What should be done?  Put good minds to work to address the problem.

  I was extremely depressed in 2006 to attend the CASE Energy symposium. There was no mention of the critical national security need to take hospitals off the grid and to find alternative energy sources to drive the medical industry.  The whole symposium was a wash.  CWRU students can and should do better.

  Both of my parents are CWRU--mom graduated with a Ph.D. in English. Father attended the defunct architecture program on the G.I. bill. CWRU needs to lead the nation in alternative energy development.  Throw out the old regime.  We need a revolution.

You must remember that the already built environment is opposed to the new technology which renders it obsolete. But we have to use the old stuff because there is so much of it in use, it can't be changed just because we think it should be changed. We are talking about hardware, big hardware. If you shut it down, replace it with what? How do we generate the capital to make the jump to green? Will we have to suspend business, relocate business and/or do business differently? God I hate logistics!

In 1969, the faculty of the CWRU school of Architecture, co-sponsored a workstudy program to introduce innercity kids to the field of architecture. It was wonderful and I won a years scholarship. In 1970 the CWRU school of architecture folded. I didn't get the impression that "green" was part of the courses, but as I spent time in the library I saw how "green" was being developed at other schools, especially out west. We here in Ohio are more than slow on the "green" uptake. We still consider coal a "natural or green" resource of great value and usefulness. We have this caveman fire thing going as I have joked before.

What I saw in the books was not the brightest most intelligent people. It was risk takers with vision. Once the brightest creates the technology, you need the slightly less bright to apply it in ways the brightest don't have time to deal with. All of the stuff we call green today was field tested in its raw form by hippie researchers years ago. Once the hardware was in the wild, now we can say how do we improve this, make it efficient, increase the potential, apply it to homes, businessess and factories (scale it for point of use). Today, many just want to hang it on the grid and call it a day. If wind energy is so urgent today, why is the only visible sign of this urgency at the Science Center? Along I90 from Cleveland to Port Clinton are naked lightpoles you could scatter various kinds of wind turbines to test them, prove them. If solar is so important you must realize a 1% effeciency increase in California sun is meaningless in Ohio sun. Where are the solar test sites in normal neighborhoods, on dorms, on office buildings to prove solar worth in this area? Get the hardware in the wild, this will give the "bright" ones something to play.

  I just noticed that the Aragon Ballroom has the windows knocked out. 

This Cleveland Landmark is located on West 25th St. Cleveland near Clark Ave., a route primed for redevelopment--where recent mysterious fires and overnight demos by the City of Cleveland have occurred at a fast and furious rate.

I would not be surprised if there is another arson in this neighborhood to benefit the current owner of the Aragon Ballroom--currently not listed at the Cuyahoga County Auditor site. 

The most recent owner that I am aware of for that property--former Cuyahoga County Record Patrick J. O'Malley.