LANSING -- The State of Michigan is examining a plan to sell about half of its share of the water in the Great Lakes over the next 20 years to drought-stricken areas in the Sunbelt states.
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EnvironmentMake your home as toxin-free as possibleSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 08:09.
I just received this message from New American Dream - follow that link for a nice webpage on spring cleaning. One of the great disasters of our consumer economy is the proliferation of dangerous household construction practices, lifestyles and cleaning processes, and harmful products in use in and around our homes on a daily basis. In renovating our historic house in East Cleveland, Evelyn and I have made all living spaces as toxin-free as possible, and we certainly intend to keep it that way in maintaining it. I think the following message offers some good advice - I don't endorse any of the products mentioned, as I don't know anything about them...the make-your-own approach mentioned here is more my style.
CMSD School Public MeetingsSubmitted by lmcshane on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 13:47.
04/10/2008 - 18:00 04/10/2008 - 19:30 Etc/GMT-5
Location
Various locales
Cleveland, OH
United States
See map: Google Maps Out of the mouths of children (1992)Submitted by Charles Frost on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 20:24.
If we hear nothing else all year, let's hear this"
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Carolyn Strauss founder of slowLabSubmitted by Susan Miller on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 09:18.
04/22/2008 - 18:00 04/22/2008 - 19:00 Etc/GMT-5 Carolyn Strauss of slowLab speaks at the Talalay lecture series. Don't think "silver bullet" or "big" in the ways you have been. Ah... the shrapnel of social and natural capitalism... it's more like a mushroom colony... Here's one of my favorite projects - Min Tanaka Body Weather Farm (reminds me of Ted Shawn at Jacob's Pillow). Here's a preview: slowLab is an emerging organization based in New York City and with activities worldwide. Location
Westfield Insurance Theater at Ideastream
1375 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH United States
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Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for HumanitySubmitted by Susan Miller on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 08:19.
05/21/2008 - 18:00 05/21/2008 - 19:00 Etc/GMT-5 ![]() Winner of the 2006 TED [Technology, Entertainment Design] Prize, the motto of Sinclair’s group, Architecture for Humanity, "design like you give a damn" sums up his design vision. With projects ranging from designing mobile health clinics combating HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa to establishing mine clearance programs and building playgrounds in the Balkans his mission is to create sustainable and innovative living standards for the masses. Location
Westfield Insurance Theater at Ideastream
1375 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH United States
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Drain Great Lakes to fill Grand Canyon?Submitted by Charles Frost on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 16:34.
April 1, 2008LANSING -- The State of Michigan is examining a plan to sell about half of its share of the water in the Great Lakes over the next 20 years to drought-stricken areas in the Sunbelt states.
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CLIPPER TURBINES GO BACK TOGETHER AT STEELWINDS IN LACKAWANNASubmitted by Jeff Buster on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 17:57.
![]() Clipper's Steelwinds project in Lackawanna, New York is passing through a dark and uncertain repair/redesign. This photo taken on March 28, 2008 shows 6 of the 8 turbine towers without their blades. Earlier in the week only the tower on the right hand (north) had blades, so it appears that the lattice boom crane in the center of the photo is installing, not removing, the turbine hub and blades - presumably after the repair of the gear box. Fritz Haeg - Edible EstatesSubmitted by Susan Miller on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 08:51.
03/31/2008 - 19:00 03/31/2008 - 20:00 Etc/GMT-5
Location
CIA Gund Building
11141 East Boulevard Aitken Auditorium
Cleveland, OH United States
See map: Google Maps Earth Hour 2008 - Turn off your lights March 29th 2008 at 8:00pmSubmitted by Phillip Williams on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 08:33.
So often people have asked "what can I do to be Green?", or "what can I do to help the environment". This of course is all in the context of, "... as long as I don't have to lift a finger or spend an extra dime".
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"Energy Wasting Day"Submitted by Charles Frost on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 21:19.
April 1st is "Energy Wasting Day" A Great Idea, and A Great Video...
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Stop the Financial Double-Standard for Green CarsSubmitted by Charles Frost on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 21:05.
It seems like many people, especially in the big media, are obsessed with whether or not that hybrid/plug in hybrid/electric car/etc will "pay for itself" with fuel savings. The latest example is the (misleading) "The payoff for plug-in hybrids: 95 years?".
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FYI - Norm re: Lead Outreach & TrainingSubmitted by johnmcgovern on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 15:49.
24) Lead Outreach and Training
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CUYAHOGA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES: MEDCON OR STREET LIGHTS?Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 13:43.
![]() At the City Club recently, Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson-Jones suggested that the first priority for the County goverment was "economic development", and that's why the Commissioners and Fred the Fixer Nance were working so hard to be able to pay a wealthy developer from out of state to build and operate a public-private pirate ship here in Cuyahoga.
Coal Power's Deja-MeltdownSubmitted by Charles Frost on Fri, 03/21/2008 - 09:22.
Coal Power's Deja-Meltdown 03/12/08 The government's futuristic "clean coal" power project has joined the long list of scuttled coal plants. The death spiral of coal energy is reminiscent of the 1980s popular blockade of nuclear plant construction. Investors and even the Bush administration are backing out.
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Kevin O'Brien's column "Forget Global Warming" made more sense in CanadianSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 23:14.
On March 12, 2008, Cleveland Plain Dealer deputy editorial page director Kevin O'Brien published a snide, pointless editorial taking the position global warming is over-hyped. His conclusion is a Russian scientist predicts the world is entering a new Ice Age, which trumps Global Warming, so do nothing about Global Warming. I googled the Russian scientist O'Brien references - Oleg Sorokhtin - and came across a February 25th National Post column, by conservative Canadian columnist Lorne Gunter, to which O'Brien's March 12th column is so similar as to be plagiarism, in my book. What's in a name?Submitted by lmcshane on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 07:48.
From the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission blog: The U.S. Board on Geographic Names approved names for five tributaries of Euclid Creek yesterday: Claribel Creek, Redstone Run, Stevenson Brook, Verbsky Creek, and the East Branch of Euclid Creek. Labels: Lake Erie, Richmond Heights
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Alarmist AprilSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 15:23.
04/11/2008 - 11:00 04/11/2008 - 11:01 Etc/GMT-5 There is a need for the thoughtful people of Northeast Ohio to speak up loud and clear - sound an alarm - about environmental issues here, and our impact here on environmental issues worldwide. We should do this in our everyday life, and we should participate in community efforts to speak in harmony about saving planet Earth. One way to shout-out that "This is a state of global emergency" is to become an "Alarmist". As posted on REALNEO here, for this April 11, at 11 AM local time, for one minute, and each 11th of the month thereafter, at 11 AM, Alarmists declare, "We need to set off the world's alarms. Join in. It could be the alarm on your phone, in your home, in your car. You could gather some friends to make some noise. Organise a flash mob. Schedule a company fire drill. Borrow a vintage air raid siren... Be creative. Raise the alarm." So, people of REALNEO, how should we sound the first Alarmism minute? LocationTBD
Cleveland, OH United States
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OuroborosSubmitted by lmcshane on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 05:11.
School design has been on my mind. Here is a thumbnail of an almost perfect Cleveland school. Benjamin Franklin School slated for demolition in the CMSD Facilities Plan. It also has beautiful adjacent gardens.
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WARNING: The Alarmists Are ComingSubmitted by Charles Frost on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 21:19.
A group of influential green professionals are pushing for activism to go viral. Keeping themselves deliberately incognito and going by the name of The Alarmists they are proposing to make some serious noise about Global Warming. Not just at one event, but at 11 am on the 11th of every month for one minute. They say, "This is a state of global emergency. According to the IPCC, we must cut emissions within eight years, to avoid catastrophic global warming. There is nowhere near enough action yet to make that happen. We need to set off the world's alarms. Join in. It could be the alarm on your phone, in your home, in your car. You could gather some friends to make some noise. Organise a flash mob. Schedule a company fire drill. Borrow a vintage air raid siren... Be creative. Raise the alarm." :: Alarmism
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GREAT SPIRIT!Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 23:34.
![]() With all the public noise she's been exposed to in NEO, and with all the Dirty Dealer's un-ethical public noise about what was private, to see her today with her smile was an affirmation.
AND GREAT SMILE!
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CUYAHOGA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS - SNEAKY & ARROGANT? OR JUST OUR ELECTED REPS?Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 16:01.
I attended the KennedyConCenter meeting this morning - held before the scheduled meeting of the Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners.
All the TV cameras and paper reporters were there. Big news was afoot!
Are Kevin O'Brien and the PD correct... there is no global warming!?!?Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 00:35.
Each of the last two winters, Cleveland Plain Dealer writer Kevin O'Brien wrote that it sometimes snows in Cleveland so there is no global warming. His latest scientific position on this is posted on Cleveland.com here (and included below). O'Brien is such a strange writer I cannot tell if he is kidding, but in the interest of good public information it seems important for all people to consider what O'Brien published in the Plain Dealer and discuss if it is intelligent, misleading, incorrect or perhaps true. Who has an informed position on global warming and what O'Brien writes below?
Climate Watchers Place Own Big Bet On Alaska's ThawSubmitted by Charles Frost on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 19:22.
Climate Watchers Place Own Big Bet On Alaska's Thaw
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