National Crisis with Local Pain: Rebuilding Water and Sewer Infrastructure

Ideas and Issues Organizing

Los Osos and Morro Bay       There may not be too many issues more complex, expensive, or unpleasant to discuss than the emerging national crisis involving the mixing of our drinking water and our sewage wastewater, the Environmental Protection Agency’s mandate to protect against pollution, and the enormous expense that such infrastructure rebuilding would attempt to …

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Mercury and CFL’s

Ideas and Issues

New Orleans There are real issues around light bulbs, especially around mercury, but let’s separate all of the hype about stockpiling bulbs, deciding on what kind of “light we like,” and find some solid ground before screwing our minds up as we screw a bulb out. Incandescent bulbs are the old school, back-to-Edison favorites we …

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