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From the WNYC News Blog, dated 7 July 2011. This shouldn’t be a surprise – the strong arguments for closing Indian Point don’t amount to a plan if not accompanied with plausible scheme for reducing consumption and providing renewable energy at least equal – it not in excess of – Indian Point’s electricity consumption. From Rift [...]
Bob Hennelly of WNYC reports that Governor Cuomo, with NRC 20-year relicensing of Indian Point on its agenda, has expressed substantial concern about the inherent risk of Indian Point operation. From Cuomo Reiterates Concerns about Indian Point Nuclear Plant: (Information about the Ramapo fault is below the jump) Governor Andrew Cuomo said he’s concerned over [...]
Via Inhabitat: the NYPD has purchased 40 Nissan Hybrids – 22 to be used unmarked, 18 as marked blue-and-white “RMPs” (internal terminology for “Radio Motor Patrol [vehicles]). If it takes – it’ll be significant – but we don’t have the numbers at hand. Cross-posted on Popular Logistics.
The ToePrint Project is conducting an Energy Conservation Teach-in on June 17th. Details here:An Energy Conservation Teach-In. The noted architect and Toeprint founder Ellen Honigstock and environmental educator Sarah Goodman – founders of Sustainable Kensington/Windsor Terrace have arranged the event, which will be held at Oak and the Iris Café, located at 2826 Fort Hamilton [...]
Title: Energy Conservation teach-in Location: Oak and the Iris Café, located at 2826 Fort Hamilton Parkway on the corner of East 4th Street Link out: Click here Description: * Energy Conservation techniques * Weatherization: Waste less energy through air sealing, increased insulation, window upgrades and improved ventilation. * Solar Panels: Learn if your building is [...]
Better late than never. Here’s the press release. Excerpt after the jump:
The Toeprint Project – reducing carbon footprints one bit at a time. This is a project of the brilliant New York architect Ellen Honigstock – check out the galleries of her work on the front page of her site. NB: we’re neighbors and friends. But her work speaks for itself.
[Originally posted at Popular Logistics] Anyone interested in the issues discussed at is likely to find Cryptome.org an – and its affiliated sites – invaluable resources. One of – The Eyeball Series – treats “Eyeball” as a verb rather than as a noun – and provides visual information – some declassified, some acquired as open-sour [...]
You’re asking – what’s he on about now? Where is this place? Answer: not far enough in case of an accident. Peach Bottom is a nuclear power installation about 90 miles from Philadelphia, less than 100 miles from Washington, D.C., and less than 200 miles from New York City: [singlepic=12,320,240,,]“Parts of York County are within [...]
Last Sunday’s Times, Metro section, Sunday September 16, 2007, page 21, column 1, headlined: “Pipeline Accident Kills Worker.” No dateline, no byline. Not showing up in the Times’ archive search on its website. From that piece, which reports that Mr. McCaffrey was killed on Saturday: The worker, identified as Pat McCaffrey, 67, of Lebanon, N.J. [...]
Kris Alexander at Danger Room has a short report and incisive analysis of these attacks, which PEMEX (Mexico’s oil exporting entity) claims will require hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs. PEMEX also claims – in my view, not plausibly – that it won’t cause disruptions in exports (and to United States imports). Photo by [...]
This is why the Times policy of limiting certain articles to Times Select subscribers is disturbing. I’m going to write now about an actual life-and- death issue for New Yorkers, but can’t link to it because of their restrictions. We regard the following excerpt as within the scope of the “fair use” doctrine of the [...]
Because many of us are having conversations about the same subjects – and this blog might help in aggregating those little conversations – to find consensus and a larger, clearer voice. Here are the issues that I find myself discussing, often, with neighbors: traffic on Caton Avenue noise safety pollution Green energy issues – solar [...]