Comments on: In Harm’s way

By: WolfeNotes.com » EPA School Air Toxics Data Misleading

WolfeNotes.com » EPA School Air Toxics Data Misleading — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:02:27 +0000

[...] EPA today released interim air toxic monitoring results at two NJ schools participating in a new national program that is monitoring air quality around 63 schools in 22 states.The new EPA program was a response to major investigative reports by the Houston Chronicle and USA Today that documented serious health threats due to exposure to toxic air pollutants, particularly to children from chemical plants and refineries located close to schools (read this for background). [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » Parents Want to Know: Why the News Blackout of this Story?

WolfeNotes.com » Parents Want to Know: Why the News Blackout of this Story? — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:57:42 +0000

[...] NJ’s senior Senator, Frank Lautenberg, is not known to be shy when it comes to issuing press releases touting his legislative accomplishments for the people of New Jersey. So, I found it odd that I never saw a press release about a major, groundbreaking amendment he sponsored creating “Healthy, High Performance Schools.” (see “In Harm’s Way“) [...]

By: Dakota4x4

Dakota4x4 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:32:11 +0000

Many of you are going to think that I am Anti enviorment I’m not.
But looking at the sign on the Dupont plant I notice a date 1880 from the look of the houses and school they were built after the plant. Who would built and buy next to a chemical plant.The nore we build mass transit the more people move to the country as it were and by the time the project is done it is overloaded.Global warning is not proven though anyone with common sense would say we should take steps to minimize our contribution to it.
I don’t see wind and solar as being a large part of the solution. Too many of them. Nuclear power I think is the only viable way to go.
Personaly I would like to see all plastic packaging done away with. Including bottles i think going back to glass would make sense.
In closing I think that to much of what gets printed in the press is cooked science and does not take in all of the consquences just like the ethenol scam.

By: jessea

jessea — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:51:32 +0000

Hi – I am ordering the book “The Long Emergency.” Practically the whole book is online but I figured my printer might not want to handle the over 300 pages.
Thanks, looks like interesting reading.

By: nohesitation

nohesitation — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:13:53 +0000

Hi Jessea – obviously, I realize that we are all being poisoned, but biologically kids are far more susceptible to toxics than adults and politically lots of folsk care about the next genetration, so a focus on kids has an opportnity to mobilize parents and others concerned.
I like to win and use winning tactics.
I agree that choices are limited – that’s why we all need to agitate for more choices, adn not just transportation alternatives.
WE are living in an overwhelmingly consumerist materialist culture – that is a major part of the problem. Shop till you drop is an invidious distinction, luxury and recreation, but not necessity for working people.
Even in dispersed suburban sprawl central NJ, there are lots of alternative to getting to work via a single occupant car – employer trip reduction mandates, telecommuting, van pools, car pools, car share, flex hours, work at home, 4 day work weeks, bicycles, etcetera.,
Public transportation is not an option, but I bicycle a lot and I NEVER shop till I drop. I am greatly reducing energy and materials consumption, I try to live simply, and I have a home office. My car gets 40 mpg’s and I drive very little these days. So I am trying hard.
WE all will be forced to do this with coming peak oil – you should read “The Long Emergency” (google it)

By: jessea

jessea — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:36:21 +0000

How about everyone is being poisoned not just kids? How about pollution is sucking the life out of every living thing on the planet, including but not limited to kids. To generalize, or use only kids as an example to get someone’s attention should not be the case here. We are ruining the planet for all living creatures both present and future and pollution does not discriminate towrds age. People that have to drive to make a living is a repercussion of what we have been left to deal with. It is not so much of a choice as it is a necessity to own and drive a vehicle of some type.
In NJ citizens don’t have much of a choice but to drive wherever we have to go, and that includes going to work every day, not shopping. As far as driving til we drop, maybe so given what we NJ residents have at our disposal but you seem to be making the assumption that the people who have to work every day and are not able to shop til we drop have other choices than getting into their cars to get to work
Do you have any suggestions how we can get to work every day given that development in NJ has created a landscape of sprawl and because of that people have no choice but to drive no everywhere.
I would prefer public transporation to driving every day of the week but in Central Jersey we do not have that option. There are no buses here.
So tell me sir do you drive and shop til you drop or do you drive to work everyday? Is public transportation an option for you and if so do you use it?

By: nohesitation

nohesitation — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:58:23 +0000

Don’t worry folks, we’re only poisoning our kids -
Keep on driving and shopping till you drop.