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Wind power, as an alternative to burning fossil fuels, is plentiful, renewable, widely distributed, clean, produces no greenhouse gas emissions during operation, and uses little land. The net effects on the environment are far less problematic than those of nonrenewable power sources.
Wind farms consist of many individual wind turbines which are connected to the electric power transmission network. Onshore wind is an inexpensive source of electricity, competitive with or in many places cheaper than coal or gas plants.
In the Upper Palatinate, the farmers use their relatively poor soil to grow rape and additionally to establish wind farms. This one is located near Titting.
Text adapted from Wikipedia.
Fogg Dam is a pristine wetland less than an hour’s drive east of Darwin. Walking along the Dam wall just after sunrise, I was puzzled to find what looked like a piece of industrial junk sitting, as if abandoned, among the lily pads and aquatic grasses.
When I asked the leader of a small tour group about it she said the machine could best be described as a kind of aquatic lawnmower*. She went on to explain that in a good wet season with plenty of rain, the monsoonal flows flush out the dead plants from the previous season. But in years when there’s insufficient rain, the dead plants remain in the Dam where they rot and de-oxygenate the water--a situation that threatens the health of the freshwater turtles, water pythons and other aquatic wildlife. The solution is to use the “lawnmower” to remove the debris.
So it turns out that the piece of “industrial junk” is a part of what keeps this pristine wetland pristine.
* The Friends of Fogg Dam refer to it somewhat more prosaically as a weed harvester.
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A Southern California bush rabbit, photographed in San Diego's Los Peñasquitos Canyon Reserve, displays the beauty and challenges of life in the wild. The visible ticks in its ear are a reminder of the interconnectedness between wildlife and human health, as these parasites can carry diseases like Lyme disease and rabbit fever.
Blackberries bottled in 1946.
Just after the war, when food was scarce, my Mother used to go out walking, collect wild fruits and bottle them.
She gathered these wild blackberries from hedgerows over 70 years ago to bottle for Christmas as a treat for the family.
As she was bottling them, my uncle passed the comment that "They won't last until Christmas. You'll give in and eat them before then."
My mother took umbridge at that and just said, "We'll see"
My Mother was a woman of very strong willpower and to prove my uncle wrong, they stayed on the top shelf of our old stone larder and became a firm family favourite talking point about the battle of wills between my mother and my uncle.
My uncle would always ask when he visited, "Have you eaten those blackberries yet?" and my mother would take down the jars to prove she hadn't.
This is a family "in joke" now. My uncle is dead as is my mother and when clearing her house, I came across the jars that the family have laughed about for over 70 years.
My uncle never stopped hoping my mother would relent and open the jars and my mother was equally determined to prove she had the willpower to open the jars when she was ready.
71 years later, they have never been opened. More out of fear of what they might taste of or smell like than of upsetting my mother.
So Mum, if you are looking down, the sodding blackberries are still not opened and because of their history, the family can't bring themselves to throw them away.
The bottled blackberries provided me with a good lesson in life.
Do not expect someone with strong willpower to give in easily. They just might never, ever give in at all.
And, if they have the strength and resolve of my mother - don't hold your breath.
So not everyone liked the music?
An official from the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Environmental Health department monitors the noise levels from the sound systems on board floats at the Notting Hill Carnival. London 2008.
He uses a Casella sound level meter and is accompanied by a female sergeant from the Metroplitain Police. Taken on the Great Western Road next to Westbourne Park London Underground Station.
See it in large to see grinning cops in the background.
See more of my Notting Hill Carnival pictures here:
Item 77414, Model Cities Program Environmental Health Project Records (Record Series 5412-03 ), Seattle Municipal Archives.
The tick sticky trap consists of a piece of plywood with double-sided carpet tape around the inside of the board and a cooler with dry ice in the middle. The ticks are attracted to the CO2 emitted from the cooler and get stuck on the double-sided carpet tape when they try to cross it.
If you find one in the field, PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB IT
I hope you find the poster helpful! E-mail me if you prefer a .PDF version of the poster. The .PDF is formatted for (tabloid) 11x17in. paper printing.
It can be printed to letter size sheets by selecting the corresponding options from your printer's print menu.
Take care!
Alfonso Lerma
KHA, Online-MSDS
419-287-6832
a.lerma@online-msds.com
Sail cloth tick traps are a one meter square piece of sailcloth with a cooler in the middle containing dry ice. The ticks are attracted to the CO2 emitted from the cooler and stay on the sailcloth long enough to be collected.
If you find one in the field, PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB IT.
A girl plays in the polluted Alamar riverbed in Colonia Chilpancingo, where many maquiladora (factory) workers and their families live. The neighborhood is near Otay Industrial Park, where over 100 maquiladoras are located.
According to Encylopedia Britanica a maquiladora is "manufacturing plant that imports and assembles duty-free components for export."
Colectivo Chilpancingo, a community action group, seeks to improve the health and environment in the communities where they live.
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The Faye-Prince trap is used to collect mosquitoes that like to bite during the day such as the Asian Tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. These traps are suspended from low branches and trees and use contrasting black and white surfaces to attract mosquitoes. A cooler with dry ice may also be used with this trap. The trap runs on a six-volt battery.
If you find one in the field, PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB IT
Bamba Njie is a master's student in Public Health at UIS, with a focus on environmental health. In 2013, he was one of three recipients of an Evelyn N. Zimmerman scholarship, which allowed him to travel to Gambia to do research and review the country's 2007 Waste Management Bill, which has yet to be passed by Gambia's parliament.
Most socio-environmental and public health impacts of importing and exporting processes are invisible to consumers in importing countries and to the international exporters of waste. EJOLT aims to expose new trends in toxic international trade and the roles that emerging economies like Brazil and India play in this field. This work will build on the work in EJOLT done on nuclear, mining & shipbreaking, oil & gas, and biomass & land. We will support participant Environmental Justice Organisations in their knowledge acquisition and in their actions related to health impacts, with emphasis on risk assessment and issues of uncertainty.
Caution: Asbestos. Sign on a building on the Victorian side of the border with South Australia, November 2014.
I was so pleased to see this sign; knowing that the stuff is in the building is half the battle in removing it altogether.
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TUY HOA, Vietnam (May 9, 2019) U.S. Army Capt. Patrick Mcfadden and U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Nicole Gacayan tour a chicken farm with local veterinarians to strengthen strategic partnerships during Pacific Partnership 2019. Pacific Partnership, now in its 14th iteration, is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. Each year, the mission team works collectively with host and partner nations to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increase stability and security in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships in the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tyrell K. Morris)
Rossendale Borough Council adopted a light blue livery for its refuse trucks after its formation in 1974. A Shelvoke & Drewry NN Series Revopak was photographed at Edgeside in June 1976 shortly after it entered service.
Staff at the Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) Center for Environmental Health Disparities conduct a study participant visit.
(Photo by: John Davis)
Dick Griffith of KHA, Online-MSDS and Workplace Safety & Health to speak on GHS at ASSE Safety 2012, Tuesday, June 5th
Demystifying the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
(GHS): Embracing the Largest Change in HAZCOM History
There is so much fear, uncertainty and doubt in the marketplace about what OSHA will require of employers in relation to the phase-in of the long awaited GHS. This presentation will provide safety, health and environmental professionals with timely information and a practical approach to implementation.
As if River City, Capital City, The Big Tomato and Camelia City weren't enough, Sacramento has laid claim to California's "City of Trees." Sacramento has earned Tree City USA honors from the Arbor Day Foundation for 30 years (tied with Burbank).
Sacramento has a long history as a horticultural showcase. The fervor of tree-planting was evident when the city was only six years old. "Our citizens have a mania for planting trees. There is hardly a street in the suburbs that in a few years will not be beautifully shaded by rows of cottonwood and locust trees," reported the Daily Democratic State Journal in 1855. The "City Beautiful" movement of the early 1900s allowed Sacramento to keep pace with other cities across the U.S. that were constructing tree-lined boulevards and city parks in urban designs. Sacramento also claims to have more trees per capita than any other city in the world - including Paris, France - according to NPR.
The city is implementing a 40-year plan to double the city's tree canopy as part of The Greenprint, previously called the Sacramento Regional Urban Forest Framework. The Greenprint is a call to action and a plan of work for each of the 28 local governments in our six-county region to adopt tree canopy goals, policies and ordinances, best management practices, and community involvement strategies.
The Sacramento Tree Foundation reports that the County of Yolo, City of West Sacramento, City of Davis and City of Woodland have signed on to the project. Currently, the Urban Forest Services of the City of Sacramento's Park and Recreation Department provides care to more than 150,000 city street and park trees that comprise their urban forest. The service also operates the city plant nursery, growing new trees. Trees are Sacramento’s crowning glory, especially valuable with our region's hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters. Trees are a part of community infrastructure and vital to personal and environmental health.
(Reference: www.woodlandjournal.com/2007/09/tale-of-two-cities-of-tre...}
Dick Griffith of KHA, Online-MSDS and Workplace Safety & Health to speak on GHS at Indiana ASSE Safety and Health Conference and Expo, Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Demystifying the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals
(GHS): Embracing the Largest Change in HAZCOM History
There is so much fear, uncertainty and doubt in the marketplace about what OSHA will require of employers in relation to the phase-in of the long awaited GHS. This presentation will provide safety, health and environmental professionals with timely information and a practical approach to implementation.
A member of the youth group of Colectivo Chilpancingo.
Colectivo Chilpancingo was an instrumental driving force in organzing the cleanup effort of Metales y Derivados, a maquiladora that abandoned its toxic site with over 23,000 tons of contaminated waste in 1994.
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A girl plays in the polluted Alamar riverbed in Colonia Chilpancingo, where many maquiladora workers and their families live. The neighborhood is near Otay Industrial Park, where over 100 maquiladoras are located.
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Café Cirta on Leyton High Road was closed down by Waltham Forest Council Environmental Health officers on 17 February 2009.
Waltham Forest magistrates ratified the closure on 19 February. The café must remain closed until the Council is satisfied that it no longer poses a health risk.
See the Scores on the Doors rating for Café Cirta.
Read the news story behind this closure and find out more about what we do around food safety.
Zoila Navarro attends to customers in the seafood counter at Vallarta Supermarkets. Los Angeles County Public Health Inspector Leticia Gonzalez, an Environment Health Specialist, conducts a Health Officer Order compliance check at a Vallarta Supermarket in Canoga Park on September 10, 2020. Health inspectors across the county are making checking if businesses are following the health guidelines. (Photo Credit / County of Los Angeles)
Leticia Cazares, research coordinator at the Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) Center for Environmental Health Disparities conduct a study participant visit.
(Photo by: John Davis)
Three participants in the Sierra Club Border Tour walk on a concrete slab that encapsulates tons of contaminated waste. At the end of the cleanup in January 2009 more than 40,000 tons had been removed or encapsulated.
NAFTA regulations stipulate that hazardous waste is to be repatriated to the country of origin, however this maquiladora toxic site was abandoned in 1994 by Metales y Derivados, a subsidiary of a US based company, New Frontier Trading Company.
Colectivo Chilpancingo, a community action group, seeks to improve the health and environment in the communities where they live and was an instrumental driving force in organzing the cleanup effort.
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Brenda and Gilberto Marquez shop for groceries wtih daughter Jacqueline Marquez,3, at Vallarta Supermarket. Los Angeles County Public Health Inspector Leticia Gonzalez, an Environment Health Specialist, conducts a Health Officer Order compliance check at a Vallarta Supermarket in Canoga Park on September 10, 2020. Health inspectors across the county are making checking if businesses are following the health guidelines. (Photo Credit / County of Los Angeles)
Brenda and Gilberto Marquez shop for groceries wtih daughter Jacqueline Marquez,3, at Vallarta Supermarket. Los Angeles County Public Health Inspector Leticia Gonzalez, an Environment Health Specialist, conducts a Health Officer Order compliance check at a Vallarta Supermarket in Canoga Park on September 10, 2020. Health inspectors across the county are making checking if businesses are following the health guidelines. (Photo Credit / County of Los Angeles)
Los Angeles County Public Health Inspector Leticia Gonzalez, an Environment Health Specialist, conducts a Health Officer Order compliance check at a Vallarta Supermarket in Canoga Park on September 10, 2020. Health inspectors across the county are making checking if businesses are following the health guidelines. (Photo Credit / County of Los Angeles)