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St. Trinian's
|Release Date: October 09, 2009
|Running Time: 101 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG 13
|Genre: Adaptation, Comedy, Foreign, Remake
Colin Firth
Livia Giuggioli
Rupert Everett
Russell Brand
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Summary:St. Trinian's, the infamous school for 'young ladies' is once again facing dire financial crisis. The bank is threatening headmistress Camilla Fritton with closure. Her unorthodox doctrine of free expression and self empowerment is also under threat from new Education Minister Geoffrey Thwaits, an old flame of Camilla's who is determined to bring discipline and order to the anarchic school. In true St Trinian style the girls are in a league of their own; smart, fearless and determined to defend the school they love to the end. They need to unite the warring girl gang cliques and come up with the cash fast to save the school.

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Fresno State Barks back As the Fresno State football season kicked off, expectations were high that the Bulldogs could make some noise around the nation. However after the first quarter the high powered Fresno State running game and offense itself had only amassed eight yards, when the second quarter began Fresno State trailed 7-0 after Cincinnati quarterback Zach Collaros completed a 23 yard pass to D.J. Woods. Then with 11:44 left to go in the second quarter Collaros had a 5 yard touchdown run to put the Bearcats ahead 14-0 and Fresno State fans in shock. As the second quarter wind down it seemed Fresno State would go into the half down, then the 'Dogs offense began to roll. With 4:45 seconds to go in the half, Senior Ryan Colburn completed a 18 yard pass to freshman Jalen Saunders, after a few rushing plays Colburn finally connected a 20 yard pass to sophomore running back Robbie Rouse to cut the Bearcats lead to seven 14-7. Cincinnati got the ball back with 2:17 left in the first half, after a few plays that saw Cincy move the ball to the Fresno State 38, the 'Dogs seemed to be on the verge of going down by 14 again. After a holding penalty took the Bearcats back to the FSU 48, the Bulldogs defense what many believe to be the biggest play of the game. On 2nd and 20 from the FSU 48 yard line, Collaros took the ball from center and was pressured and eventually sacked by senior Chris Carter, this forced a fumble which was recovered by Donnie Pritchett of Fresno State at the Cincy 42 yard line with 39 seconds to go. After a few plays Fresno State was on the Cincinnati 16 with about 27 seconds left. On 3rd and 10, Colburn took the snap from center and found an open Jamel Hamler on a 16 yard touchdown pass in the corner of the end zone to tie the game 14-14 going into the half. The second half saw more of the same from the Bulldogs as they took their opening drive of the second half for a touchdown. The drive was a nine play 80 yard drive that culminated with a 28 yard pass from Colburn to senior receiver Devon Wylie. This put the Bulldogs up 21-14. From there the Bulldogs defense took over and the rest was history as the defense continued to pressure the Bearcats offense and Collaros especially. Defensively Bulldogs defensive end Logan Harrell was the player of the game as he sacked Collaros four times. His four added to a total of nine sacks the Bulldogs defense got. As the fourth quarter started the 'Dogs continued to score as the first play saw Colburn hit a streaking Rashad Evans for a 59 yard touchdown pass. After the extra point by Kevin Goessling, Fresno State had a 28-14 lead. With 3:17 left in the game Cincinnati had one last chance to try and get a rally going, however Fresno State's defense once again rose up to stop the Bearcats attempt and seal the game. Fresno State moves to 1-0 on the season and now has a bye week before their WAC season opener vs. Utah State. Cincinnati now 0-1 on the young season will now head home to play Indiana State. Fresno State quarterback Ryan Colburn recovered from an early interception in the first quarter to finish the game 18-24 for 247 yards and four touchdowns, Receiver Jamel Hamler led the receivers with five receptions for 53 yards and one TD and Robbie Rouse led the 'Dogs rushing efforts with 20 carries for 40 yards. Fresno State will need to work on their rushing game which did nothing against a Cincinnati defense all game. Fresno State which last year was eight in the nation in rushing only gained 70 total yards on the ground. Desia Dunn led the team with 11 tackles in the game, and Harrell had four sacks. Stay tuned to TheBulldogreport.com for more covereage of Saturdays victory over the Bearcats including an article on Ryan Colburn and a video from the game. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now!
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Sam's Place One and Two
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The Georgian Revival style building at the southeast corner of 19th and Chestnut Street now houses a CVS Pharmacy. In November 1921, this was the Aldine Theatre, opened by local theatre operators, brothers Fred D. and M.E. Felt, with 1,500 seats and opened as Philadelphia's exclusive, first run showcase for United Artists films. It was named after the Aldine Hotel which was one block to the west. It is partly on the site of the Aldine Hotel that the Boyd Theatre was built in 1928. In 1921, the Felts also built or acquired the Ambassador Theatre on Baltimore Avenue in Philadelphia, the Aldine Theatre in Pittsburgh, and the Aldine Theatre and Parkway Theatre, both in Wilmington, DE.
The style of the interior of the Aldine Theatre was Empire, the second phase of Neo-Classic style. The first phase of Neo-Classic style, Adam, characterized some other movie palaces in downtown Philadelphia. At the Aldine Theatre, two marble grand stairways led from the marble lobby upstairs to the loge seating and restrooms. The auditorium ceiling had a crystal dome through which colored lights filtered. On the orchestra floor, there were raised level box seats which ran the entire length of the auditorium. The mezzanine had four rows of seats. A twenty piece orchestra and a 3 manual, 27 rank Moeller pipe organ accompanied silent movies, and in the talkie era, played between the shows.
With a review of "The Merry Widow" the Exhibitor trade magazine in 1925 stated that "Aldine first nights have become a sort of institution in the theatrical life of the city akin, in their way, to the first nights of important plays and opera." Silent movies showcased at the movie palace included "The Three Musketeers"(1921) starring Douglas Fairbanks, "The Ten Commandments" (1923), "The Big Parade"(1926), "The Way of all Flesh"(1927), "King of Kings" and "The Phantom of the Opera" starring Lon Chaney(1927), with orchestra accompaniment). Legendry local civil rights lawyer Raymond Pace Alexander successfully sued the Aldine Theatre in 1925 when it refused to seat African-Americans who sought to see "The Ten Commandments". A decade later, Alexander built his own office building at 1900 Chestnut Street, the Art Moderne corner building across the block, facing the Aldine Theatre. In the 1920's, the Stanley Co. tookover.
On February 9, 1940 the Aldine Theatre hosted the world premiere of the movie "Vigil in the Night" and in May, 1940, the world premiere of the movie "Turnabout". In December, 1940, actor Sabu appeared in person for the opening day of the film "The Thief of Bagdad". Disney's "Fantasia"(1940) which featured the Philadelphia Orchestra was shown for twelve weeks with the Aldine being the only local theatre equipped with "Fantasound". "Dumbo" was shown in 1941 and "How Green Was My Valley" was shown for six weeks in early 1942. RKO leased the theatre for four weeks, starting in March 1942, so Philadelphians could see "Citizen Kane". "Bambi" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" were on the screen in 1943. Seats at $1,000 each were sold for the December 14, 1944 premiere of "Frenchman's Creek" in order to raise an estimated $1.2 million in war bonds. More than $4.5 million dollars of 'E' bonds were sold at the June 19, 1945 'bond premiere' of "The Valley of Decision" starring Greer Garson. In January, 1950, the Aldine hosted the world premiere of the film noir "Outside the Wall" which was partly filmed in Philadelphia, and the premiere of "Borderline" with the films's star Claire Trevor and her husband, the movies director, appearing in person. The East Coast premiere of "A Life of Her Own" was held on August 30, 1950. "The River" actress Adrienne Corri appeared in person at the film's December 1951 opening night. "Cyrano de Bergerac" was on the screen in 1951 with tickets sold out four weeks in advance. Cyrano's star Jose Ferrer, appeared in person in May 1952 for the showing of "Anything Can Happen".
In 1953, facing competition from television, the new owners of Stanley Warner sold the Aldine Theatre to a parking garage operator. Town leaders protested the intended new use, so the parking garage operator decided to remodel and reopen the movie theatre. In 1954, the Aldine Theatre closed for considerable interior remodeling supervised by local theatre architect William Harold Lee. Air conditioning was added, as the movie theatre had always closed during summer. Renamed the Viking Theatre, it reopened a few months later on July 1, 1954, a huge 57 foot wide screen for 'scope films, and reduced seating capacity from 1,296 to 991. Anne Blyth appeared on stage for the gala opening of The Viking Theatres' first movie, "The Student Prince". The Viking neon sign, 38 feet tall, had a ship and oars that animated, but the city insisted the animation cease as it was distracting motorists. "Funny Face" was shown in 1957. Disney's "The Sword and the Stone" was on the big screen in 1963. The Viking Theatre was closed in 1963
It reopened December 12, 1967 with a benefit premiere of Walt Disney's "The Jungle Book". Now known as the Cinema 19, with 1,086 seats (of which the loge balcony held 70), refurbished with white ceiling to floor drapes, red carpeting, oyster white seats, and new lighting fixtures imported from Denmark. It was operated by New York City art house movie theatre owner David Rugoff. With Center City moviehouses still showcasing exclusive first runs for the entire Philadelphia region, the local premiere of "The Last Picture Show" (1971) was attended by the director Peter Bogdanovich and star Cybil Sheppard. "The French Connection" opened on October 6, 1971, and "The Poseidon Adventure" opened on December 12, 1972. In 1975, Rugoff & Becker Theatres became Cinema 5 Theatres when they were acquired by Pacific Theatre (then owners of RKO Stanley Warner). The theatre closed in late-1978.
The Sameric Co. acquired the theatre, twinned it and reopened it in March 1980 as Sam's Place One and Two. United Artists acquired it, along with the entire Sameric chain in 1988. First run mainstream releases played to weekend crowds including with many nearby Rittenhouse Square residents. Sam's Place closed in August 1994 with "Clear and Present Danger" in the big theatre to the left, which had over 800 seats, and "The Little Rascals" in the smaller theatre to the right.
CVS Pharmacy leased the building, converted it into a pharmacy, and added pictures of the Aldine Theatre on the outside of the building.
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Corrected link, yes, but that site is mistaken. 954 Liberty Ave isn't the Aldine. Some other Aldine.
I found it: Pittsburgh, and have emailed that site to inform them of the error.
I already had an Aldine program from this theater in Philadelphia, so I assumed that my 1925 program was from the same theater. I have corrected the webpage and posted the program on CT under the Pittsburgh Aldine.
Great. Please keep on sharing!
Alan, most of that info is already in my Introduction above but thanks for the 1963 closing date, which will be included above.
In 1953, Harry Sley, president of the Sley System, a parking lot operator, aquired the Aldine Theatre with plans to convert it into a parking garage. After neighborhood opposition, plans were changed and well known theater architect William Harold Lee, AIA (1884-1974) was hired to remodel the theater. It reopened as the Viking Theatre in 1954. (The Viking closed in 1963 and remained shuttered until 1967 when it reopened as the Cinema 19).
The Pittsburgh Aldine was an old Loew's theater which later was renamed the Nixon. It was Pittsburgh's home for stage productions on tour from Broadway as well as a number of roadshow films. "The Sound of Music" played there for over 2 years.
1928 photo added courtesy of Mark Albrecht.
That 1928 photo is from the City of Philadelphia Archives!
Thanks. I'll add proper credit beneath it. Found it on the Vintage Philadelphia Facebook page, and credited the source there. I always search the comments first, and did not see any link for it.
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The Westin Colonnade, Coral Gables
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Located in the heart of the charming Coral Gables, The Westin Colonnade, Coral Gables offers easy access to Miami International Airport, Port of Miami, Coconut Grove, and Miami's trendy South Beach. Other easily reachable Miami destinations include American Airlines Arena—home to the Miami Heat—as well as The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts and the city's main financial district, Brickell.
Close to many Fortune 500 corporate offices, we are located in Coral Gables' renowned Miracle Mile shopping district, filled with stylish boutiques, art galleries, theaters, and fine dining. Name-brand and luxury retailers abound at the nearby Village of Merrick Park shopping center, with world-renowned shops and award-winning restaurants clustered around a refreshing urban garden.
For a greater dose of greenery, the Fairchild Tropical Garden is just six miles from the hotel. Stroll through extensive collections of rare, tropical plants, a sunken garden, and a rain forest display. After sightseeing or traveling, rest your feet at Soleil Spa, a luxury day spa just two blocks from the hotel.
Stay active with an inspiring game of golf at the Granada Golf Club facility, just a few minutes from the hotel. Designed by Donald J. Ross in 1923, the exquisite 9-hole course features 3,001 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 36.
Coral Gables' stunning Venetian Pool—built out of a coral rock quarry in 1923—is available to the public and boasts cool spring water, waterfalls, coral caves, and grottos. Just a few miles away, the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens contains a 34-room villa built around a central courtyard and featuring art and furnishings dating from the 15th century. Guests can also tour the Coral Gables Merrick House, childhood home of Coral Gables Founder George Merrick, only six blocks away.
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Our grade for Earth Day had a assembly where a group of people came in and educated us on the three R's which are reduce, reuse, and recycle and also they told us about how most of our trash that we throw away isn't really all trash some of it is recyclables and compost. Then after they finished talking they had an activity for us to do that was related to what they were talking about before. For the activity we had a tarp on the floor with three different colored bins on the edge. Each bin had a label reduce, reuse, or recycle on it and in the middle of the tarp we had our schools trash from the last three days. In the activity we weighed the total amount of trash first which was 87.5 pounds and then sorted the trash into the bins. When we finished the sorting we weighted each bin with 9 pounds of recyclables, 51 pounds of compost, and 25 pounds of true trash.
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Our school had a group of people come and show us a video about trash and how it is effecting our Earth. We dug through our trash from lunch and found a huge mess. Some kids volunteered to help sort out the trash. We had different bins that consisted of trash, recycling and compost.
We also saw a power point that was shocking. Did you know that there is a part in an ocean where all you can see is trash? It's so sad. Also, because of the trash in the ocean many animals are deformed. It is very upsetting. It really made people take a second look at trash, though.
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Before earth day, we had a visitor visit our classroom to talk to us about the process of making stuff and how the stuff gets thrown out and were it goes when it breaks of we don't want it anymore. We watched a series of 3 movies on adds and advertizing to kids and even babies. I learned that companies take a food, or home idem and put a cartoon character on it and the kid would want to get it and or would say that (for a food idem) it tastes better even though they have not tried it or it could just tastes the same.
We also had a small assembly in our cafeteria about trash at lunch time and about composting and recycling. We took two days worth of trash from the 7th grade and dumped it all out on a tarp on the floor. The total trash before we sorted it all out in different piles, it weighed 87.5 pounds. And than after we sorted to trash into piles, we got 51 pounds of compost, 9 pounds of recycling, and 25 pounds of landfill trash.
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For three science class's this year we got to watch three films. The films were Consuming Kids/The Commercialization of childhood, Trashed – This is the story of garbage...American style, and The Story of Stuff. They were very interesting because it taught us a lot about things we didn't know and isn't that the point of teaching anyways.
The film I'm going to talk about first is the Consuming Kids/The Commercialization of Childhood. This film is about how the commercials that air on television now are focused on children. When the Federal Trade Commission tried to create a ban on ads aimed at young children the government turned them down and wouldn't let them do it. Since commercials are allowed to focus on children so that they would want to look different and do different things. The commercials mostly focus on "tweens". Tweens are the children that are in between the ages of 10 and 12, but since this all started the ages have moved and now it's the ages between 4 and 9. The words tweens was made up by the commercialization process, not the parents that just find that a good word for the age group. In the commercials the girls are pressured to pretty and skinny by wearing revealing clothing and tons of makeup. The boys are pressured to be very violent, to hurt people and always talk about killing people. Product placement is when there is an advertisement in a movie. When a "tween" see a certain person wearing something or drinking/eating something they want it too.
The second film we watched was Trashed – This is the Story of garbage...American style, it's about the food we buy, don't eat or just waste, and where it goes. Just New Yorkers alone throw away 50,000 ton of trash. A Landfill is an area that people just put there trash in to get rid of it, from those landfills there is methane gas that comes from the landfill which is bad for the environment. When people say "We put value in things we through away." it means that when we through things away it cost money like everything else. We either bring it to the dump or have someone pick it up for us (that cost money), than someone else has to sort it into different piles, than it has to be taken away. So it really does cost money to through something away. A "freegan" is a person who searches through trash, picks out the food that is still edible and eats it. They eat the food that people through away because they think that it's gone bad or is the wrong kind and even more reasons. The "freegans" are able to just pick up the food and eat it, I don't know how they can do that, because some people would be totally disgusted with it. So it is a choice that they make in their life and it probably saves them a ton of money, but on other bad side they are eating the food that they other people are throwing away. The North Pacific Gyre is a waterway that is twice the size of the United States of America, it's filled with plastic. It's said that when your there you can't go 30 seconds without seeing a piece of trash. There was a experiment done to see if mothers breast milk was purest for woman living in urban landscapes, the result was very surprising. Woman living in a urban landscape the purest milk, the woman who live out in the forest with tribes and such get all the bad air that's filled with the carbon and everything from us that we're putting in our atmosphere and it hurting other parts of the human population.
"Laws change.......Men die..........The land remains." that saying was from Abraham Lincoln in 1862. What he means when he says that is that the laws will change, we will have different laws over the years, people will die it doesn't matter what happens the people of the earth will die it's just never going to change, but the land it will always stay here, we can't live without it, it's not going anywhere, it will still be here when we're all dead. So basally what he's saying in the short run is that the only thing that's not going to change is the lands, so we better take care of it.
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Film Festival
During the Film Festival at our school I learned a lot about how to help the environment, and what the companies do to get you to buy. Not only did I learn all that, but I also learned some very shocking facts.
The first film in the Film Festival was called "The Story of Stuff". This video spoke a lot about how we take too many of our natural resources and use. I learned that some of the real costs involved with the distributions of products, it that the companies are constantly creating new products for people to buy. Then they over advertise it, and the people who maybe just bought a computer last year, want a newer, better one.
The second film my class and I saw was called "Consuming Kids/The Commercialization of Childhood". This film taught me about product placement. Product placement to when companies influence people to buy their products by putting them in movies, or television shows. Kids want to buy the product because they see their favorite stars or role models using it, and automatically think its cool. Companies also use the method of symbolic advertising. This is when the product is not advertised in the commercial, but other things to make it look cooler and more fun are show. Then, at the end of the commercial, they show the logo of the product they were supposed to be advertising. The main focus of most companies, is the "tween" generation. Tween is simply a meaning for the time when you are no longer a child, but not yet a teenager. Over the years, tweens have went from about 10 to 12, to 6 to 12, to where we are now; from 4 to 12 years old. Some people would like to say that companies have increased this change by releasing adult or teenager dolls, making the kids want to grow up even faster. Markets also tend to use gender stereo types often. Like they use pretty and fashionable girls so that you will envy that girl, and think if you use that product that yo u will be more like her. Then for boys they use strong, tough, and violent boys to let them think if they use that product they will be strong and cool. Companies have even started to target babies, and their mothers. These products are rarely tested for educational purposes, and only teach new babies two things; how to sit in front of a screen and play video games. Some people will complain that food companies have increased the levels of obesity in America by advertising excessive junk food, while they are already slumped down on the couch watching television.
In the thirds film that we watched was called "Trashed – this is the story of garbage...American Style" We learned a lot about how much trash Americans throw our everyday, and how much waste we produce. I was surprised when I learned that New Yorkers throw out about 50,000 tons of trash every day. There are people called freegans. They don't believe in their fellow New Yorkers wasteful ways. Every night, instead of making dinner bough from the store, they go out on the streets of New York and eat from the trash bags. I was surprised by how much healthy, and fresh foods were thrown out by restaurants, grocery stores, and just regular people. I also was realized that while I was watching the video, that we consider throwing stuff away a luxury. Its a major benefit in our culture, but is it slowly becoming a problem? I think that companies are most aware of the trash problem because it will effect their businesses if people are unhappy with their attempt to help the environment. Another major trash problem here in America, is the North Pacific Gyre. This Gyre has 6 times more trash than wild life living in it. It is known as the "plastic plague".
"Laws change, Men die, The land remains" - Abraham Lincoln. I think what Lincoln was trying to say, is that our laws will change in the future, and people will die someday, but the land will always be here, so we have to take care of it now. I really took in a lot from this festival of films, and I hope to help the earth in this life time.
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The more we watch science fiction movies that have to do with a abandoning a earth because of pollution it is becoming more of a reality. Our Earth has every single problem from the movie Wall-E if you think about it.
The first subject is about Wal Mart. Wal Mart is our modern day BNL or "Buy and Large". They try to be the biggest and the best super store in the world, nothing else! Trying to be the biggest doesn't always mean being the best. The quality of a super store's items can sometimes be lower because it needs to mass produce everything. That's why we need small businesses to supply us with good quality food and items even if it costs a little bit more. That's another thing about Wal Mart, they make the price of their items so low that middle class and lower class people can't help but buy at their store!
Another similarity is the horrible global pollution. In Wall-E their were skyscrapers made of trash. We are going to have that problem pretty soon if we don't stop polluting! We are already starting to make the skyscrapers base by making these areas called landfills. If we keep burying holes in ground we won't have anymore room and have to start stacking it (which is already happening). Even are oceans are starting to look similar to the movie. Not only are we putting whole objects in the ocean but toxic liquids like oil and nuclear waste. Soon we wont be able to swim in the ocean because it will be so toxic that it won't be safe. Anybody like seafood...? WELL WE WONT HAVE IT...unless we stop polluting our oceans.
This article might not make sense and doesn't have a lot of detail to it but it's short sweet and to the point and explains what needs to be done. I'm sure my article is going to be just another one of the millions out there that are trying to stop what is happening in this corrupt world. But listen to this world, if we keep sitting on our butts and thinking,waiting and getting on with our own lives even if it means polluting and killing the Earth so that WE can make a living for our selfish selves none of us will live.
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In the past few weeks of school we learned a lot about stuff....literally. Stuff like where does stuff come from and where does it go. I know it is a lot of stuff to take in, so let's start with our class digging through stuff, the stuff is called "trash". We did this stuff to help the environment, digging through 2 days of trash was pretty discussing but it was very interesting to see how much stuff could be either recycled or composted. In the end we found more then 75% of stuff that would be put in a landfill could be put in a compost or recycled.
The second thing we did in the class was we watched a video on where our stuff comes from.
We learned that around 80% of the stuff we buy within 6 months gets thrown away. Other stuff that we learned was that over 75% of plastic bottles do not get recycled.
In the end, I learned that more people need to recycle their stuff. We all need to compost. It's our world, let's take care of it.
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During our studies of trash and its disposal, we had an assembly where we separated trash from the lunch room that had been collected over two days. Before our garbage was separated, we had a total of 87.5 pounds of trash. After taking this information, everyone got a chance to separate the trash into three categories, recyclables, compostables, and true trash. After a while we had all of our trash sorted, and we were amazed to find that most of our trash was actually compostable, and only 25 pounds of our original trash actually had to be thrown away. I think that many people enjoyed this assembly because it was straight forward, only telling us about true facts, and how we could reduce our waste. The leaders did not attempt to get us to believe their own opinions, and they simply focused on what we could do to help the environment by getting rid of our trash. We were shown the consequences of not littering, such as how animals our dieing after eating our trash. Now, my entire grade has an education about our waste and we can prevent future waste.
In school we have been having people come into school to teach us about trash and where it goes after we throw it away. We had to watch numerous videos as part of this unit. One specific video that we watched from the internet was The Story of Stuff. I think that you should definitely watch this video, in order to see all of the controversial information being shown to junior high schoolers. According to this video humans are a selfish species that are centered around buying, using, and throwing away. We were led to believe that as Americans specifically we use up other countries resources, destroying their land, just so that we can be happy. In this video we were shown a sketch of a dead world, and told that it was all our fault. I found that this video was completely twisted and false for many reasons. For example of one of the changed facts, we were told that we have destroyed 96% of our original forests. This is fake because we were not told anything about how most businesses who use resources, in this case trees, replenish this resource, by planting more trees. Also, this film was supposed to be about our waste, but when the speaker started showing us cartoons of a tiny government official shining the shoes of an oversized business man it seemed completely off topic and untruthful. We were also told by the speaker that she almost used a tank to symbolized the American government, and she went on to describe how taxes were going toward war efforts. These "points" that she seemed to be slipping in were one sided, off topic, suggestions that were completely unnecessary and should not have been brought up. I have a huge problem with the fact that we are being taught these twisted opinions in school. Many kids believe everything they are taught in school, because after all isn't that the place where people are educated? So when somebody comes in and brainwashes the kids in order to get them to believe their slanted side of this story, its indoctrination and it should not be allowed. At least if you are going to tell children to believe someone's story it is important to show people the other side of this story.
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A couple weeks ago was Earth Day where everyone was broadcasting about ways to cut down on trash and just help the earth. During school a couple of weeks before that we had a group of people come in. They helped us sort though all trash from that day and the day before that. A group of volunteers from each of our classes got in gloves and aprons, so they wouldn't get dirty. They dumped out all of the trash out of the bags and sorted through them. There were three groups of food. Trash that would go to the landfills, recyclable things, and Compostable things. We ahd about 87 pounds of trash before we sorted though it all. But when we were done sorting through things we had reduced it down to 25 pound of trash about 51 pounds of compostable trash and 9 pounds of recyclable stuff. It doesn't add up because some of it was liquids and little things we really couldn't pick up. It was very gross but showed us how we can reduce down the amount of trash that goes into landfills.
Another thing thing we did was the Earth Cast. A few of people from each of the classes were in little groups with different assignments for everyone. We had a greeter and a question answering person. They just typed on the computers. Then there were intro people and outro people who also answered questions and talked about things that we did. It was really fun and each class said something different. There were also other people in different schools or organizations that talked too. It went on for 24 hours. From 8pm the night before earth day to 8pm the night of Earth Day. it was very inspirational.
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In school, all of the 7th grade celebrated Earth Day. We are starting to be more green and to help earth become more green. We watched a bunch of different videos about the earth being polluted and evil corporations taking away natural resources and telling us not to buy anything because it's bad for the earth. They also told us about freegans and how we should eat our garbage and not waste. We also did a garbage activity where we had to seperate the compost from the garbage. We learned that alot of our garbage didn't have to go in the landfills and pollute our water. We also had a webcast informing alot of people to help out the earth. To me it was a very successful earth day.
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One assembly we had was an assembly on our school's garbage . Out of 87.5 lbs 25 lbs went to the landfill, 9 lbs was recycling and 51 lbs was compostable! That's 60 % compostable, 30% goes into a landfill and 10% was recylable, that means that less than 1/2 of our garbage acually didn't had to go into a landfill and more than 1/3 wasn't compostable!
We had a film festival and there were 3 videos. The first video was the story of stuff. It talked about how the U.S., when we run out of supplies we go to other countries and start polluting their lands and ruining their environment too then sell it at lower price than it cost the people in other countries to make it and labor on it which means they are either underpaid or not paid at all. Then we go out and buy it then eventually throw it away and when we throw it away it either ends up in a landfill like this
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We all care about the environment, but would you go through 87 pounds of trash to show it? The seventh graders at Rye Junior High did. We went through two days of trash from our lunch, to see what we throw away that can be recycled or composted. While some students suited in gloves and aprons dumped the trash at their feet, the rest of us waited in the side lines, wrinkling our noses and shrieking. Rice from lunch poured onto the plastic that protected the ground, and milk cartons flooded the area. Then the really gross stuff happened. The students started wading in ankle deep trash and picking through the scraps. This really got a squeal out of everyone. The people from Zero Waste Now instructed them to put the food in three buckets if the were recyclable, compost, or just trash. Fruits and veggies went into the Compost bucket as well as milk cartons. They only went in because the people from Zero Waste Now said that they were able to compost them at their facility. At the end they weighed the trash. We ended up with 25 pounds of trash, 51 pounds of compost, and 9 pounds of recyclables. The remaining weight came from bits and pieces of this and that that were too small to pick up.
But if you though digging through trash was gross how about eating from it? Freegans eat from the trash bags that people leave on the streets in big cities. But they do it to get a big message through. They can stay perfectly heathly by eating from trash. And they're normal people. One we learned about was a second grade teacher. But the trash we throw away isn't necessarily trash. In fact freegans are perfectly healthy people. In the video we watched, they showed us trash bags out side of a grocery store. They got pre-prepared salads from bags, bread and even some meats. They told us that they take food off the line if they're close to expiring even though they might good up to two weeks later.
So remember to be more concious about what you throw away because it might be able to go to better use.
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Gardens are a great way to get your communities involved in outdoor fun and activities. Our school previously started a garden, all of the grades have gotten really involved. The layout of the garden was a contest to see who had the best idea for a map to scale. Many of the seeds were donated by students or teachers. Now in science our class we are testing pH of the soil to make sure the fruits and veggies will be able to grow. Our school has really come together through the garden, I encourage other families and school to create a garden getting friends and family involved.
Our school has been trying to go green and succeeding in some ways. A group of people from the zero waste now business which composts and demonstrates to children and even adults the effectiveness of composting and how it helps everyone. When they came in we went through bags of trash and when we started there was 87.5lbs of trash. After we sorted it there was 22lbs of trash, 51lbs of compost and 9lbs of recyclables. So if we all sorted trash like that you could get a large amount of great fertilizers and reduce the amount in landfills. This shows that doing a small thing goes a long way.
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The earth is really, really screwed up. We are polluting it and destroying ourselves, and doing it on purpose. Earth day was 2 weeks ago, and on that day, we accepted that fact, and had a huge, worldwide, "Earthcast" to discuss ideas for the earth to be a greener, better place. The Earthcast was April 22nd, and lasted all of the day; almost 24 hours. Kids and adults from schools all around the world participated, and there was a great turnout.
Another part to our earth unit in science class was a film festival. In this we watched three different films, all having to do with the earth, marketing, and how screwed we all are. The first video was called "the story of stuff", and showed us the life cycle of the stuff we use. The second video was on marketing techniques, and the shopping culture of America. The third video was on how we disposed of trash after we used it. These films all tied together a unit which came with one conclusion: we are destroying the earth.
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This earth day my grade and I made a webcast, talking all about the earth and ways to save it. It was a lot of fun because we got to talk all about what we learned to people all around the country! Some of the things we talked about in our webcast were recycling, is it good? or bad? We learned that recycling is very good but we're gonna need a new way of disposing trash and other things that can't be recycled. This solution is composting. Composting is a way we can dispose of trash by putting the trash in a composting bin, churning it up, and then it turns to dirt so we can start the cycle all over again. We also talked a lot about landfills and if they're good for the environment or not. And it turns out they are not very good for the environment because its a whole lot of trash just sitting in land which gives off toxic fumes, and they only last up to 40 years. We learned all this information and more from Mrs. Anderson who was a lady who came into our class room once a week for 3 weeks and talked to us about ways people are destroying the earth and how we can help. The 1st week she came she brought some other guys from a recycling committee too who helped us identify what things in our lunch trash bin we could compost, recycle, or put in a landfill.
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One day our school had a trash day. That means these people sorted the trash. They sorted the compost, recyclables and trash that goes to a landfill.The people talked about how things can be used more than once. In science class the teacher asked the kids if they wanted to volunteer to sort the trash. The people showed us a slide show and one of the slides was the Pacific Ocean. It had a lot of trash. It was the size of Texas. The science teacher asked the students if they wanted to sort the trash and 4 or 5 students helped to sort the trash with the people. They told us that some schools can recycle lunch trays and that our school can compost milk cartons.
There were four people there that day to teach us. Two were girls and two were boys. One of the girls came to our school every Tuesday to have a film festival. We watched a movie and when we it we had a piece of paper to answer the questions. After the movie we talk about the movie and the answers.
The one the movies were stuff. Stuff was about People throw stuff away and it was perfectly fine but they saw some other cool and people wasted money on things just came out and they had the almost the same butter. Some of the new thing can be not that better.
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Our grade did an earth day web cast. The full time it ran was twenty four hours, but our grade only talked for I think about an hour or two. What we talked about was well earth day of course, and also how the Earth is a great place to live and how we should treat it with some respect, and how it is getting trashed by pretty much everyone on this planet. How this worked was we all had a meeting with our science teacher and she gave us our jobs for the web cast. Then on the day of the web cast we had our classes, then whoever was participating in the Earth day web cast went to the math room and waited for their classes turn. When the time came our class went into the science room and started our broadcast. We interacted with our listeners, because people would type in questions into the chat room and they would ask us questions about what we learned. It was very interesting and fun to participate in, I would do that again if I had the choice.
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Last month, April 22 was earth day. We (the students of the 7th grade) did a live webcast about earth day and the changes being done, and that can be done to help save the planet. We talked about landfills which will all have to be taken care of within the next two decades, the Pacific gyre, a stretch of the Pacific Ocean with garbage and pollution circulating through it, and lastly wasted resources, food, and everyday items.
Examples of science fiction movies about humans destroying the planet, depleting the planet's resources, and other misfortunes coming to humanity with enourmously disasterous outcomes are starting to come true. Say like the movie Avatar, (all rights reserved 21st Century Fox entertainment LLC, C 2010), at one point during the film the main character says; " there's nothing green back on Earth" This goes in compliance with the massive amounts of de-forestization going on all around the planet today. This movie was supposed to take place only a little more than a century forom now. (!) Some other movies involve massive invasions and war destroying the world, I really hope they're wrong....
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On April 22 2010 our school had a Earth Day Webcast. In the web cast we talked about saving the earth and it's atmosphere. We talked about how to do it by just doing the three R's, Reduce,Reuse,Recycle, and which one is most important. Reuse is the most important because then you will have to recycle and reduce less. But the what I thought was the most important to talk about was the landfills. Landfills are just big hills filled with trash that cant be reused or recycled. The landfills only last 30-40 years! Which means that the landfills that we have now will only last a about 15 more years. Then what do we do with them? They seal them up and have then covered with grass and dirt to make it look like a field. But there are pipes coming out of the landfills so the methane and other chemical gasses can come out and into the air.
Another topic that we talked about was just plastic and where it goes. There was one thing that really surprised me on where some plastic is. The North Pacific Gyre. the North Pacific Gyre is a big part of the ocean where plastic just goes around in a circle. Also people wanted to test the Inuits to see if the mothers milk was contaminated. They thought since they eat so healthy and they are far away the it wouldn't. But they found out that it was the most contaminated. Because they eat seafood like seals, and the seals eat plastic that goes in the water, or that was in the food that the seals eat. . Mostly all mother's milk is contaminated and then they poison the little ones. People are dying because of plastic! We need to stop this, and soon.
"Laws change, Men Die,the land remains"
Abraham Lincoln, 1862
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Our school does many things to help support this planet. One of our biggest contributions to the Earth is our garden that we have. Last year in math class we designed the garden while learning about geometry. In Language Arts (LA) we wrote about the garden and read a book, Seedfolks. Seedfolks is a book about a small garden that united many people in Detroit. In science we learned about plants and gardening. One of our biggest contributors to our garden is our Librarian, Ms. Coombs. She gets seeds for the garden and helps it in her free time.
We had an assembly this year and we now have compost bins that we are allowed to put certain organic materials, such as apple cores, banana peels, salads without dressing, and stuff like that. We use the compost on our garden as a fertilizer. This year on Earth Day our grade participated in an Earth Day webcast. We had an hour long block of time to talk about our planet and how to protect it, and what our school is doing.
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Earth Day
Earth Day is a once a year thing. Earth Day can mean many different things. Some people pick up trash, some people don't drive their car but mostly people turn off their power. They save power by unplugging or not using television, computers and other electrical appliances. Lots of people all around the world celebrate Earth Day.
There are 10,000 landfills in the U.S.A. That's a lot of toxins that are being let out into the air. The landfills take up a lot of space and also there using up to many resources. Company's make an item that is good, then they make a better and more expensive one, so you throw out your old one and get the new one. They would destroy the Earth for money. People throw things in the landfill that could still be used or that could go into the compost or recycling bin. There are people called Freegans. Freegans are people who go looking around in garbage for food that is still good. They sometimes find food that hasn't even been open yet.
There are three important things to do to help the Earth and they are the 3 R's , reduce, reuse, recycle. Reduce is the most important out of the R's. Its the best because you stop using as much and you wont pollute the Earth as much. The second most important is reuse. Reuse is the second most important because if you did buy a lot of stuff you can keep using it again and not just once. Recycle is the least important only because the others are better. You should still recycle even though its not the most important it still helps the Earth a little bit.
Kids have a lot of power of what the parents buy. They can use two things, one is called purchasing power which purchasing is having the money to buy it, and the second is called purchasing influence which is where kids nag their parents so much until they finally give in and buy it. Company's use these things as an advantage for them to sell items. Company's put ad's in movies and on boxes of food and other things. They put them in movies because the kids will want that, for example if the kids in the movie are eating MC Donald's then the kids will want to eat that. There can be advertisements for many different things other than food. When they put ad's on boxes of food they could take a famous character from a movie or cartoon then the kids will want that because one of their favorite characters is on the box. The reason this hurts the environment is because the company's make things that are using up too many resources on things that will be used once.
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These last two or three weeks were based on the environment and the world leading up to April 22nd, which is Earth Day. We got to have a guest speaker come in to our class for a couple of days and show us videos like, "The Story of Stuff." In the video, it was these people telling us how bad humans are on helping the environment. They would say all these crazy facts and just put it out that might not even be true. When it was talking about the buying of goods they blame President Bush about how he told everybody in America to go out and shop. And of course, that isn't true it is just the same old people that think it is all our fault that the trash is building up and nowhere to go. I thought and how I always think, "that it is the people telling us what they think not what we think."
When in another video when it was based on the advertisement, telling students that when their kids they nag their parents until they get it and when something is not as totally cool as on television. Then the people in the video had to blame someone so they blamed the companies of making things so bad. I say, "the companies aren't to blame because all they want is to make a better product, and that is their job."
The next thing that we got to do is have another group of helpers come in and pick trash out of our garbage of the last two days. What we did is break the trash into groups Landfill, recyleables, or compost. There was a total of 85 pounds that our school would have thrown away. As you see in the picture we would dig through trash and sort it out. We all were amazed at the end when we weighed the three categories. The lowest amount was landfill with about 25 pounds. You would have been surprised where most of the world's trash goes was the least for our school.
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In the 7th grade, in Rye Jr High we are now learning about helping the earth. We learned a lot about compost, recycling, waste, and many more. The first activity was trash sorting. What we did was we weighed the trash from two day of lunches. There was about 85 pounds of landfill trash. Then we dumped the trash out onto some mats. After we did that, we sorted the trash into three bins, one bin was compost, other bin was recycle and the last bin was landfill. After we sorted the trash we had about 25 pounds of landfill trash left.
The second thing we did was watch some movies on a lot of different things about the earth.One movie was on the story of stuff which was about buying stuff and then once it breaks to get another. Another was about tv ads and want kids to get their parents to buy things for them and the last one was landfill. These were all based on opinion which isn't always right.Then last we did a webcast for earth day, which i was not here for. Now i will end my story. Thank you for reading.
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The high profile Zumba prostitution case has made its way to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, which heard oral arguments today on an appeal in the case. The justices have been asked to consider whether to reinstate 46 invasion of privacy counts against Mark Strong Sr., a Thomaston businessman accused of helping run the alleged prostitution business out of a Zumba studio in Kennebunk. Patty Wight reports.
Mark Strong's trial was scheduled to begin nearly a month ago for his role as an alleged partner in a one-woman prostitution business. But a series of delays has put the trial in limbo.
Before an unsually lengthy jury selection was even complete, Justice Nancy Mills granted a motion from the defense to drop 46 invasion of privacy counts against Mark Strong, who allegedly helped videotape prostitution encounters. That left just 13 misdemeanor counts - for promoting prostitution - intact. Prosecutors appealed, halting the trial for two weeks until the Maine Supreme Court could hear their argument.
Patrick Gordon: "Patrick Gordon. I represent the state of Maine the appellant."
Justice Leigh Saufley: "Thank you Mr. Gordon, you may proceed."
Assistant District Attorney Patrick Gordon set out to convince the justices why the invastion of privacy charges should be reinstated, and chose to open his oral argument by setting up a scene from a romance novel, describing a man arranging and meeting a secret lover and ultimately engaging in sexual relations.
"No one would argue for a minute that that person didn't expect privacy there. So why would it be any different if money changed hands?" Gordon said. "It's the exact same behavior, it's the exact same relations. It's the exact same amount of vulnerability. It's the exact same thing that our society has sought to protect."
This is the question for the justices to decide: When exactly should someone reasonably expect privacy? "Reasonably" is the key word here, and Justice Ellen Gorman challenged Gordon's logic.
"Well, Mr. Gordon, in this day and age, if you're going to obtain sexual contact with someone you are paying for that contact, shouldn't you expect there to be surveillance, if only for the safety of the person who's providing the services?"
For 15 minutes, Gordon answered a barrage of questions from the justices, and it was Chief Justice Leigh Saufley who asked the overarching question of whether the right to privacy changes when money changes hands for a sexual act.
"So Mr. Gordon, let me take you right back to the language of the statute. Are you asking that this court finds that a person who goes to the place of business of the prostitute is a person that the legislature recognized as someone that is entitled to privacy, with a reasonable expectation that there will be no surveillance?"
"Yes, Your Honor," Gordon replied.
Next it was defense attorney Dan Lilley's turn to argue that the law court should uphold the Superior Court's decision to dismiss the invasion of privacy charges. Justice Jon Levy questioned Lilley about who should have the authority to decide what is a "reasonable expectation."
"Where does the judge get off announcing what the community's - or where do we get off announcing what people should expect? Isn't that something for the community, that is to say, the jury, to tell us?" Levy said.
Lilley replied that Maine's privacy law was enacted to prevent intrusion into places that are justifiably expected to be private, and that does not include places where sex is offered in exchange for money.
Justice Leigh Saufley then cited the lower court's finding when it dismissed the charges. "And that's exactly what Justice Mills determined - sex for money doesn't bring a justifiable expectation of privacy," she said.
Now the justices will decide if they agree with that determination. Once they reach an opinion, the trial will presumably get underway, and Mark Strong will either face 59 misdemeanor charges, or just 13.


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Physicist Dennis Nuel was the first human to probe the strange realms called anomaly worlds - alternate universes where the laws of science were unpredictably changed. But the world Dennis discovered seemed almost like our own - with one perplexing difference. To his astonishment, he was hailed as a wizard and found himself fighting beside a beautiful woman with strange powers against a mysterious warlord as he struggles to solve the riddle of this baffling world.
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"Lively, outlandish, and entertaining." (Publishers Weekly)
"A good book and an OK performance"
I first read this as a print book and bought the audio book after I lost the original. I loved the book but this performance did not quite work for me. The reader's voice just didn't gel for me. That said, it is a clever book with some remarkable ideas and it may be that coming to it fresh would be a very different experience - much like seeing a film without having read the book first. There is a lot to like about this and the blending of SF and fantasy (always difficult to pull off) works remarkably well here.
"My favorite Brin novel. Glad it's now in audio."
Absolutely! 20 years ago I discovered an amazing new world in the Uplift novels and like an unsupervised child with a bag of halloween candy, I devoured them. Over the next couple of years I read all of Brin's novels and The Practice Effect is my favorite with Startide Rising coming in a close second. I am very happy that this book finally came out in audio and pleased that the narration was good and did not distract from what I consider an amazing story.
The practice effect!
The narration did not distract from the story.
I enjoyed Dennis's Wright Brothers moment.
I am disappointed that the only Brin novel that ever made it to film was the Postman. The Postman movie/screenplay was an unmitigated disaster and I would have loved to have seen The Uplift War or Startide Rising made into a GOOD film.
"This book was doomed to fail"
The author started with an interesting premise, but one which could have no logical solution in the end. Brin wrapped up the book in a hurry and gave us the answers that we were looking for, but it was clear that even he thought they were so lame that they weren't worth exploring.
I've read two Brin novels now, and both of them had the same problem: Brin has clever ideas, but mediocre follow-through.
This book was kind of fun, but it also felt a bit unpolished and immature. It would have made for a fantastic episode of Star Trek or the Twilight Zone, where you can forgive some loose ends for the sake of enjoying the thought experiment. It just didn't have enough meat to justify an entire novel.
"David Brin at his best!"
Near the top
Probably the robot.
Did a nice job but the story was the star.
Move me? No, but the whole concept is really fun to think about.
One of my favorite books of all time not for anything but the concept of the practice effect.
"Practice Makes Perfect"
A really fun romp... Whimsical and entertaining... I wasn't expecting the lighthearted and humorous story from this author, but was pleasantly surprised... The only downside is the narration, which was entirely too slow and poorly paced... Worked well on 1.5 speed, but don't know if I could have handled it at regular speed...
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Friday, 20 November 2009 12:16
A Woman's Carbon Footprint: UN Report Shows a Trend
The United Nation's State of the World Population 2009 has revealed that women have, on average, a smaller carbon footprint than men. The smaller carbon footprint of women is due to a variety of reasons. For example, it seems women are more likely than men to take proactive steps to reduce their carbon footprint such as by recycling and purchasing eco-friendly goods. All this adds up to a smaller carbon footprint because women are taking personal action to mitigate the harm that they do to the environment. So why do women have a smaller footprint? Do women travel less because they want to reduce their carbon footprint, or are there just fewer opportunities for females to travel? Are women more likely to purchase organic foods and goods because they are less carbon intensive, or because they are more brand sensitive? I don't think that I have any good insights on this subject. Do you? Men, want to shirk your footprint a little more? Click here for ideas on how to reduce your carbon footprint. Also consider purchasing carbon offsets for your travel.
Wednesday, 14 April 2010 11:42
Walmart's Supply Chain: Why Emissions Matter
In February, Walmart announced that they are going to cut 20 million metric tons from their global supply chain - an action that, if successful, will eliminate the equivalent of the annual emissions of 3.8 million cars. Walmart is making its stores more energy efficient and using renewable energy including on-site solar panels. So why is Walmart looking outside their four walls for deeper emissions cuts? Because that is where most of their emissions come from. For most people, the carbon impact of the their indirect emissions is more than twice their direct emissions. But if your business is selling goods at the scale that Walmart does, then this figure gets much higher. Therefore, it makes sense that Walmart would look to their supply chain to reduce their emissions; everyone should look at the goods they buy and think about the carbon footprint associated with them. Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Green business conference this week in Laguna Niguel, Calif., Wal-Mart Chairman Lee Scott said, "What Walmart has done is approach this from a business standpoint... If we as a company focus on waste, we can make Walmart a better company and at the same time, become a better citizen." Carbonfund.org honed in on supply chain emissions in 2007 by developing the CarbonFree® Product Certification Program. The program allows companies to calculate the emissions of their product through a rigorous life-cycle assessment and reduce, offset the per-product emissions by supporting high quality carbon reducing projects. The program has been successful to date, and we have certified nearly 100 products that are available in a total of 15 countries, including mobile phones from Motorola, Domino Sugar, Anvil apparel, Grounds for Change Coffee and others. For more information about the products program, please visit www.carbonfund.org/products.
Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:35
Virgin America Recognized for Sustainability Achievements
Carbonfund.org partner Virgin America was recognized as the Most Eco-Friendly Airline in the SmarterTravel Editors' Choice Awards. The green achievements are a major reason why Carbonfund.org was so thrilled to partner with Virgin America to help them further reduce their carbon footprint. Some of the green initiatives that Virgin America has undertaken:
- Supporting LEED Certified building standards for select facilities/terminals;
- Offering preferential parking for hybrid cars;
- Operating a fuel-efficient fleet of airplanes that save money and carbon emissions;
- Publicly listing the airline's carbon footprint;
- Offsetting the emissions of their corporate headquarters with Carbonfund.org;
- Enabling passengers to offset when purchasing their travel or in-flight through their touch-screen RED system.
Friday, 15 January 2010 14:47
Video: Climate and Energy Policy Year in Review
2009 was a historic year for climate change action, as the US House of Representatives passed climate change legislation, and Senators introduced possible legislation in their chamber. The EPA ruled that greenhouse gases are pollutants that should be regulated under the Clean Air Act. One of the year-in-review videos is by the American Clean Skies Foundation in this 4 minute video.
Friday, 20 November 2009 17:44
Is Taking Away a Travel Option Really Progress?
Recently, the travel agency Responsible Travel stopped providing their customers with the opportunity to offset their travel and apparently hasn't replaced their offering with anything to help individuals reduce their travel footprint. Responsible Travel had offered their customers the opportunity to offset their carbon emissions since 2002. The general argument for the company so far has been that the offsets the company provided did little to change customer behavior and limit travel. But what are customers taking away from Responsible Travel? What about individuals who have to travel for their livelihoods or work in travel and the like; will they realistically travel less? While it is a fact that flying to where we need to go is carbon intensive, many flights are not impulse buys. In order to travel plans need to be made: where will I stay? Who is going to take care of my pets? How will this trip fit into my budget? In short, most people aren't jetting around the world for no reason - they alter their lives (and submit themselves to airport security or weather delays) out of necessity for business, family and much needed vacations. So why not give people the opportunity to take responsibility for their carbon emissions? Responsible Travel's position on offsets is misguided because 1) they over-estimate people's ability to modify their travel arrangements and 2) appear to take the position that it's better not to do anything than to do something. The fact is that carbon offset projects can be validated to do what they're supposed to, which is reduce carbon emissions and therefore serve as an offset to one's own emissions. By supporting real, high quality certified and verified carbon offset projects we can take responsibility for our carbon footprint, which is real and needs to be addressed if we are to solve global warming.
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 11:24
Trash or Treasure?
What happens when you throw away your trash? It takes a ride on a truck and then gets dumped at a landfill never to be heard of again... right? Well, that is only partially true. A significant part of your carbon footprint may be related to not only what you consume, but also what you throw away. The Modern Landfill and Methane Most landfills in the US are highly regulated and complex entities. They have amazingly strong linings to prevent leachate (the toxic goo that accumulates as all sorts of trashes mix) from reaching the ground water. They are capped every day with soil to keep the local air quality as un-stinky as possible and to minimize the birds and other animals picking at the trash. And they create massive amounts of methane -- a greenhouse gas 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The process by which methane is created in landfills is a direct result of the safety measures that protect our air quality and ground water. By sealing our landfills, we are essentially preventing any air from reaching our trash. If you remember your chemistry lessons, you know that when biological materials decompose in the absence of oxygen, one of the results is methane. And if you assume that about 1/3rd of our everyday trash is compostable biological stuff like coffee grinds, orange peels and pizza crusts -- that is a lot of methane and a lot of global warming pollution Separate Your Trash How can we keep our trash from heating our planet? Compost and recycle. By composting all organic materials, you are keeping the methane producing biological stuff out of landfills. This also helps to reduce the total amount of leachate in a landfill (because this stuff is generally wet and icky), reducing the potential for leachate to reach your local water supply. There are many cities in North America that have started municipal composting programs to help you do this. Toronto, Guelph, Halifax, and San Francisco all provide their residents with 'green bins' to collect organic waste. The end result is that there is less waste going to landfills, less methane, and high quality compost mulch / fertilizer that can be used for all agricultural needs -- did I forget to mention that composting organic materials creates awesome compost? That is certainly a plus. Offset The Rest Most places don't do municipal organic waste collection, so what should you do? If you can, set up your own back yard composting system. It is relatively cheap, easy and can certainly provide you with a reliable source of compost for your garden. You can also support projects that capture and harness the power of landfill methane. Carbonfund.org supports some projects that capture and utilize the methane created at landfills.
Wednesday, 16 September 2009 15:44
Save the Beer!
The fight to stop global warming has just been taken to the next level. First came the revelation that warmer temperatures threaten our coastlines, food supplies, access to clean water, and our way of life in general; now there are studies that indicates that even modest increases in temperature adversely impact hops - a critical ingredient in the production of beer! The study states that the quality of hops has been decreasing over the last 50 years. If this trend continues, this could mean more expensive pints at your local pub because suitable hops will be harder and harder to find. Now I don't know about you, but if every other reason to fight global warming wasn't enough, I hope that this hits home for you. Fighting global warming isn't about saving the polar bears or penguins - it is about maintaining the quality of life and the global conditions that have allowed for the amazing innovations of human kind, like beer. You owe it to your children to ensure that they have access to the same great hops that have made amazing lagers, ales, pilsners that we have grown to love (when they are of drinking age, of course!). And where would this world be with out the micro-brews that so enrich our lives and employ many? I don't want to think of a world without beer. Neither should you. Click here. Fight global warming now! Save the beer!
Wednesday, 23 June 2010 12:08
Providing a Simpler Way to Reduce Shipping's Climate Impact
Providing a simpler way for individuals and businesses to reduce the climate impact of moving goods & freight, ClickShipNGo.com gives customers the option to offset their shipping in support of Carbonfund.org's carbon reduction projects. ClickShipNGo.com offers shipping management services for individual consumers and small businesses. "ClickShipNGO.com takes a broader, longer term approach and focuses on the customer's experience," said Mark Palladino, director of business development. "We aim to provide the customer a simple and functional online experience and to create an environment where customers can rely on us to be available, to be courteous, to be fair and to be responsive to their needs." According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the transportation industry as a whole is responsible for 29% of the total carbon emissions in the US. For each freight quote booked through its website, ClickShipNGO.com offsets with Carbonfund.org to help reduce the climate impact of shipping. This valuable partnership is helping to change behaviors and attitudes in the freight industry about the environment. Learn more about ClickShipNGo.com and their initiatives by clicking here.
Friday, 24 July 2009 16:00
Press Release: Guide Rejects Internationally Accepted Third-Party Standards in Favor of Subjective, Non-CO2 Related Criteria
SILVER SPRING, Md., July 24 -- In a guide purporting to rate and rank carbon offset providers in Canada and abroad, the David Suzuki Foundation (DSF) and Pembina Institute have rejected internationally accepted carbon reduction standards in favor of subjective criteria that have no bearing on whether or not carbon dioxide is reduced from the atmosphere. The guide rejects forest-based carbon reductions even when certified to the strict standards adopted by the United Nations, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), California's Climate Action Reserve (CAR) and Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also allows forest-based carbon reductions, as does the Kyoto Protocol. "Any guide that ranks organizations based on subjective, non-CO2 related criteria on the same level or higher as international, government-backed standards is not a credible source for consumers," said Eric Carlson, president of Carbonfund.org. "For example, the guide allows for important criteria such as additionality to be self-defined and administered - a process that must be performed by third-parties to accepted standards." "It is inconceivable the David Suzuki Foundation, or any reputable environmental organization, would support national or international carbon reduction laws based on the criteria used in this guide," said Carlson. "Internationally accepted standards along with third-party verification and auditing are the only guarantees of carbon reductions - the goal of climate legislation - and are thus hallmarks of quality." The Guide: -- Rejects or Does Not Require Internationally Accepted Standards - The guide sets no requirement, such as in the criteria used, that projects be validated or verified to any internationally accepted standard, such as the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Gold Standard, ISO, VCS or CAR, enabling any organization to create their own standard. -- Rejects Forest-Based Carbon Offsets - Claiming an issue with the permanence of forest-based carbon reductions, the only project type that actually reduces carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the DSF rejects the protocols, standards and methodologies adopted and accepted by the UN, American Carbon Registry (ACR), Climate Community and Biodiversity (CCB) Standards, ISO, CAR and VCS, all of which address and account for project permanence. However, even the David Suzuki Foundation's own science program director, Dr. Faisal Moola, appears to disagree with the guide's view on forest-based reductions and permanence, as this excerpt from the March 16, 2009 issue of Canadian Business indicates: "I'm not opposed to forest-derived offsets," Suzuki scientific director Faisal Moola told Canadian Business. "Trees are the only practical way we have to remove CO2 from the atmosphere." Moola agreed that technology-based offsets like those his foundation favors suffer "common limitations" with biological carbon capture, including leakage and imprecision about how much carbon reduction is truly "additional" to a business-as-usual case. Forest-carbon vendors, he noted, have found ways around the problem of "reversal" by setting aside some of the carbon a forest captures as an unsold buffer against future losses. -- Bungles Concept of Additionality - Additionality attempts to define whether the carbon reduction would have occurred in the absence of the carbon reduction project. It can only credibly be applied by an independent third-party and every standard requires this. A major flaw in the guide is that it allows for the self-definition and application of this important criterion, placing a higher value on self-application of additionality over many offsets certified to international standards. No internationally accepted standard allows for the self-application of additionality. -- Implies Non-Fungibility of Carbon Credits within the Same Standard - Standards such as California's Climate Action Reserve issue Climate Reserve Tonnes (CRTs) for each tonne of carbon reduction they approve to their standards. Once issued, the tonne is fungible with any other CRT, meaning the standards body believes they are of equal quality. The acceptance of standards and their fungibility is an essential component of any international carbon reduction program, such as cap-and-trade. The guide implies the UN, VCS, CAR, ACR and others certify tonnes of unequal quality, and thus are not fungible. "The big story is that the David Suzuki Foundation appears to believe that the leading international standards certify low and differing quality carbon reductions. If this is their belief, why don't they say so and why isn't their guide focused on ranking carbon standards organizations, the bodies behind carbon credits and the claims," asked Carlson. -- Uses Subjective and Non-Carbon Related Criteria - The guide promotes subjective and non-carbon related criteria, such as education by the provider or project developer, which accounts for 10% of the score, when trying to determine the quality of the carbon reduced, despite having no impact on whether a carbon reduction actually occurred. "Climate change is a deadly serious issue affecting our planet and we all need to work together to measurably and certifiably reduce greenhouse gas emissions," said Carlson. "This guide is a disservice to Canadian consumers and the dedicated experts developing and implementing robust international standards to ensure projects actually reduce CO2 from the atmosphere. The guide does not meet the normally high standards of the David Suzuki Foundation." The internationally accepted standards mentioned in this release have been developed by hundreds of climate experts, government officials and nonprofit leaders through numerous stakeholder groups and are widely accepted around the world. Conversely, there is not a single piece of national or international legislation that allows for the self-verification of additionality, use of a self-defined standard or that bases carbon quality on how well a company educates the public. About Carbonfund.org Carbonfund.org is a leading international nonprofit climate solutions organization based in the United States. Carbonfund.org works with over 450,000 individuals and 1,200 businesses around the world to calculate, reduce and offset their climate impact. Carbonfund.org is a Founding Member of the American Carbon Registry. www.carbonfund.org.
Monday, 16 November 2009 19:56
Pests on the Rise in a Warmer World
The effects of global warming will be far reaching and pervasive. But what does that really mean? Well, you can't really explain it in one blog post, but you can give a great example that will make you squirm: a warmer world means more pests. An AP article offers its insights on some of the bugs and bug-a-boos that may be more prevalent as the temperatures rise.
Ticks that transmit Lyme disease are spreading northward into Sweden and Canada, once too cold for them. Giant Humboldt squid have reached waters as far north as British Columbia, threatening fisheries along much of the western North American coast. Malaria-carrying mosquitoes are now found in South Korea, the Papua New Guinea highlands, and other places previously not warm enough for them. Bark beetles reproducing more quickly in warming climates and expanding their ranges have devastated forests across western North America. In British Columbia they have laid waste to an area twice the size of Ireland. A microscopic parasite is spreading a deadly disease among salmon in Alaska and British Columbia. Researchers say rising water temperatures are partly to blame. The U.S. government warns that such invasive plants as the common reed, hyacinth and purple loosestrife are likely to spread to northern states.The big question that arises when you see a list like this is, why? The answer is that for some species, the changes in temperature, more specifically the extreme cold days in winter, act as a 'population equalizer.' With temperatures even a little bit warmer, fewer pests freeze and die naturally, leaving more to reproduce. This is particularly the case with bark beetles in Canada which also reproduce more rapidly in warmer temperatures. Fight global warming now. Reduce and offset your carbon footprint.


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In years gone by, baby boomers have driven minivan sales — they've almost singlehandedly been responsible for the growth of the segment. Time marches on, and many baby boomers are now empty nesters interested in choices that lie beyond the minivan segment. (Reflecting this trend, minivan sales peaked in 2000, and have been declining ever since.) These buyers may still be interested in minivan-esque traits like safety and passenger capacity (gotta haul those grandkids), but they're looking for vehicles that boast attributes such as fuel-efficiency, as well.
Of course, baby boomers aren't the only ones interested in alternatives that offer some or all of a minivan's benefits. The biggest market for these vehicles lies with younger parents seeking a family hauler with a more exciting image than that of the notoriously dowdy minivan. Whether you're a boomer or a younger buyer purchasing your very first family vehicle, you'll want to take a look at these 10 very worthy minivan substitutes. Note that our selections are listed in alphabetical order.
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