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Archipelago of Revillagigedo
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The islands of the Revillagigedo Archipelago are oceanic islands of volcanic origin that emerge from a volcanic floor along the Clarion Fracture zone, west of the union between the Pacific, Ribera and Cocos geologic plates. The Insular Arch of the Revillagigedo Archipelago represents an authentic submarine mountain system, with some summits above sea level, such as the islands Roca Partida, Socorro and San Benedicto. The islands are characterized for being surrounded by cliffs, with mountainous areas and interior volcanoes as well as rugged sites, lava fields and soft crests. Its topographic forms are of endogenous, accumulative nature, while exogenous processes have modified the original volcanic physiognomy, mainly in the central and higher parts, which reach up to 1,040 m above sea level.
The regional climate is considered arid or desertic, with an average yearly temperature higher than 22ºC. Climate is regulated by tropical depressions and hurricanes that occur during the summer and which characterize the Western Pacific. Annual rainfall is scarce (313 mm) and takes places mainly during the months of August to October, with a predominant regime of summer rains. The average temperature of the islands´ surrounding waters fluctuates between 28ºC and 29ºC during the summer, while during the winter the average surface temperature of the adjacent oceanic water oscillates between 22ºC and 25ºC.
The islands biota presents a considerable degree of endemism, both on land and in its surrounding waters, particularly concerning birds. The Revillagigedo Archipelago is under the influence of the tropical zone of the Mexican Pacific and of the temperate-tropical zone of transition of the northeastern Pacific. Thus, its flora and fauna includes species from the coast of Tropical America, of the Indo-Pacific region and of circumtropical areas.
The marine fauna is characterized not only by its beauty but also for its high diversity of invertebrates (and in some groups also by the number of endemisms), particularly crustaceans and mollusks, as also equinoderms and corals. There are 133 species of birds registered for the islands, 25 of which are endemic to the archipelago. There are also 22 species of hermatypic corals, of which more than half are found only near oceanic islands of the Eastern Pacific, and near to one third is found only at the Archipelago of Revillagigedo. There are also 156 species of mollusks on the islands, 99 species of equinoderms, 92 species of crustaceans, three of which are endemic. The fish fauna of the archipelago also presents a high degree of species richness with at least 321 species, 25 of which belong to the elasmobranquia, with 20 species identified as sharks and five as rays. Also, the waters surrounding the Revillagigedo Archipelago represent an important feeding, breeding and transit area for cetaceans of the Mexican Pacific, and 16 species of whales and dolphins have been registered in the area.
Justification de la Valeur Universelle Exceptionelle
(vii): The Revillagigedo Archipelago is located in the Eastern Pacific, on the northern end of the ridge of Los Matemáticos. This ridge is a submarine topographical feature that marks the site where, approximately 3.5 million years ago, there was an expansion of the ocean floor. Continuing volcanic activity makes the Reserve a geologically important site, as it allows for the study of volcanic, plate tectonic, and risk of earthquakes phenomena. Geologic evolution has made possible the formation of polimetallic nodules on the ocean floor, considered the largest in the world. Socorro Island is a unique example in the Pacific basin, as it constitutes a mountainous area in which the highest elevation is found on the Evermann Volcano, characterized by different stages of pre-caldera, syn-caldera and post-caldera formations, From its inception in the depths of the ocean, it reaches almost 4,000 m of height. Its base diameter measures 4.8 km and the cusp reaches an altitude of 1,040 m above sea level. In a radius of 3.5 Km, at an altitude of some 700 m, 12 adventitious volcanoes surround the Evermann, with another ten found in a radius of 4.5 Km without an apparent subordination to the Evermann, but also of adventitious origin, which date from the Tertiary. On the island of San Benedicto, the Bárcena volcano is the more prominent topographical feature. The island San Benedicto contains a series of Quaternary traquitic[1] domes in its northern end. The origin of the San Benedicto Island resides in the distension movements associated to submarine fissures, canyons and mountains. The island is, in fact, the cusp of a submarine mountain, and its southeastern flank a lava-flow was discharged, reaching the ocean, and forming a delta that measures 700 x 1 200 m. The island Clarion was formed from materials produced by Miocene to Eocene volcanic eruptions. The islet Roca Partida is the tip of a submarine stratovolcano.
(viii): The Revillagigedo Archipelago is representative of an oceanic island ecosystem characterized by its volcanic origin, and as such it is considered a fragile ecosystem. The archipelago is composed of four islands separated of the continental mass by several hundreds of kilometers (382 km to the North and 661 km to the West), varying in size and geological and ecological characteristics. Its insular nature and factors prevailing in the reserve, adverse to colonization by terrestrial organisms, transform this emerged land into a natural laboratory, in which important progress can be made in the study of evolutionary processes, and mechanisms and strategies of dispersion, competition, population dynamics and control of species.
(ix): It possesses impressive terrestrial landscapes of diverse geomorphology, covered by scrub brush and deciduous forests, and surrounded by temperate crystalline waters of an outstanding transparency. Known for their abundance of marine life that includes the Giant Pacific Manta ray, dolphins, marine turtles and sharks, the islands also provide during the winter a courtship and pairing area for the spectacular Humpback whale.
(x): Given their condition as oceanic islands, they represent a unique ensemble of species, habitats and ecosystems. The types of habitats found on these islands are very peculiar, from the smallest island (Roca Partida), that is only a rocky outcrop denuded of vegetation on which exclusively marine birds are found, to the vegetation of arid zones, halophytes, brush, grasslands and deciduous forests on the largest island (Socorro Island) Due to these characteristics, the islands of the Revillagigedo Archipelago constitute a separate biogeographical province within the Neotropical region and, in agreement with the world biogeography regionalization of the World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), it belongs to the Dry Forest of the Revillagigedo islands Eco-region (Revillagigedo islands dry forests -NT0216).
As already stated, the Revillagigedo Archipelago possesses very high levels of endemism, both on land as in the surrounding waters, particularly of birds. The archipelago is located in the ecological confluence of the tropical region of the Mexican Pacific and the temperate-tropical transition of the northeastern Pacific; its life forms include species of the Indo-Pacific Region, of the coast of Tropical America and circumtropical areas. In this area, four species of marine turtles feed, nest and develop, namely the Leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), Olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea), Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), and Green turtle (Chelonia mydas). Another animal that breeds and nourishes its young in the waters surrounding the Revillagigedo Archipelago islands is the Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). Several species of endemic birds and reptiles complement the fauna of the reserve. In relation to its flora, 202 plant species have been registered, 55 of them are endemic to the archipelago.
[1] Traquítico in the Spanish original. A type of volcanic rock.
Déclarations d'authenticité et/ou d'intégrité
Its distance from the mainland and the lack of fresh water represent limiting factors to the establishment of human population centers on the islands. Since their discovery (Socorro Island was discovered in 1533; San Benedicto in 1542; Clarion and Roca Partida Island in 1779), explorers, fishermen, and researchers have inhabited the islands occasionally and, since 1957, personnel of the Ministry of the Navy (Secretaría de Marina) have a permanent base. However, at present there are no civil population or indigenous group settlements on these islands.
The Revillagigedo Archipelago was decreed in the year of 1994 as a Nature Protected Area under the denomination of Biosphere Reserve. The guidelines and regulations applicable in environmental and conservation matters are those established by the General Law for Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection (Ley General de Equilibrio Ecológico y Protección al Ambiente- LEGEEPA).
The Official Mexican Norm´s (NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2001) purpose is to identify the species or populations of wild flora and fauna at risk in the Republic of Mexico, as well as to establish the criteria for inclusion or change of category of risk for species or populations by means of an method evaluating their risk of extinction. A series of species considered at risk are protected under this norm, such as marine mammals and marine turtles.
Furthermore, these islands have their own Conservation and Management Program, published in 2004, which considers the criteria and strategies to assure the conservation of the insular and marine ecosystems of the archipelago.
The Revillagigedo Archipelago is a Ramsar Site since 2004, and is thus considered a wetland of international importance. The World Conservation Union (UICN) includes this archipelago in its World Conservation Strategy, as a priority area for conservation within the terrestrial biogeographical provinces, and the International Council for Bird Protection (ICBP) consigns it as an endemic bird area of primary importance.
Comparaison avec d'autres biens similaires
The Biosphere Reserve Revillagigedo Archipelago shows a great similarity with the World Heritage sites of the Galapagos National Park of Ecuador and the Marine and Terrestrial Conservation Area of Coco´s Island in Costa Rica. These three island systems are of volcanic origin, and are situated on top of submarine cordilleras. Furthermore, given their size, isolation and degree of conservation, they present high levels of endemism, a product of their evolution in isolated territories and under the absence of external genetic flows, reason by which they are cataloged as natural laboratories, ideal for research studies on the ecological and evolutionary processes being undergone by the species present, and for long term environmental monitoring. The Revillagigedo Archipelago shares some similarities with other properties inscribed on the World Heritage list.
Henderson Island, United Kingdom: inscribed given its almost unaltered state, for preserving numerous bird species and possesing mineral deposits formed by submarine volcanoes.
Gough and Inaccesible Islands, United Kingdom: inscribed due to the presence of little altered island and marine ecosystems and harboring marine bird colonies. It also possesses adjacent marine areas with a high faunistic diversity.
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico: for having an arid or dessert climate, arid and abrupt mountainous areas with irregular formations and cliffs of varying heights. It also presents high levels of endemisms.
Lord Howe Islands, Australia: inscribed as an example of oceanic islands originated by volcanic activity over 2,000m below sea level. With a spectacular topography and habitat of numerous species, particularly birds.
Atlantic Islands of Brazil, Brazil: inscribed for the presence of important marine ecosystems serving as feeding and breeding areas for species of fish, sharks, turtles and marine mammals. There are also large concentrations of marine birds.


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God himself. Okay, maybe not. Anyway, he was the leader of The Beatles, wrote some of the best songs ever made, and was taken away from us too soon.
John Lennon 1940-1980
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The frontman of the Beatles, brilliant song writer and musical Jesus. Decieved by the succubus Yoko Ono. He is bigger than Jesus and greater than you. Bow down.
John Lennon is greater than you. Go die.
by Pwner February 26, 2005
I would like to quote jockstrap...someone who posted earlier.
"He's really not that great.
John Lennon, what can be said, he's not that great, given way too much credit."
And I would like to respond with FUCK YOU!!!! LENNON RULES!!!
"He's really not that great.
John Lennon, what can be said, he's not that great, given way too much credit."
And I would like to respond with FUCK YOU!!!! LENNON RULES!!!
This post will be deleted in about 2 days because it "sucks"
by Sgt. Pepper March 12, 2005
John Lennon was not a god. He was an artist. He made it clear to his listeners that he was not god and anyone who believed in worship was stupid for doing so. He was a very talented musician, song writer, singer, producer...ect. He inspired peace and love; however, John was a very violent man in real life. He left his first wife Cynthia Powell for Yoko Ono and many people believe she was the reason the beatles broke up. This is stupid. Although Yoko added tension and may have been a contributer to the break up..nothing lasts forever. It was definately time for John and the rest of the group to move on with their lives. John loved Yoko more than anything and if you can't respect that than you obviously don't respect him.
John Lennon was pretty chill.
by lkhdvgf September 16, 2005
he IS the greatest man to ever live, second only to Jesus. His ideas of peace, love, and harmony still stand firm...but the word's too fucking ignorant to go with it. As Immortal Technique would say, Lennon truly lived "Revolutionarily."
"A working class hero is something to be..."
by Entropy May 12, 2005
Member of musical group The Beatles. One of music's most enduring and influential figures.
See God.
See God.
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Living for today
by Wayne February 15, 2005
1. God.
2. Better than you.
3. Frontman of the Beatles.
4. Cuter than Paul.
2. Better than you.
3. Frontman of the Beatles.
4. Cuter than Paul.
John Lennon is better than you, and you, and you, and you... and oh, you too.
by V.S. Eliot March 12, 2005

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Classroom Workshop/Walking Tour: Allegheny County Green Roof - Designing, Building and the Benefits
Tours have limited space and are available on a first-come, first served basis. You must sign-up in advance using the conference registration form. The roof of the Allegheny County Office Building was designed as an education model to demonstrate the benefits of green roofs and green roof technology. Attend this overview of the process for designing and installing the green roof, the four types of technology used, and the many the benefits experienced. The rooftop has significant monitoring in place, collecting data from a network of 90 sensors that report on roof temperature, soil moisture, and water flow and retention during wet weather events. This workshop includes a walking tour of the green roof.
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Identify the environmental, energy and social benefits of a green roof
Explain the types of green roof technologies.
Recommend and convince governing bodies (officials and directors) of the benefits of a green/vegetated roofs
John Buck
Project Manager & Scientist, Civil and Environmental Consultants, Pittsburgh, PA
Darla J. Cravotta
Special Projects and Project Manager, Office of the County Executive Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA
Eric French
President, Eisler's Landscape and Nursery, Prospect, PA
Workshop/Bus Tour: North Park Lake - Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration
Tours have limited space and are available on a first-come, first served basis. You must sign-up in advance using the conference registration form. North Park Lake is a man-made lake created by Allegheny County in the 1920's. The restoration project includes dredging 104,000 cubic yards of sediments from 33 acres of lake, enhancing existing and creating new wetlands, creating fish habitat structures, constructing two osprey nesting platforms, curbing shoreline erosion by installing coir logs to establish planted and naturally colonizing vegetation, installing upstream wetlands barriers on Pine Creek.
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Discuss the need for creating new wetlands.
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Manage the implementation and installation of upstream wetlands barriers on creeks and waterways
Douglas W. Aiken
Manager, Construction Engineering, Allegheny County PA, Pittsburgh, PA
Steve Smallhoover, PE
Mgr Geotechnical/Federal Projects, Allegheny County PA, Pittsburgh, PA
Workshop/WalkingTour: David L. Lawrence Convention Center – g1 (greenfirst®)
Tours have limited space and are available on a first-come, first served basis. You must sign-up in advance using the conference registration form. Shortly after its grand opening in 2003, Pittsburgh's David L. Lawrence Convention Center (DLCC) was awarded Gold LEED® Certification by the U.S. Green Buildings Council, making it one of the largest green buildings in the world. To achieve this standing, DLCC's unique design allows them to recycle, compost, reduce toxic emissions, reduce energy use, operate a grey water reclamation plant, use natural cool air, grow vegetables and herbs, purchase green, use indigenous plants that require only natural rainfall for landscaping. They think green first in everything they do!
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Discuss the challenges and obstacles in becoming Gold LEED® Certification by the U.S. Green Buildings Council.
Utilize and implement their unique ideas and designs to make other projects more green/sustainable.
Determine whether to pursue Gold LEED® Certification by the U.S. Green Buildings Council for qualified buildings.
Debbie Smucker
Director of Sales & Marketing, David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Constructed Wetlands: How One Small Community Saved BIG Bucks on Its CSO Long-term Control Plan
Washington, Indiana struggled with CSOs flowing through open ditches and discharging into a local creek. The solution was a system that captures the CSOs, transports them to a storage basin, and then treats them using a 27-acre constructed wetland. This system saved $26.6 million in capital costs when compared to chemically-enhanced high rate clarification, a clear benefit to this small community with an average income of $34,000.
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Evaluate the benefits of constructed wetlands vs. traditional methods to treat CSOs.
Recognize potential pitfalls in designing systems.
Determine when constructed wetlands are feasible and/or desirable.
Larry J. Haag
Client Manager, Lochmueller Group Inc, Evansville, IN
Mark Harrison, PE, LEED AP
Chief Engineer, Water Resources, Bernardin Lochmueller & Associates, Inc., Indianapolis, IN
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Water / Waste Water
PlanItGreen: A Two-Community Sustainability Plan Thinking Seven Generations Ahead
PlanItGreen is the comprehensive Environmental Sustainability Plan for Oak Park and River Forest, Illinois. Learn about the unique elements of their planning process involving major community stakeholders (not just government) including financial and organizational structure, goals, strategies, and metrics; and key issues encountered in the process.
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Create a comprehensive community sustainability plan that engages stakeholders in the long-term vision and financing structure.
Examine the importance of baseline resource-use metrics and community reporting/communication options designed to generate accountability, excitement, and community engagement.
Adapt this comprehensive community planning and implementation process to your community's specific needs.
Gary Cuneen
Executive Director, Seven Generations Ahead, Oak Park, IL
Donna Ducharme
Co-Founder, The Delta Institute, Chicago, IL
Sustainable Energy Management Strategies that Work
The City of Charlottesville, Virginia will share its experiences and lessons learned during the development and implementation of its broad-based and highly effective energy use reduction and management efforts including: energy use monitoring/benchmarking, low- and no- cost maintenance measures, energy education and incentive programs, energy audits and performance contracts, and LEED Certification for new buildings and renovations.
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Apply best management practices for energy use, data collection, and benchmarking.
Evaluate business alternatives for executing identified deficiencies.
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Dan Frisbee
Program Coordinator, City of Charlottesville, VA, Charlottesville, VA
Gerald Martin
HVAC Mgr., City of Charlottesville DPW, Charlottesville, VA
Innovate, Educate, and Implement a Sustainable Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI)
The Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI) concept of shifting traffic to the "wrong side of the road" eliminates the need for left turn lanes, and thereby reduces the structural footprint of the interchange and overall construction costs. Learn about the Botts Road DDI solution in Kansas City, Missouri that provides for a safe interchange and incorporates innovative and green approaches for better levels of traffic, pedestrian and bicycle service.
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Examine the sustainable benefits of Diverging Diamond Interchanges.
Determine if the green approaches developed by the design team in Kansas City can be replicated for your interchange projects.
Discern how DDI can offer efficient use of taxpayer money, improved travel experiences for the public, and improved multimodal connectivity.
Patricia A. Hilderbrand, MPA, PE
Division Manager, Coordination Services, City of Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Matthew F. Spencer
Highway Engineer, HDR Inc, Kansas City, MO
Traffic Engineering
Sustainable vs. Conventional: A Matrix for Decision-Making
Explore a practical framework that compares and contrasts "conventional" vs. "sustainable" project design and construction. Using case studies, we will cover the use of resources, life-cycle analysis, and O&M expenses and we'll introduce a decision-making matrix that incorporates economic, social, and environmental criteria.
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Apply a decision-making tool for evaluating conventional vs. sustainable practices for virtually any public works project.
Compare and contrast sustainable and conventional practices using consistent criteria.
Recommend project design approaches that consider all important factors – including the life-cycle advantages of sustainable design.
Larry Stevens, PE, PWLF
Project Director, HR Green, Inc, Johnston, IA
Jennifer L. Winter, PE
Director of Public Works, City of Cedar Rapids, Cedar Rapids, IA
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Treatment Plant Alchemy: Turning Waste into Platinum
When faced with how to convert waste into an asset, the LOTT Clean Water Alliance in Olympia, Washington elected to make reclaimed water and electricity from the raw materials associated with providing wastewater treatment services to four area communities. Since, its opening in 2010, this LEED Platinum facility is living proof that alchemy is possible.
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Identify site opportunities and sustainable strategies for renovation and new construction work.
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Minimize the impact on aging and overtaxed infrastructure through responsible and sustainable design practices.
Ruwan Jayaweera, LEED AP BD+C, PE
Associate, PAE Consulting Engineers, Inc., Portland, OR
Jay Martin, LEED AP
The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP, Seattle, WA
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Nearly every week a new alternative fuel powered vehicle retrofit kit is announced. Electric, propane, natural gas, biofuels - it's all very confusing. What options might make sense in which application? What's in the future for alternative powered vehicles? Is this another fad until the oil prices come down again?
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Evaluate options for powering your fleet with alternative fuels.
Discover the pros and cons of the various fuel types.
Examine what's happening in the marketplace - are alternative fuels a fad or the future?
Janet Lauer
President, Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities, Monroeville, PA
Recycling your Roadway with Full Depth Reclamation (FDR)
The City of Eugene, Oregon has developed standard specification "Best Practices" for construction using Full Depth Reclamation. FDR's benefits are environmental: reuses existing rock base and eliminates the need for excavation and disposal; economical: costs only 40% of traditional rock base construction; and social: the process is relatively fast thereby improving traffic delays and construction tie-ups.
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Recognize the environmental, economic, and social benefits of recycling road base materials.
Compare FDR as a design alternative to traditional excavation and rock base construction.
Plan and implement reclamation projects using the FDR process.
Douglas K. Singer, LEED AP
Civil Engineer 2, City of Eugene PW and Engineering, Eugene, OR
Engineering and Technology
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Tools for Sustainable Water Management and Emergency Response
While historically reliable, water utilities are vulnerable to a range of threats including aging infrastructure, natural and man-made disasters, and climate change impacts. The Community Based Water Resiliency (CBWR) initiative provides 400 free tools and resources to enhance community-wide water resiliency and sustainability. WaterISAC (Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center) is a secure web-based clearinghouse to help water sector and emergency management officials prepare for water service interruptions.
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Identify threats to drinking water and wastewater utilities.
Recognize that community preparedness is an important part of sustainability.
Review free resources for public works officials in preparing for and responding to water-related emergencies.
Gavin Gollehon
CSC, Alexandria, VA
Emergency Management
Water / Waste Water
Get Guaranteed Energy Savings Into Your Pocket Now: A Case Study from Allegheny County, PA
In 2009, Allegheny County embarked on an energy savings program through a funding mechanism that is a combination of Energy Efficiency & Conservation Block Grant funds, Qualified Energy Conservation bonds, and private third party financing. The County projects, to save more than $2.3 million a year in energy, include measures to upgrade lighting, water, and steam systems; and HVAC retrofits in 3 buildings. $1.4 million of the savings will go to pay the debt service on the financing.
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Determine the value and effectiveness of Energy Performance Contracting in the public sector.
Establish a plan for guiding your agency through an energy saving initiative.
Lead a diverse group of stakeholders through a process of determining agency needs and priorities.
Philip A. LaMay
Deputy Director, Allegheny Cnty Dept of Public Works, Pittsburgh, PA
Jeaneen Zappa
Sustainability Officer, Allegheny County, PA, Pittsburgh, PA
Greening DC Water's Infrastructure: Balancing Mandates, LID Options, and Stakeholder Interests
The DC Clean Rivers Project (DCCRP) aims to reduce wastewater pollution from being discharged into the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers, Rock Creek, and the Piney Branch tributary. Over the course of the next 20 years, DCCRP will design and construct large-diameter underground storage tunnels to capture flows from large storm events and retrofit existing DC water facilities with LID measures. Explore how these projects will impact the important waterways around the nation's capital city.
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Adapt existing facilities to include low impact development (LID) measures to control stormwater flows to sewers.
Engage stakeholders to gain support for retrofitting public facilities with LID measures, based on established criteria.
Develop maintenance and monitoring plan to benchmark LID performance for consideration of future projects.
Anthony Laufik
Civil Engineer, Greeley and Hansen, Washington, DC
Storm Water / Flood Control
Water / Waste Water
Discover how the City of Gainesville and Alachua County, Florida developed and implemented a county-wide SMARTRAFFIC Advanced Traffic Management System that includes innovative use of technology, improved communication, improved partnerships, and sustainable principles.
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Determine how Advanced Traffic Management Systems can improve highway efficiency and sustainability.
Figure out how to communicate with stakeholders and gain buy-in and establish funding mechanisms and partnerships.
Benefit from the City of Gainesville's example in establishing a SMARTRAFFIC program.
Philip R. Mann, PE
ASST. PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR, City of Gainesville, Gainesville, FL
Traffic Engineering
Effective & Sustainable Public-Private Partnerships: The Rebirth of Pittsburgh's Historic Parks
The City of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy have had an effective and sustainable public-private partnership in place for over a decade, leading to the rebirth of Pittsburgh's historic urban parks. This partnership has raised over $50 million for park improvements, completed ten major capital projects, increased park use, and improved the quality of life for the residents of Pittsburgh by restoring the parks system to excellence.
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Evaluate how success is achieved through a fully integrated public-private partnership.
Examine the benefits of an effective and sustainable public-private partnership.
Develop a model for implementing and achieving value from a public-private partnership.
Michael A. Gable
Director, City of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Philip J. Gruszka
Director, Parks Management & Maintenance, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Pittsburgh, PA
Parks and Grounds
Innovative Stormwater BMP Demonstration Projects for Public Works
The City of Cleveland Division of Water Pollution Control is completing the construction of several stormwater BMPs including bio-retention basins, pervious pavements, and rain water reuse. These approaches will help prevent flooding, protect stream channels, maintain groundwater recharge and quality, and reduce pollutants flowing into local streams, rivers, and Lake Erie.
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Examine how the City of Cleveland is managing stormwater and using sustainable stormwater practices.
Implement a process of constructing an innovative demonstration project at a public facility that includes the several stormwater BMPs.
Choose which BMP project will be the most effective in collection and treatment for your needs.
Cecilia A. Mazzei, PE
Consulting Engineer, City of Cleveland-WPC, Cleveland, OH
Ossie M. Neal
Manager of Marketing, City of Cleveland Department of Public Utilities, Cleveland, OH
Rachid Zoghaib, PE
Commissioner, Water Pollution Control City of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Storm Water / Flood Control
The EVs Are Coming, The EVs Are Coming! Are You Ready?
The Chevy Volts and Nissan Leafs are rolling off assembly lines and municipalities across the country are rushing to install electric vehicle charging facilities on municipal property. The speakers for this session say "not so fast, Charger." Join in this lively discussion of the appropriate places for charging facilities. Before installing costly infrastructure (and regretting it) learn how electric vehicles are being managed by the early adopters and get an overview of new vehicle and charging technologies.
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Learning Objectives:
Determine how to avoid the mistakes of others in setting up charging systems.
Benefit from the practical advice offered in this session.
Improve your methods for communicating about this complex issue.
Kim Lundgren
CEO, Kim Lundgren Associates, Inc, Woburn, MA
Erin Russell-Story
Clean Cities Regional Manager, U.S. Dept. of Energy National Energy Technology Laborator, Pittsburgh, PA
Fleet Services
An Integrated Green Infrastructure Plan
Lancaster, Pennsylvania has developed an integrated approach to reduce the impacts of combine sewer overflows (CSOs) and stormwater discharges using Green Infrastructure (GI) best management practices. The City is proving that GI can be implemented as part of other public works projects, saving money and achieving regulatory compliance.
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Learning Objectives:
Identify opportunities to implement GI on private and public properties, reducing stormwater problems the "green" way.
Implement a plan to identify, design, construct, and maintain GI including green roofs, green streets, rain gardens, vegetation, tree canopies, bioswales, infiltration, etc.
Educate the public and obtain buy-in on GI BMPs for stormwater control and showing how these approaches provide long-term cost savings and improve quality of life.
Charlotte H. Katzenmoyer
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, City of Lancaster, Lancaster, PA
Brian G. Marengo
Prinicipal Technologist, CH2M Hill, Philadelphia, PA
Andrew Potts
Project Manager/Engineer, CH2M Hill, Philadelphia, PA
Storm Water / Flood Control
Water / Waste Water
Sustainable Infrastructure: Combining Design, Construction, and Asset Management
Each element of public works project development (planning, design, construction, maintenance, environmental and customer impact) impacts the sustainability of the project. A sustainable infrastructure system is one that strikes a balance of these components along with environmental impact and long-term costs. Explore how to make sustainable decisions for your projects.
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Learning Objectives:
Recognize the processes and practices that combine sustainability with responsible asset management.
Develop an alternative view of project development and delivery that promotes the project goal of lowest total cost over the life of an asset, not the lowest down payment.
Demonstrate how the lowest total cost factors include planning, design, construction, maintenance, environmental and customer costs.
Eric Hemphill, PE
Director of SIM, North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA), Plano, TX
Streets, Roads and Bridges
Construction Management
Sustainable Solid Waste Design and Operation – City of Sioux Falls
The City of Sioux Falls, South Dakota operates a five-county regional sanitary landfill serving 250,000 citizens. Among the sustainability innovations underway or planned are: construction of a $1.2 million LEED Silver Certified office/collection and education center; a landfill gas energy project; wetland construction and waterfowl mitigation; construction material and demolition recovery facility, leaf composting operation; a shared-use fuel depot; and a wind turbine site.
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Learning Objectives:
Recognize the processes and practices that combine sustainability with responsible asset management.
Develop an alternative view of project development and delivery that promotes the project goal of lowest total cost over the life of an asset, not the lowest down payment.
Demonstrate how the lowest total cost factors include planning, design, construction, maintenance, environmental and customer costs.
David McElroy
Landfill Superintendent, City of Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD
Solid Waste
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Grey vs. Green: Potential Climate Change Impacts on Stormwater Infrastructure
Green infrastructure approaches will be a critical part of complying with the new phase of EPA's Municipal Separate Storm Water Systems (MS4) Programs. Approaches such as rain gardens, bioretention swales and vegetated roofs can be spread throughout a region to reduce surface runoff and sewer overflows. Join us for this comparison of the efficiency of traditional "grey" to "green" infrastructure approaches in relation to hydrologic model output under current and future climate scenarios.
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Learning Objectives:
Anticipate USEPA's MS4 requirements and alternative approaches to traditional grey water management.
Determine how the Stormwater Management Model could benefit your region or city.
Evaluate the potential benefits of green infrastructure approaches in reducing stormwater discharges to surface waters under both current and future climate scenarios.
Dr. Indrani Ghosh
Project Professional, Kleinfelder/SEA Consultants, Cambridge, MA
Storm Water / Flood Control
How to Become a Model Sustainable Community – The Monaca Borough Success Story
The small community of Monaca Borough is recognized as a model of sustainability throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania. How did they do it? Learn about how they used the Sustainable Community Essentials Rapid Assessment Tool and the sustainable strategies implemented for: 1. Converting park lighting to LED, 2. Turning an industrial site into a bike and pedestrian link, 3. Initiating paperless council meetings, 4. Implementing single-stream recycling, and, 5. Installing windmill and residential solar panel solutions.
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Learning Objectives:
Evaluate your community by using the Rapid Assessment Tool.
Identify the 14 sustainable community essentials.
Implement sustainable initiatives in your community.
Mario N. Leone, Jr
Manager, Borough of Monaca, Monaca, PA
Switching Municipal Vehicles to Natural Gas Fueling - Does It Make Sense?
Three municipalities, two ambulance services, and a wastewater treatment authority undertook a feasibility study of the practicality of switching their fleets to cleaner burning natural gas. An important product of this study is a series of report cards that provide a vehicle by vehicle assessment of the environmental and economic benefits and challenges of the switch. Benefits include lower emissions, vehicle life extension, and maintenance and operating costs reductions. Challenges include the upfront costs of conversion and refueling station availability.
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Learning Objectives:
Utilize the feasibility analysis model for their own fleets.
Make more informed decisions on future vehicle purchases and possible retrofits using the report cards developed by the study.
Evaluate the benefits and challenges of fleet conversion to natural gas fueling, including those associated with fueling.
Thomas Risley, PE
Director, Energy Programs, Life Cycle Engineering, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
Fleet Services
Cranberry Township - Sustainability Planning
Cranberry Township engaged the resources of Sustainable Pittsburgh to assemble a team of experts for conducting an intensive assessment of the Township's physical plan; municipal programs, policies, and planning processes. The resulting recommendations are being evaluated for financial payback and how much risk and effort would be required of the Township to implement.
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Learning Objectives:
Assemble the right individuals and knowledge base to evaluate your operation.
Engage citizens and business owners to participate in the process.
Educate staff on the plan and develop action list.
Jason Dailey
Director of Public Works Ops, Cranberry Township, Cranberry Township, PA
John Trant
Strategic Planner, Cranberry Township, Cranberry Twp, PA
Off the Grid Streetlighting
After an extensive review of available technologies, the Village of Downers Grove, Illinois installed twenty-five hybrid lights. They chose a hybrid lighting system because it provides a higher likelihood of full lighting from dusk to dawn, larger battery supply with less maintenance and replacement , direct burial poles, and a bird and bat friendly turbine design. Explore how they obtained neighborhood acceptance and support in this process.
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Learning Objectives:
Evaluate the applicability of hybrid street lighting to your situations.
Design a hybrid street lighting system for a residential neighborhood.
Advocate for the use of off the grid lighting technology in neighborhoods.
Kevin Bobikiewicz
Public Services Coordinator, Village of Downers Grove, Downers Grove, IL
Streets, Roads and Bridges
The New Normal -- Combining a Traffic Roundabout and Innovative Storm Water Management in Uptown Normal
The core features in the sustainable redevelopment of Uptown Normal are: a roundabout that provides traffic control and an enhanced safety for motorists, pedestrians, and bicyclists; an innovative stormwater design that recycles water through irrigation of landscaped beds and evaporation; trees planted in "SilvaCells" that mitigate urban heat generation; and a multimodal transportation facility providing access to Amtrak high-speed rail and local bus transportation.
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Learning Objectives:
Integrate innovative traffic management and storm water management systems.
Adapt existing, obsolete infrastructure to be used for sustainable purposes.
Anticipate the type of operational issues that various sustainable designs can generate for municipal staff and revise designs accordingly.
Wayne A. Aldrich
Director of Public Works, Town of Normal, Normal, IL
Peter Lindsay Schaudt, FASLA
Partner, Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects, Chicago, IL
Storm Water / Flood Control
Innovation in Infrastructure: Green and Healthy Opportunities
Discover how "Health is the new Wealth" is on the forefront of sustainability planning. Topics covered will include NYC's Green Infrastructure Plan and its applicability to street and streetscape construction and stormwater management; the NYC Comprehensive Waterfront Plan that promotes a vision for enhanced environmental, programmatic, and commercially productive water's edge development; and how integrating health promotion strategies can stretch and reinforce capital investment in communities.
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Learning Objectives:
Convince governing bodies of the benefits of adopting green, blue infrastructure and green health.
Make informed budgeting and scope decisions about the impact of services and projects.
Promote the synergistic benefits of reinvesting in existing infrastructure.
Susannah Drake, ASLA, AIA
Principal, Dlandstudio PLLC, Brooklyn, NY
Joyce Lee, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C
International LEED Advisor, Environetics, New York, NY
Dino Ng, PE
Associate Commissioner, NYC Department of Design and Construction, Long Island City, NY
State College Borough Food Waste Pilot Project
State College, Pennsylvania is committed to being a climate protection community. They've set a goal of reducing 35% of the municipal waste stream. Key to meeting that goal is to divert organics, both food waste and yard waste to the compost facility. The pilot program included the collection of pre-consumer food waste from over 600 residential and commercial customers. Explore how they did it and get tips for overcoming barriers to food waste collection in similar mid-sized communities
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Learning Objectives:
Launch a pilot food waste project for your community.
Assess the potential for food waste collection in your community.
Evaluate the effectiveness of food waste collection.
Alan W. Sam
Arborist/Environment Coordinator, Borough of State College, State College, PA
Mark A. Whitfield, PLS
Director of Public Works, City of Milford, Milford, DE
Solid Waste
Using Micro-Surfacing in for Pavement Preservation and Sustainability
Micro-Surfacing conserves raw materials by using less aggregate. The oils and emulsions used in the process are produced at lower temperatures thereby expelling fewer greenhouse gases. As a light-weight paving process, micro-surfacing provides less stress on bridges while preserving the decks and protecting the substructure. This presentation will discuss costs savings and pavement preservation impacts
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Learning Objectives:
Explore how micro-surfacing is a cost-effective and sustainable pavement preservation program.
Integrate micro-surfacing into existing pavement preservation practices.
Implement a micro-surfacing pavement preservation program.
Patrick T. Sullivan
Mechanicsburg, PA
Streets, Roads and Bridges
Trees and Municipal Infrastructure – Creating a Sustainable Alliance
Discover methods and tools for protecting the urban forest including: tree inventories, a tree protection plan, and the models for measuring the benefits of trees in terms of energy savings, stormwater infrastructure savings, better air quality, and increased real estate values.
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Learning Objectives:
List the technical benefits of protecting trees.
Describe the methods and tools used to protect trees.
Utilize a team approach using effective commuication during the tree protection process.
Chris Cowles
Senior Consulting Urban Forester, Davey Resource Group, Saint Louis, MO
Skip Kincaid
Commissioner of Forestry, City of St Louis - Div of Forestry, Saint Louis, MO
Parks and Grounds
Warrior Transition Unit - Design-Build at Walter Reed
The Warrior Transition Unit program was developed around a care model that focuses on the warriors' ability to return to duty and some semblance of normal life, to become independent and enjoy the freedoms they fought for so valiantly. Using design-build, the campus incorporates a creative design scheme that is registered with USGBC and is pursing LEED Silver certification with features like green roofs, rainwater harvesting, and solar collection.
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Learning Objectives:
Apply some of the lessons learned from the Walter Reed design-build project to other public facilities and infrastructure projects.
Discover how these examples of energy efficiencies, coupled with the unique parameters to meet special needs can be applied to other complex facilities and projects.The concepts of design, determine and developing unique concepts can be deployed and applied to other projects.
Develop measures for implementing similar complex design challenges.
Sam Estep
Managing Principal, Clark Nexsen, Norfolk, VA
John W. Herzke, PE, PWLF
VP Municipal Services, Clark Nexsen, Virginia Beach, VA
David Keith
Director of Architecture, Clark Nexsen, Norfolk, VA
Construction Management
How Does EnvisionTM Measure Up?
The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) EnvisionTM infrastructure rating system promotes a holistic approach to sustainable design. Two sustainably-conscious cities, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Alexandria, Virginia, who piloted EnvisionTM, will share their findings and insights about how best to take advantage of the benefits of the EnvisionTM rating system and how to use it as a tool to plan and guide infrastructure project development.
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Learning Objectives:
Recognize how the EnvisionTM rating system for sustainable infrastructure can be applied to public works projects.
Compare the pros and cons of Envision TM as a tool for infrastructure development.
Discover how EnvisionTM allows for defensible accreditation necessary for getting public support for project funding.
Andrew Dane, AICP
Community Dev/Sustainability, Short Elliott Hendrickson, Inc., Appleton, WI
Denise Nelson, LEED AP, PE
Civil Sanitary Engineer, Greeley and Hansen, Richmond, VA
Karen Sands
Manager of Sustainability, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Milwaukee, WI
William J. Skrabak
Director of Environmental Quality, City of Alexandria, Alexandria, VA
Green Infrastucture: The Solution that Meets the Triple Bottom Line
For growing municipalities to be perceived as world class communities, they must move past the era of single objective spending and invest in programs and policies with multiple benefits. Learn how Green Infrastructure (GI) approaches to wet weather management create a range of benefits for the social, economic, and environmental health of a community.
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Learning Objectives:
Explain the benefits of Green Infrastructure solutions.
Improve the economic, environmental, and social status of today's communities.
Implement Green Infrastructure in a cost effective manner.
Neil Myers
Principal, Williams Creek Consulting, Inc., Indianapolis, IN
Storm Water / Flood Control
Solutions to the Epidemic of Inefficiencies in Drinking Water Systems
The Alliance to Save Energy estimates that water system energy usage could be reduced by 25%. The inefficiencies in drinking water systems have reached epidemic proportions and without a comprehensive understanding of the whole system, these issues are impossible to resolve. Find out how extended period water system modeling can address common inefficiencies to make water systems more sustainable.
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Learning Objectives:
Identify common inefficiencies in drinkning water systems.
Determine how to successfully implement solutions to make drinking water systems more efficient and sustainable.
Promote the use of extended period hydraulic modeling to reveal the true status of water systems and improve sustainable decision-making.
Steven Jones
Principal, Hansen, Allen & Luce, Inc., Midvale, UT
Water / Waste Water
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Given today's hysteria over a non-existent Swine Flu threat and possible mandating of experimental, untested, toxic, and likely bioengineered vaccines, it's appropriate to review early fears about their dangers - when evidence first surfaced and concerns were raised.
In 1920, Charles Michael Higgins' "Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated: Petition to the President to Abolish Compulsory Vaccination in Army and Navy" (now available in a new 2008 edition) issued a "Public Challenge to Health Departments" in citing "Deaths from Vaccination Denied and Concealed - More Deaths from Vaccination than from Smallpox," then continued:
"In order that there shall be no misunderstanding about the serious charge which I bring against vaccination, as being now actually more dangerous to public health and human life than natural smallpox, and the equally serious charge which I make against vaccinating doctors - who now control our Departments of Health and Vital Statistics - of denying and concealing these facts from the people, I now issue this special challenge" to the New York city and state authorities that "I will....prove from their death certificates and vital records, now concealed and withheld from the public, that there have been more deaths from vaccination than from smallpox in every year for the past fifteen years in the City and State of New York."
Calling compulsory vaccinations "medical barbarism," Higgins petitioned President Woodrow Wilson to stop mandating them for army and navy personnel. He cited facts he called shocking, including death certificates of primary school aged children "all killed in one week in September, 1915, from vaccination resulting in lockjaw and septicemia" and numerous others dead from "vaccine infection." Yet throughout 1915, only three people died from smallpox.
Higgins bluntly stated that:
"Compulsory disease as a condition for public schooling or for service in army and navy is medically barbarous and legally unconstitutional, and should be abolished." They violate the "right to life, health, and education..."
He asked Wilson to pardon court-martialed soldiers who refused non-consensual vaccinations, then imprisoned at "hard labor for twenty-five years!....for asserting (their) right to the medical sanctity of (their) own bod(ies)...."
He said that in the 1904 - 05 Russo-Japanese War, typhoid vaccinations weren't used. Instead, for almost the first time, modern, effective sanitation and hygiene practices were employed, and few soldiers experienced typhoid fever. But in the WW I Gallipoli campaign, English soldiers got typhoid vaccinations. Unsanitary conditions prevailed, and many succumbed to typhoid and other infectious diseases. In 1918 under conditions of poor sanitation for US forces, vaccinations proved ineffective in preventing "a high death-rate among the well vaccinated men."
On March 28, 1919, an official report from the Chief Surgeon of the AEF in the US Public Health was titled, "Typhoid Vaccination no Substitute for Sanitary Precautions."
Higgins quoted medical authorities admitting vaccination dangers and condemning their mandatory use. The 1913 edition of Osler's "Modern Medicine," Volume I stated:
"With the greatest care, however, certain (vaccination) risks are present and so it is unwise for the physician to force the operation upon those who are unwilling, or to give assurance of absolute harmlessness."
In 1889, the English Commission on Vaccination exhaustively studied the issue, published its findings in 1896, concluded that vaccinations were dangerous, and said laws making them compulsory should be repealed or modified. An enacted "conscientious clause" subsequently let parents exempt their children. Yet, contrary to fears at the time, smallpox greatly declined because of improved sanitation and good hygiene practices.
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As early as the mid-19th century, books about vaccine dangers included Dr. Charles Schieferdecker's "Dr. CGG Nittinger's evils of vaccination" (1856), William Tebb's "Sanitation, not Vaccination the True Protection against Small-Pox" (1881), William White's "The Story of a Great Delusion" (1885), Alfred Russel Wallace's "Vaccination Proved Useless & Dangerous" (1889), Dr. Tenison Deane's "The Crime of Vaccination" (1913), and many others.
In his book, Higgins referred to vaccinations as the cause of "great epidemics of deadly disease in animals and mankind...." and cited government reports he called "notorious public facts."
"In October, November, and December, 1901, (a tetanus epidemic occurred) after vaccination(s were administered) in Camden, Philadelphia, and to a certain extent in near-by towns." Higgins wrote the Secretary of War citing proof "that there was a distinct medical and logical relation between influenza and vaccination, and that many serious diseases, including smallpox and cowpox, commence like influenza...."
The "wholesale and repeated vaccinations in the military camps throughout the world (suggested) that this vaccine infection had escaped....and was running wild as a world-wide epidemic infection," and to check it required all vaccinations be halted. He stressed what he called "no mere hypothesis or theory, but rather a hard fact" borne out by "foot and mouth disease" epidemics in cattle and other animals, "some of which originated from two of the largest vaccine factories in this country," at the time in Philadelphia and Detroit.
He cited US Bureau of Animal Industry and US Department of Agriculture reports that clearly showed vaccine infection as the cause of the 1902 and 1908 epidemics, and the "strong suspicion" that later ones in 1914 and 1915 were as well.
He called for the abolition of "dangerous medical domination and monopoly which now controls our Departments," which had long abused public power, that denied "Medical Truth, Freedom and Progress (and) which should no longer be tolerated." He urged that compulsory army and navy personnel vaccinations be abolished, replaced solely by voluntary ones.
He said "the practice of inflicting on the human body a compulsory medical disease, which is dangerous to the health and life and causes many deaths every year, is obviously illegal and a medical crime on the people which must be suppressed." On September 17, 1919, he asked President Wilson to put a stop to "vaccination horrors and medical mendacities."
Vaccinations Given US Military Forces During Major Military Conflicts since 1775
From at least the 1770s to the present, inoculations were routinely used. From the American Revolution through the Spanish-American War, smallpox vaccinations were administered. In WW I, typhoid was added, and in WW II, shots were given for smallpox, typhoid, typhus, tetanus, cholera, diphtheria influenza, scarlet fever, plague, paratyphoid A and B, and yellow fever. The Korean War adopted the same regimen. Vietnam added immunizations for polio, tetanus-diphteria toxoids, measles and meningococcal.
For the Gulf War, still more were added for anthrax, botulinum, adenovirus types 4 and 7, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), and rabies - a virtual toxic stew besides depleted uranium exposure that combined caused Gulf War syndrome, its devastating effects on many thousands of troops, yet the Pentagon denied it existed.
The Afghan and Iraq wars added varicella (chicken pox), hepatitis A, influenza, yellow fever, pneumococcal, plus the upcoming Swine Flu vaccine. In combination, US military forces now get a greater than ever toxic brew of up to 20 dangerous inoculations plus booster shots (including for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis DTaP) that assure damage to (or destruction of) their immune systems followed by serious health problems later on.
In 1919, Higgins called smallpox and typhoid inoculations "medical barbarism." Today it's at an intolerable level.
Confessions of a Medical Heretic
On April 16, 1988, a portion of a brief New York Times obituary read:
On April 5, "Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn, a physician, author and critic of the medical establishment, died after a brief illness....He was 61 years old." Besides teaching at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, he was best known as "The People's Doctor" and for his 1979 bestseller, "Confessions of a Medical Heretic," in which he cautioned against "the harmful impact upon your life of doctors, drugs and hospitals."
In a November 1984 East West Journal article, he called immunizations a "medical time bomb," and (as a paediatrician) said the "greatest threat to childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them." He referred to deceptive marketing practices and called paediatricians objecting to their "bread and butter" the equivalent of a priest denying the infallibility of the Pope.
He urged parents to reject all inoculations for their children, but explained that in many states they're mandatory. He administered them early in his practice, but later stopped "because of the myriad hazards they present." He summarized his concerns as follows:
-- no evidence confirms that vaccinations eliminate childhood diseases;
-- the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines don't work and cited Jonas Salk later admitting that mass inoculations caused an epidemic after 1961;
-- smallpox vaccinations are "the only source of smallpox-related deaths for three decades after the disease had disappeared;"
-- significant inoculation risks are real; parents should avoid them when possible;
-- doctors are derelict for not explaining their hazards and for "defend(ing) them to the death;"
-- a "myriad (of known) short-term hazards (exist but) no one knows the long-term consequences of injecting foreign (substances) into the bod(ies) of your child(ren);"
-- even more shocking is that "no one is making any structured effort to find out," yet
-- suspicions now confirm that mass-inoculations dramatically increase autoimmune and neurological diseases, including leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, and numerous others ranging from annoying to lethal;
-- he asked: "Have we traded mumps and measles for cancer and leukemia," and blamed vaccinations for their destructive harm, including thousands of annual SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) deaths; and
-- he said the best way to protect children is make sure they're not vaccinated.
Doctors Speak Out on Vaccine Dangers
The Merck Manual (first published in 1899, now available in a Home Edition) warns individuals with B and/or T cell immunodeficiencies to avoid live-virus vaccines (the main ingredient in ones produced by Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, and perhaps others) due to the risk of severe or fatal infections. Immunodeficiencies include common food allergies, inhalant ones, eczema, dermatitis, neurological deterioration and heart disease. Vaccines may be lethal for people with these conditions because their immune systems can't produce a healthy reaction to the viral assault on them. Getting it may induce illnesses they're intended to prevent and many other potentially deadly ones.
It's no surprise that many doctors, earlier and now, share Mendelsohn's concerns and state them.
On April 2, 2002 in the London Telegraph, autism specialist Dr. Kenneth Aitken said: "When I was in training, one in 2,500 (children were autistic). Now it is one in 250. At the moment, the only logical explanation for this is MMR" immunizations.
On April 27, 1979, at the American Society of Microbiology meeting, a paper by Drs. Anthony Morris, John Chriss, and BG Young titled, "Occurrence of Measles in Previously Vaccinated Individuals" concluded that "By the (US) government's own admission, there has been a 41% failure rate in persons who were previously vaccinated against the (measles) virus."
A 1993 British Medical Journal article stated: "In 1993 a high court judge in the UK decided that it was impossible to know the exact contents of vaccines and that science had no idea what the cocktails of chemicals, contaminants and heavy metals contained in vaccines could do to the human body, or why they would work to prevent disease."
Dr. J. Anthony Morris, former FDA Vaccine Control head said: "There is a great deal of evidence to prove that immunization of children does more harm than good." He concluded that "There is no evidence that any influenza vaccine thus far developed is effective in preventing or mitigating any attack of influenza. The producers of these vaccines know that they are worthless, but they go on selling them anyway."
Professor LC Vincent, Bioelectronics founder, said "Vaccines DO predispose to cancer and leukemia."
In December 1985, Dr. Albert Sabin, discoverer of the oral polio vaccine, admitted that "Official data have shown that the large-scale vaccinations undertaken in the US have failed to obtain any significant improvement of the diseases against which they were supposed to provide protection."
The National Institute of Health's (NIH) Dr. James A. Shannon said that "The only wholly safe vaccine is a vaccine that is never used."
Professor Ari Zukerman of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated: "Immunization against smallpox is more hazardous than the disease itself."
Dr. Paul Frame in the Journal of Family Practice believes "There is insufficient evidence to support routine vaccination of healthy persons of any age."
Dr. John B. Classen stated that his "data proves that the studies used to support immunization are so flawed that it is impossible to say if immunization provides a net benefit to anyone or to society in general."
Dr. Gerhard Buchwald concluded from the results of 150 trials that "Vaccination is not necessary, not useful, (and) does not protect. There are twice as many casualties from vaccination as from AIDS."
The Association of American Physicians & Surgeons stated that "Public policy regarding vaccines is fundamentally flawed. It is permeated by conflicts of interest. It is based on poor scientific methodology (and it's) insulated from independent criticism."
In his book, "Health and Nutrition Secrets," Dr. Russell L. Blaylock wrote: "Multiple vaccinations, especially in newborns, are another major source of childhood mercury exposure because of the mercury-containing thimerosal preservative. Over twenty-two vaccinations are now recommended for children before the age of two! Effects of exposure can vary from subtle to major malformations but even minor degrees of maldevelopment can have unacceptable consequences."
Blaylock called flu vaccinations, especially for the elderly, "criminal" because of known substance dangers in them, including methylmercury, phenylmercury, ethylmercury, and aluminum that remain in the nervous system for decades and damage it.
According to the WHO, "The best vaccine against common infectious diseases (is) and adequate diet" along with good sanitation and hygiene practices.
Dr. Rebecca Carley calls vaccinations "The True Weapons of Mass Destruction Causing VIDS, Vaccine Induced Diseases."
Immunogeneticist Dr. Hugh Fudenberg concluded that individuals getting five consecutive flu shots between 1970 and 1980 (the time of his study) were 10 times more vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease than others receiving two or fewer shots. He cited dangerous mercury and aluminum ingredients that accumulate in the brain causing cognitive dysfunction.
Flu shots contain 25 micrograms of mercury. One microgram is considered toxic. By age two, most US children have received around 237 micrograms of mercury through vaccines alone.
Vaccines contain the following toxic and others substances:
-- thimerosal (mercury);
-- aluminum hydroxide and phosphate;
--ammonium sulfate;
-- amphotericin B,
-- animal tissues and fluids, including horse blood, rabbit brain, dog kidney, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, pig blood, and porcine (pig) protein/tissue;
-- calf serum and fetal bovine serum;
-- betapropiolactone;
-- macerated cancer cells;
-- formaldehyde;
-- formalin;
-- synthetic phenol;
-- gelatin and hydrolyzed gelatin;
-- glycerol;
-- human diploid cells (from aborted human fetal tissue);
-- the anti-biotics neomycin and neomycin sulfate;
-- phenol red indicator disinfectant dye;
-- phenoxyethanol (antifreeze);
-- potassium monophosphate;
-- polymyxin B;
-- polysorbate 20 and 80;
-- residual MRC5 proteins;
-- sorbitol;
-- sucrose;
-- tri(n)butylphosphate;
-- VERO cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells linked to the SV-40 virus known to cause leukemia; and
-- washed sheep red blood cells.
One or a combinations of theses substances can play havoc with the human immune and neurological systems and cause deadly autoimmune and other diseases.
On August 15, a UK Mail Online article linked Swine Flu vaccines to a deadly nerve disorder called Guillan-Barre Syndrome (GBS). It cited a leaked letter from Britain's Health Protection Agency ahead of planned mass-vaccinations in the country. Sent to about 600 neurologists on July 29, it referred to America's 1976 killer virus Swine Flu scare, the urging then that everyone be vaccinated, and the millions who did with these results:
-- people died from the vaccine (from respiratory failure after severe paralysis), not Swine Flu;
-- 500 GBS cases were detected;
-- experts said the vaccine increased the GBS risk level eight-fold;
-- once the link was established, vaccinations were halted, but the damage was done after about 10 weeks of inoculations; and
-- the US government paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle damage claims from thousands of victims.
UK press coverage currently describes concern over the government releasing a vaccine "of unknown safety," yet plans remain to proceed. According to Jackie Fletcher, founder of the vaccine support group Jabs: "The (UK) Government would not be anticipating (trouble) if they didn't think there was a (GBS) connection. What we've got is a massive guinea-pig trial."
In a July 26 rense.com article titled, "Startling New Evidence That The 'Swine Flu' Pandemic Is Man-Made," Dr. A. True Ott cited evidence showing that Novartis Pharmaceuticals "conspired with corrupt 'scientists' at the US Army Institute of Pathology, Ft. Detrick, Maryland, to create a 'novel' strain of weaponized 'influenza' virus by....'reverse engineering' the deadly 1918 killer strain (then) maliciously and surreptitiously releas(ing it globally) in March and April 2009 for the primary purpose of creating a panic-stricken world-wide demand for Novartis vaccine material."
Ott claims the vaccine will unleash "lethal waves of increasingly virulent and deadly disease, rather than to curtail and limit the existing outbreak" - for huge profits and "a massive and sudden (worldwide) depopulation" agenda.
He called the scheme much greater than Henry Kissinger's 1974 NSSM-200 diabolical plan for "the immediate reduction of world population" in the hundreds of millions.
In 1987, Dr. Maurice Hillerman, prominent vaccine expert and head of Merck's vaccine division admitted that mass inoculations in the 1950s and 1960s likely caused thousands of annual cancer deaths because the SV40 virus (from dead monkeys) contaminated the first polio vaccine. "According to Hillerman, MERCK KNEW THE VACCINES WERE INFECTED WITH SV40, but distributed them anyway."
Many other examples show that "live viruses in vaccines SPREAD....disease very effectively. When combined with SQUALENE ADJUVANT the virus becomes many times more potent and lethal."
Ott claims Novartis' patent application reveals "smoking gun" evidence. The company admitted that "their 'invented' vaccine will be effective because of ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING THE ORIGINS OF THE PANDEMIC FLU STRAIN THAT WAS 'REVERSE ENGINEERED'....Clearly the pandemic virus was not an act of nature. (It's) a conspiracy to commit mass murder" for profit.
Writing for Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG), Dr. Andrew Bosworth sounded the alarm about "The Swine Flu Hoax," admitted its mysterious origins, expressed concern that it might be lethal, and suggested that it was either accidently or deliberately released by corporate or government sources to cause a global epidemic for profit and power.
He cited suspicions of doctors and scientists that Swine Flu was man-made because of its unique combination of viruses from different parts of the world. He mentioned spurious media and official reports of Swine Flu deaths, perhaps from conventional flu, another cause, or an unrelated medical condition. He called the US government's pandemic policy "ridiculous" and "repugnant," leaving people terrified and uninformed enough to react adversely to their own well-being.
Current News from Jane Burgermeister's theflucase.com
Burgermeister is the journalist who filed criminal charges against Baxter AG, Baxter International, and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology AG "for producing and distributing contaminated bird flu material this winter, alleging that this was a deliberate act to cause a pandemic, and also to profit" from it. In addition, she accused Austrian Health and other Ministry officials of knowledge and support of this practice, then later named Baxter, Novartis, Sanofi Aventis, world agencies (including the WHO, UN, and CDC), and high-level officials in Austria, other European countries, and America of conspiratorial involvement.
Her web site features the following recent reports:
-- on August 25, the UK Daily Mail said "Up to half of (British) family doctors do not want to be vaccinated against swine flu," and one-third of them said the vaccine was inadequately tested;
-- in Australia, "Leading infectious disease experts have called on the Federal Government to abandon its mass swine-flu vaccination plan because of fears the vaccine is a contamination risk that could spread blood-borne diseases;"
-- In Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1905), the US Supreme Court ruled that the state could require people to be vaccinated for the common good; in April 2009, NECN.com reported that a possible new Massachusetts law (Bill 2028) will require compulsory vaccinations; those refusing face $1,000 a day fines or 30 days in prison; after the state senate unanimously passed it, Catherine Austin Fitts concluded that Boston's money men must be "very scared about something," given that the city is "the capital of equity investment;"
-- on August 25, Health Minister Ulla Schmidt admitted on German TV that the Swine Flu vaccination campaign was a hoax and the largest ever inoculation experiment in history; and
-- on August 22, Dr. Wolfgang Wogarg, chairman of the health committee in the German parliament and European Council, warned about potential Swine Flu vaccine safety. He said Novartis' vaccine contained cancerous animal cells, and emphasized peoples' fears over the disease from being inoculated. "It is a great business for the pharmaceutical industry," he told Neuen Presse. Swine flu is not very different from conventional flu, but the vaccine can have dangerous side effects.
Lessons from the 1976 Swine Flu Outbreak
Soldiers at Fort Dix, NJ were affected. About 240 became ill. One death was reported, but the illness never spread beyond the base, so it's curious why not. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention couldn't explain why the disease was contained or how it was introduced.
More curious is the current hype over person-to-person transmission when it didn't happen in 1976. Northwestern University's Immunology Professor Robert Lamb explains that isolated swine flu cases in humans aren't uncommon. "Every year, you will find some pig farmer somewhere who gets swine flu. But it usually doesn't transmit to his family," let alone to the surrounding area or beyond.
Several years ago, Texas A & M's head of microbial and molecular pathogenesis, John Quarles, isolated a swine flu virus in a student on campus. He took samples from him and about 100 others close to him. Not a single one of them was affected, and according to Quarles: "That's pretty classic for swine flu."
In research conducted by Dr. Pascal James Imperato, dean at SUNY's School of Public Health, he reported that "the 2009 H1N1 virus was less efficiently transmitted by droplet infection (inhalation of respiratory pathogens exhaled by someone infected) in ferrets compared to the seasonal human H1N1 virus. This is a significant finding as it indicates that the 2009 swine flu virus might not be as easily transmitted between humans as its seasonal counterpart" - unless it's bioengineered to make it contagious and deadly.
Swine Flu is a virus-induced respiratory illness in pigs. Few succumb and die, and humans are rarely infected, except occasionally among people having direct contact with infected animals. For most who do, symptoms are generally mild. Medications and other treatments aren't essential. The illness usually lasts from two to seven days, and most patients recover well on their own.
Currently, no global pandemic or public health emergency exists, nor does forensic evidence link H1N1 to reported deaths. Yet fear-mongering persists to convince people globally to submit voluntarily to dangerous, possibly deadly bioengineered, vaccines.
If large numbers of confirmed Swine Flu deaths occur, contrary to compelling scientific reasons why they should not, then serious investigation is called for to determine if inoculations, not H1N1, caused them, and whether corporate greed and government complicity are behind a sinister plot to distract world attention from a deepening global depression, enrich drug companies hugely, and depopulate nations in numbers too horrifying to imagine - or as some observers put it, "depopulation by inoculation."
Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Project Humanbeingsfirst.org said:
"MURDER BY INJECTION" is only part of 'Population Reduction' agenda at best!
To add to the list of references of well researched contrarian view of vaccination, see Eustace Mullins' 1988 "MURDER BY INJECTION The Story of the Medical Conspiracy Against America", http://www.conspiracyresearch....ost&id=483
However, opinions of medical quackery aside, innoculation/vaccination minimally is a double edged sword. Please see the full note on vaccination in Project Humanbeingsfirst's view of how to deal with the Swine flu boogieman in "SWINE FLU PANDEMIC IS A REAL SWINE" http://print-humanbeingsfirst....swine.html
Its recommendation is: "Under such dubious circumstances, avoiding vaccination, especially of potentially biowarfare related pathogens, is minimally a double edged sword. Since one is not privy to what's in the vaccine, therefore, unless one can get it from the same batch as taken by the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, and Henry Kissinger, taking one's chances with the statistical odds becomes a commonsensical prudence for those not in that club."
Lendmen is of course right in expressing the fears of some of "depopulation by inoculation" being a hidden agenda, which I would not couch that way, but as preplanned population reduction as per concerns expressed in NSSM 200 and with sophisticated biowarfare instruments of which innoculation may well be a key component of mass sensitization. The imaginative Blackdeath of Bertrand Russell to be finally realized - and to be subsequently blamed entirely upon natural causes. Hollywood is already on the psyops publi desensitizing bandwagaon of killing off entire populations of a planet without anyone batting an emotional eye - the latest Star Trek kills off billions on Mr. Spock's home planet with only a handful surviving to restart a new Vulcan civilization. The reaction of the audience struck me as I watched the film - not even a gasp!
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
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