Mad as Hell
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Seeking Justice for Abused Elders
According to friends and family, at age 75 Rosemary Pagett was a "sweet little grandmother." She spent the final 30 years of her uneventful life in a peaceful country village near Wakefield, England. Then one day her world turned upside down. She was sexually molested in her own house and a few days later, so traumatized she could not speak, she died.Who in this world would do such a thing?
Police suspected a group of teenage boys who were going around the neighborhood knocking on people's doors and running away. It seemed dubious, but as it turned out they had the "boy" part right. Rosemary's assailant was her 12-year-old grandson. He pleaded guilty and was, according to press reports, "remanded into the care of the local authority."
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
What's Wrong With Supply Chain Economics?
Our planet is choking. Before I make my final exit, I intend to do something about this.
In Berkeley, Calif., where I live, people have stopped drinking bottled water. Several of the best restaurants, including world famous Chez Panisse, have stopped serving it. They serve filtered tap water instead.
Bottled water has an expensive, ecological price tag. The oil that’s required to make an annual supply of plastic bottles for the United States is enough to fuel 100,000 cars for one year. And 85 percent of these bottles end up in garbage dumps, where it takes them 1,000 years to biodegrade.
Add in all the fuel required to transport bottled water across the globe, and you end up with a real disaster.
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Re: Plastic Water Bottles
Have you ever thought of doing something to encourage those others, who are still hooked on drinking water from those adult-size infant throwback bottles to recycle them instead of including them in their trash disposal system? The material in them can be put to far better use than simply taking up space in the local solid waste stream. Not only that, but many of them are not even squeezed flat enough to get rid of the voids in the middle of the material they are made of. Another display of 'just plain stupid' from my reckoning point.
There is reason for some folks to consume the water within them, including a dietary consideration, temporarily being in areas that do not offer palatable water to the public, and probably others. But when the local water can be used, it should be.