http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Two-Killed-Hundreds-Injured-in-Algerian-Food-Riots-113133109.html
This article is a brief look into an incident in Algeria where a food riot on January 8, 2011 claimed the lives of two people and injured hundreds of others. Citizens ransacked government buildings over the rising costs of food items such as sugar and flour. Riot police were forced to shoot the protesters, resulting in the death of two civilians.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/world/asia/14australia.html
This article is about how the Australian floods in Brisbane and other Queensland areas have peaked far beyond anyone's predictions. The water level in some places has reached a height of almost 15 feet. Many people were not insured for flood damages, and the government has released a statement claiming clean up and reconstruction will be on a "post war" scale.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Three items
Refridgerator: Fridges are big, hefty pieces of engineering with lots of different materials on them. Among them, copper, which has a huge mining industry behind it.
Football: I want to know how my favorite past time winds up in my hands. As a personal question, I want to know whether my "pigskin" is actually made of pig.
Fiberglass insulation: The stuff that keeps my house warm is also the bane of my existence. Where does this awful material come from, and how does such a facility that produces it have an impact on the environment?
Football: I want to know how my favorite past time winds up in my hands. As a personal question, I want to know whether my "pigskin" is actually made of pig.
Fiberglass insulation: The stuff that keeps my house warm is also the bane of my existence. Where does this awful material come from, and how does such a facility that produces it have an impact on the environment?
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Reflection
Saturday
The ethernet cable that provides my computer with internet access runs through my walls and to a router/switch in our attic. I just set this system up a week or two ago, and it was a pain in the butt. Chief among the reasons of why it was a pain in the butt was that I had to navigate a labyrinth of fiberglass insulation or order to get to the proper holes in the attic. Fiberglass is the NASTIEST stuff on the planet, and if it has the potential to cause the same amount of damage to the environment as it does to my skin, then it poses a serious problem. I can only imagine the kind of impacts a factory working with this stuff could have.
The ethernet cable that provides my computer with internet access runs through my walls and to a router/switch in our attic. I just set this system up a week or two ago, and it was a pain in the butt. Chief among the reasons of why it was a pain in the butt was that I had to navigate a labyrinth of fiberglass insulation or order to get to the proper holes in the attic. Fiberglass is the NASTIEST stuff on the planet, and if it has the potential to cause the same amount of damage to the environment as it does to my skin, then it poses a serious problem. I can only imagine the kind of impacts a factory working with this stuff could have.
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