The Most Brazen Rip-Off Ever? How the Beverage Industry Brainwashed You to Fear Tap Water The following is the latest in a new series of articles on AlterNet called Fear in America that launched this March. Read the introduction to the series. The biggest con job perpetrated on the consumer is not some shady operation selling bogus cures through TV infomercials. America’s biggest snake-oil salesman is actually the beverage industry, or Big Bev, which resells the simplest and most vital product for thousands of times its value. That product is drinking water. Multinationals like PepsiCo, the Coca-Cola Company and Nestle rake in a combined $110 billion a year selling bottled water worldwide. But the expensive water the beverage industry sells is no better — and possibly worse — than the water you get from your tap (and often, the water they sell is tap water). Fear. And it appears that their tactics are working. To make matters worse, the supposedly healthy alternative is virtually unregulated. Misplaced Doubts But Cleveland only tested a few samples of bottled water.
KYMONO 10 Worst Examples of Packaging Waste | Post-Landfill Action Network (PLAN) Packaging waste represents about one-third of all municipal trash – making this type of waste a significant contributor to the global waste crisis. Most of this packaging waste is largely unnecessary. Take a look at these 10 egregious examples of packaging waste to see what we mean! Small Electronics: Lots of small electronics like USBs and storage cards are sold in heavy plastic packages. Plastic Water Bottles: These might be the most wasteful packaged item in stores because there is almost no reason to buy them. Packaged fruits and vegetables: any sort of wrapper or package on fruits and vegetables is a huge waste! Apple iPhones and iPods: Although the boxes tend to be small, in each product there are tons of unnecessary pieces of plastic around each little component in the box. Caprisun: Capri Sun is another example of individually packaged items (drink pouches) inside a larger bulk package (a cardboard box). Can you think of another example of wasteful packaging?
Lydia - Team Aujourd’hui, nous sommes encore obligés d’utiliser différents moyens de paiements selon les situations : des espèces à la boulangerie, un chèque chez le médecin, la carte bancaire pour les achats en ligne, un virement pour rembourser un ami… Ce n’est pas pratique et c’est souvent frustrant. Qu’est-ce qui nous empêche d’avoir un mode de paiement unique, simple et universel, qui nous permette de tout payer quelle que soit la situation ? Rien ne justifie qu’à l’époque d’Internet, des smartphones et du “cloud”, nous devions encore payer avec des pièces en métal et des chèques en papier. C’est dans cette optique que nous avons lancé Lydia en 2013. L’objectif : pouvoir tout payer de façon simple, rapide et sécurisée avec quelque chose que l’on a toujours sur soi, son téléphone. Lydia est le fruit d’une équipe de passionnés, qui travaillent dur pour faire bouger les lignes et développer l’usage du paiement mobile pour accompagner l’Europe dans sa transition vers une société “cashless”.
Peoples Climate Movement 2017 tinyclues What is Microhydro Power? | Home Power Magazine What is Microhydro Power? Hydro-electricity is fundamentally the combination of water flow and vertical drop (commonly called “head”). Vertical drop creates pressure, and the continuous flow of water in a hydro system gives us an ongoing source of pressurized liquid energy. People have been tapping the energy in flowing water for centuries, first for mechanical power, and, in the last hundred years, for electricity. A simple formula can give you a rough idea of how much capacity your stream might have. Within this formula is the understanding that systems with low vertical drop (head) need more flow to generate the same amount of energy. There are a wide range of small hydro turbine types to suit the head and flow of the site. Low-head systems may have less than 5 feet of vertical drop—sometimes they may have only 10 or 20 inches. High-head systems may be defined as any site with more than 10 feet of head.
Noam Chomsky in Conversation with Amy Goodman on Climate Change, Nukes, Syria, WikiLeaks & More This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: In this Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with the world-renowned linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky. In a public conversation we had in April, we talked about climate change, nuclear weapons, North Korea, Iran, the war in Syria and the Trump administration’s threat to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask you about this comment that you made that the Republican Party, you said, is the most dangerous organization in world history. NOAM CHOMSKY: I also said that it’s an extremely outrageous statement. Take a look at the last primary campaign—plenty of publicity, very little comment on the most significant fact. Then take a look at what’s happened since. OK. And this is not just at the national level. And it’s not just—it’s not simply climate change. Well, at the beginning, in 1947, beginning of the nuclear age, it was placed at seven minutes to midnight.
The small hands of Moroccan recycling This article is based on a series about recycling documented in the 2017 book What to do with leftovers? Re-employment in Accumulation Societies. The photographs by Pascal Garret, sociologist and freelance photographer, who collaborates with social scientists on the theme of waste recovery and recycling. Casablanca, Morocco, summer 2016. With constant heat often above 30°C, garbage can quickly suffocate the four millions inhabitants of this city. But as visitors navigate through the second-largest city of the Maghrebian region, small hands are making sure that large quantities of waste do not pile up on landfills by offering them new life. These men and women belong to populations that anthropologist Delphine Corteel and sociologist Stéphane Le Lay (ERES, 2011) have called “waste workers”. Despite their tremendous and tiring work, they remain excluded from the Moroccan society because of the uncleanliness of their work, and the nature of their living spaces.