Whole Episodes of Common Sense Now Online!!
Posted on 12. Nov, 2008 by filmat11tv in Energy Security
Film At 11 is now on veoh.com. Don’t worry, we’re not leaving our YouTube Channel we love so much. We’re just spreading ourselves out a little more over the web. The good news is now whole episodes of Common Sense are available uncut.
More great videos coming real soon.
Enjoy!
Obama, The Environmental President-elect
Posted on 06. Nov, 2008 by georgesuarez in Environment
The anticipated demand for newspaper keepsakes of Tuesday’s election raised alarm bells at Freecyle NYC, the cyber-swap freebie message board that turns one person’s trash into another’s treasure. (We scored some boxes and bubble wrap from there last spring for a big office move.) Seems that multiple requests for Wednesday’s papers threatened to jam the message boards and Freecycle’s moderators sent an email today asking that people hold off on posts asking for day-old papers:
Freecycle’s mission is to keep stuff out of landfills, and newspapers would be recycled anyway, and valuable ones as these are either kept as treasures or sold, so we moderators have to decide whether the extra hundred wanted posts for the same item might actually do some good or are just clogging our mailing list and all our inboxes uselessly.
That, and the papers are selling for over $100 on eBay. Freecycle’s moderator says memento seekers should “realize that if you don’t have yesterday’s historical newpaper already, the chances of getting one on Freecycle right now are as low as getting a computer or a car.”
As long as they are staying out of the garbage.
Dispatch from Kathmandu–How Recycling Works
Posted on 06. Nov, 2008 by michelemitchell in Environment
Most “recycling” in Kathmandu is done by independent operators—men and women who are unable to get other work, and who spend hours every day picking through piles of garbage for plastic and glass.
According to the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), about 80 percent of garbage produced by the city could be recycled. But the city has no funding for an official recycling program.
Whether he was embarassed, annoyed or busy, this man had other things to do besides answer our reporter's questions.
In fact, Kathmandu has a larger problem: what to do with all the garbage. The current landfill site will run out of space in two months—with no alternative site yet identified. The temporary landfill meant as a stop-gap measure will take six months to complete. So what to do during that four-month gap? Officials say “alternatives” are being sought out.
Kathmandu Valley produces more than 500 tons of solid waste daily, and interruptions in garbage collection are depressingly regular. KMC says that during a three-year period, garbage management has been interrupted 180 days, the longest period being 17 straight days.
Garbage collection and recycling is much better in the highest part of Nepal. This year, an eco expedition collected 965 kilos (2127 pounds) of garbage from Mount Everest.
–Rajneesh Bhandari
Common Sense, Episode 8: The End of The Line (part 1)
Posted on 04. Nov, 2008 by filmat11tv in Energy Security
We’ve been listening to the candidates tell us what they what they promise to do. At the end of the long campaign season we tracked down someone to tell us what they HAVE to do.
Common Sense, Episode 8: The End of The Line (part 2)
Posted on 04. Nov, 2008 by filmat11tv in Energy Security
We’ve been listening to the candidates tell us what they what they promise to do. We tracked down someone to tell us what they HAVE to do.
Rebuilding Chapman, KS
Posted on 03. Nov, 2008 by filmat11tv in Environment, Middle Class Crunch
We stopped in Chapman, KS to see how rebuilding was going after the tornado that ripped through the center of town on June 11th. The economic climate is making rebuilding tougher than it should be for Chapman.
Our Electoral Times
Posted on 03. Nov, 2008 by michelemitchell in Energy Security
Early voting may prove to be the political junkie's dream story of this election. The Schaumburg Township District Library was one location for Cook County (Il) early voters. Many of them, says Mike Martinez, waited up to two hours after polls closed to cast their vote.