Two of my recent blogposts may be of interest to CWB members: Open Access: Transformative Change. An Open Letter to the President and Members of the American Chemical Society. In brief, the President of ACS has written a letter to members, suggesting that open access is not meaningful change. This blogpost points to the transformative …
A few things to think about on Water Day: Should the water supply be privatized? See this story. (Note: SF water comes from Hetch Hetchy in Yosemite…) (Sorry, link broken… I’ll fix when I have time):http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/22/BAG33HS4DG1.DTL ELMO
Here are my notes from the March 16th Chemists Without Borders conference call, and Bego’s mindmap (Below are Bego’s previous MindMaps- larger sizes from 01/06 and 02/06):
Get your solar panels in a roll. ELMO (I took P Chem from Professor Alivasatos way back when…)
Some of the more disturbing quotes: “I the hosepipe ban, tougher restrictions and appeals to conserve water fail, supplies would be turned off and customers forced to collect water from tanks in the streets. “ (snip) ” Low rainfall and high population density mean the south east of England has less water per head than …