Tumblr Post Digest for hlthenvt

[My apologies for the messy formatting and duplicates. I still can't get the Yahoo Pipes Cleaner to work properly. It isn't collecting all requested and doesn't clean up after itself. But the links should all work.]
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Tumblr Regular Post Digest for hlthenvt [Not much of a weekly update, eh?]

[trash] Plastic bags banished from Old Crow

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/07/22/oldcrow-bags.html?ref=rss
People in the isolated Gwich’in community of Old Crow, Yukon, are using
plastic bags – more precisely, the absence of them – to help make a
stand against oil drilling in Alaska.

[environmental change, tundra] SNRAS scientists’ work featured on [...]

Trash money available SWMP

Not a lot of money for clean-up or closing but the projects eligible are broad.
Solid Waste Management – Region 10 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, requests proposals for Solid Waste Management Assistance Grants. Projects may include studies, surveys, investigations, demonstrations, training, and public education programs. Project priority areas include: Reducing [...]

Tumblred week(s) of 2008apr11

[I can't get Yahoo Pipes Cleaner Greasemonkey script to work properly to clean up yahoo's messy coding.]
[aging] Re: road colouring theorem
Subject: Re: road colouring theorem Hooray for those of us in our 60s! Like we suddenly turn brain dead? SW On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:51 PM, M Pamela Bumsted wrote: “March 28, 2008 [...]

Beautiful Bethel beaches

First inhabitants were told by the first people not to set up a permanent residence on this bank. They didn’t listen then or now. Many people still think throwing heavy metal contaminated vehicles into a river will save their skivvies.

| Where is… Bethel coastline 22nd century |
Beautiful Bethel postcard courtesy of Tom Sadowski and [...]

Toilets and Trash sanitation in the frontier

http://flickr.com/photos/hlthenvt/sets/72157594265830625/

I’ve put the set of photos up on Flickr. These can be used to illustrate problems and solutions to solid waste management and sanitation. I have not finished the annotations, but Flickr members may go ahead and comment. Unfortunately, I haven’t figured out a good way for non-Flickr members to add to the discussion [...]

Adverse birth outcomes associated with open dumpsites in Alaska Native Villages

Adverse birth outcomes associated with open dumpsites in Alaska Native Villages.
Gilbreath S, Kass PH
Am J Epidemiol. 2006 Sep 15; 164(6): 518-28

This retrospective cohort study evaluated adverse birth outcomes in infants whose birth records indicated maternal residence in villages containing dumpsites potentially hazardous to health and environment. Birth records from 1997 to 2001 identified 10,073 eligible [...]

Rural SWMP Solid Waste Management Planning

I’m trying to assemble what I have used when working with rural communities on their solid waste. I hope these materials will be useful to others. These materials may be modified to suit others. Unless otherwise noted, this Rural SWMP work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License

Of course, if you would like [...]

Rural SWMP Solid Waste Management Planning

I’m trying to assemble what I have used when working with rural communities on their solid waste. I hope these materials will be useful to others. These materials may be modified to suit others. Unless otherwise noted, this Rural SWMP work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License

Of course, if you would [...]

Interim rural solid waste management IV

Suggested Steps that Might Be Taken Immediately, with Currently Available Resources, to Improve Solid Waste Management and to Alleviate Problems at the Dump
These suggestions for short-term initiatives are something new we’re trying out, in response to your suggestions and those of other Villages. If they don’t work or if you all come up with improvements, [...]

Interim rural solid waste management IIb

IIb
Captions to illustrations (fax)
Salvage Area—away from designated dumping areas; keep clear of trash
Cover material stockpile or backdirt, near designated working face
Trench—maybe 8-12 feet deep and 15-20 ft wide
active cell is as small as possible but wide enough for equipment to get in to compact trash, to consolidate into smallest space, and to cover.
Litter fence—
temporary, can [...]

Interim rural solid waste management II

Diagrams and annotated aerial photos, transferred by fax
Here are my crude and rude sketches as suggestions for immediate action at the dump. The overall idea is to use the signs and the physical grading (the trench, backdirt piles, cleared active cell) to welcome (and steer) people and thus their garbage to just one area for [...]