[Update: Check out the Procter Neighborhood Website for the latest on Procter Recycles.]
Procter Neighborhood, we’re making great progress. We doubled our participation this week! Eight households contributed recycling this week. That’s 160 miles per gallon per household! Keep up the great work, and help spread the word, too!
Once again, I got to meet more Procter [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Procter Recycles: Week Two
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Independence investigates wind energy
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I asked for it, and I’m encouraged to see that the July 14 city council study session included a discussion of wind energy as part of the city’s portfolio of energy generation (skip to 13:45 for the renewable energy discussion).
Points of interest from the presentation: While Missouri has no state-wide legislation that would require [...]
We have a glass recycler!
Posted in Procter neighborhood, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, recycling, tagged environment, glass recycling, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, neighborhood recycling, Procter neighborhood, recycling on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[Update: Check out the Procter Neighborhood Website for the latest on Procter Recycles.]
Great news, Procter Neighborhood! Bridging the Gap can accept our glass.
Here’s what they require:
Rinse… No dishes of any kind including wine glasses, plates, Pyrex, etc. No flower vases, light bulbs or flat panes of glass. No opaque colored glass.
Pretty simple.
Phase 2: Let’s convince [...]
The Power of Community
Posted in Procter neighborhood, neighborhood, vision, tagged neighborhood, Procter neighborhood on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over the past week I’ve come to a realization: I can sit at my computer and blog about all sorts of ideas to make ours a better community, or I can get out and make a difference.
In keeping with that realization, I’ve updated my blog’s subtitle from “A critical, yet loving examination of Independence, MO” [...]
Brush Drop-Off Co-op?
Posted in Procter neighborhood, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, tagged karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, Procter neighborhood on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the reasons I bought a truck was so I could easily take brush to the brush drop-off. Brush is $10 per load, on the second Saturday of the month. I don’t usually have a full load, so I’ve been paying for a yard waste pickup service that I hardly use.
Here’s what I’m willing [...]
Procter Neighborhood Recycling Project
Posted in Procter neighborhood, cost of fuel, fuel efficiency, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, recycling, tagged karma offset, Procter neighborhood, recycling on July 19, 2008 | 9 Comments »
[Update: Check out the Procter Neighborhood Website for the latest on Procter Recycles.]
We got off to a great start! Three neighbors joined me in recycling in our first week, bringing our MPG-per-household up from 20 to 80! Instead of each of us making the five-mile round trip to the 35th St recycling center, we sent four [...]
Karma Offset: Update
Posted in Procter neighborhood, cost of fuel, fuel efficiency, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, recycling, tagged cost of fuel, fuel efficiency, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, Procter neighborhood, recycling on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have not been getting along with the publishing software, so here’s a reposting of the plan until I can get a permanent page published. It was great to meet everyone yesterday! Thanks go to Greg Kline for volunteering to help out!
I’ll start with a confession: I love my pickup. It’s not new, and it was a very [...]
Goals for a greener Independence
Posted in bicycle friendly, energy policy, municipal services, renewable energy, vision, tagged alternative energy, geothermal, photovoltaic, renewable energy, two-way metering, wind turbine on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two of the greatest issues of our time will collide in the near future: the global climate crisis and the end of widely-available fossil fuels. We must have a sensible strategy to avert the coming climate crisis while ensuring our ability to grow and prosper economically.
Renewable energy at the municipal level is a grass-roots approach to [...]
Kudos for Independence’s recycling program
Posted in municipal services, recycling, tagged municipal services, power of the purse, progressive politics, recycling on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the past few weeks I have been pleased to see the expansion of materials accepted by the City of Independence’s recycling center.
When contracting with Deffenbaugh for recycling, the drop-off site was able to accept only PETE and HDPE plastics (resin codes 1 and 2), and they would not take plastic bags. In my house [...]
The path forward for energy policy
Posted in all politics is local, cost of fuel, economy, energy policy, tagged CFTC, commodities, futures trading, Michael Greenberger, NYMEX, speculation, West Texas Intermediate, WTI on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As several news reports have indicated, the notion is gaining steam that speculation in the U.S. commodities market has had an inflationary effect on oil prices. The current conventional wisdom is that 70% of the oil trades are made by financial players. If commodities speculation has taken center stage, the spotlight is on loopholes such as the notorious “Enron [...]
