Bottlemania!

Why do we buy water when the clean, pure liquid flows for free from our tap? ... the same with bottled water in Bottlemania. She starts in Maine at the Poland Spring bottling facility and adventures on to water tastings and water cleanup plants in serarch of the answer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 22:13:00

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Express Restoration

With over 20 years in the industry, Express Restoration has implemented a solid structure and procedure in handling all water damage cleanup, ... mold remediation, sewage cleanup & decontamination, fire restoration, odor control, and disaster recovery. Express Restoration [more...]

Date: 2008-06-26 13:12:41

and MORE water...

Ok- so today, while the cleanup crew was at our house cleaning up the water, I went to do laundry and realized that water was pouring down my laundry room ceiling. It was from the upstairs bathroom! So the water is back off! Here's a few shots to share my day with you.A [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 00:25:00

Police: Man’s health a factor in fatal crash (Fargo Forum)

A Moorhead man involved in a crash in south Fargo on Monday afternoon likely died from a medical condition while driving, Fargo police said ... and commercial property after a fire, smoke, or water damage … ... . Advertisement: SERVPRO of Fargo Moorhead Fire & Water - Cleanup & Restoration. 24 Hour [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 10:05:35

Water Damage Cleanup Success Story!

What with all of the hubub around the holidays it only just occured to me that I never followed up on a post from last month about the annual inspection here at The Caverns.  As I mentioned then one of my roommates managed to nearly destroy ... of WaterRestoration911.com to get some one to come in and repair the damage before the annual apartment ins [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 17:53:05

Warroad, Minn., man jailed for casting vote (Fargo Forum)

Convicted felon committed another felony by voting GRAND FORKS, N.D. - The way Eric Stephen Willems voted was a crime ... and commercial property after a fire, smoke, or water damage situation. SERVPRO? … Read Full Story… ... . Advertisement: SERVPRO of Fargo Moorhead Fire & Water - Cleanup & Restoration. 24 Hour [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 07:00:15

Morning news briefing 01.19.09

Schools prepare for money crunch – As legislators continue to get nowhere in solving the state's plummeting budget, ... have spent millions of dollars over the last 14 years to cut 90% of the contaminated irrigation water ... on the cleanup program, called the Grassland Bypass Project. Farmers in the Grassland Drainage Area [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:43:28

Catching Up

I have been slowly but surely catching up this week ... company. These companies come in help you with the water cleanup and mold removal.  I know too well ... leaked and that what companies like that are here for. Copyright © 2008 My Thoughts, Ideas [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 21:17:45

Miracle Mineral Solution or MMS - What is it?

by Lydia Peru Have you ever heard of miracle mineral solution? ... as one of the best water purifiers for over 70 years, and its use has been on grand scales, such as cleanup after ... disaster. Following the severe water damage there was a major outbreak of mold. Chlorine Dioxide [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 15:11:50

10 Flooded Basement Prevention Steps

Flooded basement can cost you thousands of dollars in cleanup and repair. If the collected water in your basement results in infestation of mold, then expect bigger costs. Keeping water damage from happening will help you avoid paying thousands of dollars on cleanup [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 04:00:08

Colorado Infrastructure: Bad and Worse

Colorado infrastructure was graded by the Colorado chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers ... of the 13 systems evaluated will deteriorate in the next two years: dam safety, drinking water, wastewater treatment, aviation, roads, environmental cleanup, bridges, education, energy and mass transit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 22:09:01

Weekend Watch & Reads

TVA is still cleaning up that coal spill. I created a video of some of the cleanup images.GoodCan you live with just 13 gallons of water of water a day. Check out Water for the Ages.Rain ... federal waters to shield deep-water fish species and their habitats from fishing. All fishing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 13:00:00

Men’s skin care and how to maintain

Man skin care 'seems like a stranger to some men. It would have been even more alien a few years ago ... care also begins with the cleanup. Water soluble cleansers are preferred. Cleaning helps to remove [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 10:58:09

US Supreme Court May Review Whistleblower Suits

The US Supreme Court may review a case that could set new limits on whistle-blower lawsuits against drugmakers and biotechs, ... on the suit, which alleges that a North Carolina water district fraudulently sought federal money for storm cleanup (see order). The case is based on the US False Claims Act, which allows [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 19:31:24

diy project: chinese papercut spice jars

I have an ever expanding collection of glass jars in my kitchen ... and water for cleanup Step 1: Prepare Your Art The first step is to transfer your chosen images [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 14:00:18

Tackle it Tuesday #137:Tackling a HUGE project!

This week our new resident tackler, Jena, is posting tackling a huge project by breaking it down into one hour segments ... things in dungeon. Hey look! There’s the screens from the fall cleanup, and look there a few little ... that extra water softener? and What are THESE for? Incidentally, a lot of people get side-tracked [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 05:00:11

Www.OSIR.org.in - Tenn. issues order in TVA ash spill cleanup - Leaf Chronicle

KNOXVILLE (AP) The state of Tennessee has put the Tennessee Valley Authority on notice that it will get no breaks in its $1 million per day cleanup ... sludge from EDAR (Estacion Depuradora de Aguas Residuales - Waste Water Purification Plant) to acid [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 06:00:05

DNR faces $10 million in losses

This year’s flooding and tornadoes may cause the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to cut jobs and services due to $10 million in lost revenue. The Associated Press reports that the agency saw 33 of its 48 parks damaged by wind and water ... the state might not be able to afford regular park cleanup, might have to cut 100 summer positions [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 17:18:44

Citizen Journalists Try To Keep TVA Accountable

I’m going to play pundit for a moment and talk about the TVA Sludge Spill ... and test the water? If the area is too dangerous for anyone except HazMat cleanup crews, why isn’t the mess being cleaned up with any kind of expediency? What damage can an ecoterrorist do to a toxic [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 11:08:59

Big Water Trouble in Leaky China

Photo via China Daily News China’s “Dead Lakes” Keep Reappearing Two years ago, ... China spending billions of dollars on lake cleanup efforts, some algae has returned. And similar ... , … Read more: Big Water Trouble in Leaky China [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 15:29:48

Dec 18: Day Without A (Disposable) Bag

Have you all seen the recent article in the NY Times about the decreased market for recycled materials? ... in California spend more than $300 million annually in litter cleanup. Fewer than 5% of plastic ... to greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation and water pollutants during the production process [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 10:52:37

environmental news sunday

coal's time bomb. every year, south carolina's power plants burn enough coal to fill 10 large football stadiums, ... spills spiking. rural counties struggle to respond to calls, and cleanup often is left ... . no one is uttering a word about clean air, water, land conservation, global warming, endangered species [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 06:38:25

a long weekend

this week went like a blur and i haven't done anything significant, research-wise ... ? moreover, i did mostly cleanup work in the lab. when one of my labmates told me the (supposedly) deionized water that we are using for our experiments is actually not pure enough and needs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 05:48:28

Obama Indicators

Some of my progressive brethren have been giving President-elect Barack Obama the dickens for weeks now ... waste dumping and start a serious cleanup  His toughness in requiring bailed-out U.S. auto makers ... , with their imminent danger to drinking water His commitment to enforce the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:00:15

Potty Training Your Puppy

It’s a joy to have a puppy around. A puppy is cute, furry and squiggly all at the same time ... for potty training but by three months, he is all set to learn how to cleanup. First Rule: Keep your puppy ... . Second Rule: You should only feed your puppy and give him a little water when you can take [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 20:12:09

Projecting SEO costs

Adsense blog » Does Your SEO Consulting Contract Have a Clause .. ... ; SEO Elite Reviews » Texas Clipper The conversion, cleanup and sinking cost over 4 million ... ) Northeast of South Padre Island, TX. It was placed in 132 feet of water. ... <http [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:34:22

Wamp Afraid Obama Is Ignoring The South

From Herman Wang: “The Democratic Party, under the president-elect, is overlooking the South,” said Rep. Wamp, a Republican ... spill. “The ash spill is an expensive cleanup situation that’s going to saddle the ratepayers of TVA,” he said. “We have a lot of priorities on land and water issues, (such as) the Chickamauga Lock [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 16:03:00

The Golden Muck Fork?

We really need to come up with some sort of award for folks like those who helped catch up on cleanup yesterday and today ... spreader here, not one of the little models you can pull with a lawn mower.) All the water tanks were [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 23:52:00

Got a tip for a post?: Email us | Anonymous form Get PEEK in your mailbox! ... , we are requesting that a federal court oversee the cleanup and remediation and that the responsible parties ... at the Kingston Fossil Plant, releasing a billion gallons of coal ash sludge and contaminated water [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 22:40:06

How Anti-Regulation Is Obama’s New Regulatory Czar?

Our guest blogger is Frank O’Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch. ... who believe it would help them resist cleanup; – Urged the federal government to devalue senior ... Even raised questions about the value of cleaning up Love Canal, reducing arsenic in drinking water [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 17:42:11

How to spend $825 billion

By Kate Sheppard Enviros are heartened by much of what they see in the newly released summary of the House's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ... buildings to make them more energy efficient." Another section of the bill aims to "modernize roads ... for activities supported by other economic recovery funds, such as retrofitting of buildings, green [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 07:05:15

Is Home Ownership Still the American Dream?

  Photo courtesy of Oracio Alvarado Over the last couple months two long-held truths of the financial world have been turned on their heads.  One, money market mutual funds can’t lose money, and two, the value of real estate always goes up.  Unfortunately, many have discovered neither of these “truths” have ever been 100% true, just assumed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 11:00:02

A new Lisa on life

By Kate Sheppard Lisa Jackson. Photo: Lauren Victoria Burke / AP Lisa Jackson, Barack Obama's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, got a warm reception from both sides of the aisle at her Wednesday hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, facing little of the tough questioning her critics had hoped for [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 04:14:38

TVA girds for long, litigious cleanup of Kingston ash spill

By Daniel Cusick Greenwire: The Tennessee Valley Authority is bracing for what could be billions of dollars in remediation and liabilities stemming ... , that the freezing and thawing of water in the dike structure, combined with heavy rain, may have weakened the wall ... -Christmas avalanche of 5.4 million cubic yards of ash and water that spread across [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 13:16:08

Mayor Sanders asks San Diego to get off collective butt and pitch in

San Diego is nigh-impoverished, Mayor Jerry Sanders said in his State of the City speech Wednesday night at Downtown’s Balboa Theater, ... have to move to a Level 2 water emergency, which would mean mandatory water reductions and the possibility of some parks allowed to go brown from lack of water. To respond to these hard times, he said [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 07:35:45

Tennessee coal ash slide, Day 3

UPDATE: Greenpeace sent a photographer to the area, and while the photographer was prevented from getting close, he got some good shots here ... the southeast’s worst environmental disaster by some environmentalists and journalists. It appears that some of the national media outlets are finally picking up the story, although this disaster remains [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 17:56:00

Jackson Williams: Bush Out The Door: "Adios, Mofo."

George W. Bush has been gazing toward his future reputation for a while, and loves the view ... . The modern Boy King basically commenced his reign.....by having them beheaded. In over two centuries ... of this democracy didn't design the cabinet slots as mere courtiers to a crowned head, you know. Unlike [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 21:00:40

Boon Giveaway Part 1-Frog Pod

I'm sure many of you have heard of the fantastic products that Boon carries. Not only are they all great ideas, but they are absolutely adorable! ... and feedings will be less messy!We also got the Flo Water Deflector and Protective Faucet Cover with Bubble ... the bubble bath into the water!It makes the water come out out instead of under the faucet [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 15:12:00

Azalea neighborhood meeting set for Raytheon pollution in St. Petersburg

By Arielle Stevenson, guest blogger and WMNF news volunteer It was nearly a year ago that the residents of the Azalea neighborhood in St ... of contaminants were. In a letter to FL DEP Bureau of Waste Cleanup’s Dr. Brian Dougherty sent July 7, 2008 ... of contamination were below the Florida Groundwater Cleanup Targets or GCTL’s, with the exception of [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:49:47

Tennessee Coal Disaster: A Nightmare Before Christmas

Imagine an Olympic size swimming pool brimming with highly toxic waste. Now imagine over 1,600 such sludge-filled pools -- or about a billion gallons. That's how much liquified coal waste -- "fly ash" -- broke through an earthen dike at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant near Kingston, Tenn. just before midnight on Dec [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 22:17:00

Twitterville Notebook: Marla Erwin of Whole Foods

Who wants to chat with a Coke Bottle? It's a question I've been asking for years. It's an outgrowth of my previous book, Naked Conversations that argued with some passion that social media gives businesses, particularly large ones, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 19:42:50

Ecuador keeps up oil cleanup fight against Chevron

Email Picture Chris Kraul / Los Angeles Times Abel Garrido stands near his oil-polluted pond in Coca, Ecuador. “I’ve lost 30 cows,” Garrido says ... for drinking water and soon turned up the smelly black sludge that he says has killed much ... and production methods that contaminated their drinking water and spoiled their lush jungle environment.On [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 07:26:00

After a Massive Tennessee Ash Spill, Authorities Try to Assess the Damage

As the cleanup continues of the billion gallons of ash that spilled out of a reservoir at a Tennessee coal-fired power plant two ... for weaknesses. Preliminary results from water samples taken in the spill area show no unsafe ... , is already working on cleaning up the pollution, Sims said. (more…) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 22:04:00

National Day of Service

This came in from the Park Board and I thought it was a good idea so I’m passing it along: ... . An organized cleanup will take place from 1 – 4 p.m. from Silver Springs, 1100 N. Hampton Ave ... and bring rakes, work gloves, sturdy shoes and a water bottle. Volunteers should meet at 1 p.m. at Silver [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:26:29

The Obama Stimulus: An $825 Billion First Step

by James Parrott The version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan unveiled on Jan. 15 by House Democrats is breathtaking in its scope and cost. Intended to retain and create 3.7 million jobs over the next two years, the $825 billion package of federal government investments includes dozens of spending measures ranging from $200 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 19:45:29

Greenway Cleanup Report

Greenway Cleanup Report Published by David Both under Change is Here, Cleanup, Commentary, Rants Alice and I, along with Vickie, our Barack Obama Change Crew Seven Leader, and her three girls worked on cleaning up the greenway near our house today as a service project for Martin Luther King day. We collected four large bags [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 01:23:44

Disaster clean up services

I sometimes see in the news houses submerged in the water. It's sad. Floods and other disasters are devastating ... you recover. They are also great in mold and sewage remediation and fire and smoke restoration ... up is a lot of work. It's great that there's disaster cleanup company that act fast and fully equipped [more...]

Date: 2008-06-23 00:35:56

10 Steps to a Healthy Ocean: Protecting our Oceans from Pollution

Photo courtesy of Webzer at Flickr.com. The ocean covers more than 70% of the earth’s surface, and it’s a major part of the ecosystem that we rely on. Phytoplankton are responsible for about half of the oxygen produced worldwide. More than 1 billion people rely on fish for a significant part of their diet [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 11:48:27

Got a tip for a post?: Email us | Anonymous form Get PEEK in your mailbox! ... gallons of coal fly ash and water into the nearby town of Harriman and Watts Bar Lake. One man ... . Reports are that the rush of mud, ash and water now covers 400 acres and is several feet deep [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 21:10:05

During Joel cleanup, businesses moving on

During Joel cleanup, businesses moving on A sooty smell still wafts from the vacant doors and windows of the burned-out Dorian Studios. Dumpsters surround the Joel building ready to catch debris created by fire, water and smoke damage. Contractors, electricians and restorers have replaced the firefighters who fought the blaze [more...]

Date: 2008-08-07 11:56:17

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