While watching "The Secret Life of Garbage" on BIO channel, the name Veolia was introduced and identified as a waste-removal business. I recognized the name from "Blue Gold" a documentary about the ever-increasing privatization of water--Veolia is one of the largest water-rights owners and industrial waste-water management: they pollute the ground water, clean it, then sell it back to the people whose ground-water they "own". Do you know who OWNS your drinking water? What's up with your
From CERES, California Natural Resources Department database. Do you know what your watershed is? What entity--public or private?--owns your water? If you live in California and don't know the answers, you need to enlighten yourself so you can act in your own best interests and hopefully those of your community. If you really care, get a seat on the advisory committee.
In every county, there are advisory committees for everything from aviation to
women's issues; there's always openings somewhere. Serving on an advisory committee is a low-stress but important way to get involved in your community, meet like-minded people and start learning how politics works in your county just by focusing your interest in one specific issue. A great first-step for anyone who thinks they'd like to get into politics...or for people like me who are sick to death of politics but have to do something about something...
The highest grade any part of America's infrastructure receives is C, "mediocre". How safe do you feel on that bridge? How 'bout those PG&E gaslines? Do you know the "state of your state"? Find out here. We spend 2.4% on infrastructure, as opposed to 9% in China. Newt Gingrich says we should be more like China, where they also have jobs (ours) developing alternative fuels and refining our steel and lumber (our resources). Our infrastructure, however, is 100% U.S.A. How freakin' pathetic is that? Does anyone know how to make water or air yet?
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