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A better use for closed landfills

Darcy Hitchcock

Once a landfill is full of trash, it’s sealed with plastic, clay and dirt. (More about sealing here.) But there may still be methane leaking from it and god knows what chemicals brewing underneath. It’s costly to clean them up for use as wildlife parks or golf courses. Instead there’s a trend to turn them into solar farms.

Recent data released by World Resources Institute and the Resource Management Institute (RMI) has found that local governments across the United States harvested significant amounts of energy from solar plants built in closed landfills last year. The report found a total of 21 landfills that had been utilized to generate 207 megawatts of solar power. This shows a 10-fold increase in energy produced from such lands in recent years.

Landfills cover a large amount of acreage. There are over 1250 landfills in the US now but there were over 6300 in…

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FDA to help foreign suppliers continue shipping baby formula to U.S. – UPI.com

The Biden administration said Wednesday it is taking steps to ensure that international makers of baby formula can continue marketing their products in the United States, to avoid any infant formula shortage in the future.

The move to help foreign suppliers who have had temporary approval for their formulas will provide consumers with more choices and bolster the industry against future shortages, the agency said in a news release.

 

The U.S. has been struggling to boost supply of baby formula since February, when regulators shut down an Abbott Inc.’s Michigan plant over contamination concerns. The plant recently reopened after a sanitation and safety overhaul, but shuttered again a couple of weeks later after severe thunderstorms and heavy rain damaged the plant. The company said it needs time to sanitize the factory again before it reopens.

The White House said Wednesday that its efforts to fly formula into the country will bring 43 million 8-ounce bottle equivalents of baby formula into the United States by Sunday. The FDA has already green-lit roughly 400 million 8-ounce bottles for import into the country.

“Infant formula is an essential food product that is the sole source of nutrition for many babies in the U.S. Companies and their manufacturing facilities must meet rigorous FDA standards that ensure the formula is both safe and nutritious,” Califf said. “These standards are necessary to protect our children and will not be sacrificed for long-term supply considerations.”

 

Source: FDA to help foreign suppliers continue shipping baby formula to U.S. – UPI.com

Kindergarten|کودکستان

A Voice from Iran

“126th story”

First published: Jan.23.2020

A story by Laleh Chini:

As I explained our lifestyle in my book “Climbing Over Grit;” we lived on one massive property with my four uncles and their families. Because of this, we were always busy having fun and being together.

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One of my cousins and I were the same age, so we spent lots of time together. We were playmates.

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It was getting close to the start of school, we were about six years old and it was time to go to kindergarten.

Our mothers took us to school shopping. We got lovely school bags and bought many fun things to fill our bags with. We were extremely excited.

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On registration day, our mothers took us to a school near home that was about a 15-minute walk and registered us. My cousin and I were so proud that we’d gotten accepted into university.

We…

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Two Thought Thursdays, La Casa de Papel (Money Heist) p2e7, & Public Transport is Safer… — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

1.)  Public transportation is more efficient and better for the environment, (el transporte publico es mas eficaz y mejor para el ambiente) and 2.)  It is obviously safer to take a bus or train than to drive drunk, Angel… (Claro que es mas seguro tomar el metro que conducir borracho, Angel…) […]

Two Thought Thursdays, La Casa de Papel (Money Heist) p2e7, & Public Transport is Safer… — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

The Lies Are Deadly | Filosofa’s Word

My jaw dropped when I read the variety of reasons (or rather excuses, excuses, excuses) Republicans have come up with for mass shootings in the U.S.  Hint:  not a single one of them blame the problem on easy access to guns.  Among their reasons are: Abortion (Fox ‘News’ host Mark Levin) ‘Lecturing women’ (Fox ‘News’…
— Read on jilldennison.com/2022/07/07/the-lies-are-deadly/

Hace más de un año, el jefe de la ONU advirtió que « la destrucción humana de la naturaleza es ‘sin sentido y suicida’. » – ¿Qué podemos hacer ahora?

« La humanidad está en guerra con la Naturaleza. Esto es un sinsentido y un suicidio », advirtió en su momento António Guterres. « Las consecuencias …

Hace más de un año, el jefe de la ONU advirtió que « la destrucción humana de la naturaleza es ‘sin sentido y suicida’. » – ¿Qué podemos hacer ahora?