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02-08-2010, 09:28 PM
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'Green' experiment at City Hall stinks
Chicago Sun-Times
February 6, 2010 BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter EXCERPT: There's been a stench coming from the second floor of City Hall -- and it has nothing to do with the steady stream of Chicago aldermen convicted on corruption charges. Waterless urinals installed to promote water conservation in the public men's room outside the City Council chambers have turned into a stinky mess. The odor got so bad that the "green" urinals are now being ripped out and replaced with the old-fashioned kind at a cost City Hall has refused to disclose. The problem is that Chicago's building code requires commercial buildings to use copper pipes in indoor plumbing. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers specifically states that drainpipes for waterless urinals "cannot be made of copper pipe, which corrodes." LINK ====================================================== Another poorly thought out green idea. It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies. –William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1952 |
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02-09-2010, 07:14 AM
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RE: 'Green' experiment at City Hall stinks
Quite often, "green think" isn't thought out very well.
I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant! |
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02-09-2010, 08:03 AM
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RE: 'Green' experiment at City Hall stinks
Unfortunately,"greenthink" becomes groupthink.
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies. –William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1952 |
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02-09-2010, 11:36 AM
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RE: 'Green' experiment at City Hall stinks
I have a dodgy neighbour, he never seems to have a job. Couple a weeks ago he had aquired quite a large amount of scrap electrical cable. He was busy stripping off the insulation and coiling up the copper wire. I asked him if it was worth the effort, "Too true", he said, "scrap merchant pays £3 a kilo for clean copper".
Plumbing must be an expensive business over there. The problems we face today are because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living. - ANON |
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