Environment

Quality Furniture (now closed) on Woodland near E55th in Cleveland Ohio

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 19:42.

This very unique and original hand painted sign is a thing of the past.  Today we use digitally generated bill boards and digitally printed screens - of the LeBron James "I was a witness" type on Terminal Tower. 

Quality Furniture (now closed) on Woodland near E55th in Cleveland Ohio

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 19:42.

This very unique and original hand painted sign is a thing of the past.  Today we use digitally generated bill boards and digitally printed screens - of the LeBron James "I was a witness" type on Terminal Tower. 

PAY IT FORWARD - THEN THROW IT AWAY - CUYAHOGA WASTE SPECIALTY

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 19:14.

On April 3, 2007 there was a discussion about the proposal for a new Cuyahoga County Administration building here on Realneo.   Around that time I had read a letter written by Tim Ferris which suggested that the present County Administration building was originally built to be expanded upward.   Today I add the photo above to confirm that the building was intended to be continued upward – you can see the columns projecting right up through the roof on both the main Administration Building and the Annex building.  I’ll bet if you removed the copper flashing from the top of the columns, there would be a plate with bolt holes already in it, ready to accept the steel columns for floors 5, 6, 7, etc.  

Fight Melting Oceans From The Comfort of Your Own Home While Raising Bait!!

Submitted by Zebra Mussel on Mon, 03/10/2008 - 22:11.
03/15/2008 - 13:00
03/15/2008 - 14:00
Etc/GMT-5

Who:

Moebius Nature Center
& Buckeye Sustainability Institute

What:

Location

Moebius Nature Center
929 East Mennonite Road
Aurora, OH
United States

Great Lakes Wind Collaborative 1st Annual Meeting

Submitted by lmcshane on Mon, 03/10/2008 - 20:52.
05/06/2008 - 09:00
05/07/2008 - 20:00
Etc/GMT-5

Great Lakes Wind Collaborative 1st Annual Meeting

  May 6-7, 2008
Hyatt Regency - Two Fountain Plaza
Buffalo, New York 14202

Location

Buffalo, NY
United States
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Cuteness saves the climate - Doing Something

Submitted by Charles Frost on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 21:32.

Global Warming - Doing Something

WEATHER ELSEWHERE - PEOPLE ELSEWHERE - GOVERNMENT ELSEWHERE

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 20:39.

While snow piles up outside in NEO,  in Hawaii the anthurium are brilliant, waxy red.   A  friend just arrived Friday from Hawaii and hand carried these spectacular delicate stems.   What a thoughtful present.

If you could choose only one, or none, which Cuyahoga County Commissioner would you retain for the next four years?

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 01:37.
Jimmy Dimora
2% (1 vote)
Timothy Hagan
4% (2 votes)
Peter Lawson Jones
52% (27 votes)
None
42% (22 votes)
Total votes: 52

WHY CAN'T THEY HEAR ED HAUSER?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 20:06.

When Ed Hauser speaks during the public comment period of a meeting – he is organized.   He has his camera running, and he has his visuals – his documents.

Be Obama

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 20:56.

The day Ohioans and others around America failed the world and allowed Bush and his clan 4 more years was the saddest of my life, and I was depressed by life after that until I posted the following...

50 YEARS OF AMP COAL - PHONY PUBLIC "HEARINGS" SUPPORT IGNORANT ORDINANCES IN CLEVELAND COUNCIL

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 17:42.
 

The Cleveland City Council Chamber is a grand room, with wood paneling, curved seating and a colorful mural above President Sweeney’s high backed seat. 

KEEPING NEO IN PERSPECTIVE - A MATTER OF LATITUDE

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 23:09.

Right now you could be in the water in the photo above, or in the snow in the Realneo header – you have the choice. 

PETER GRIESINGER WRITES CLEVELAND COUNCIL RE: AMP COAL PLAN

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 14:30.
Dear Cleveland City Council Members:
This is an urgent plea to exercise your right to cancel the 50 YEAR obligation by Cleveland Public Power to purchase 100MW of electricity from American Municipal Power’s proposed $3.4 billion power plant in Meigs County, OH.

The AMP Contract is The Wrong Deal for Cleveland

Submitted by Kevin Cronin on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 20:07.

Cleveland City Council should rescind its involvement in AMP-Ohio's proposed coal-fired utility in southern Ohio. A fifty year commitment to coal is the wrong direction, for Cleveland Public Power (CPP), its customers and the environment. Instead, CPP should develop a comprehensive plan for energy need and energy sources, that includes efforts to reduce demand through conservation, insulation, wind, solar and other alternative sources.

AMP OHIO NEGOTIATES IN BAD FAITH WITH CLEVELAND

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 02/23/2008 - 16:24.

 
Committing to American Municipal Power's proposed Meigs County pulverized coal generator for 50 years is a death trap for the City of Cleveland - and AMP knows it. 
 

Attending the Cleveland City Council subcommittee on CPP all day yesterday brought things to my mind that wouldn’t have aligned in my head if I hadn’t sat and listened to the back and forth for hours.       AMP OHIO is negotiating with Cleveland in BAD FAITH.    

Cleveland City Council and AMP-Ohio Hearing Friday Morning

Submitted by Kevin Cronin on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 19:57.

is timing really everything? Maybe to a utility company.

SUB-PRIME TO SUB-TERRANEAN - AMNESTY IS IN OUR INTEREST

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 16:32.

One minor question involving subprime vacant houses which I haven't seen asked much is: Where did the occupants go?  And the answer I can tell you  is: UNDERGROUND.

When a foreclosure takes place, and a lender gets a judgment against a homeowner/borrower, that judgment is good in the courts for decades – in some states for 21 years. 

Water is the Nuclear Industry's Achilles' Heel

Submitted by Charles Frost on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 21:22.
Drought Could Force Nuke-Plant Shutdowns
Wednesday January 23, 12:21 pm ET
By Mitch Weiss, Associated Press Writer
 

AP IMPACT: Southern Drought Could Dry Up Coolant Water and Force Nuclear Plants to Shut Down

LAKE NORMAN, N.C.

COLOR THERAPY IN THE HOOD

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sun, 02/17/2008 - 18:47.

Splashing up such colorful and lusty images has to be therapeutic for the artist.  Right on the edge of an urban dumping ground, full of scrap tires and trash, here's this little fellow sitting comfortably with his leg on the ledge (complete with scrap tire and vines) waving at the buxom gal below.

Rally to encourage Cleveland City Council to reconsider the AMP-OH Contract

Submitted by Stefanie Spear on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 18:06.
02/21/2008 - 19:00
02/21/2008 - 21:00
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Rally to encourage Cleveland City Council to reconsider the AMP-OH Contract concerning the proposed 960-megawatt conventional pulverized coal-fired power plant that would
be built in Meigs County near the Ohio River.

Location

Trinity Cathedral
2230 Euclid Avenue Conference Rooms A & B
Cleveland, OH
United States
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Why care?

Submitted by lmcshane on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 11:43.


Why care?  Care, because, our ecosystems are collapsing.  We can not ignore the reality of the effects of our actions and inactions.  The tipping point means that there is no going back.

FROZEN PIPES BREAKING ALL OVER NORTH EAST OHIO

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 16:05.
When you don't have the money to keep the heat on, and it gets cold, the pipes freeze. 

And break.

Then when it warms up like it did over the past two days, the pipes thaw out.

And water floods everything.  

And when the building is filled up, the water pours out under the doors and into the street - just like it is doing at Sweet Daddy's.