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Come and take a walk with me thru this green and growing land
Walk thru the meadows and the mountains and the sand
Walk thru the valleys and the rivers and the plains
Walk thru the sun and walk thru the rain
Here is a land full of power and glory
Beauty that words cannot recall
Oh her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom
Her glory shall rest on us all (on us all)
From Colorado, Kansas, and the Carolinas too
Virginia and Alaska, from the old to the new
Texas and Ohio and the California shore
Tell me, who could ask for more?
Yet she’s only as rich as the poorest of her poor
Only as free as the padlocked prison door
Only as strong as our love for this land
Only as tall as we stand
But our land is still troubled by men who have to hate
They twist away our freedom & they twist away our fate
Fear is their weapon and treason is their cry
We can stop them if we try
~ Phil Ochs, the Power and the Glory

Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic

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Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic

The industry's awareness that recycling wouldn't keep plastic out of landfills and the environment dates to the program's earliest days, we found. "There is serious doubt that [recycling plastic] can ever be made viable on an economic basis," one industry insider wrote in a 1974 speech.

Yet the industry spent millions telling people to recycle, because, as one former top industry insider told NPR, selling recycling sold plastic, even if it wasn't true.

"If the public thinks that recycling is working, then they are not going to be as concerned about the environment," Larry Thomas, former president of the Society of the Plastics Industry, known today as the Plastics Industry Association and one of the industry's most powerful trade groups in Washington, D.C., told NPR.

In response, industry representative Steve Russell, until recently the vice president of plastics for the trade group the American Chemistry Council, said the industry has never intentionally misled the public about recycling and is committed to ensuring all plastic is recycled.

Brooks and Dunn – Only In America

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It's hard to imagine that for me that September 11th attacks were half a lifetime ago for me -- back when I was 18 years old and a freshman in college. But so it was. A very different time, I remember hearing this song a lot driving back and forth to HVCC listening to WGNA Country 107.7 radio. In some ways, the song seems a bit dated, but then again so does most things from two decades. Regardless, it's a good song.

Peak vs. Average vs. RMS Voltage

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Peak vs. Average vs. RMS Voltage

The term "RMS" stands for "Root-Mean-Squared", also called the effective or heating value of alternating current, is equivalent to a DC voltage that would provide the same amount of heat generation in a resistor as the AC voltage would if applied to that same resistor.

P. Y. E. is not 🥧

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Sign from the SUNYA Protect Your Environment Club, PYE circa 1971, organizing protests and fighting the South Maul Arterial.

Taken on Friday September 11, 2020 at Albany, NY.