At this time of year, the weather is changing—temperatures are dropping, days are shorter, and there are fewer bikini clad people sunbathing at the pool. Right now in California (in the heat of budget season), we always get into deep discussions around heating the pool year round. Heating a normal, apartment community pool in the…
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A New Idea for Recycling in Multifamily
Waste Management has a new way to add recycling to multifamily properties that are short on available space. They have developed a split container dumpster with two sections – one for regular trash and one for single-stream recycling. This will eliminate the need for separate recycling dumpsters or toters, and the new dumpsters will fit in the original…
Opportunity on Mars and on Earth
In a recent discovery by the Mars Rover, Opportunity, NASA has found evidence that there was once water on Mars; potable water that you could drink. Mars, at one time could support life. When I think about the red planet and its similarity to the earth, it makes me want to check my toilets for…
Who said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself?
Franklin D. Roosevelt said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” in his inaugural address on March 4, 1933. Despite that these words were spoken prior to my birth, I am connected to them. You are connected to them. For those of you that read this website, you are looking for something. You…
Blame it on the Groundhog
Spring should be well underway in the United States according to forecasts made on Groundhog Day by famed weatherman Punxsutawney Phil. But instead many parts of the US have been experiencing cold snaps and even snow this week. As a result, an Ohio prosecutor tired of a prolonged winter has indicted Punxsutawney Phil for fraud. This lingering winter…
The Butterfly Effect
I believe that the 2011Tohoku earthquake changed our seasonality forever. I know that most folks would rather say that Climate change causes earthquakes and Tsunamis, but I think that roughly, the chicken hatched an egg that became a chicken. The 2011Tohoku earthquake had such extreme magnitude that it shifted the earth’s axis by estimates of…