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In the Race

Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in the Red Queen's Race...

Janet and her husband have lived in the community of Franklin for over 30 years and have two married children. She is serving a three-year term as a Franklin School Board member

No Major Problems

By Janet Evans
Sunday, Jul 6 2008, 09:23 AM


The Beijing Summer Olympic organizers have reported that they don't see there will be any major problems next month even though China has been through rioting, a major earth quake, flooding, now mold, algae and even locusts.

View this stunning slide show of the removal of blue-green algae from Qingdao, China beaches.

Bloomberg Slide show algae removal China

About 10,000 people are scooping algae out of the sea at the eastern city of Qingdao, while officials in Inner Mongolia are preparing to fight off a plague of locusts that may arrive in the capital city during the Olympics.


It's unbelievable what the Chinese people have gone through these past several months because of the wrath of nature.  You have to wonder how much manpower is going into the Olympics at the expense of their people.

Read an article from Bloomberg   í here






 

Comments

J. Strupp   

I notice how the article sort of glazes over how this green-blue algae has exploded in Qingdao.  This same thing happened recently in Lake Tai even after a local fisherman by the name of Wu Lilong warned that industrial facilities were devastating the source of food and drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people by discharging pollutants into the lake.  Lilong is now serving a 3 year sentence for "extortion".  The pollution on Lake Tai continues and green-blue algae remians a constant danger to the local community.  My guess is that Lake Tai is no where near an Olympic facility.    

July 7, 2008 12:39 PM

Janet Evans   

Josh,

You are so right about that.  Most of their algae problems are from pollutants...chemicals and fertilizer.

Here is a great article on Lake Tai/Wu Lilong from the Economist

China: A lot to Be Angry About

July 7, 2008 6:14 PM

J. Strupp   

Thanks Janet.  I couldn't remember where I read about Lake Tai and Lilong but remembered the circumstances.  This is the article I read a couple of months ago.  Very good read.

July 8, 2008 12:50 PM

In the Race   

photo by Future-PhD How about some algae? Certain strains of algae can be used and algae biofuel production

July 17, 2008 7:03 AM

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