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Microbe Lift PBL Pro-Blend Gallon
Microbe-Lift/PBL is a blend of microbes that contain specially formulated strains of bacteria manufactured for use by landscape, irrigation & pond professionals Low Price - See More Details |
Elevated Electric Canvas Prints
The Daft electric locomotive on the 9th Avenue El, replacing the more picturesque but undoubtedly noxious steam locomotives . Low Price - See More Details |
Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Racial minority and low-income communities often suffer disproportionate effects of urban environmental problems. Environmental justice advocates argue that these communities are on the front lines of environmental and health risks. In Noxious New York, Julie Sze analyzes the culture, politics, and history of environmental justice activism in New York City within the larger context of privatization, deregulation, and globalization. She tracks urban planning and environmental health activism in four gritty New York neighborhoods: Brooklyn's Sunset Park and Williamsburg sections, West Harlem, and the South Bronx. In these communities, activism flourished in the 1980s and 1990s in response to economic decay and a concentration of noxious incinerators, solid waste transfer stations, and power plants. Sze describes the emergence of local campaigns organized around issues of asthma, garbage, and energy systems, and how, in each neighborhood, activists framed their arguments in the vocabulary of environmental justice.Sze shows that the linkage of planning and public health in New York City goes back to the nineteenth century's sanitation movement, and she looks at the city's history of garbage, sewage, and sludge management. She analyzes the influence of race, family, and gender politics on asthma activism and examines community activists' responses to garbage privatization and energy deregulation. Finally, she looks at how activist groups have begun to shift from fighting particular siting and land use decisions to engaging in a larger process of community planning and community-based research projects. Drawing extensively on fieldwork and interviews with community members and activists, Sze illuminates the complex mix of local and global issues that fuels environmental justice activism. Low Price - See More Details |
The Toxic Executive: A Step-By-Step Guide for Turning Your Boss or Yourself from Noxious to NurturingMany companies have one - that person whom no one can get along with, the one who makes everyone's life miserable, the "toxic executive". This book is a guide for working with someone who is difficult to work with. Whether the reader is reporting to them, working with them or trying to manage them, the book lays out specific rules on how to handle any situation. It also identifies the characteristics of a "toxic executive", and invites readers to discover if they themselves, as well as their bosses, colleagues and employees are "toxic" by providing a test that gauges toxicity levels. The book is filled with funny anecdotes and stories from real life, and names toxic executives among major corporation heads, such as: Frank Lorenzo of Eastern Airlines; the chairman of Montgomery Ward, Sewell Avery; Don Regan, the CEO of Merrill Lynch; and Frank Purdue. Stanley Foster Reed is the co-author of "The Art of M&A". Low Price - See More Details |
Minnesota's noxious weed hit list
MANKATO — Prohibited noxious weeds are annual, biennial, or perennial plants that the state department of agriculture designates as having the potential, or are known, to be detrimental to human or animal health, the environment, public roads, crops ...
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Noxious-Brok enMusic video for Noxious' song "Broken" off of their album Revilutia. Recorded live at The Handlebar in Oct 2007. Thank you to DJ, Eric, Robbie, Blake, Donna, Mike, Tammy and Keith for contributing footage. Shot and chopped by Garrett Williams. View More Noxious Videos |
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Noxious, more photos
Some old photographs that were lying around on my harddisc from my shooting with Noxious that I wanted to share with you. Hope you like them! See More Noxious Pictures |
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the noxious greed by Benedict AhanonuAuthor: BENEDICT AHANONUÂ Greed is a strong desire for more; it is also addictive in the sense that once it is embedded in the nature of a person or a group of people, it is difficult to stop. One common characteristic of greedy people is desperation. They are willing to do anything to get what they want. They are also jealous and selfish; but greed becomes noxious when it distorts an establishment or destroys opportunities for the advancement of the common good through a tenacious grip on the psyche of great majority of the people that occupy a geographical area. Greed is also contagious and unless it is checked, it becomes a pattern of behaviour that gains acceptability willy-nilly amongst a group of people. Some will call it culture of greed and any society ruled by it, flounders on the threshold of success. In other words, the trajectory of development in such a society is vitiated irreparably. Greed remains appealing because it synchronizes with personal aggrandizement, vaulting ambition without talents to match. This is the reason why in any greedy society, the end usually justifies the means and as they say in Nigeria: "if you can't beat them you join them." Do you know that it is only man that has greed as part of his character traits? This is one of the hallmarks of Satan, which was inherited at the Fall. Other animals only satisfy their immediate personal needs. They do not accumulate wealth. Satan and his cohorts are greedy hence, any society ruled by greed is satanic because in such a society only the privileged few amass and control all the wealth leaving the rest of the population at the mercy of fate. It used to be so in feudalistic Europe until a change came over the minds of men. Today, the rich and prosperous nations are referred to, as the West, irrespective of the geographical location and I must tell you that these prosperous countries enjoy enduring economic success because of their ability to control the level of selfish greed that make people peculate and work against the common good. The progenitors of these prosperous societies saw in advance, the futility of personal aggrandizement and how delusive it could be and decided to create an egalitarian society that guaranteed accountability, free enterprise and other freedoms that have sustained economic prosperity for centuries; conversely, in Africa, it is still a case of the law of the jungle, nourished by greed. Every action, every thought, every dream and just anything is inspired by greed. African economies are in disarray because the greedy rulers have not only squandered the wealth of these nations, they have also destroyed the sources of such wealth. The notorious Mugabe of Zimbabwe is still in power (out of greed) even when it is clear that majority of the Zimbabweans no longer want him to continue. He employs devious tactics including rigging of elections, outright intimidation of opponents, subjugation of the people through questionable patronage like the controversial land redistribution programme and others. In Nigeria, the efforts of the greedy rulers have only succeeded in impoverishing a potentially rich country. Due to greed, oil, which was intended by God to be a blessing to the country, is now a curse. Certainly, Nigeria as a nation, stopped enjoying real economic prosperity from the moment oil was found in vast quantities. Presently, corruption, which is a by-product of greed, has fatally damaged the very essence of the nation, as everybody called Nigerian is technically corrupt. Â While the Norwegians are saving part of their oil revenue for the future, the Nigerians are spending all. Year after year, billions of dollars are siphoned out of the oil proceeds and lodged in Swiss and other European countries' bank accounts or used to buy expensive houses and hotels abroad. Often, the favoured Europeans and Americans welcome them with the phrase: "The greedy monkeys are here again with their people's money." Quote me. Out of selfish greed, the so-called rulers and economically advantaged will travel to Europe and America, see and enjoy the best facilities including medical but will never want to provide such things for Nigerians. If Indians can perform, complicated heart surgery and kidney transplant, Nigerian doctors can equally do better with the availability of commensurate facilities. Out of selfish greed, politicians with bare academic qualifications and specialized knowledge, would appropriate millions of naira as remuneration for themselves while the qualified professors and dons are paid a pittance and when they strike as a protest, they are labelled "greedy." It is only in Nigeria that you will find poor men that become very wealthy after holding a political office or position and nothing will happen. The other day I saw a group picture of all the presidents that have ruined Nigeria and I was close to tears. I learned that the photograph was taken after a National Council of State meeting when President Goodluck Jonathan was decorated with the national honour of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR). Now, I want to ask this greedy group, is GCFR all that Jonathan needs to be successful? Which United States President was so glorified with the highest honour of that country while in office? If I were them, I will bow my head in shame because in the first instance, none of them can be said to have emerged as a genuine choice of the people and secondly, it is their individual and collective greed that have made the country nearly inconsequential in the world. Until Nigerians can find a way to halt the noxious greed in them, the country will continue to wallow in backwardness. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Read More Noxious Articles |
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