Hello friends of the JHC! Here is your Friday MashUp for April 12-15, 2010. It’s actually a short post today as most of the news this week seemed to revolve around the Helena Guergis/Rahim Jaffer scandal that has currently paralyzed the news.
Europe Finds Cleaner Energy in Trash
Denmark now has trash incinerators capable of turning garbage into heat and electricity. Filters catch all the harmful pollutants that result of out of burning trash and the end result is that Denmark now has a sustainable energy source that isn’t oil-based. They are apparently neat, quiet and make for good neighbours even in affluent neighbourhoods. Burning trash this way of course reduces landfills, reduces the amount of pollutants and toxins being released into the air and provides a low-cost energy efficient means of heat and electricity. And they only burn the trash that can’t be recycled so they already have a massive recycling program in place.
This is awesome news. It shows that innovative green technology can work and already do exist–which debunks naysayer’s objections to cost and efficiency. Yes, it is easier and cheaper in the short-term to do nothing but ultimately, it is way better and more beneficial to invest now and reap the pay off later.
So far, it’s better than building a space elevator to project garbage into space.
If you won’t tell us about our MP’s, we’ll do it for you
This article comes from David Eaves. If you don’t know who David Eaves is, you may be missing out. David Eaves is a public-policy entrepreneur, open-government activist and negotiation expert based out of Vancouver. In this article, David talks about how ordinary citizens is using the power of the web to make government more accountable. Individuals are making sites and pages that
and can also monitor
(The quotes link to the websites discussed so go ahead and click on them!)
This is the beginning of something big. Government always talks about accountability and there are measures in place to ensure that the government behaves in an acceptable manner but with websites like these, now the citizenry can really keep tabs on their representatives. In a way, this is a step towards empowering citizenry to really keep government accountable since everything now is a matter of public record that is easily accessible and readily available.
There you have it, a short and sweet Friday MashUP to recap your week. Hope everyone enjoys the lovely weather and we’ll talk next week!
