Update: new outlet page

I've posted a copy of the home page of Cleanairdesign at Googlepages

http://hronrad.googlepages.com/hypoallergenic

There it will pick up some traffic and link to our other pages.

Status, 12/22/08

The publish button on Page Creator failed in October, and because of this I've been unable to update my pages. Will keep trying.

Clean Air News Update

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Emergency clean air
BBC Sport - UK
It's the first weekday of Beijing's emergency clean air measures. The city has ordered construction sites to shut down, it's ordered factories to cut down ...
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China limits cars in bid for clean air
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA
... like winds bringing clean air from the Mongolian steppes, may make more of a difference to air quality during the Olympics than the new restrictions. ...
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Climate Report Cites Role of Cheney's Office
Wall Street Journal - USA
By SIOBHAN HUGHES WASHINGTON -- Bush administration officials agreed that greenhouse gases could endanger the public and should be regulated under clean-air ...
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Changes in Clean Air Rules
New York Times - United States
“A Major Setback for Clean Air” (editorial, July 16) implied that Duke Energy sought to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Interstate ...
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Beijing clean air initiatives begin
Radio Australia - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Some motorists don't like losing the use of their cars every second day for the next two months. For others though the prospect of clean air is a real plus.
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ECan Expands Clean Heat Project to Rangiora
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
Clean air and home insulation will help us achieve the healthy air national target for 2013,” she says. Emissions from home heating contribute 80 percent or ...
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Subsidy fuel for clean air
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
The environment department will be drafting a package of incentives to make the city’s transport lobby fall in line with its clean-air notification that the ...
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Beijing breathes clean air again after cars banished and factories ...
Times Online - UK
Mr Duan is in a fix. He needs varnish to finish the cabinets he has crafted out of elm and walnut, but supplies are short and prices soaring amid an Olympic ...
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Beijing Stops Traffic to Clean Air for Olympics
Voice of America - USA
By Daniel Schearf Beijing has cut in half the number of automobiles allowed on the road in preparation for the Summer Olympic Games. ...
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Olympics: Beijing’s clean air claim challenged by scientists
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Richard Spencer in Beijing Leading scientists have challenged Beijing's claims to have defeated the city's notorious air pollution in time for the ...
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Google Blogs Alert for: "clean air"

Beijing starts car ban in Olympics clean-air drive
By AFP(AFP)
BEIJING (AFP) - Beijing residents enjoyed the novelty of congestion-free streets Sunday as the city launched strict driving curbs to rein its notorious air pollution and traffic for the Olympics.
AFP - Wire stories - http://www.afp.com/english/

Foss Maritime wins major clean air award
By marinebiztv
Earlier this year, the federal Environmental Protection Agency gave Foss and the ‘Green Dolphin’ its Clean Air Technology Award. Foss announced in March 2007 that it was collaborating with the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to ...
Marine BizTV - http://marinebiztv.wordpress.com

Beijing Started Clean Air Cars Action For Olimpycs
By Martin
beijing-pollution. Beijing residents enjoyed the novelty of congestion-free streets Sunday as the city launched strict driving curbs to rein its notorious air pollution and traffic for the Olympics. Traffic on the capital’s normally ...
Global Warming Issues - http://www.warmingissues.com

Tell The EPA You DON’T Want Their Meddling in the Economy Over ...
By Warner Todd Huston
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting comment from all interested parties on options and questions to be considered for possible greenhouse gas regulations under the Clean Air Act. EPA is issuing an advance notice of ...
Stop The ACLU - http://www.stoptheaclu.com

Oly car ban underway in clean air drive
Beijing will ban more than a million cars from its streets in a bid to rein in the city's notorious air pollution and traffic snarls for next month's Olympics. Traffic on the capital's normally bustl.
World - http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=29

Eruption in north Oakland

Recent News on the Air

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The Clean Coal Con Environmental Enron
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
At least one major environmental group -- the Clean Air Task Force, headquartered in Boston -- agrees with them. A recent news report in the Bloomington, ...
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A positive outcome is in the air
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
By Sam Kennedy | Of The Morning Call The Sierra Club and the Clean Air Council gave away Christmas stockings filled with coal, a symbolic protest in ...
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Is it time for 'Toronto, the Green?'
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Everyone believes this is an idea whose time has come," says Eva Ligeti, who heads the non-profit Clean Air Partnership. "Greening Greater Toronto" will aim ...
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Leading the way to cleaner air
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The Clean Air Act regulates air quality and sets federal standards, but Arizona's urban areas have struggled to meet those standards. ...
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Citizens can help clean air
The Wichita Eagle - Wichita,KS,USA
Wichita faces a choice: Either clean up its air quality and bring ozone levels under control, or be forced to do so by the US Environmental Protection ...
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Ozone season: Our only defense is driving less in summer
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Utah Physicians for Clean Air and Utah Moms for Clean Air have pointed out that breathing Wasatch Front air during high-pollution days is as bad for the ...
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Opposition mounts to clean air change affecting parks
LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA
AP - June 22, 2008 4:55 PM ET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Critics fear the Environmental Protection Agency plans to make it easier to build polluting coal-fired ...
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Air quality award to be announced
The Press - Christchurch,New Zealand
The Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand will present its annual air-quality award on Thursday. The award acknowledges individuals and ...
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Opposition mounts to clean air change affecting parks
WCAX - Burlington,VT,USA
AP - June 22, 2008 8:35 AM ET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg has joined 7 of his colleagues in opposing efforts to make it easier ...
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Scrap-metal thieves continue to raid homes
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
The EPA is monitoring the trend, said spokesman Chris Whitley, who noted that the thieves also face criminal charges for violating the Clean Air Act. ...
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Design and Culture: a New Manuscript

May 15, 2008

For the convenience of interested agents and publishers, I have made available an introduction to my latest manuscript, Design and Culture, at http://rgrudin.googlepages.com/designexcerpts

Robert Grudin

Choose your Gasoline

From a recent email:


These companies import Middle Eastern oil:

Shell..........................205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco.........144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil..............130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway...117,740,000 barrels
Amoco..........................62,231,000 barrels
Citgo Gas comes from South America ,......... from a
Dictator who hates Americans.

Do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to
over $18 BILLION! (Oil is now $90-$95 a barrel)

Here are some large companies that
DO NOT import Middle Eastern oil:

Sunoco................ 0 barrels
Conoco................ 0 barrels
Sinclair................ 0 barrels
BP/Phillips........... 0 barrels
Hess.................... 0 barrels
ARC0.................... 0 barrels

All of this information is available from the
Department of Energy