Donald asks…
What can be done to increase Chikan here in the US?
Countries like Japan are years ahead of the United States not only in terms of product innovation, and environmental issues, they are also well ahead of us in the area of Chikan. What steps should the government take to increase awareness and make Chikan more widespread here in America?
The Expert answers:
If you want each and every finger in both your hands broken, then you can practice Chikan all you want on me.
EDIT: Rainbow we can tag team him!!!!
Helen asks…
Is there any organization or company in alexandria that would support us in our environmental project?
Me and my friends in (Egypt-Alexandria) are part of the Global Environmental Youth Convention taking part in August 2008 in (China). And we were part of it last year in Dubai and took the 1st place prize in the Paper Waste project.
In part 3(starting now) of our course we have to do a project related to sustainable development and the environment.
We need an organization or company or hotel or supermarket or resort(any of the kind) that would be eager to support our project and idea “by carrying/trying them out”. We are going to be dealing with (Waste recycling/reducing) issue. e.g. reducing usage of paper and recycling. or reducing the usage of plastic.
I urgently need to find it.
Thanks in advance.
The Expert answers:
Good luck
Richard asks…
environmental issues/waste management in the workplace?
anyone know any useful ideas on how to mange the energy we use, and waste (mainly paper) we throw away in the office? Also- any important facts we should know about the environment- not like the obvious ones- but like some statistics etc that can give us a bit more drive to become more eco-friendly?
thanks a lot 🙂
The Expert answers:
Depending on the size of your business there are many paper shredding/recycling companies that can provide service. The document shredders/bins can accomodate paper clips, staples, and folder brackets and they pick up. This works for medium and larger offices, smaller offices may have to collect and drive to the recycler themselves.
Look into ways to reduce the paper. Use email, databases, websites, electronic billing and payment, computer filing. Encourage employees to not print drafts or emails. Accept digital signatures from PDF where you can so docs don’t have to be printed.
For energy: the obvious ones that you’d do in your home – control the thermostat, change lightbulbs, use power strips, turn off lights, computers, equipment. If employees listen to music encourage them to play it on the PC or phone system instead of a radio or CD player.
For statistics I’d suggest creating your own internal stats. Collect the waste paper for a week and weigh it, then calculate how many trees it took on an online calculator. That way it’s personal. Or have contests, for every $1 saved on the power bill the employees get to share $0.25 or pool it for a prize or party. The company still saves $0.75!
David asks…
environmental research?
I am an undergraduate student studying bioengineering and I hope to eventually make a career applying bioengineering techniques to helping the environment and working on environmental issues. I was actually inspired to do so when I spent some time with some members of the forest service in Tennessee and they told us about the issues with the eastern hemlock trees and the research and field work that is going on to save them….I really want to try to find a job/internship helping out on a similar project but I have no idea where to look or who to contact.
If anyone has any idea of companies or organizations that are doing environmental research preferably in the northern CA area, let me know because i would love to contact them for possible future internship opportunities!
The Expert answers:
I think you’ll find there aren’t many companies which do research on non-commercial plants. I would actually suggest picking up a job with the California state government or the national Forest Service in the area, as both are tasked to maintain the public forest resources. It won’t be called an internship – just a seasonal job, but the experience is the same.
Ken asks…
What are the general or main duties of a US coast guard marine safety officer?
USCG marine safety officers are in charge of what exactly? Do they deal with environmental issues? very curious, possible career path? What are some civilian careers that would follow serving?
The Expert answers:
“M” officers can do a bunch of different things.
Waterways Management: These folks take care of things like writing regulations that cover Limited Access areas and Safety or Security Zones around important sites (barges used to launch fireworks, major marine events like regattas, VIP visits and such). They also manage our Aids to Navigation missions. Aquatic Nuisance Species and Marine Mammal protection also fall to them – trying to stop the former and save the latter.
Marine Inspections and Investigations: Our commercial vessel structural inspectors are almost all officers. These folks will put on coveralls and climb through the bilges and inside double hulls of vessels to ensure that they are still safe to operate. Our Investigators are our detectives that investigate incidents after they’ve happened.
General Marine Safety Duty: These folks are involved in supervising our Pollution Investigators (enlisted folks), Facility Inspectors, Container Inspectors, and Port State Control boarding officers – and end up getting qualified to do these missions.
On top of all of this, they are saddled with the “crap” duties of every junior officer, standing duty as the Command Duty Officer, and various collateral duties like heading up the Morale Committee and stuff like that.
Civilian jobs can include CSI, police officer/state trooper, facility security officer (the overall manager of security, not a security guard!!), site supervisor for pollution clean-up companies, office manager, and a bunch of other stuff.
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