Author: Steven Schindler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966240863
Category : Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
No balls? No money? No problem. Just have your buddy hold you by the ankles and lower you into a sewer, armed with a bent coat hanger. There are plenty of spaldeens down there for the scooping. And odds are, a couple of them are perfectly good for stick-ball or king-queen. So what if they're sewer balls. Oh, and one more thing: You better trust the guy who's holding you. I mean really trust him.
Sewer Balls
Author: Steven Schindler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966240863
Category : Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
No balls? No money? No problem. Just have your buddy hold you by the ankles and lower you into a sewer, armed with a bent coat hanger. There are plenty of spaldeens down there for the scooping. And odds are, a couple of them are perfectly good for stick-ball or king-queen. So what if they're sewer balls. Oh, and one more thing: You better trust the guy who's holding you. I mean really trust him.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966240863
Category : Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
No balls? No money? No problem. Just have your buddy hold you by the ankles and lower you into a sewer, armed with a bent coat hanger. There are plenty of spaldeens down there for the scooping. And odds are, a couple of them are perfectly good for stick-ball or king-queen. So what if they're sewer balls. Oh, and one more thing: You better trust the guy who's holding you. I mean really trust him.
Sewer of Progress
Author: Cindy Mcculligh
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262545926
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A creative and comprehensive exploration of the institutional forces undermining the management of environments critical to public health. For almost two decades, the citizens of Western Mexico have called for a cleanup of the Santiago River, a water source so polluted it emanates an overwhelming acidic stench. Toxic clouds of foam lift off the river in a strong wind. In Sewer of Progress, Cindy McCulligh examines why industrial dumping continues in the Santiago despite the corporate embrace of social responsibility and regulatory frameworks intended to mitigate environmental damage. The fault, she finds, lies in a disingenuous discourse of progress and development that privileges capitalist growth over the health and well-being of ecosystems. Rooted in research on institutional behavior and corporate business practices, Sewer of Progress exposes a type of regulatory greenwashing that allows authorities to deflect accusations of environmental dumping while “regulated” dumping continues in an environment of legal certainty. For transnational corporations, this type of simulation allows companies to take advantage of double standards in environmental regulations, while presenting themselves as socially responsible and green global actors. Through this inversion, the Santiago and other rivers in Mexico have become sewers for urban and industrial waste. Institutionalized corruption, a concept McCulligh introduces in the book, is the main culprit, a system that permits and normalizes environmental degradation, specifically in the creation and enforcement of a regulatory framework for wastewater discharge that prioritizes private interests over the common good. Through a research paradigm based in institutional ethnography and political ecology, Sewer of Progress provides a critical, in-depth look at the power relations subverting the role of the state in environmental regulation and the maintenance of public health.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262545926
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A creative and comprehensive exploration of the institutional forces undermining the management of environments critical to public health. For almost two decades, the citizens of Western Mexico have called for a cleanup of the Santiago River, a water source so polluted it emanates an overwhelming acidic stench. Toxic clouds of foam lift off the river in a strong wind. In Sewer of Progress, Cindy McCulligh examines why industrial dumping continues in the Santiago despite the corporate embrace of social responsibility and regulatory frameworks intended to mitigate environmental damage. The fault, she finds, lies in a disingenuous discourse of progress and development that privileges capitalist growth over the health and well-being of ecosystems. Rooted in research on institutional behavior and corporate business practices, Sewer of Progress exposes a type of regulatory greenwashing that allows authorities to deflect accusations of environmental dumping while “regulated” dumping continues in an environment of legal certainty. For transnational corporations, this type of simulation allows companies to take advantage of double standards in environmental regulations, while presenting themselves as socially responsible and green global actors. Through this inversion, the Santiago and other rivers in Mexico have become sewers for urban and industrial waste. Institutionalized corruption, a concept McCulligh introduces in the book, is the main culprit, a system that permits and normalizes environmental degradation, specifically in the creation and enforcement of a regulatory framework for wastewater discharge that prioritizes private interests over the common good. Through a research paradigm based in institutional ethnography and political ecology, Sewer of Progress provides a critical, in-depth look at the power relations subverting the role of the state in environmental regulation and the maintenance of public health.
The City Record
Author: New York (N.Y.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Investigation and Study of the Works Progress Administration ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
Mayor's Message
Author: Saint Louis (Mo.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saint Louis (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Includes reports of the heads of the various municipal departments.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saint Louis (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Includes reports of the heads of the various municipal departments.
Report of Progress - MERL.
Author: Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1794
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1794
Book Description
Investigation and Study of the Work Projects Administration(formerly Works Progress Administration, Hearings ... 76th Congress, 3d Session, Pts.3-4 [pts.1-2 Were Titled Investigation and Study of the Works Progress Administration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governmental investigations
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
Contains material complementing and supporting the report of investigation of the Work Projects Administration activities, printed on pages 1 to 94 of Part 3.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governmental investigations
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
Contains material complementing and supporting the report of investigation of the Work Projects Administration activities, printed on pages 1 to 94 of Part 3.
Investigation and Study of the Work of the Works Progress Administration, Hearings ... 76th Congress, 1st Session
Author: United States. Congress. House. Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
Book Description
The Mayor's Message with Accompanying Documents ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saint Louis (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Includes reports of the heads of the various municipal departments.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saint Louis (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Includes reports of the heads of the various municipal departments.