Friday, April 22, 2011
Pacifica Patch looking for official bloggers
Pacifica Patch is launching a blogging platform on May 4--strong community voices are needed.
The blog will be more free-wheeling than the Pacifica Patch homepage, and although I will have the final say on what is posted, for the most part anything that is legal, goes. I want the bloggers to own their blogs.
Pacifica Patch will not own the blog content, meaning you can repost stuff on other sites. Bloggers will be unpaid.
If you are passionate about anything in Pacifica, whether it's education, fishing, government, shopping or pets (literally, anything), are a prolific writer and have a strong voice, then you should write for Pacifica Patch's new blog.
Send me an email at camden@patch.com if you're interested.
Camden Swita
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17 comments:
But you get paid, right Camden?
So does our council. What's you point?
Yo, Camden, say you got a couple of hell-won't-have-it bad boy bloggers, blow the effin' roof off bro, really jack up your ratings. Put your name in STARZ, bro. That should be worth a little something. Feel me baby?
Hell-won't-have-it? Dude, we're already in Pacifica home of the elusive vree-man. there's your story patch-man. what? are you waiting til the chron picks it up or some tv reporter?
you guys are cruel, cam is a brilliant reporter/writer, so let him do whatever he wants...
About Camden, I'm impressed with his recent comprehensive investigative reporting, namely sewergate. Sewergate is another example of why this city needs money to function, and the resulting neglect and cover-up when money to maintain such a essential city infrastructure system does not exist. Kudos to Camden!
But, to those "Pacifica environmentalists", think again about what needs to happen to give this city a sustainable economical and ecological balance. Avoiding cash producing development has given this city neglect and fines, while avoiding needed sewer maintenance and polluting the earth.
It sure would be nice to have a place to dump yard clippings without driving to Daly City or SSF and paying through the nose. One can a week just isn't cutting it, and my yard's gotten much shabbier since Recology took over.
Steve, maybe call Recology for a better solution, such as an additional greenwaste can. That might be less expensive and much less of a hassle.
The maintenance gardeners who trim my yards drop most of the trimmings in my greenwaste can, and there is still room for the garbage.
The issue with the Palmetto site was one revolving around a landfill permit to gather green waste there. Green waste is used primarily as a daily ground cover at landfills just like most recycled glass.
Coastside was required to get a landfill permit for Palmetto which I'm told is not a huge expense and could have easily done so. But you all must remember the issues Coastside had with green waste, falsely reporting weights and illegally dumping it.
We could band together to look into just what needs to happen to restart the green waste drop off on Palmetto, that is if there is a real public wish for that to happen.
Extra green waste cans however are really cheap and can be ordered by the month. Like Kathy says, call Chris Porter at Recology and talk with her, she does want to help folks out. Chris is a good person.
I'd rather be able to dump my green waste somewhere than deal with another big can.
When Coastside was the garbage company, I'd start doing yard work, fill a couple of garbage cans with green waste, and then take them to the recycling yard to dump them. I'd do this four or five times a day.
It only takes me a few minutes to fill a green waste can, and one more can isn't going to make a big difference.
I'm with Todd on the idea of banding together to restart green waste drop off on Palmetto. Otherwise, some unknown individual may start sneaking onto the pier at night to dump chopped up shrubs and vines into the ocean.
"...some unknown individual may start sneaking onto the pier at night to dump chopped up shrubs and vines into the ocean." (Steve 1131)
There you go Steve, a new plan to green the ocean crowing out those plastic bottles.
"Green waste is used primarily as a daily ground cover at landfills just like most recycled glass." (Todd 1043)
Huh, recycled glass is dumped into landfills?
Any how, good idea to inquiry about the recycling yard and permit for greenwaste yard trimmings, Todd.
The old garbage company owner was dumping the green waste and god only knows what else in the back of Picardo Ranch.
I'm sure, POSITIVE, aren't you, that the greenwaste would have been good for the soil on his ranch, otherwise he would not have been dumping it there.
@Anonymous 6:30 Yeah, I get paid. So do my freelancers. The bloggers won't unfortunately. Not enough in the budget.
Kathy, daily ground cover is considered recycling. At the end of every day the new garbage that has arrived at a sanitary landfill gets covered by either ground up glass or chipped green waste or both. It's a practice used at SANITARY LANDFILLS. It's part of the myth of recycling. Only metals get recycled in the way most people think of recycling which is to be remanufactured. 90% of most other items we recycle, paper, plastic and glass are dumped in land fill either out of state or overseas in Asia.
"90% of most other items we recycle, paper, plastic and glass are dumped in land fill either out of state or overseas in Asia."
Thanks for busting that myth, Todd (953), that's disappointing and eye-opening information to me. I thought plastic, for example, was recycled 100% into other plastic material uses such as carpet, artificial lawn, bottles, tools, etc. Also, glass melts and becomes liquid, you'd think these materials these would be recycled (paper probably doesn't much matter).
We could quibble over the actual low recyclable percentage from various sources, but that would be irrelevant from my view. The only first look, supporting link I found was Earth 911. Earth 911 says a consistent 27% of plastic is recycled; but, based upon your findings and these, whatever the numbers suggest is that the recycling effort is 90-70% inadequate, and what's going into land fill is crazy.
Looks like Patch allows anonymous comments again. I guess the overlords at AOL said it was better for page views.
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