Paper Not Plastic -- 9/80 Work Week
The City of Santa Barbara made some changes this week and took some initiative in the fight against global warming.
The Santa Barbara Newsroom reports that the City of Santa Barbara may ban plastic bags. Good for them -- and I think Helene Schneider is correct that further study is warranted as to the cost to small businesses.
The city also adopted a 9/80 work week like most county workers have had for awhile. Again, good for the environment, traffic and morale of workers. You can check out this story at The Daily Sound's May 16th edition.
The Santa Barbara Newsroom reports that the City of Santa Barbara may ban plastic bags. Good for them -- and I think Helene Schneider is correct that further study is warranted as to the cost to small businesses.
The city also adopted a 9/80 work week like most county workers have had for awhile. Again, good for the environment, traffic and morale of workers. You can check out this story at The Daily Sound's May 16th edition.
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posted by Sara De la Guerra | 5/16/2007 10:51:00 AM
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The NewsPress reported the plastic bag story as well. Weird.
I checked the plastic bags I have from local stores and they are all recyclable
Although the plastic bags may be labeled "recyclable," they cannot be placed in our commingled recycling bins, according to the County's waste reduction web site (www.lessismore.org). They must be taken to the receptacles at grocery stores to be recycled. How many of us take the trouble to do that?
I return the ones I don't use to line trashcans back to the supermarket.
However, this just points out one of my absolute biggest pet-peeve: people who think that things being recyclable means we can waste as much as we want... as if that mitigates the negative effects of manufacturing all that plastic (or whatever) in the first place. (Hello... households going through cases of 16- or 20-oz bottled water every week????)
It's not just "Recycle", it's REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE.(/rant)
Some of us just don't care, but want to thank you. The more you do, the less we have to.
Saving the planet by banning plastic bags? Excellent work! That will do the trick!
Our Council wouldn't want to do anything that would truly help our environment, or exhibit real leadership on the environment, like RAISING the downtown building height limit instead of lowering it and creating sprawl.
Lots of us are for taller buildings and we need to figure out how to put pressure on Council to achieve this goal.
It's nice to see that critical thinking and writing skills are alive and well here, especially at 1:08pm.
The news media did report the 9/80 work week going into effect for the City of Santa Barbara. However, this may not be the result of what happens. For certain members who work for the city, they may be allowed or not allowed to transfer to the new 9/80 schedule. It all depends on if their supervisor or department will follow the 9/80 work week.
Actually, the City has made the 9/80 schedule the standard schedule for the vast majority of thier employees through negotiating with SEIU, Local 620 and shutting down most City departments every other week.
The County lags far behind in both the number and proportion of its employees it enables to work the 9/80 schedule and does not shut down any entire departments every other Friday. Credit the City for better labor relations.
The SEIU owns the City Council, so, of course they are going to give staff the extra days off.
Keep beating that drum, 8:53. You'd have thought Sara had defused you with her straightforward "40 hours is 40 hours" explanation.
So the city's embracing what's being done in huge numbers of private enterprises... yeah, that's really "public bureaucrat" laziness for you. Mm hmm. Anything to blame a union.
allegro805 - how you gonna defend the fact that the City's retirement plan CALPERS is invested in Iran?
Do we just look the other way?
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