http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/the-desertification-of-new-york-city/ FOP: where the human and geologic converge. Tue, 14 May 2013 00:35:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/the-desertification-of-new-york-city/#comment-848 Sat, 26 May 2012 23:16:25 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=388#comment-848 [...] sweep it, store it, and use it again next year. This means no contamination of the groundwater and desertification from salt. This also means that many winter walks involve you, your thoughts, and one tiny pebble caught in [...]

]]> http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/the-desertification-of-new-york-city/#comment-19 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:32:51 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=388#comment-19 In Missouri there are several streams listed as impaired due to chloride from salts used as deicers. The Dept. of Transportation here is experimenting with beet juice (alone and mixed with salts)as an alternative deicer to lessen the negative environmental impacts. I don’t know how or why it works, but here’s a Web site that discusses this growing trend: http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/eco-friendly/beet-juice-deicer-460313

]]> http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/the-desertification-of-new-york-city/#comment-18 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:53:00 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=388#comment-18 [...] of our region to help provide more of their urgent road and sidewalk clearing needs. However, as this informative blog post reports, this is not the case at all. Find out why NYC imports its salt from Chile instead (and [...]

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