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Offtopic joking serious: Be careful about mixing oil rigs and residential neighborhoods, because communities like Los Angeles are forced to deal with health problems and contaminated air and drinking water where environmental controls and inspections are weak.

http://la.curbed.com/2014/7/29/10067206/mapping-all-3000-of-...

http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-next-door-20160221-stor...

In my experience, shops with too many meetings don't get much done and generally drive high-performing people away; shops with fewer meetings are busy.. working, selling and helping customers.. having smaller, shorter, informal meetings to unblock work.

Lots of standing meetings are one big sign of wasted time. A typical guideline to cut these down is to only allow standing meetings for:

- team meetings or project sprints about what was done, what is needed, what is coming up or customer issues

- 1:1's

- all-hands / retreats (rare)

Otherwise, no meetings without an agenda... which reduces calendar load and makes people plan their thoughts to make the best of everyone's time.

And as Mark Cuban does, fire all the useless pyramid builders (VPs, managers and coordinators) until only useful people remain.

Problem (mostly) solved, until the next meeting.

Also, it's possible to drug test an entire city, perhaps to decide how to budget and prepare for intervention and treatment programs. http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137420879/our-sewers-ourselves...

Obligatory:

http://www.vice.com/video/toxic-garbage-island-1-of-3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

Also, one can use volcanic pummic and/or ground apricot seeds to accomplish nearly the same thing without killing the ocean. I would humbly suggest these microplastics should be outlawed entirely and there should be more requirements to capture, prevent and recycle plastic and other debris from ending up in runoff, which should be only water or nontoxic organic matter.

Offtopic: currently, anyone can make their own solar panels for around $450 for 2kW of PV cells (Amazon, eBay, AliBaba) plus another $50 for busbars and diodes; bonus points for using recycled glass and other free "junk."

If folks require cheap solar at scale, PV cell and panel mfgrs need much more automation... which sucks for most workers but is "good" for the planet, because PV cells are easy commodities (ask Elon Musk or anyone in that market)... durable PV panels are labor-intensive (as I can attest). Maybe an union shop can deliver quality for value panels at huge volume and have employees with a decent standard of living.