1. 2019 AAEE Conference: Arizona We Are EE!
September 12-14, 2019
Prescott College
220 Grove Ave
Prescott, AZ 86301
www.prescott.edu
Cost: $150 to $425
Arizona Green Chamber is partnering with Arizona Association for Environmental Education to bring you the 2019 AAEE Conference: Arizona We Are EE!. Green businesses can connect with a variety of environmental educators that share your passion for a sustainable Arizona. All Arizona Green Chamber members receive the AAEE member rate for conference registration.
2. Drinking Your Vegetables: A broccoli beverage can clear your system of benzene, a carcinogen found in cigarette smoke, according to a study in Cancer Prevention Research. Credit the Phytochemical Sulforaphane, which promotes the production of detoxifying enzymes, says study author Thomas Kensler, phD. Source: Men’s Health
3. Join us on Sept 17th 2019 at 5:00 for Arizona Green Chamber’s Drinks and Dialogue, at
Goodman’s Interior Structures, a commercial furniture distributor, with a vision to change our community.
Location: 1400 E Indian School Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85014
Cost $10 for members or first time guests
Cost $20 for non members
For more information, go to azgreenchamber.org
Our September 17th Green Drinks and Dialogue event will be hosted by Adam Goodman, President and CEO of Goodmans Interior Structures in Phoenix. Join fellow AZ Green Chamber members for a of tour the Goodmans LEED building and learn about their business model. As Arizona’s first BCorp, Goodmans believes that by considering all stakeholders, Goodmans can be a catalyst for change in our community. Be inspired on how you can use your own assets, resources, and talent to evolve into a more conscious business.
4. Why We Drink Hot Drinks Like Coffee On Hot Summer Days. A rigorous experiment revealed that on a hot, dry day, drinking a hot beverage can help your body stay cool.
Ollie Jay, a researcher at University of Ottawa’s School of Human Kinetics—and an expert in all things sweat-related, was asked this question. His Thermal Ergonomics Lab, it turned out, had published a study on this topic. A hot drink can cool you down, but only in specific circumstances. “If you drink a hot drink, it does result in a lower amount of heat stored inside
your body, provided the additional sweat that’s produced when you drink the hot drink can evaporate,” Jay says.
How does this work? “What we found is that when you ingest a hot drink, you actually have a disproportionate increase in the amount that you sweat,” Jay says. “Yes, the hot drink is hotter than your body temperature, so you are adding heat to the body, but the amount that you increase your sweating by—if that can all evaporate—more than compensates for the added heat to the body from the fluid.”
The increased rate of perspiration is the key. Although sweat may seem like a nuisance, the body perspires for a very good reason. When sweat evaporates from the skin, energy is absorbed into the air as part of the reaction, thereby cooling the body. A larger amount of sweat means more cooling, which more than counteracts the small amount of heat contained in a hot beverage relative to the entire body.
The caveat, though, is that all that extra sweat produced as a result of the hot drink actually has to evaporate for it to have a cooling effect. “On a very hot and humid day, if you’re wearing a lot of clothing, or if you’re having so much sweat that it starts to drip on the ground and doesn’t evaporate from the skin’s surface, then drinking a hot drink is a bad thing,” Jay says. “The hot drink still does add a little heat to the body, so if the sweat’s not going to assist in evaporation, go for a cold drink.”
Jay’s team got to the bottom of the “hot drink” tip by rigorously testing the idea on cyclists in a lab. Each cyclist was equipped with skin temperature sensors and a mouthpiece measuring the amount of oxygen consumed and carbon dioxide produced, which indicated the amount of heat produced by the body’s metabolism. The researchers also carefully tracked the air temperature and humidity, among other factors. The data yielded an overall picture of how much heat each cyclist produced and how much each released to the environment, and those drinking hot water (roughly 122 degrees F) stored less heat in their bodies than the others.
The researchers are still unsure why hot drinks lead the body to produce more sweat, but they have an idea. “It’s commonly thought that the hot drinks raise your core temperature, but we found that that isn’t the case,” Jay says. “What we think is that it’s the thermosensors that line the throat and mouth that elicit the additional sweating response.” He notes that additional research is needed to pinpoint the exact location of these sensors.
To be clear, the tip only works in very specific circumstances: a hot, dry day, where you’re not wearing so much clothing that your sweat is prevented from easily evaporating. In other words, if you’re in a humid locale—for example, anywhere on the East Coast—don’t try drinking hot water. But on a hot day in the desert, a cup of hot tea might actually be the trick to help cool you down.
5. Solid and Hazardous Waste and Pollution Prevention Workshop in Flagstaff
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Waste Programs Division invites interested community members and business and government personnel to participate in our free workshop. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the latest requirements and best practices and to earn Professional Development Hours.
Wednesday, Sep. 25 Solid Waste, Hazardous Waste and Pollution Prevention 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Coconino County Community Services and Health Services District, Ponderosa Conference Room – 2625 N King St, Flagstaff Learn more and register at azdeq.gov
6. WRRC Brown Bag – The Ecology of Water Harvesting
September 10, 2019
Speaker: Vanessa Buzzard, Senior Research Specialist, UA School of Natural Resources and Environment
Time/Location: 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. WRRC Sol Resnick Conference Rm. (350 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson)
Water harvest systems are common in residences throughout Tucson, but little work has been done to explore how these systems impact ecological processes. We therefore set out to characterize changes in ecosystem processes relating to soil health after installation of various water harvesting systems.
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7. State § 404 Proposed Program Roadmap Available for Review
ADEQ has drafted a proposed Roadmap outlining the pathway to Arizona’s assumption of the CWA § 404 permitting program from the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). This Roadmap also serves as our vision for a State-administered § 404 program.
This Roadmap was developed after more than a year of meetings, research, and collaboration with stakeholders, including federal and state agencies, and is located on ADEQ’s website at static.azdeq.gov/wqd/404/404rm.pdf. The Roadmap addresses many of the questions asked by stakeholders, bu there is still work to be done.
We Value Your Feedback
After you have reviewed the Roadmap, please complete a short, voluntary online survey to provide feedback. A link to the survey is on page 66 of the Roadmap. The deadline to complete the survey is Oct. 4, 2019.
Stakeholder Meetings
In addition to the survey, ADEQ will hold three stakeholder meetings in September. Tribal Listening Sessions will also be held in the afternoons on the same days in the same stakeholder meeting locations. Please RSVP for each meeting at the email links below.
Flagstaff
Date/Time: Tues., Sept. 17, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location:
Coconino Community College
Board Room
2800 S Lone Tree Rd., Flagstaff, AX 86005 RSVP E-MAIL
Phoenix
Date/Time: Thurs., Sept. 19, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location:
Arizona Department of Transportation Human Resource Development Center
Grand Canyon Rooms 1-3
1130 North 22nd Ave. Phoenix AZ 85009 RSVP E-MAIL
Tucson
Date/Time: Fri., Sept. 20, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location:
Tucson Convention Center, Maricopa-Mohave Meeting Rooms
260 S Church Ave. Tucson, AZ 85701 RSVP E-MAIL
Join Remotely:
Click to Join Online via WebEx | Meeting number (access code) 802 336 620 | Password JXTkcD2F
By Phone | (415) 655-0003 | Access code 802 336 620 WebEx Help
Path Forward
ADEQ will review comments on the Roadmap to determine if the proposed State § 404 program adds value to the regulated community. If state assumption adds value to the regulated community, ADEQ will begin drafting program rules in fall 2019. It is anticipated the draft rules will be distributed late in the fall with formal rulemaking to begin in early 2020 to support submitting an assumption package to EPA by end of June A more detailed schedule is included in the Roadmap.
Again, ADEQ thanks all the dedicated stakeholders for sharing their expertise and experiences with the ADEQ 404 team. For more information on state assumption of the CWA § 404 program visit azdeq.gov/cwa-404.
8. Purpose And History Of Labor Day. Labor Day is a public holiday in the United States. Always observed on the first Monday in September (this year on Sept 2, 2019), Labor Day celebrates and honors the contribution of the American system of organized
labor and workers to the prosperity and economic strength of the nation. The Monday of Labor Day along with the Saturday and Sunday preceding it is known as the Labor Day Weekend and is traditionally considered the end of summer. As a federal holiday, all but essential national, state, and local government offices are typically closed on Labor Day.
- Labor Day is observed to celebrate the contributions of organized labor and workers to the prosperity of the U.S. economy.
- The first Labor Day celebration was held on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, while Oregon was the first state to actually adopt a Labor Day law on February 21, 1887.
- The United States Congress declared Labor Day a federal holiday on June 28, 1894.
Along with the day’s historical significance, Americans tend to consider Labor Day as marking the “unofficial end of summer.” Many people wrap their vacations around Labor Day in anticipation of fall activities, like the start of school and cool-weather sports.
In every sense, the underlying meaning of Labor Day is different from that of any other yearly holiday. “All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another,” said Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor. “Labor Day…is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.”
Who Invented Labor Day? The Carpenters or the Machinists?
More than 130 years after the first Labor Day was observed in 1882, there is still disagreement as to who first suggested the “national day off.”
America’s carpenters and construction workers, along with some historians will tell you that it was Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, who first suggested a day to honor those “who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold.”
However, others believe that Matthew Maguire – no relation to Peter J. McGuire – a machinist who would later be elected secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, New Jersey proposed Labor Day in 1882 while serving as secretary of New York’s Central Labor Union.
Either way, history is clear that the first Labor Day observance was held in accordance with a plan developed by Matthew Maguire’s Central Labor Union.
The First Labor Day
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.
As proposed by the Central Labor Union, the first Labor Day celebration was highlighted by a parade to show the public “the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations.”
In 1884, the Labor Day observance was changed to the first Monday in September as originally proposed by the Central Labor Union. The union then urged other unions and trade organizations to begin holding a similar “workingmen’s holiday” on the same date. The idea caught on, and by 1885, Labor Day observances were being held in industrial centers nationwide. Source: thoughtco.com
