Most popular in 2007, 2008 YKWP (boring post)

[This is a housekeeping entry.]
I suspect many readers visit for specific posts and others are using feed readers for posts and comments. While the blog format is very flexible for information and discussion it’s technical restrictions are a little challenging for me to keep folks up to date on revisions and to [...]

Water clean enough for its specific use, not to flush away

I’ve argued for a long time based on water quality that we should turn the issue of sanitation on its head [turn the head on its head, so to speak]– forget about a flush sewer system but instead examine how to get and maintain water which is clean enough for what we need it for. [...]

Witches britches and Alaska tumbleweeds

Just in the past couple of weeks, some of those in Bethel got appalled at the number of plastic grocery bags they have trapped in the bushes around the city dump [ Massive trashy tundra clean up effort planned]
Beautiful Bethel beaches (Sadowski & Froehlich) is the same city that refused to ban the [...]

Small Island Developing States, Fiji and NW Territories, where is YK Delta?

For over a decade I have pointed out the commonality in environmental and cultural issues between the Yukon Kuskokwim delta villages and the small island nations, especially those in the other side of the Pacific basin. Formally, they are called Small Island Developing States. The formal SIDS have established sustainable policies, appropriate technology, and [...]

Contents by title, 2007july24

This supersedes
the previous contents listing 2007apr26
1918 pandemic in Polynesia and Fiji (small island developing states)
2 ways to start learning about environmental impact assessment
2005 Census Stats Released
2006 AK Bird Study Map
2006 April 13 Summit
2007 workshops frontier mental health research
3 things pocket card
48 flu flyway
655,000 or 48,000 Iraqi deaths
A Few Facts about Avian Influenza in [...]

Contents by title, alphabetical 2007apr26

This title index has to be done mostly by hand (tedious) but it does impress me that I am not very consistent with titles of posts (hard to know what I’ve written in advance).
1918 pandemic in Polynesia and Fiji (small island developing states)
2005 Census Stats Released
2006 AK Bird Study Map
2006 April 13 Summit
2007 workshops frontier [...]

Index by Title

2007-05-28 This post ought to be superseded by the Table of Contents page. That has all posts by chronological order Part I oldest first and by alphabetical order Part II (alphabetical order)
//engtech who writes about engineering technology, listed his posts by title, as an alternative way for the reader to have a site map to [...]

Excerpts hearings on Alaska influenza devastation

These are excerpts I culled from the testimony given, as mentioned in the previous post. Influenza in Alaska 1919 Hearings
These excerpts had to be extracted from images (pictures) of the original pdf file of the scanned document by Google. Consequently, I and the OCR software may have misread the original. The hearing document is not [...]

Disinfectants for camp, field, and household

[revised 2008-03-23, Thanks, divya] The bleach section definitely needs a re-write, but in the meantime see
http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/05/03/disinfectants-for-camp-field-and-household/ #comment-31115
[**Please let me know how to improve this entry. 2007-04-12.
Now that the fall bird hunting season is here, please let me know how you modified your field sanitation so I can improve this entry. This post [...]

Sanitizers — Handwashing

revised 2008-10-20 new videos on handwashing
http://sanitationupdates.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/global-handwashing-day-videos/
revised: click to see update on children eating hand sanitizer
new: 2007-10-26 Song to time hand washing for hygiene and disease prevention
Washing hands if done properly is one of the most important things anyone can do to avoid infectious diseases, toxics poisoning, and other means of injuring [...]