{"id":5934,"date":"2012-06-27T18:24:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T01:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2012-06-27T18:24:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T01:24:35","slug":"reusing-old-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5934","title":{"rendered":"Reusing Old Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5009\" title=\"userpic=observations\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicobservations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"72\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>The recent newspapers (or their electronic equivalent) have brought some interesting news about reuse about stuff that had become useless:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reusing Satellites<\/strong>. An interesting article (found by way of \/.) about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2012\/06\/darpa-phoenix-2\/\">the Pentagon is planning to reuse old satellites<\/a>. Basically, DARPA has started a program that hunts down unused communications satellites still orbiting the Earth, and harvests parts from them , turning those bits and pieces \u2014 antennas in particular \u2014 into an array that operates as a low-cost \u201ccommunications farm\u201d for troops on the ground. Cool.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reusing The Forum<\/strong>. You remember the Forum, don&#8217;t you? Big white structure in Inglewood. Used to be home to professional sports teams, who all ran off to downtown. Then home to a church and the occasional concert. Well, it has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/biz\/2012\/06\/msgs_purchase_of_the.php\">bought by Madison Square Garden, and they plan to refurbish it and turn it into a concert venue to compete with Staples<\/a>. Of course, AEG (owners of Staples) don&#8217;t like this, so <a href=\"http:\/\/la.curbed.com\/archives\/2012\/06\/as_the_forum_sells_staples_gets_nasty_about_its_new_rival.php\">they are calling the Forum a &#8220;B&#8221; venue, in a bad part of town<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reusing Donated Clothes<\/strong>. Have you ever wondered what happens to your clothing after you donate it. I mean really after, when it has gone to the Thrift Store and hasn&#8217;t sold. Well wonder no longer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/fashion\/2012\/06\/the_salvation_army_and_goodwill_inside_the_places_your_clothes_go_when_you_donate_them_.html\">for this story tells you<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent newspapers (or their electronic equivalent) have brought some interesting news about reuse about stuff that had become useless: Reusing Satellites. An interesting article (found by way of \/.) about how the Pentagon is planning to reuse old satellites. Basically, DARPA has started a program that hunts down unused communications satellites still orbiting the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5934\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5935,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions\/5935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}