RE: July 12- INFORMATION
- Archived: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:48:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:26:09 -0400 (EDT)
- From: David James <james.david@epa.gov>
- Subject: RE: July 12- INFORMATION
- X-topic: Information
Reva Fabrikant writes (along with some other quite interesting suggestions): "LANGUAGE- It does no good to distribute information that is written in a technical, boring, complicated fashion."
For me, that brings to mind the saying attributed to Einstein: "Everything should be as simple as possible. But no simpler."
Environmental problems are hard, and there is in fact a limit to how much "simple, clear writing" can help someone understand these problems if they have no clue how science works.
Visuals can be a great help. The good folks in Ada, Oklahoma have put together some pretty clear subsurface contamination fact sheets. Yes, they're still pretty technical, but the nice color graphic at
http://www.epa.gov/ada/download/fact/chl-solv.pdf
helps me to visualize how chlorinated solvents spread. Browse the Ada site (http://www.epa.gov/ada) for other nice products.
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