Financial crisis? That's nothing
It's a shame The Grauniad seems to close comments early when they know what may follow.
As here...
Is Gordon Brown ready for this one?
I may have been moved to ask if he has been ready for anything so far.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
CATEGORY - The Two E's
I think this deserves its own category now.
For those who have seen it before, this refers to discussions or debates where the needs of the Environment might end up at odds with Economic drivers (I have often called this the two 'Ecos' before, but actually environment and ecology are distinct and, sadly if ironically, can also compete).
Greenbuzz - Taking Care of Business
Guardian - It's the economists, stupid - I'd have to say that, while opinions are fine, if I were not an economist, I'd tread a wee bit cautiously, especially on an open blog, telling those who are their business.
Indy - The eco-crunch: Can Britain still afford to go green? - And in case you wonder who is an eco-expert, they are in here, too. Apparently.
The Guardian - The green squeeze - Do read the comments.... they're free.
Times - Trade minister Lord Jones hits out at green tax on flights
Guardian - Will the Green New Deal deliver? - There are an awful lot of folk on an awful lot of pedestals telling those below what's good for 'em these days. Glad to be spending more time on doing stuff to help most of my day. Might help when the revolution comes.
The Register - The FDRs of Green explain the gentle art of planet saving
Real Climate - A worthwhile read: Bridging the divides
Guardian - Free trade breakdown
The Register - What's the cost of global warming?
Gaurdian - Green routes to growth
BBC - Climate law 'could cost billions' - Of course, it 'might' not.
Guardian - NEW - The green revolution postponed
For those who have seen it before, this refers to discussions or debates where the needs of the Environment might end up at odds with Economic drivers (I have often called this the two 'Ecos' before, but actually environment and ecology are distinct and, sadly if ironically, can also compete).
Greenbuzz - Taking Care of Business
Guardian - It's the economists, stupid - I'd have to say that, while opinions are fine, if I were not an economist, I'd tread a wee bit cautiously, especially on an open blog, telling those who are their business.
Indy - The eco-crunch: Can Britain still afford to go green? - And in case you wonder who is an eco-expert, they are in here, too. Apparently.
The Guardian - The green squeeze - Do read the comments.... they're free.
Times - Trade minister Lord Jones hits out at green tax on flights
Guardian - Will the Green New Deal deliver? - There are an awful lot of folk on an awful lot of pedestals telling those below what's good for 'em these days. Glad to be spending more time on doing stuff to help most of my day. Might help when the revolution comes.
The Register - The FDRs of Green explain the gentle art of planet saving
Real Climate - A worthwhile read: Bridging the divides
Guardian - Free trade breakdown
The Register - What's the cost of global warming?
Gaurdian - Green routes to growth
BBC - Climate law 'could cost billions' - Of course, it 'might' not.
Guardian - NEW - The green revolution postponed
Monday, November 24, 2008
Wot 'e sed
EcoLogical
Sadly, quite a lot of the time one can discern the siren call of a target, with process rather than result being more important.
Recycling is OK (or not, if you check one of the sister articles here), but I'd still wave a small flag for reuse.
Sadly, quite a lot of the time one can discern the siren call of a target, with process rather than result being more important.
Recycling is OK (or not, if you check one of the sister articles here), but I'd still wave a small flag for reuse.
CATEGORY - IDEA REQUIRED - Siphon says
On the main site we are starting to see more and more ideas spun from waste product data.
Many are simple, some are not. All are great, because if just one bit of stuff ends up being reused that's one bit less in the bin and hence landfill.
A Junkketeer has just uploaded this very simple but nonetheless sensible suggestion*:
Liquid soap container
However, I am using this opportunity to create this new category, to see if a piece of waste product data with no idea.... at least yet, can be pondered for other applications by the collective imaginations out there.
In this case I am thinking the siphon pump component.
Think about it. You have a device that moves 1-2" with relatively little effort, and moves a small amount of fluid around. What could this device be introduced into, even in multiples, to 'make something useful rather than throwing them out?
You never know, it may be good enough that we end up arranging collections in towns around the country just for these pumps so an enterprising soul can make them into a whizzo device.
*Note to self: must make clearer/remind posters that there is a wealth of extra info that can be added under the Advanced Details, with "colour' unfortunately set to default to Black at present.
Many are simple, some are not. All are great, because if just one bit of stuff ends up being reused that's one bit less in the bin and hence landfill.
A Junkketeer has just uploaded this very simple but nonetheless sensible suggestion*:
Liquid soap container
However, I am using this opportunity to create this new category, to see if a piece of waste product data with no idea.... at least yet, can be pondered for other applications by the collective imaginations out there.
In this case I am thinking the siphon pump component.
Think about it. You have a device that moves 1-2" with relatively little effort, and moves a small amount of fluid around. What could this device be introduced into, even in multiples, to 'make something useful rather than throwing them out?
You never know, it may be good enough that we end up arranging collections in towns around the country just for these pumps so an enterprising soul can make them into a whizzo device.
*Note to self: must make clearer/remind posters that there is a wealth of extra info that can be added under the Advanced Details, with "colour' unfortunately set to default to Black at present.
So good, we created it twice...
Nothing like job creation schemes. Is Trust the new quango?
Two energy trusts is a doubling of bureaucracy
I can think of some more if anyone's interested...
Sadly, one can intone, Yoda-like, 'There are more'.
Many more.
Process has now become more important than product.
Just think of the tangible good that could be DONE with all the comms budgets alone splurged on 'awareness'.
Talk is certainly not cheap anymore, but it ticks many target boxes.
If only all this could 'effort' be harnessed.
Two energy trusts is a doubling of bureaucracy
I can think of some more if anyone's interested...
Sadly, one can intone, Yoda-like, 'There are more'.
Many more.
Process has now become more important than product.
Just think of the tangible good that could be DONE with all the comms budgets alone splurged on 'awareness'.
Talk is certainly not cheap anymore, but it ticks many target boxes.
If only all this could 'effort' be harnessed.
Dreams and realities
Green scheme scrapped as household recycling is sent to landfill
It is introduced with that most dubious of disclaimers...'could', but I wonder why this is not more in the media domain.
I must say, my frustration with the focus on recycling, and all the sexy tonnages and ticked boxes and targets that involves, looks quite vindicated.
It is introduced with that most dubious of disclaimers...'could', but I wonder why this is not more in the media domain.
I must say, my frustration with the focus on recycling, and all the sexy tonnages and ticked boxes and targets that involves, looks quite vindicated.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Lights, camera, celebs.. hypocrisy!
The film festival that wants to save the planet
I feel more 'aware' even as I write...
There were moments where I felt that maybe a little introspection was having a salutary effect, but my irony alert meter eventually did break its needle.
But for poetry in prose, this cannot be equalled...
Here we are, 150 film-makers and journalists from all over the world, congregated in a luxurious hotel, fed succulent fruits with impossibly beautiful names – the cupuacu, caju, abacaxi, the pupunha and the jambo – and connected to intravenous drips of caipirinha, looking across the inky-black waters of the aptly named Rio Negro, the river that will take us into the Amazon. Here we are, ostensibly, to discuss the end of the world.
Of course, to some '"The best way to convince people today is through film, through the image".
To others, perhaps, a better way is by example.
I feel more 'aware' even as I write...
There were moments where I felt that maybe a little introspection was having a salutary effect, but my irony alert meter eventually did break its needle.
But for poetry in prose, this cannot be equalled...
Here we are, 150 film-makers and journalists from all over the world, congregated in a luxurious hotel, fed succulent fruits with impossibly beautiful names – the cupuacu, caju, abacaxi, the pupunha and the jambo – and connected to intravenous drips of caipirinha, looking across the inky-black waters of the aptly named Rio Negro, the river that will take us into the Amazon. Here we are, ostensibly, to discuss the end of the world.
Of course, to some '"The best way to convince people today is through film, through the image".
To others, perhaps, a better way is by example.
Make do and mend
Saw this report on the news this morning: 'Green Grannies' web lessons
Not a great start that what I call reuse was described as recycling, but I persevered.
In fact, so much that, as per host invitation, I wrote in with a suggestion on some tips.
Sadly mine did not make it. As, I imagine, many other did not.
What did make it was 'making soup out of chicken bones' and 'darning your own socks'. Inspiring. Not. Ain't gonna happen with such as this.
Much as there is much to laud in such an initiative, I fear the way Aunty decided to pitch in was hardly the best help Granny might have hoped for.
I will have a rummage and see if more can be made of this (Not much yet on the Oxfam site), for all concerned to benefit rather than filling a box-tick 'green' slot on national broadcasting.
Not a great start that what I call reuse was described as recycling, but I persevered.
In fact, so much that, as per host invitation, I wrote in with a suggestion on some tips.
Sadly mine did not make it. As, I imagine, many other did not.
What did make it was 'making soup out of chicken bones' and 'darning your own socks'. Inspiring. Not. Ain't gonna happen with such as this.
Much as there is much to laud in such an initiative, I fear the way Aunty decided to pitch in was hardly the best help Granny might have hoped for.
I will have a rummage and see if more can be made of this (Not much yet on the Oxfam site), for all concerned to benefit rather than filling a box-tick 'green' slot on national broadcasting.
Renewable Energy By Imitating Fish?
Sound a little far fetched? Well, not so, according to the VIVACE research project from the University of Michigan.
It seems that schools of fish swim highly efficiently by riding the vortexes created in the water as those in front of them push their tail fins from side to side. The research looked at this principle and came up with the concept of utilising vortex induced vibrations (generally something that civil engineers spend most of their time trying to eliminate or minimise in bridges and in any project where structures sit in water) to create a potential renewable energy source that will operate even in slow moving currents.
Interesting. Maybe a technology to keep half an eye on?
It seems that schools of fish swim highly efficiently by riding the vortexes created in the water as those in front of them push their tail fins from side to side. The research looked at this principle and came up with the concept of utilising vortex induced vibrations (generally something that civil engineers spend most of their time trying to eliminate or minimise in bridges and in any project where structures sit in water) to create a potential renewable energy source that will operate even in slow moving currents.
Interesting. Maybe a technology to keep half an eye on?
May the force be with you?
Controversial food scraps bin scheme for all households
Hmnn. Not sure I like the sound of that word 'force'.
With 3 (and counting... we have a biggish garden, unlike some) compost bins it really is no problem dealing with the veg.
Still struggling with the Green Cone for the other organics (meat, bones, etc), especially as the sun has dipped and there is no place at all where it would cop enough sun to brew.
So I rather fear there may be a bit of a clash in the offing between those who set policy and those who have to live through the often 'idealistic' notions of those who set them... backed by threat.
Hmnn. Not sure I like the sound of that word 'force'.
With 3 (and counting... we have a biggish garden, unlike some) compost bins it really is no problem dealing with the veg.
Still struggling with the Green Cone for the other organics (meat, bones, etc), especially as the sun has dipped and there is no place at all where it would cop enough sun to brew.
So I rather fear there may be a bit of a clash in the offing between those who set policy and those who have to live through the often 'idealistic' notions of those who set them... backed by threat.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Lipsmakingacetastingmotivating...planetsaving...moneymaking...
Pepsi to get new-look packaging in 2009
A new 'look', eh? That'll sort things.
I'd like to pitch a substantive design evolution (for one range at least) that will cost them nothing if they are changing packaging anyway, that will confer not only only tangible end-benefits to their customers (and hence a competitive USP), but also genuine CSR and hence PR advantages, too.
Anyone know someone in that organisation who might care about green (planet) as well as green (profits) and has the authority to make a difference if it also makes commercial sense?
A new 'look', eh? That'll sort things.
I'd like to pitch a substantive design evolution (for one range at least) that will cost them nothing if they are changing packaging anyway, that will confer not only only tangible end-benefits to their customers (and hence a competitive USP), but also genuine CSR and hence PR advantages, too.
Anyone know someone in that organisation who might care about green (planet) as well as green (profits) and has the authority to make a difference if it also makes commercial sense?
A nice way to end the week
Remember the Voucher Tree idea we had? Well, it all came to an end and, I'm glad to say, also to fruition. Also, with a great sigh of relief, it all worked out pretty well and so no egg on yours truly's face.
Bearing in mind we had really only had a month of the programme left, the two stores with trees in them collected a pretty fair amount, and so we decided on a bit of PR to thank all concerned.
And that worked out nicely too. The local media were very interested and supportive, and I think we gave them a nice shot, thanks to a whole bunch of nice folk pitching in (see above - several schools were kind enough to send representatives). Even the weather cooperated.
Here's an edit of the Press Release that went out, and we'll hopefully see the story appear* in various forms next week.
I'd just like to thank all concerned for making it the inspirational success it has become, especially the townsfolk who made the effort to drop off their vouchers.
Give that Town A Coconut!
Local schools benefit from Ross-on-Wye shoppers and businesses teaming up to make the most of national retail chain promotional opportunity
Not too long ago, a locally-organised community initiative was launched to try and make the most of the Morrison’s supermarket 'Let's Grow' promo, whereby purchases can generate free vouchers that schools can use to buy gardening equipment. 'Voucher Tree' palms were made specially by local re:use business Junkk.com from old packaging, with 'coconuts' made with the name of every participating school.
The original plan was to put these in the local Morrison’s supermarket foyer but unfortunately it proved to difficult for them to get head office permission in time. But a quick call to local stalwarts bore fruit, and the trees sprouted at Terry’s Digital and the EnviroAbility Book Swap shop in town.
Terry Thomas of Terry’s was happy to oblige. He remarks: ‘It was no problem having a tree in the store, and worked out well for everyone. Being right next door to the supermarket we were convenient to drop off vouchers, and it made us some new friends in passing too. A real win-win all round!’.
Dennis Humble of EnviroAbility agrees, adding: ‘We were more than happy to offer all those kind enough to pop in a way to make sure as many vouchers as possible would get to where they can to the most good. In fact we had visitors from other towns come by and say what a good idea it was, and how they wished their community was as responsive and had done the same too.’
Now the promotion is over, the organisers will be handing over all the vouchers collected to the designated schools who asked to be part. Says Peter Martin of Junkk.com: ‘It was nice to see every part of the town pull together to make the most of the opportunity, though it’s a pity we couldn’t have had a tree in the actual supermarket foyer as a reminder to shoppers to collect and drop off on the spot. But the bulging bottles we have ended up with show just what can be done when the public, businesses and local media pull together.
It cost next to nothing to set up, but we are very appreciative of the time and effort of all concerned to help make it work. With luck we can think of more such mutually-rewarding community initiatives again in the future!”
*Addendum: It has. Nice one, all
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Do good. But don't spend it all at once
Gordon Brown's social enterprise vision
They do sound nice, don't they?
So I am relieved at the notes of caution being voiced, though concerned that they are being voiced up to a person for whom vision has not proven a strong suit to date, and who is not noted for his talent for listening, or indeed grasp of realities. But he does seem to know a good soundbite when he hears one.
As one who has been involved with, for sure benefitted but also suffered from 'commitments' to social enterprise, I wish more reflected the notion that 'the result is a reasonable salary and a sense that they are making a difference'. To which I might add 'delivering a healthy ROI to all involved'.
If customers don't like the product/service, and hence buy/into it, then sadly all these enterprises will become is money pits sucking funding from elsewhere. Or they will go bust.
Peter Jones' comments, rather colourfully expressed at the beginning ('do gooders' can rather set an unfortunate tone, and frankly passion for doing good can be a potent part... of the mix. See later) but more considered on reading later on, get closer to it.
Any twerp can have an idea. I know, I have. Lob in a bit of money you can, if relevant, protect the IP.
But none of this is much use if you don't flog it on. And keep on doing so.
And here is where I see a stonking great gap between stated aims, useful support and actuality. Government doesn't understand sales.
I have lost count of the number of Third Sector funds, forums, quangos and whoever, with natty offices and staffed to the gunnels, who are out there to invite you to submit, assess your plan and slip you the readies. Business Links, Chambers, Trusts, you name it. Awash with cash, seemingly concerned with the bottom line, but almost all designed to launch a box-ticking scheme, often with a pot of EU/taxpayer money, and then... get you to 'sign off' quicker than you can say 'match-funding'. And often the funding pot is pretty bare of actual serious dosh to dole out once the empires, especially often overlapping ones, have taken their cut first. It's like being bought an F-16, helped to take off and then bang, the guys in the back seat eject as 'their job is done'. You either crash and burn or get addicted to in-flight refuelling just to stay airborne.
Some do delve into the P&Ls and all the rest, but as it's an enterprise you are usually dealing in the future, with forecast guesstimates at best. And visionary thinkers are not usually too great at the numbers. So they will say what is required to be heard, and if it's at all social enough will get the launch money. As to what happens down the road...? Case closed. The caravan will have moved on.
Why can there not be more emphasis on matchmaking talents, bringing together the ones with ideas and assisting them by the introduction of a sensible complement (for every Trevor Baylis there has to be a Peter Jones whose introduction to each other will benefit both...the project... and the country), with more funding going into forging those business relationships such that a team is created to ensure that both the social and the enterprise aspects can be delivered, with returns, quickly and... sustainably. Once in profit, everyone can be happy, left to it, and support can move on to new, good works.
Or, the whole thing can be driven by targets and PR opps...
Gaurdian - Social Innovation Camp: finalists announced
They do sound nice, don't they?
So I am relieved at the notes of caution being voiced, though concerned that they are being voiced up to a person for whom vision has not proven a strong suit to date, and who is not noted for his talent for listening, or indeed grasp of realities. But he does seem to know a good soundbite when he hears one.
As one who has been involved with, for sure benefitted but also suffered from 'commitments' to social enterprise, I wish more reflected the notion that 'the result is a reasonable salary and a sense that they are making a difference'. To which I might add 'delivering a healthy ROI to all involved'.
If customers don't like the product/service, and hence buy/into it, then sadly all these enterprises will become is money pits sucking funding from elsewhere. Or they will go bust.
Peter Jones' comments, rather colourfully expressed at the beginning ('do gooders' can rather set an unfortunate tone, and frankly passion for doing good can be a potent part... of the mix. See later) but more considered on reading later on, get closer to it.
Any twerp can have an idea. I know, I have. Lob in a bit of money you can, if relevant, protect the IP.
But none of this is much use if you don't flog it on. And keep on doing so.
And here is where I see a stonking great gap between stated aims, useful support and actuality. Government doesn't understand sales.
I have lost count of the number of Third Sector funds, forums, quangos and whoever, with natty offices and staffed to the gunnels, who are out there to invite you to submit, assess your plan and slip you the readies. Business Links, Chambers, Trusts, you name it. Awash with cash, seemingly concerned with the bottom line, but almost all designed to launch a box-ticking scheme, often with a pot of EU/taxpayer money, and then... get you to 'sign off' quicker than you can say 'match-funding'. And often the funding pot is pretty bare of actual serious dosh to dole out once the empires, especially often overlapping ones, have taken their cut first. It's like being bought an F-16, helped to take off and then bang, the guys in the back seat eject as 'their job is done'. You either crash and burn or get addicted to in-flight refuelling just to stay airborne.
Some do delve into the P&Ls and all the rest, but as it's an enterprise you are usually dealing in the future, with forecast guesstimates at best. And visionary thinkers are not usually too great at the numbers. So they will say what is required to be heard, and if it's at all social enough will get the launch money. As to what happens down the road...? Case closed. The caravan will have moved on.
Why can there not be more emphasis on matchmaking talents, bringing together the ones with ideas and assisting them by the introduction of a sensible complement (for every Trevor Baylis there has to be a Peter Jones whose introduction to each other will benefit both...the project... and the country), with more funding going into forging those business relationships such that a team is created to ensure that both the social and the enterprise aspects can be delivered, with returns, quickly and... sustainably. Once in profit, everyone can be happy, left to it, and support can move on to new, good works.
Or, the whole thing can be driven by targets and PR opps...
Gaurdian - Social Innovation Camp: finalists announced
More, and better?
In my idle trawl of funding news today I noticed this:
Website Will Show A Better Way To Recycle
A new website that will make it easier for people to recycle has scooped the top prize in a Government-sponsored competition. The Can I Recycle It portal was judged the overall winner of the Show Us A Better Way contest, which asked members of the public to devise a website that would provide a useful service using some of the non-personal data held by the Government.
This competition was one I noted, but then promptly forget, partly because I'm old, partly because I don't trust the government to credit inventors properly, and hence suspected that any ideas would soon become a very public/bureaucrat domain and not much to do with the creator, and partly because in my experience such things are often judged on agenda rather merit.
Interesting that many have noted another gov/quango site, Recycle Now, seems to have roughly the same thing. Also mentioned is Sort it. Can't have enough of a good thing, I guess. Slight duplication of effort on the public purse, mind.
Fortunately, perhaps due to lack of targets and boxes to tick, reuse again gets missed.
Now, if they had a site for that! Ahead of our time still?
Website Will Show A Better Way To Recycle
A new website that will make it easier for people to recycle has scooped the top prize in a Government-sponsored competition. The Can I Recycle It portal was judged the overall winner of the Show Us A Better Way contest, which asked members of the public to devise a website that would provide a useful service using some of the non-personal data held by the Government.
This competition was one I noted, but then promptly forget, partly because I'm old, partly because I don't trust the government to credit inventors properly, and hence suspected that any ideas would soon become a very public/bureaucrat domain and not much to do with the creator, and partly because in my experience such things are often judged on agenda rather merit.
Interesting that many have noted another gov/quango site, Recycle Now, seems to have roughly the same thing. Also mentioned is Sort it. Can't have enough of a good thing, I guess. Slight duplication of effort on the public purse, mind.
Fortunately, perhaps due to lack of targets and boxes to tick, reuse again gets missed.
Now, if they had a site for that! Ahead of our time still?
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
NEWS/Commercial PR - Bringing the sun inside, even in winter
One of our good friends on the site and especially this blog is SolarventiSeems they are moving up in the world and have gone all posh with a PR agency, from whom we have had a release on their behalf.
Happy to share, E&EO...
New Report Shows Amount of Free Energy Available from UK's Most Advanced Solar-powered Air Heating System
The report data shows that a single SV30 generates up to 2kW per hour of free energy, even in external temperatures below the annual UK average of 14 Celsius. During daylight hours, a this will warm incoming air to between 30 and 40 Celsius higher than the outside temperature.
The report also highlights the unit's dehumidification capability. During daylight hours, the average relative humidity of incoming air was reduced by 80% compared with ambient. This further reduces heating bills, as heating a dry home requires less energy than heating a damp, humid property.
The SolarVenti units are powered by a highly efficient solar cell. In sunlight, the units activate to provide interior space heating by warming large volumes of incoming air. This also safely dehumidifies all types of property that may suffer from airborne damp by displacing and replacing the damp air with warmed dry air.
The SV30, which provides heated airflow of up to 150 cubic metres per hour, costs £1272 +VAT including wall mounting brackets and fittings. Roof mounting kits are also available for all larger SolarVenti units.
The 'SV30H Plus' model heats both Air and Water in one unit. This gives heated airflow of up to 100 cubic metres per hour, and heating incoming air by up to 40 Celsius above ambient. It also produces hot water at temperatures up to 55 - 65 Celsius and is supplied as a complete self-install package including hot water cylinder, heat exchanger, solar-powered pump, pipework and fittings, at £2532 + VAT. The unit can be switched between heating the air or water or a mix of both. Airflow from SolarVenti units is controlled with the supplied regulator. Thermostats are also supplied with all SV30 models.
SolarVenti units are designed and made in Denmark. Over 26,000 have been sold worldwide to date, with the majority used in houses and holiday homes and a growing number of municipal buildings.
NEWS/Commercial PR - POOH CORNER gets its latest update
Now, in true Michael Caine style, 'norralorra people know this, but...' Junkk.com does have a little place called... POOH CORNER.It got created to 'address' matters of a more effluvial nature that are nonetheless environmentally valuable, and copped the moniker when my boys heard my talking about the topic, made a very odd connection with Christopher Robin whilst giggling 'He said poo!'. It was a while ago, but even at 12 they still fall about. Like I say... boys.
Nothing there yet, of course, because for now all goes here on the blog, but I really must get busy loading it up as, over the years, a lot has come in that would be ideal to go here.
Anyhoo... to the point.
Those nice folks at ecover, who already dominate the 'E' section of the Ideas pages, have sent us a freebie to go with a bit of worthy PR. The pack is now here and here. No ideas yet, but the cap is promising. Maybe ecover can get busy here as they have before.
The PR is here. The first bit is well worth noting. And as they are mates I've left in the 'product blurb', too (too much to pun it a shamless plug..hole?):
WORLD TOILET DAY
40% of the world's population, 2.5 billion people, don't have access to a toilet. To raise awareness of this global sanitation crisis, and to celebrate the humble yet essential Ecover bathroom cleaner [now that's something I have never seen celebrated before! - Ed], November 19th has been designated World Toilet Day.
We’re excited about World Toilet Day because it complements our three year partnership with WaterAid to provide access to safe water and sanitation in the Hintalo Wajerat area of rural Ethiopia.
For further information on Ecover’s partnership with WaterAid visit www.ecover.com/wateraid
About Ecover Ocean Waves Toilet Cleaner
As with all Ecover products, the Ocean Waves Toilet Cleaner is formulated from plant and mineral-based ingredients, biodegrading quickly and completely to ensure it has a minimal impact on aquatic life.
Telegraph - NEW - Why we shouldn't sneer at World Toilet Day
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Efficiency games
New Solar Balloon Creates 400 Times More Energy Than The Average Solar Cell
I'll share because it looks and sounds fun, but the claims may need an eyebrow crank.
I'll share because it looks and sounds fun, but the claims may need an eyebrow crank.
When switching off just won't do
7-Eleven Getting Big Gulp-Sized LED Upgrade
'in order to do its part to reduce GHG emissions'
I am glad that they have 'seen the light', but let us not get too carried away with echoing the PR.
'The savings will be worth it as the lights will use about 75% less energy than fluorescents.' '..after they see what kind of savings 7-11 reaps.'
Not to mention the kudos... oh... they can see that already.
Please, let there not be vast acres of print media issued to tell one and all about this measure.
Actually I'd be keen to know exactly how long the $1B investment will take to get to payback... and then accrue major operational savings; not really for the eco-cred but just to stamp on some beancounters' foreheads to show that green can make green.
It needn't be an 'either/or'.
'in order to do its part to reduce GHG emissions'
I am glad that they have 'seen the light', but let us not get too carried away with echoing the PR.
'The savings will be worth it as the lights will use about 75% less energy than fluorescents.' '..after they see what kind of savings 7-11 reaps.'
Not to mention the kudos... oh... they can see that already.
Please, let there not be vast acres of print media issued to tell one and all about this measure.
Actually I'd be keen to know exactly how long the $1B investment will take to get to payback... and then accrue major operational savings; not really for the eco-cred but just to stamp on some beancounters' foreheads to show that green can make green.
It needn't be an 'either/or'.
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