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Slow food
Posted at: 2009-09-30 14:59:52
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Slow Food is a great organisation. They promote local foods and organise all kinds of regular and sporadic events. They put traditional, hand-made foods into the limelight and showcase stuff like local cheeses- they have a cheese fair somewhere on the continent with producers of proper cheddar, gauda etc- showing the difference between these *real* types and the poor, bland, generic versions of the supermarkets, which use the same names but aren’t what they claim to be at all. |
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Laptop recycle?
Posted at: 2009-09-09 21:37:18
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Hi there.
When recycling electrical items in Europe you have to take into account Weee- the Waste electrical and electronic equipment (or Weee) directive.
These regulations (from 2007) mean shops selling electric goods have to take back old goods from customers, on a like for like basis (or help to fund the expansion of a netwrok of Weee collection points).
Seeing as you’ve already bought your new laptop it might be too late for this- although check with the people you bought it with, and maybe they’ll still take the old laptop off your hands.
Failing this, check with your council for any schemes they might run. Although they might charge. Search for Weee at http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/
Or search with your postcode for recycling schemes near you http://www.recyclenow.com/
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Changing clothes!
Posted at: 2009-09-03 23:24:05
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Depends where you work! I work not too far away from where I live in the city, and I can dress pretty casually, so I just cycle to work in black trousres, jeans, or cords, and keep wearing them when I get there!!
Cycle at a slowish traffic speed as well so don’t get too sweaty!  |
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Department for Transport Site
Posted at: 2009-09-03 23:14:42
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Thanks for the link! -very useful. Has loads of info, pretty much everything you need to know and loads of helpful points.
Everyone should know about this! As an employee you can save up to 50% of the cost of a bike/accessories! |
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Ecotricity (for business)
Posted at: 2009-09-03 18:24:29
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What most impresses me about the Ecotricity site is the live carbon content of the grid-
http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/about/live-grid-carbon-intensity
Although it’s more about the dazzle really and just shows me to be quite shallow, perhaps! |
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Electric Bikes- London, Oxford, Cambridge, Scotland
Posted at: 2009-08-29 19:49:47
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(the London store is in N7, near Kentish Town, by the way) |
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E-Max Electric Moped – Italian Design, German Engineering
Posted at: 2009-08-29 19:43:58
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Wish they had more coverage of these types of vehicles on mainstream TV and media.. |
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Fleets
Posted at: 2009-08-29 19:43:07
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I read about a casestudy in Stockholm (Sweden) where business people and commuters were given Peugot electric mopeds- they were hoping to explore a new trend and generally improve the city, they realised that most car journeys simply had one passenger with a brief case.
You do sometimes see a businessman on a moped, I think it’s a positive trend and would be happy to see large businesses promote and distribute electric mopeds to their staff, I know of one businessman in london who really wants to get an electric moped, and says that the cost won’t be that different from an annual season ticket on public transport! 
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UK websites- Electro Cars- list them here
Posted at: 2009-08-29 17:52:16
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http://www.mega-electric.co.uk
http://www.mitsubishi-cars.co.uk/imiev
http://www.nissan.co.uk |
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Paint cans
Posted at: 2009-08-27 15:47:08
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I think some recycling centres will actually take small quantities of the paint itself, although this should be a last resort. |
