Archive for November, 2006

Carling: Please stop ruining live music

November 24th, 2006

I went to see Gomez at the Hammersmith Apollo last night. A friend had a spare ticket and I’m always up for going to a gig (as long as its not totally talentless crap R’n’B or Pop. I’ve not followed Gomez at all so I only recongnised a few of the songs, but I thought […]

Light bulb action!

November 21st, 2006

Here is a chance for us all to be heard!
Energy inefficient light bulb petition: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/lightbulbs/
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to levy a tax on energy inefficient light bulbs so that their long term financial and environmental cost is visible in their retail price
(International readers this is a UK only petition but I think […]

Good Thing #2: Reduce your snail mail (and recycle the rest)

November 6th, 2006

My aim was to write about one good thing a week, I think that was a little ambitious to be starting with. Having got the hang of this blogging lark I’d say once a month would have been a better target, but I’m not going to fuss over it. Lets just say I’m behind, and […]

Electricity from hot water

November 4th, 2006

Another good article from Mike’s very informative and interesting blog, this one is about generating electriicity from geothermal energy.
Electricity from hot water
That’s right, geothermal resources (hot fluid and/or gas) can and is being used to generate electricity the world over. Geothermal literally means “heat from the earth.” The first successful geothermal electricity generation installation was […]

Booze

November 2nd, 2006

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/12/1286/Hawley_Arms/Camden
It might be good, I’ve never been, but one things for sure they know their market!