I was quite surprised to see the packaging on my new CD300-IIs that arrived today – the box is completely made of corrugated card!
Nice box – let’s just hope this pair last longer than the previous ones.
If you have stuff to get rid of that is too good for the bin but you can’t be arsed selling it on eBay or whatever, why not give it away? DontDumpThat is a Freecycle type website that is broken down into regional areas so you can view local stuff easily.
DontDumpThat is also good if you are looking for free stuff for a new house/flat etc 
It’s free to join – the Nottingham forum is looking a bit bare so give all your unwanted stuff away and keep an eye out for things you want!
I’m going to get straight to the point with this one. Things can not be described as “green” or “not green”.
Everything has an impact, no matter how eco-friendly it is trying to be. The alternative phrase might be “greener”, but then this falls foul of nothing to compare it to. There has to be a reference “thing” for the new “greener thing” so it can be “greener” than the reference “thing”.
This is semantic, yes. But what else is there? The words we use are all we have to try and get our meanings across – it’s no good saying “yeah, but you know what I mean”. That’s lazy. So to make “green” actually mean something, there has to be a comparison. To get numbers to compare two items, the impact of designing, making, transporting, using and decommissioning the item must be taken into account. This could well be very difficult. Difficulty is no excuse for giving up, however.
Thoughts on a postcard, please
Nick
Ok, enough people waffling on about “global warming”, “climate change”, “cO2″ offsets etc etc. Back to basics for me. I dont know what is happening with the climate. This is fine, I am not jumping to premature conclusions based on weak media articles. An argument requires premises and supporting evidence to reach a firm conclusion. Therefore, for anyone to present their conclusions, I want to start seeing the following fundamentals addressed:
People often cause themselves untold amount of trouble, and then spend half their lives telling other people about said trouble. I want to get things done in my life, so I haven’t got time or energy to listen to their self inflicted woes. If people make bad choices and refuse to change things, then I have no time for them.
Weighing matters up, if I spend time listening to other people’s (boring) dramas, then I am not doing things that are important to me. Whining people will take ALL of my time if allowed to, and will only get themselves in more trouble anyway. Therefore, I will spend NO time listening to them, and get on with important and pleasurable things instead. Some authors talk about “toxic characters”, and their toxins rubbing off on people that support their attention seeking ways. Bye bye, toxic people.
