We came across this website recently and think it’s great! As you already know, we like to ‘do our bit’ with the Children of the Andes, and this website is along similar lines. Run by the United Nations World Food Programme, the website has two goals: to educate people and to help end world hunger [...]
Archive for February, 2012
www.freerice.com
Posted in Interesting facts, Thoughts on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Robo-cleaner anyone?!
Posted in Thoughts on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s Groupon deal, a robot vacuum cleaner, got us thinking. Googling the term ‘robot cleaner’ threw up an article about a Wall-E look-a-like cleaning a water tower in Branscombe. The VR600 is obviously a very specialist piece of kit, but what about the hoovers like in this Groupon deal – are they any good? Online reviews [...]
Down the drain…?
Posted in Thoughts on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We read about our carbon footprint all the time, not so much our water footprint. But water is a valuable natural resource that we – as organisations, households and individuals – need to manage the same way we manage our consumption of other raw materials. We rarely experience drought in this county, but the water [...]