This blurb is from the Mercola.com health newsletter....
“ Bottled water is pricey, contributes to global warming, litter, and solid waste, and is usually no safer or healthier than tap water. Increasing numbers of environmentalists, shareholder activists and church groups are targeting the leading sellers of bottled water.
" For example, shareholders working with an activist group called Corporate Accountability International have asked Coca-Cola to report on the sources and safety of its bottled water, and environmental groups including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club have urged their supporters to consume less bottled water.
"Salt Lake City's outspoken mayor, Rocky Anderson, asked city officials to stop handing out bottled water at meetings, and a handful of high-end restaurants have stopped serving it.”
Check out more on this issue at http://v.mercola.com/blogs/public_blog/Bottled-Water-Not-Cool-Anymore-12481.aspx and read more about plastics in an up-coming issue of Action Change. www.actionchange.com
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Live Earth Concert - tix on sale tomorrow
Tickets go on sale tomorrow for the Sydney Live Earth concert at Aussie Stadium on July 7.
Included on the bill are Crowded House, Missy Higgins, Jack Johnson, Wolfmother, Eskimo Joe, Toni Collette and Sneaky Sound System.
The Live Earth Concerts will be across 9 continents, on the very special date of 07.07.07.
As well as Sydney the concerts, which will cover 24 hours around the globe, will be in New York, London, Johannasberg, Shanghai, Tokyo, Rio, Hamburg and Instanbul.
The concerts aim to promote awareness of environmental issues, particularly Climate Change.
Tickets are on sale through Ticketek.
Included on the bill are Crowded House, Missy Higgins, Jack Johnson, Wolfmother, Eskimo Joe, Toni Collette and Sneaky Sound System.
The Live Earth Concerts will be across 9 continents, on the very special date of 07.07.07.
As well as Sydney the concerts, which will cover 24 hours around the globe, will be in New York, London, Johannasberg, Shanghai, Tokyo, Rio, Hamburg and Instanbul.
The concerts aim to promote awareness of environmental issues, particularly Climate Change.
Tickets are on sale through Ticketek.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
The Solution to Eco Friendly but Ugly Cars
I’ve thought for a while that I would one day buy a car when manufacturers came up with a sexy eco-friendly model.
I’m not just talking about an LPG-run car, but a truly all-round enfren product from the car seats to the fuel. So far I haven’t found one that looks good as well.
I’ve just realised the solution was there all along. Instead of forking out 30 to 40 grand for an ugly enfren car, I can buy a used diesel model, any one I like, and fill it up with filtered vegetable oil from my local organic vego restaurants!
It’s easy to do, uses up cooking oil that would otherwise be put into land fill, is the cheapest fuel around, and I get to reuse a car to boot (ha ha).
If you’re interested in making diesel fuel from recycled cooking oil, check out these websites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel
www.dancingrabbit.org/biodiesel/vegetable_oil_fuel.php
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_svo.html
www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/
I’m not just talking about an LPG-run car, but a truly all-round enfren product from the car seats to the fuel. So far I haven’t found one that looks good as well.
I’ve just realised the solution was there all along. Instead of forking out 30 to 40 grand for an ugly enfren car, I can buy a used diesel model, any one I like, and fill it up with filtered vegetable oil from my local organic vego restaurants!
It’s easy to do, uses up cooking oil that would otherwise be put into land fill, is the cheapest fuel around, and I get to reuse a car to boot (ha ha).
If you’re interested in making diesel fuel from recycled cooking oil, check out these websites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel
www.dancingrabbit.org/biodiesel/vegetable_oil_fuel.php
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_svo.html
www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/
Monday, May 14, 2007
New Format E-mag launched!
Well, the new HTML format of the e-mag is out and about and hopefully you would have all receieved it by now. Please let me know if you didn't, as I'm trying out a new automated subscritpion service.
A couple of business things first:
Correction in Product Hits. Mark from envirosax tells me that their bags are designed in Oz and the company is Australian, but the bags are in fact made in China. Apparently this is the case with all bags nowadays.
Correction: In the EFT article, I mention a book You Can Heal Your Life, by Loiuse Hay, but I wrote Denise Hay. Apologies.
Well all that being said it's great to finally have it out in a big glossy format that's easier to read and can fit in oodles of piccies. I'd love your feedback on what you love and what you'd like to see change or improve. Send your letters to me at editor@actionchange.com. They'll be a new Reader's Letters column in the next edition, so look out for that one.
Thanks for tuning in and sending in all your news, views and ideas.
A couple of business things first:
Correction in Product Hits. Mark from envirosax tells me that their bags are designed in Oz and the company is Australian, but the bags are in fact made in China. Apparently this is the case with all bags nowadays.
Correction: In the EFT article, I mention a book You Can Heal Your Life, by Loiuse Hay, but I wrote Denise Hay. Apologies.
Well all that being said it's great to finally have it out in a big glossy format that's easier to read and can fit in oodles of piccies. I'd love your feedback on what you love and what you'd like to see change or improve. Send your letters to me at editor@actionchange.com. They'll be a new Reader's Letters column in the next edition, so look out for that one.
Thanks for tuning in and sending in all your news, views and ideas.
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